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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1927
Page
6
Automobile camping grows into a major travel trend with an estimated 15 million campers this summer. Cottage camps offer furnished lodging with kitchens and amenities while many camps provide laundries cafeterias playgrounds and even beauty parlors. Premium tents and air mattresses cater to traditional campers seeking comfort on the road.
Advice to stop fender and valance rattle in light cars by forcing the valance back and inserting leather rubber or felt to cushion the joint. The fix dampens vibration and prevents the tin can like noise during road shocks.
The spread of motor vehicles extends to Bahrein in the Persian Gulf. By February 1926 Bahrein registered 120 cars and two trucks, rising through the year to about 145 to 150 passenger cars and three trucks as roads improve on the island group.
Drive to the right as far as possible and ensure service brakes stop within 50 feet from 20 mph. On wet roads keep 80 feet or more from the vehicle ahead, avoid passing unless drivers know your intent, hold the wheel firmly at high speeds, a blowout may cause swerving, and inside curve space belongs to oncoming traffic.
A Wisconsin repairman devised a simple tool to strip tire tread. A bent \'%-inch steel shafting crank mounted under a work bench holds two spars. By turning the crank the tread peels away, with occasional stops to trim heavy wrap.
In oil rich areas around Mexico City motorists pay up to 38 cents per gallon, nearly twice the price seen inland in the United States. The high cost stems from crude oil shipping to the U S for refining and returning fuel to Mexico, with heavy freight charges in both directions.
The article notes the surge in hard surfaced highway construction driven by auto use and urban rural alliance. Federal aid grew to 55,903 miles of high speed roads with 9,400 built in 1926, linking Atlantic City to San Francisco and routing No 30 across multiple states. States have financed via bonded debt since 1913, while taxes remain a light burden as gravel and macadam give way to asphalt concrete and brick.
State highway leader Frank Page cites five year campaign gains. Over 1 560 miles of concrete roads built averaging 18 feet wide. Two thousand buses transport students on these roads. NC farms rise 13 000, motor registration up 260 percent since 1920, funding highways through fees and a four cent gas tax.
The American Legion post and city officials will install about two hundred street signs in Grand Haven Michigan to help summer visitors navigate the city. The project targets clearer wayfinding for roughly a hundred vacationers each summer.
A simple food product called minute jelly uses pure concentrated fruit juice with added pectin. Boil with water and sugar, then set in glasses for quick, tasty jelly. Small bottles yield two glasses. option to order multiple bottles from General Packing Corp Cranford NJ.
India now has 80 000 automobiles. Concrete and brick roads test tires. 89 percent of gasoline tax receipts fund rural roads and highways. Atlantic City Motor Speedway is claimed by many experts to be the fastest track in the country.
The article questions concrete pavement cost benefits over asphalt and notes a ten year road program under consideration by Japan. It discusses Ireland road construction difficulties and cites the first US paved road in Alexandria Virginia built with European ballast stones by Hessian prisoners. It mentions high altitude Peruvian highways, homing pigeons vs a new American paved road, and officials planning a vast highway linking American republics from Detroit through Central and South America to Chile.
A visiting uplift worker encounters a melancholic prisoner who asks about his sentence. The inmate replies with a political quip saying it depends on politics, then reveals he is the warden. The line appears in American Legion Monthly.
An awkward exchange unfolds as a drill sergeant corrects a recruit over mispronounced terms. The recruit and superior exchange phrases reflecting military discipline and humor in a training moment.
Mothers trust Castoria for over thirty years as a pleasant harmless substitute for Castor Oil Paregoric teething drops and soothing syrups Contains no narcotics. Proven directions on each package Physicians everywhere recommend it. The genuine bears signature of the maker.
Hideous Mirth Howell quips that a loud laugh betrays a vacant mind, prompting Jones to reply with a sharp challenge asking who has been laughing at Howell. The exchange reflects a biting, public-mized humor style from the period.
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