Nationwide Good Roads Drive Aims To Transform U.S. Highways
American Road Builders association reports 50 000 miles of highway improvements yearly with 1.2 billion dollars in annual funding. President H G Shirley says the good roads effort revolutionizes motor travel and the first modern transcontinental route may finish this season. The New York to San Diego road now exceeds 3400 miles and 99 percent has been improved. The system could gird the world twice with a single 18 foot wide lane. The federal aid plan targets 82000 miles, with about 140000 miles already partly improved.
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American Road Builders’ Association
H. G. Shirley
Shirley
New York
San Diego
Calif
Washington
St. Louis
Texarkana
el Paso
California
Hints of Good Roads in North America and US Progress
The piece notes Chicago white aluminum stop markers at a busy intersection, Canada spent 150 million on highways, and Canada’s 400000 miles of roads are 3 percent unimproved earth and 10 percent gravel. Missouri reports a 100 percent rise in motor traffic on improved highways. Michigan may have about 143.5 million for new road work next year. The United States claims leadership as the world’s billion-dollar highway nation with 500000 miles of good roads. A schoolgirl aside humorously classifies husbands bachelors and widowers, noting the bachelor as obstinate and the widower as rescued after near collapse.
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Dominion
United States
No Possible Ruling for Hours of Sleep
A Hygeia Magazine piece by Dr Max Seham notes sleep needs vary by person and age with children, especially girls during maturation, requiring more rest. Winter demands more sleep than summer. noise, excitement, and crowded rooms disrupt rest, and meals close to bedtime can rob children of sleep.
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Max Seham
Hygela Magazine
Wakes Sunday Festival Tradition in England
The article traces Wakes Sunday a historic northern England festival honoring parish church dedication. It recalls shifts in date to the first Sunday in October and notes two hundred years where Wakes Sunday and the following day formed a national holiday. In Herefordshire the day after was Thumping Monday and Cornwall called it Feast on Sunday or Hopping Sunday due to dancing.
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England
Herefordshire
Cornwall
Breath Transfusion Moves Toward Rescue by Breath
A Vancouver Province report notes breath transfusion as a practicable aid. A Bedford hospital house surgeon kept a man alive by breathing into his lungs, and Dr Henry Durville of Paris used heavy breathing to assist a boy with acute pneumonia, with the patient later deemed out of danger.
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Bedford Hospital
England
Henry Durville
Faris
Vancouver Province
Massachusetts Flag Note in 1776 Seafaring Resolves
The Massachusetts Historical Society notes no record of a provincial flag for the colony. A 1776 resolve calls for green and white officer uniforms and a white flag with a green pine tree and the inscription Appeal to Heaven to aid seamen enlistment.
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Massachusetts Historical Society
Massachusetts
Couldn’t Fool Peggy Over crackers Edna and Peggy divide animal crackers
Mother brings home a box of animal crackers for Edna and Peggy to share. They plan to pick letters to split the animals, Edna choosing Ls to avoid the elephants, and Peggy teasing that Edna wants the big crackers.
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Edna W
Peggy
Edna
Boston Transcript
London Test Sees Captain Hold Oboe Note 150 Seconds
In London Captain Samerzweig held an oboe note for 150 seconds as race judges timed the feat with four stopwatches. The test was seen as an endurance feat though the Ohio State Journal notes no music was composed for such prolonged playing.
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London
Samerzweig
Ohio State Journal
Local visits and travels around Nebraska towns
Mrs C G Saline of Stromsburg visited Osceola between trains on Wednesday. Ruth Miller visited David City then stayed with her parents until Sunday. Mrs Everett Sickles returned to Columbus after visiting her mother. Mr and Mrs W E Bratt and family toured Lincoln and attended a Shriner banquet. W B Adair attended a cow testing meeting in York. Mrs Will Heitzman hosted Gab a Lot ladies with nearby guests and Vera Beckmeyer attended as out of town guests. supper was served.
