Three Road Plans Before Assembly
Iowa lawmakers face three road programs beside an $85 million road bond proposal. Governor Hammill backs a fuel tax. highway committee plans seek new fee distribution and a gas tax. All aim to give the highway commission control of primary roads, with battles looming over revenue and broader tax measures.
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Iowa
Forty-first General Assembly
Hammill
House
Senate
Highway Committee
State Highway Commission
Fortieth General Assembly
Choosing Trees for Windbreaks and Screens
The passage praises white pine and firs for windbreaks, notes Slade favors native trees, and highlights hardy oaks, graceful elms, and versatile maples. It urges moisture-rich soils for street plantings, suggests tulip poplar as a centerpiece, and emphasizes rapid growth, beauty, and harmony with surroundings.
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Norway
Carolina
Interior of Home Calls for Careful Planning
The article stresses preconstruction planning as the most important home building step. A well designed plan boosts economy, comfort, and appearance, while a rushed layout increases cost and dissatisfaction. The home is a wife’s workshop where organizing routines lightens household operations and welfare improves with attentive detailing.
Value of Home Ownership in Credit Extension
The article argues home ownership signals thrift and industry influencing lenders. It notes merchants extend credit more readily when a borrower has a home, even a small one, reflecting diligence and reliability through ownership.
Winter Painting Booms In Slower Season
The article notes that unemployment averages 2,090,000 men in the United States and explains seasonal causes. From mid October to mid February is the dull season, yet winter months offer optimal interior painting conditions with about five times more interior work than exterior.
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Guth- Tie
Cetar River
Mitchell
Des Moines
Thes
United States Department of Labor
Pay Yourself Rent Profit
The piece argues that renters pay rent to landlords or investors, effectively transferring profit to others. It urges readers to consider how much rent over five to ten years has gone to others and suggests ways to capture that value for themselves.
Growth Plan for Sylacanga Industries and Homes
Boost City’s Industries argues growth of current Sylacanga enterprises will drive town expansion into a metropolis. The piece emphasizes strengthening existing businesses and home enterprises rather than locating new ones to achieve urban development.
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Sylacanga
Community Worth and the Value of a World’s Largest Building
A town weighs the impact of housing the world’s largest building versus its broader value. The piece argues that prestige and scale do not guarantee financial or communal benefit for residents, urging focus on practical gains beyond notoriety.
Battle of Franklin described with Confederate assault
The report recalls a Civil War skirmish at Franklin where at about two o clock in the afternoon Confederate forces attacked exposed lines of Wagner's division. They overwhelmed the union soldiers, captured many prisoners, and surged onto entrenched positions as color bearers fell. Some Union officers were among the fallen.
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Ofelock
Wagner
Eiion
Salmon
Trotwood Moore
Tife
Gottontown
Hood
Franklin
Schofield
Mather
Stuart
Middle Tennessee
President Polk
Pr Jackson
Herm Nmia
Andrew Vee
Nashville
Wennessee
Masete Shoals
Cheatbally
Tere
Sherman
Grant
Tennessee
Georgia
Johnsoy
Dalton
Resaca
Kenegaw Mountain
Fane
Genera Hood
Johnson
Atlanta
Thomas
Savannah
Cox
Spring Hill
Columbia Pike
Stewart
Cheatham
Adams
Cockrell
Qu Strahl
Gist
Brow
W. Gordon
Sparks
Cohmel Stewart
Sixty
Iwavls
John Adams
Mississippi
Missouri
Missi
Wlthins
Genera Thomas
Sherwood
Ohio
Eleventh
Ohio Infantry
Ken Franklin
Conpress
Mit
Charles Mastin Stedman
North Carolina
North Cavalli Infantry
Sherwool
New York State
Congress
Fort Sumter
Yoleda
Congress Urges Frankin Battlefield Preservation
A call to add Franklin Tennessee to the list of national military parks follows past battlefield designations at Chickamauga Chattanooga Gettysburg and Vicksburg. Representative Salmon notes Franklin as the Civil War turning point with heavy losses and famed generals, urging congressional action to protect the site and honor the memory of Union and Confederate soldiers.
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John Dickinson
Sherman
Chickamauga
Chattanooga
Georgia
Tennessee
Antietem
Maryland
Shiloh
Gettysburg
Pennsylvania
Vicksburg
Mississipp
Franklin
Petersbire
Virginia
W. C. Sabon
Ohio
Salmon
Hood
Cleburne
Cartier
Strahl
Cockrel
Golden
Granberry
Walthall
John Adams
Appomattox
Mr. Salmon
General Sherwood
Webster Visits Jefferson on a Virginia Journey
The piece notes Mr Webster of Massachusetts visiting Mr Jefferson at his Virginia seat, following Mr Clay's recent call. It reflects on these visits to ex presidents as a pious pilgrimage toward virtue and intelligence, and argues for a youth education plan to travel across regions to foster national unity and public life awareness.
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Webster
Massachusetts
Jefferson
Virginia
Clay
Alarm Clock Advice At Small Hotel
A traveler at a small hotel asked the clerk for the alarm clock. She handed it over and warned that it rarely used, sometimes sticks, but if it fails to ring, touch the little hammer and string to set it right.
Fragmentary coin remark on requesting excellence and allowances
A partial sentence discusses requesting excellence of each part of the coin and making allowances for their defeats, indicating a metaphorical or ceremonial note without full context or attribution.
Sundog and parhelic circle reflections described
A fragment notes that reflections from snow crystals can create brilliancies in the parhelic circle. It describes how sunlight forms a band of white light around the horizon at the sun’s apparent altitude, often passing through the sundog, amplifying brightness by double or triple in certain configurations.
Preserve Shoes Beeswus and Suet for Wet Weather
The text explains rubbing around duots and shoes in wet weather to keep out dampness. It advises preserving kid shoes by nightly petroleum jelly and morning polish, and notes that the treatment also applies to patent leather.
In Office Cavalry and Riddled Desks Marred by War
In the American Legion Weekly a wartime vignette notes a young woman, a wife or widow, reflecting on her work and perceptions of age. A veteran speaks softly about polishing desks scarred by war, while a man asks a child about what he did in the world.
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Cavalry
American Legion Weekly
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