Farmers and Wheelmen Unite for Better Roads Plan
Otto Dorner of Milwaukee urged farmers and wheelmen to share road costs and reform construction. He cited state aid, a proportional tax, and a split between local beneficiaries and property owners, noting practical success in New Jersey Connecticut Rhode Island and Massachusetts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
League of American Wheelmen
United States
New York
New Jersey
Connecticut
Rhode Island
Massachusetts
State aid for roads urged by farmers and wheelmen
The article argues for state funded highway improvements as vital for New Jersey and nationwide. It notes farmers’ fervent support, local petitions, and legislative limits on funding, highlighting endorsements from the Farmers National Congress, John M. Stahl, and the League of American Wheelmen. It cites cross state collaboration and compares highways to canals, steamship lines, and railroads as public works growing with state assistance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Jersey
United States
Farmers’ National Congress
John M. Stahl
New York State
Connecticut
Pennsylvania
Wisconsin
League of American Wheelmen
Farmers’ Organizations
Artistic Entrance to the Yarm House
A guide to creating an attractive home approach using local materials. Curve the road, plant trees and shrubs, place bowlder posts, and train woodbine over a wall to boost curb appeal. Involving children builds pride in farming life and may curb urban migration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yarm
Paris Selects Panel To Approve City Decorations
The prefect of the Seine forms a technical committee of artists and architects to review all plans affecting Paris public places before administrative approval. The panel handles outward appearance and ensures coordinated decoration of the city.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Seine
Singers Prepare for the Wind in Ips Ipsipek
The singers finalize plans as winds loom over Ips. Choir members practice routines while organizers brief venues and safety crews for anticipated gusts and possible weather-related disruptions.
Budding Fruit Trees in Moderately Dry Weather
This guide explains timing for budding fruit trees from July to September, choosing active growth periods, and how to select, cut, and place buds. It covers techniques, tools, weather considerations, and wind-facing orientations to improve success.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kalife
Orange Judd
Water and soap in Spanish manners noted in Magee text
In Magee's Life and Correspondence of William Connor Magee an English observer cites Spanish habits as frugal with time money and soap The quote recounts a Rondacean beauty using white of eggs rather than water for her morning toilet and notes this practice as common among Spanish ladies
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Connor Magee
York
Royal Betrothal Tale From Imperial Russia
The czar proposed to his future wife and quoted his father’s command. Princess Alix of Hesse replied that Queen Victoria, her grandmother, commanded her to accept. Thus the royal troth was plighted in this anecdote.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Czarowitz
Alix of Hesse
Queen Victoria
Prohibition Town Tale Ends In Millinery Store Jest
A Chicago Record piece recalls Milligan’s first Kansas visit. On a prohibition town platform he learns the only place to avoid a drink is a millinery shop opposite a two story white building. the joke frames Kansas as dry. No actual drinking occurs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Milligan
Kansas
Coulter Junction
Kansas hen lauded as barnyard queen in rustic ode
A playful traditional verse extols the Kansas hen as the ultimate farm icon. It contrasts the maid and milkmaid with the hen’s egg bounty, nest-robbing suitors, and the household’s sustenance, praising hens as corn’s equal and a rural blessing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maud
Kansas
Rome
Tom McNeal
Wasps Guarding Dixon Neb Tribune Subscriptions
In Dixon Nebraska the Tribune notes a wasps nest within the office that supposedly deters non subscribers by signaling a colony attack on those who threaten to stop a paper. The piece pairs a quirky claim with several unrelated city notes on salt uses for fires bees and cleaning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dixon
Neb
Tribune
The
Woolen Rag Smoke for Wounds and Hidden Talent
An 19th century note describes woolen rag smoke as a cure for severe wounds, citing finger extraction pain and possible lockjaw risk being eased by burning rags. It also mentions cat wounds soothed by smoke. A aside claims dormant talent surfaces when trying golf reveals unknown sod cutting skill.
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Otto Dorner
Milwaukee
Wis
Chautauqua Assembly
Ill
League
Dorner
Otto Corner
Apostle of
Good Roads
Ips
San Francisco Post
S. B. Baird
Boyden
Iowa
ORR, Hobson & Finch
Real Estate & Collections
Orange City Bank
Hollandisch Gesproken
J H. Greattrax
Main Street
O.B. Hernam, M.D
Michigan University At
Anne Arbor
Holland
M. Brink, M. D
A. Kwikkel
Practical Blacksmith
J.F. Preston, M. D
Park Hotel
Mason City
John Verhoef
Yroup County
Efighest Order
Perry's
Sheldon In
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