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C. G. Saline
Stromsburg
Osceola
Ruth Miller
David City
Everett Sickles
Columbus
Christopher Timm
W. E. Bratt
Edna
Harry Anderson
Lincoln
Mitchel
Mr.Pratt
Will Heitzman
Vida
Vera Beckmeyer
Zangwill and His Mother A Portrait of Devotion and Doubt
The text recalls a Kilburn visit by Israel Zangwill’s mother a valiant iron willed woman who supported her son’s fame yet distrusted his career. She believed in plain work and moral restraint while his writing drew public suspicion and personal risk. The piece cites immigrant authors and a museum talisman in a Sussex village.
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Israel
Kilburn
Britain
British Museum Library
Sussex
Judea
Europe Slow to Make Use of Pyrotechnics
The article traces fireworks history in Europe from the Florence display 561 years ago to later grand public shows. It notes early crude use by a Florentine inventor and describes England’s first major firework display in 1697 costing 60 000 pounds for the peace of Ryzurck, plus London displays in 1748 after Aix-la-Chapelle and post revolutionary era advances for Independence Day celebrations.
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Florence
Italy
Europe
England
Ryzurck
London
Aix-la-Chapelle
Cinderella origin claim tied to Rhodopis and ancient Egypt
An authority asserts Cinderella is factual, dating to 200 years before Christ, calling the queen Busy Cheeked. The tale recounts Rhodopis bathing in the Nile when a sandal wanders to an Egyptian king, who issues a reward. the sandal fits Rhodopis and he marries her.
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Cinderella
Rhodopis
Nile
Egypt
Totem Poles and Crest Traditions in Alaskan Tribes
Four large Alaskan tribes used animal symbols as crests that define family offspring. Crest houses shelter visiting Indians by crest, and owning a totem is rare and commands about $2000 in exchange.
Roosevelt's Wit Weighs In On Little Girl Named Rivulet
Colonel Roosevelt visited Tuskegee Institute with Booker T. Washington and met the staff. He was presented to the assistant librarian and her daughter and teased, calling the child Miss Rivulet with his familiar smile.
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Chavis Kaye
Roosevelt
Tuskegee Institute
Booker T. Washington
Mrs. River
Miss Rivulet
Politician Appoints Kin as Smoke Inspector
A western politician names his cousin as district smoke inspector. He submits a report for the week ending May 31 stating he has inspected the district’s smoke and found plenty of smoke of apparently good quality.
Readers cycle through books in Detroit library study
A Detroit librarian describes an endless reading cycle: fiction, poetry, biography, history, science, then back to fiction. Each lap aims to raise the quality of the books read, though it does not imply evolution in the reader.
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Detroit
Merrick Auctioneer Offers Special Training Services
F. A. Merrick Auctioneer advertises specialized training under top auctioneers to boost sale value. Phone 3711. Osceola, Nebraska.
Alibi Question Echoes in Early Courtroom Exchange
Too Early Cole Black faces a preliminary conference with counsel who asks to prove an alibi. The defendant shows confusion replying and fears discovery of his whereabouts during the offense. The exchange highlights procedural doubts and language of the era.
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Cole Black
Al—whart
Lawdy
Queen Mistakenly Logged in Historic Mansion Tour
A guide shows a room claimed to be where Queen Elizabeth slept. A visitor corrects him noting the bed is Jacobean and a reproduction. The guide persists saying the queen cared little for the bed’s make. The exchange appears in Weekly Scotsman.
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Io Voice
Weekly Scotsman
Tiger Snake Declared Most Deadly in Tests
The Sydney Bulletin states the tiger snake is the most deadly poison among snakes. Tests compare its venom to the Indian cobra and American rattlesnake, noting slower action than the cobra and rattlesnake, with the death adder having the swiftest poison.
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Australia
Sydney
Farris Battery Station at Manhattan Oil Building
Readable notes indicate an establishment named Farris Battery Station located within the Manhattan Oil Building, with a contact number 67. The fragment suggests a business listing or advertisement scene in the period publication.
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Farris Battery Station
Manhattan
Belephone No
Notice of Final Report in Polk County Estate Case
Notice in the County Court of Polk Nebraska that administrator for the estate of Joe Polack deceased has filed a final account and petition for final settlement and distribution and for determination of heirship. Hearing set for December 17, 1926 at 10 a.m. Dated November 23, 1926. WwW. W. Norton County Judge.
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Polk County
Nebraska
Joe Polack
State of
W. Norton
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