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Newspaper
Salisbury Evening Times
Location
Salisbury, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1925
Page
4
The draft discusses how long the one dollar bill lasts and the costs to produce it. Treasury officials seek ways to extend currency life, noting the public prefers the dollar bill over coins or other notes. Printing capacity and currency longevity are debated amid calls for more engraving machines.
Rhode Island gains a new state police superintendent who argues that slow driving is as dangerous as speed and spurs a state conference to back a 35 mile per hour target as a safe speed under proper conditions for capable drivers.
A garbled passage reflects on matrimony and finances, jokes about shoes and gas, then shifts to highway speeds and Rhode Island traffic enforcement. It mentions thinking and law, then multiple states and a push to curb slow drivers with warnings and arrests. It ends with domestic life vignettes and June weddings.
Washington July 29 The State Department presses the War Department for space as the three branches once shared a vast building now strained by wartime expansion. Postwar shrinkage leaves ministries crowded into temporary or tented quarters with Treasury Commerce Justice and Forest Service homeless tenants and officials urging relief.
The article discusses a trend to apply faster driving on city streets with police orders in Cleveland and other cities. It notes concerns over pedestrian danger and mixed opinions on boosting speed to relieve congestion, with recent gains in support for higher speeds on state highways.
Clarence Darrow says criminal lawyers often face disdain yet may bear less guilt than certain civil lawyers. He notes criminals escape due to some lawyers while civil attorneys enable wrongdoing, arguing some lawyers influence justice in complex ways.
The piece quotes Reverend Dr. Straton opposing teaching evolution and arguing for a six thousand year old world. It cites Luther Wesley and Darwin clashes, notes editors as a powerful yet flawed group, and mentions rubber tire substitutes and a large family gathering as side details.
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