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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1899
Page
12
The article argues rising demand for roadway improvement and outlines a proposed "new style plank road" using white oak planks eight inches wide and two and a half inches thick. It details ground prep, cross-lies, plank placement, securing with spikes, grading, rolling, and a bicycle path, with costs estimated just over one dollar per unit and notes on stone scarcity.
A Sydney correspondent highlights wide tires easing heavy loads on rough roads, noting six inch tires on five ton loads barely sink and that gravel roads carry lighter teams poorly with three to four inch tires. The piece argues wide tires reduce road damage, lower taxes, and improve road durability, outlining essentials of modern road construction and naming local businesses and officials referenced in the excerpt.
Milwaukee police officer Oliver Axel Mikkelsen 37 shot himself at Mount Olive cemetery after visiting his wife’s grave. He had been widowed five months and was noted as a devoted, courteous colleague who kept to himself in mourning. His body was found face down, a revolver in his hand, near the grave.
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