Names of Streets Tell New Orleans Story
Names of New Orleans streets mix French Spanish and American influences reflecting the city history. Chartres street honors the Duc de Chartres while Royal street recalls Madame Royale. Bourbon and Dauphine mark dynastic ties and muses inspire Calliope through Urania. Napoleonic ties appear in Napoleon avenue Josephine street and victory names such as Austerlitz Cadiz Constantinople and Berlin, with Berlin later replaced by General Pershing street.
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New Orleans
Old City
Orleans
Duke of Orleans
Chartres
Duc de Chartres
Royal
Madame Royale
Bourbon
Dauphine
Calliope
Clio
Erato
Thalia
Melpomene
Terpsichore
Waterpe
Polymnia
Urania
Napoleon Avenue
Josephine
Napoleon
Austerlitz
Cadiz
Constantinople
Berlin
General Pershing
Motor Costs Vary With Road Surfaces Across Nation
A Pennsylvania highway commission study reported to the Good Roads Board of the AAA shows motor operation costs differ by road quality. Hard surfaced roads cut costs about 25 percent versus dirt, gravel roads 10 percent less. Tests indicate paved highways cost less to maintain and operate than unpaved routes. The Lincoln highway has no grades the average car cannot climb and long down grades should avoid compression.
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Pennsylvania Highway Commission
Good Roads Board
American Automobile Association
Bureau of Public Roads
Lincoln Highway
A Sure Method to Make Money in Stocks
A humorous line contrasts uncertain wishes with a cheeky counterclaim to profit: "I wish I knew how to make money in the stock market" and "Just watch my operations and do exactly the opposite." The quip implies a contrarian view on investing success.
Cat With Wings Captivates Washington Rancher Exhibit
Yakima, Washington report describes Arthur Kingray displaying a cat weighing about twenty five pounds with four rows of skin on its back that unfolds into wing like appendages. The flap skin extends to aid speed and leaps, though usually stays folded against the body.
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Yakima
Wash
Wapato
Arthur Kingray
Canadian Indian Prefers Vanity Case to War Paint
Edmonton report notes H. I. Murphy trapper from Ptarmigan lake district met an Indian on trail wearing a vanity box where a scalping knife once hung. The man powder his face, applied make up, and checked his appearance with a small mirror from the bag.
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Edmonton
Alta
Canada
H. I. Murphy
Trapper
Ptarmigan Lake District
Murphy
Absent Member Mail Savings Promised By Post Rates
A humorous note urges readers to save by subscribing for a copy of the newspaper to send to an absent family member rather than mailing their copy. It invites readers to visit the office to set up the subscription.
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Lissen
Sporting Snapshots From The Era Of Early Sports Figures
England's only woman racehorse trainer Norah Wilmot earns note as a pioneer. In Holland bets on outdoor sports are legal claims but not on card games. Lawson Robertson becomes business manager for Amsterdam's ninth Olympic Games. Bud Houser maintains a single discus record across four years at USC. Mexico sees a surge of sport stores and activity. Bullfighting seems to fade. Dick Roach, Pottsville coach and noted ornithologist, studies birds in Canada. Yale's top score against Princeton remains 32 points in 1890 before the Haughton system era.
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Lawson Robertson
University of Pennsylvania
Amsterdam
Yale
Princeton
Harvard
Live Stock and farm equipment auction inventory
A listing of farm assets includes two black horses aged 12 and 11 around 1250 pounds, a good team, a 7-year-old road mare, 9 hogs at 300 pounds and 2 at 200, a 3500-pound sow, seven shoats, harness sets, collars, bridles, several cows with milking stock and calves due April May, wagons, buggies, and multiple implements such as mowing and cultivating gear and breaking plows.
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The
Squared Circle
Max Rosenbloom
James J. Corbett
Jim Jeffries
Tom Sharkey
Paul Berlenbach
Jeffries
Sharkey
Doctor Stresemann
Germany
League of Nations Assembly
Geneva
San Diego
Miami Beach
Florida
Joseph Beland
Calumet Island
Quebec
Washington
Mickie
Norah Wilmot
Sir Robert Wilmot
England
Holland
Clarence “Bud” Houser
University of Southern California
Mexico
Dick Roach
Pottsville
Canadian Woods
Patoka
Chance School House
Luther Caldwell
John A. Jennings
Kuppenheimer
Wm. Hutter Clothing Co
Centralia, Illinois
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