Road Building in the Everglades Tamiami Trail opens to motorists
The Tamiami Trail via the Dixie Highway traverses the Everglades from Tampa to Miami with a planned 1918 completion at a million dollar outlay. Hefty bridges at Manatee River Bradenton and Punta Gorda, 276.9 miles total, 188.9 miles through the Everglades. Captain Harvey recalls the brutal fight through muck and a 40 000 pound dredge crossing, while developers push toward Marco in 1917 for tourists and hunters.
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Miami
Fla
Everglades
Florida
Tampa
Manatee River
Bradentown
Charlotte Harbor
Punta Gorda
Marco
Big Cypress Swamp
Eiverglades
Big Bend
K. B. Harvey
Fort Myers
Maren
Captain Harvey
Harvey
Tamiami Trail Construction Amid Everglades Drainage Debate
Historical account describes the Tamiami Trail project in the Everglades with dredge machines, land clearing at high costs, and complex terrain from swamp and mangrove to saw grass. It details booted labor, equipment, and grading steps, including a 24-inch culvert plan and spur roads in Dade County.
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Everglades
Harvey
Marco
Willams Island
Dade County
Canal slides under control as dredging ends Sunday work
Foreign ship owners express satisfaction as canal dredging stops Sunday shifts and eight hour workdays loom. New sailing directions warn ships with explosives must obtain permission to transit and vessels carrying such cargoes will be kept away from canal wharves.
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Panama
United States
Canal
Panama Canal
Canal Zone
Man with broken back dies after ten years in hospital
Oscar Samuelson, who lived with a broken back at a North Side hospital for over a decade, died recently. His case prompted a congressional inquiry into government compensation for the injury from work with the federal reclamation service near Cody Wyoming. Congressman Fred D. Britton introduced a bill to cover his medical expenses. A local lumber company once owned the town site and was granted control of a bar with proceeds funding street improvements.
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Chicago
Oscar Samuelson
Northside
Congress
Samuelson
Federal Reclamation Service
Cody
Wyo
Fred D. Britton
Saloon Profits Fund Bay Point Street Improvements
Citizens of Bay Point plan street improvements with $3,000 from the profits of a municipal saloon owned two years ago by Martinez. The fund comes from the saloon revenue accumulated during the year.
Fined Twice for Same Drink in Nyack
Michael Farrell was fined five dollars in the morning for taking one drink and returned in the afternoon, facing the same judge who imposed another five dollar penalty, with Farrell insisting it was the same drink.
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Nyack
N. Y
Michael Farrell
Farrell
Far Northland briefs from old country
Nordic news from Denmark Sweden and Norway cover Wilson peace moves reactions debt levels and war related events. Denmark leans anti German in the peace question while Norway and Sweden face rising debts and wartime economic strain. Scandinavia debates neutrality and submarine hostilities amid cultural notes and local incidents.
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Denmark
Wilson
Sweden
Germany
Schleswig-Holstein
Norwegian Industry Expands With War Stimulus
Consul E H Dennison reports in Washington that Norway formed new companies in the first nine months totaling 188 451 000 dollars in capital. Shipping led with 148 736 000 dollars, followed by banks 17 528 000, and industrial 12 408 000. Public loans 36 164 000. Aftenblad Stavanger notes Oslo area housing lagging, with 195 residences built in nine months versus 180 per year earlier four years.
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Norway
E. H. Dennison
Christiania
Department of Commerce
Washington
Aftenblad
Stavanger
They Must Ask for It Co Well Ed Kiss Me Ad Ad
An old padded advertisement fragment urges readers to send 10 cents to the Invalids' Hotel in Buffalo for a large trial package of Anuric claimed to cure kidney issues and backache. The quirky copy also contrasts the fool and the wise guy in pursuing desires.
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Pierce
Invalids’ Hotel
Buffalo
Actress Reveals Secret Hair Darkener Recipe
A famed actress shares a home recipe to darken gray hair using one half pint water, one ounce Bay Rum, Barbo Compound, and half an ounce glycerine. Pharmacists can prepare it or readers may mix at home. directions are in each Barbo Compound box. The mix darkens gray streaks, softens hair, and leaves no scalp staining or greasy residue.
Crankiness Sparks Tense Exchange Over Wife’s Self-Starting Stance
A heated exchange centers on a critic’s claim that a spouse’s cranky behavior triggers tirades. The response defends the wife as a self-starter who acts independently without external provocation.
Cascarets 10 Cent Liver and Bowels Cure Ad
An ad touts Cascarets as a quick relief for liver and bowel complaints including constipation and indigestion. It claims the 10 cent box cleanses the stomach, regulates digestion, removes bile, and purifies waste while you sleep keeping the body refreshed for months. It also notes Paris has 6 000 streets with 26 000 plane trees 16 000 chestnuts and 14 000 elms and mentions iron founders using furnace slag in concrete.
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Paris
Skating Instructor Promises Fast Expert Training
A brisk exchange in a skating lesson features an instructor offering to make a student an expert skater in three weeks. The prospective pupil laments the deadline as she has just bought a new skating costume she wants to wear before it goes out of fashion.
A Man May Shape His Fortune But Sunlight Fails to Reach All Rooms
An aphoristic note reflects that a person cannot control where light falls nor ensure every room is bright. The idea contrasts agency with natural limits, suggesting effort meets external bounds beyond personal power.
Flying Fishes and Their Airborne Flight Distances
Some fish can spring from the water and sustain themselves in long flights of various distances in the air. These flights are made possible through the development of the pectoral fins, and the flying fish never flap their fins in their sailing flights. They are able to cover a distance of no less than 500 feet.
Bride’s Duty Questioned in Galveston News Op-Ed
In a provocative column, the Galveston News asks why a bride should love honor and obey her husband when outsiders do not. The piece challenges traditional marital expectations and suggests broader views of partnership.
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Galveston
A Great Discovery by J H Watson M D
Swollen hands ankles and feet signal dropsical condition from deranged kidneys. When kidneys fail waste builds in blood and settles in feet wrists under eyes or ankles. Anuric quickly relieves inflammation from uric acid including scalding urine back ache frequent urination and sediment in urine. Take hot water before meals and Anuric to flush kidneys.
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Anuric
Going to Extremes in Shopping Habits
Blondine Giddigad is described as a shopper who seeks maximum value. The tale notes she weighs herself on arcade scales to compare machines for the best return, illustrating her extreme money-saving approach in the Youngstown Telegram.
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Blondine
Gerty Giddigad
Brunetta
Youngstown
Problem of Life Subtracting Own from Owes
The quote contemplates how men gauge life by net worth, noting a common tendency to reduce life to the balance between possessions and debts. It reflects on perspective and valuation in human striving.
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Paragon
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