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Newspaper
Odon Journal
Location
Odon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1912
Page
6
Practical guide by Logan Walker of the United States Department of Agriculture discusses methods for building and maintaining earth roads. Includes maintenance routines, drainage, subgrade preparation, and surface shaping for durable rural roadbeds.
The piece argues there are about 2 million miles of earth roads in the United States excluding Alaska and island territories. With proper planning, drainage, grading, culverts, and the use of a road scraper, earth roads can be improved at low cost. Emphasis is on maintenance, timely repairs, and avoiding steep grades to save power and extend road life.
Local residents list visits and travels among Fairbury Bloomington Washington Indianapolis Terre Haute and nearby towns. Families attend Old Settlers events travel for funerals or reunions and discuss debts and organizational meetings. several losses and a lost dog are noted along with sales and hires.
London Times reports Persian murder law allows blood money as substitute for death. A woman is valued at half a man, affecting executions for killing women. A husband may pay half a steward’s blood price, equal to a wife’s value, triggering the steward’s death. If two women kill a man, both may be executed for the difference in blood price. Two women murders could yield profits for killers.
A western ranchman drops $100 in greenbacks into a pig trough. Six piglets grub the money as if it were lettuce, gobbling the cash. The farmer takes them to town to sell the porkers and seeks recovery of his funds.
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