Supreme court backs Kansas sign limits on highways
The Kansas Supreme Court upholds a legislature act prohibiting most signs on state highways and advertising signs within 500 feet of road turns intersections or railroad grade crossings. The piece urges roadside beautification through trees as in Connecticut and Maryland and notes Missouri could follow with a tree lined system.
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Supreme Court of Kansas
St. Louis Globe-Democratic
Conticut
Maryland
Highway Commission
Forestry Department
Missouri
France
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Hevery
Fire resistant house design and materials guide
The article outlines an ideal fire resisting house with a concrete foundation, reinforced steel, two story exterior walls of concrete block or hollow tile, fire resisting floors, a metal roof over gypsum concrete with slate roofing, and steel casement or metal double hung windows. It emphasizes waterproofing concrete or cinder blocks and suggests furred interior walls to prevent future issues.
Buck Up and Start Something
A Raleigh, N.C. Republican column laments people driven by good intentions who never act. It mocks those who constantly intend to do things, fail to accomplish, and drift through life without meaningful action or influence.
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Rusbhville
Property Appearance Boosts Home Value Says Advocate
From a practical view improving lawns and planting increases property value. Neatness appeals to citizens and is argued as better investment when homes and premises are cared for.
Pyramidal Trees for Front Yard Framing Growers Recommend
Trees with pyramidal form are often chosen to frame houses especially on informal front plantings. Desirable options include ginko European larch and cercidiphyllum for this purpose. On small lots dwarf flowering trees like flowering crab cherry peach or magnolia are commonly used.
Springfield claims top shade tree ratio among U.S. cities
Springfield Massachusetts holds the record for the most shade trees per capita, a distinction that may shift as other cities compete. The note suggests the city is a pioneer in the movement, maintaining a leading status in tree coverage.
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Springfield
Mass
Pioneer Commonwealth
Dogs Turn Round Before Lying Down A Survival Habit
A Pathfinder Magazine piece cites scientists and John Arthur Thomson noting that domestic dogs descend from wolves and instinctively trample and turn in circles to prepare a bed. The habit is framed as an evolutionary remnant preserved by natural history.
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John Arthur Thomson
Aberdeen University
Pathfinder Magazine
Tinkering Habit Spurs Efficient Ruber Bushing Cutter
Boys learn by using dad’s tools and turn tinkering into invention. An engineer heated rubber and used used razor blades to cut rubber rings cleanly, enabling a machine that cuts 325 bushings per minute. A single telephone company uses up to 50,000,000 bushings annually.
Why Hair Has Lost Its Crowning Glory
A Physical Culture Magazine doctor argues hair evolved from vital body armor to a mere decorative appendage. He cites primitive humans as fully hairy, with hair aiding warmth, rain resistance, and protection in combat, contrasting with modern expectations of hair as adornment.
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Physical Culture Magazine
Why Leisure Is Important for Normal Americans
Grove Patterson argues that leisure should be intelligently used rather than idle. He notes the age of machinery expands leisure and warns against letting it degenerate into mere idleness while urging focus on substantive mental and personality development.
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Grove Patterson
Mobile Register
District 96 community notes and social visits
District 96 locals record visits among the Lundbergs Arnsons and Petersens with multiple calls at the M A Larson and Freeman households. Trips include Lincoln Nebr and Pawnée City. Farmers discuss grain stacking and plowing after a Farmers Union meeting. institute attendance noted at Belleville.
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Fred Lundberg
Earl Clarke
Ted Larson
Allan Largon
Ruth
Carl Peterson
M. A. Larson
Elmer Sothers
Mises Delpha
Mary Edith
Deloris
C. T. Larson
Alvin Anderson
Anderson
Henry Aspegren
Clarence Aspegren
Arthur Freeman
Ernest Freeman
Arvid Larson
August Band
Alma Olson
Lincoln
Nebr
Frances
Arvid and
Allan Larson
Fred Mainquist
Archer Carlson
Clyde Blackburn
A. C. Florell
Loren
Belleville
Maxine Kackley
Claudia Freeman
Union News and Social Roundup From Local Community
Misses Josie and Enda Robison are on the sick list. Numerous visits and social events fill the week as families travel from Belleville to Kansas City and Oklahoma. The election board in Union township is noted as fully composed of ladies for the first time, and the Mutual Benefit club plans an river picnic while mending a hip injury and a thriving quilt project progress.
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Josie
Enda Robison
Sig Goodwin
Belleville
Frank Goodwin
Ted Milner
Fairbury
J. W. Bowersox
Oklahoma
Lee
Ralph Bowersox
Johnnie
Union Township
Chas. Larson
Fred Currie
Emery Hall
Merle Yeager
Republic
Lloyd
H. O. Marshall
Bernard Marshall
Lloyd McGregor
Elmer Everett
Paul Milner
Archie Larson
Hugh Seder
Bettie
Formosa
James Mallory
Emery Johnson
Courtland
Oliver Johnson
O. E. Hogue
Arthur Coldazier
Roy Hall
Eric Erickson
Scandia
Glenn Goodwin
Concordia
Dan Housholder
Granstedt
H. P. Lloyd
Floyd Kirtley
Kansas City
Oscar Freed
George Simmons
Frank Isaacson
Union
Fred Granstedt
Hart Holt
Elhart
Henry Holt
Jamestown
Mondo Tebow
Lennie Linden
Robert Lloyd
Frank Granstedt
Charlotte
Leota Scott
Nebraska
Harold Wells
Wyoming
Sheridan Robison
James Mosher, Jr
Melrose
Mexico
Vada
Blanche Bowersox
Abilene
Kansas
Edward Robison
Gas Masks Vital in Crane-Upton Oil Fields
Gas masks are worn by horses, mules and men in the Crane-Upton oil fields near McCamey Texas. All drilling crews pipeline workers truck drivers and visitors must be equipped to prevent hydrogen sulfide fumes from the wells. The gas is nearly odorless increasing danger to animals and people.
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Crane-Upton
McCamey
Texas
Origin of India Ink Nomenclature Traced to Trade
The name India ink derives from its origins in trade routes through India China and Japan where lamp black burnt cork and gelatin were scented with camphor and musk. The ink was sold in sticks and sold across these regions.
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India
China
Japan
Why Many Won't Sell Dog
The piece cites old Hebraic teaching Deuteronomy 28 18 to explain why some refuse to sell a dog. It argues selling a dog is forbidden in religious vow contexts and branded as an abomination unto God.
Origin of the Widow’s Weeds Dress Style
An explanation traces widows weeds from the Saxon word weede a woven garment to the general weeds apparel and finally to the long crape streamers worn by widows. The term narrows from dress to the widow’s distinctive mourning attire associated with funeral customs.
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Standard Oil CO
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