Motorists Costs Rise in United States Gasoline Taxes
Washington D C American motorists paid over a billion dollars last year in gasoline taxes registration fees and motor carrier taxes. States collected 691 million from gasoline taxes 359.8 million from registration fees and 15.1 million from motor carrier taxes.
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Washington, D. C
Treasuries
Bureau of Public Roads
Department of Agriculture
Bureau
Getting Off Schedule
This passage discusses nature and industry operating on strict schedules. It likens cosmic order to factory rhythms where workers perform precise tasks at exact times, highlighting monotony in paced labor and the expectation of obedience to the schedule.
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Nature
Inferior Paper and Ink May Spoil Lost Century
University of Kentucky president Dr. Frank L. McVey warns that today’s inferior paper and inks threaten to erase the present era from future records. He says books newspapers and documents of historical interest are deteriorating and future generations may find the 1910s era virtually blotted out without better preservation.
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Lexington
Frank L. McVey
University of Kentucky
McVey
Opal S Hill sets women’s golf record in Missouri tournament
Opal S Hill of Kansas City shoots 66 for 18 holes to set a new women’s course record, twelve under par, the lowest ever by a woman on any course and one stroke off the course all time best. The piece then discusses time management and the impact of schedule on efficiency and human initiative across industry and leisure.
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Congress
Bureau
New Jersey
District of Columbia
Rhode Island
Florida
Louisiana
Tennessee
Opal S. Hill
Kansas City
Missouri
Curtains, colors, and home makeovers in a farm wife home
Ruth discusses washing curtains with a washer and mangle and mixing tints for peach, pink, chartreuse and yellow tones. Esther, a farmer’s wife, revamps a plain bungalow with white voile curtains, white and blue decor, bright woodwork, and rejuvenated oak furniture to create a fresh, unified living space.
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Ruth
Esther
Joe
Esther M
Sea yields living for Miriam Flynn at Scituate
Twelve year old Miriam Flynn works gathering Irish moss from sea rocks near Scituate Massachusetts. She turns an old world industry into a modern income and hopes to save for college education.
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Miriam Flynn
Scituate
Mass
Miriam
New England
Bulldog Mothers Kittens in Home Patchwork Tale
Twig the bull terrier and Katharine the cat have lived as companions for five years near Glendale California. Katharine mothers four kittens and Twig suffers hunger until a vet suggests he longs for a family. Twig then nurses two kittens while Katharine nurses the other two as the scene shows.
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Twig
Katharine
Leo DeMarsh
Glendale
Calif
Ask Me Y Another A Quiz With Answers
A reader quiz covers topics from world flight and telecommunication to geography and demographics. It asks about air travel around the world, telephone reach to London, submarine cable length, geographic center town, pectin, tin can interiors, earth population, U S hospitals and hotels, largest labor party vote, and Vatican relations during the Civil War. It notes ministers and succession at the Vatican through 1863.
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London
United States
Labor Party
Vatican
Farmer-Labor Party
John J. Stockton
New Jersey
Alexander W. Randall
Wisconsin
Randall
Richard Milford Blatchford
New York
Rufus King
Blatchford
Lebanon
Smith County
Kan
International Statistical Institute
Home Heating Hints by Joh Barclay
Guidance on selecting coal sizes for furnaces to maximize heat and economy. Barclay notes firepot size dictates efficient coal size, recommends egg to chestnut sizes, and suggests dealer input for best results. Local climate, furnace position, chimney size, and house layout may affect recommendations.
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