Steep Riding Costs in United States Motoring
Washington reports motorists paid over a billion dollars in 1935 1936 gasoline taxes and vehicle fees to fund both highway and nonhighway use. States and federal contributions totaled about 1.13 billion for highways with federal share near 250 million. Bureau criticizes diversion of funds to nonhighway purposes and notes varying state gasoline taxes averaging 3.85 cents per gallon.
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Washington, D. C
Bureau of Public Roads
Department of Agriculture
Bureau
Congress
New Jersey
District of Columbia
Rhode Island
Florida
Louisiana
Tennessee
Inferior Paper and Ink May Bring Lost Century
Dr. Frank L. McVey warns that today’s paper and ink degrade records. He, as University of Kentucky president, says books newspapers and documents of historical interest risk vanishing, making future inquiries into 1910 onward difficult without preservation.
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Lexington
Frank L. McVey
University of Kentucky
On Schedule in Nature and Industry
The piece argues nature and industry both run on strict schedules. It likens orderly celestial events to factory rhythms where workers perform precise tasks at exact times, describing monotony as a byproduct of scheduled labor and routine.
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Nature
Get Off Schedule Find Your Self and Break Routine
Opals urges readers to seek inner power and originality beyond routine and standardized living. It questions whether one has truly explored self expression and challenges the reader to abandon the beaten path in favor of personal discovery.
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Western Newspaper Union
Syiso
Lydia E. Pinkham
Nature
The Cost of Schedule in Industrial Life
The piece argues that rigid scheduling erodes initiative and joy in work. It questions overemphasis on five day weeks and mechanical efficiency, urging more purposeful leisure to discover inner drive and new impulses beyond routine.
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Syear
Curtains and home makeover ideas from Ruth and Esther
Ruth K explains washing curtains with a washer and mangle and tinting tulle fabrics while Esther shares life on a small farm home improvement story. Esther and Joe renovate a plain bungalow with blue accents, remove a divider to create a single room, repaint walls white with light blue, refresh oak furniture to a blonde tone, and add blue and rose fabrics for a cohesive look.
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Ruth K
Ruth
Joe
Esther M
Esther
Seaside Moss Gatherer Aims for College Education
Twelve year old Miriam Flynn works along Scituate Massachusetts shore collecting Irish moss. She turns a traditional sea industry into a modern earnings source and hopes the money will fund her college education.
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Miriam Flynn
Scituate
Mass
Miriam
New England
Bulldog and Cat Foster Family Tug of Care in Glendale
Twig the bull terrier and Katharine the cat shared a home with Mrs. Leo DeMarsh of Glendale California. After Katharine bore four kittens last week Twig began a hunger strike and sought maternal duties. A vet diagnosed Twig’s longing for a family and Twig started nursing two of Katharine’s kittens while Katharine supervises the other two.
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Twig
Katharine
Leo DeMarsh
Glendale
Calif
STAR DUST Anniversary celebrates vaudeville NY movers
The STAR DUST piece recalls a recent Loew's State anniversary honoring vaudeville roots in New York. Edgar Bergen, Charlie McCarthy, Martha Raye, James Cagney, Walter Huston, Joe E. Brown and others who began here sent telegrams, praising the theater's role in sustaining vaudeville.
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Loew’s
Tea Towels Done In Cross Stitch Pattern 5891
Embroider tea towels with lively motifs including fruit and kitchenware. Pattern 5891 includes six transfer motifs about 5 by 6 inches, material list, color suggestions, and stitch illustrations. Send 15 cents in coins to The Sewing Circle Household Arts Dept. at 259 W. Fourteenth St. New York NY.
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Sewing Circle Household Arts Dept
Fourteenth St
New York
N. Y
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