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Newspaper
Polk Progress
Location
Polk, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1919
Page
4
Banff remains a busy mountain town with tame wild deer in streets and elk at night near Brett Hospital. A bear is occasionally seen, and a bicyclist once tumbled after encountering one. Park rules prohibit shooting within the park.
The Colorado Agricultural College in Fort Collins completed a new road materials laboratory within its experiment station. It can conduct standard mechanical tests on rock, stone, slag, gravel, sand, and top soil at no charge, given a sample large enough for full investigation. The piece notes the historic development of road material testing in France A 1878 effort and the 1893 Massachusetts lab, stressing the growing national use of such tests for standardizing road materials.
The piece argues that motor vehicles damage roads more than steel tired carts due to higher speed and wheel tracks. It notes rubber tires suffer from sharp rocks in tracks, causing cuts, punctures, and fabric damage, unlike steel tires which avoided such wear.
French engineers found tar coatings doubled road life in war time. They propose crushing rock or gravel then applying heavy tar to bind and preserve a hard surface. Good roads are a necessity on public highways and township lines.
Road building is described as simple requiring money and brains. The wiser you are the less money needed, and enduring roads require permanency as a core essential.
Advert says Dr. Silmer's Swamp Root helps kidney trouble and insured applicants are rejected due to undiagnosed kidney disease. Claims quick benefit and testimonials from Life Insurance Company examining physicians. Available in drug stores in two sizes. a 10 cent sample offer via Dr Kilmer & Co. Binghamton NY.
A remark on gendered cynicism suggests both women and men may dislike hearing stereotypes, noting a woman making cynical remarks about women mirrors men hearing cynicism about men.
An old advertisement promotes Hall's Catarrh Medicine claiming it cures catarrh by acting through the blood and mucous surfaces with a $100 reward for any case it cannot cure. The copy lists price, testimonials, and the Toledo based maker F. J. Cheney & Co. It ends with a proverb about love and war in courtship and marriage.
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