Motor Truck Expands Ohio Wheat Trade Network
The USDA reports hard surfaced highways boost motor truck use for moving Ohio wheat from farms to elevators. Trucks cut haul times to about two and a half hours with loads of 85 to 145 bushels, increasing farm deliveries and prompting elevators to adopt farm-to-market deliveries and fertiliser purchases. Rail and carload capacity also evolve as wagon loads grow from 1 100 to 1 400 1 600 bushels.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Ohio
Charles M. Fritz
Chicago
Gritz
Fritz
Sea-Son
Puntry
Stop Light Indicator Fits Dash Without Large Bulb
A simple wiring method uses a 1.5 volt flashlight bulb across the stop-light wire to indicate stop-light operation. The bulb glows with the current drop, signaling status without needing a large dash bulb. If the stop-light bulb fails the indicator cannot glow, but a burned-out flashlight does not affect the stop light.
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Popular Science Monthly
The Motor Quiz How Many Can You Answer
The Q and A cover punishment for a reckless driver in China a driving tour to Canada and a Jacking on level ground plus renewing oil filters at 10 000 miles The article notes a Chinese punishment wall shooting vast Canada touring stats and a maintenance tip about blocking wheels and level ground prior to jacking paddling with oil filter renewal reasoning
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China
Ais
Canada
Ans
Highway costs and car maintenance notes from 1929
The article notes highway value depends on feeder roads and cites Chinese roads as four feet wide. It urges skid chains for bad weather, warns 2,000,000 cars perish yearly, and that average car life is seven years. It recommends draining the carburetor to remove water and estimates 1929 highway costs at about 1.875 billion dollars with 75 million federally funded.
Library Trucks Expand Reading Reach Across Rural America
A Woman's Home Companion survey by Anna Steese Richardson notes library trucks from Rochester New York serve Monroe County and reach remote areas. Centers visit every seven weeks with librarians acting as chauffeurs and mail routes restocking from Rochester. Greenville South Carolina saw 282000 books circulated to 33000 readers, while Durham North Carolina increased 500 percent to 41000 volumes in five years.
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Anna Steese Richardson
Woman's Home Companion
Rochester
N. Y
Monroe County
Greenville
S. C
Durham
N. C
People Awake to Value of Artistic Roadsides
James H. Duthie recalls dramatic roadside ugliness and urges a renaissance of architectural taste. He notes improved suburbs in the last decade and predicts a nationwide shift toward more graceful, artistically conceived roadsides and homes.
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James H. Duthie
Cleveland Committee On Public Information
Cleveland
American Institute of Architects
Real Estate Group Urges Statewide City Planning Education
The Arkansas Real Estate Association urges every community in the state to initiate public education on city and land planning. It argues that real estate professionals have a duty to promote planning as essential for land resource development and preserving land values.
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Arkansas Real Estate, Association
Select Material With Care in Small American Houses
The article argues that small house design is tied to material choice even as many homes are built yearly on the assumption that architecture is independent of material. It stresses lumber remains the favorite material and urges builders to know best planning and design practices aligned with material use.
Vermont Chamber Campaign for Highway Beautification
The Vermont chamber of commerce plans a national campaign to promote highway beautification. The move calls for active cooperation from chambers of commerce across the United States and urges broad support from business groups.
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Vermont Chamber of Commerce
Chamber of ‘Commerce
United States
New Houses From Old Buyings Popular for Modernizing
Readable text notes growing trend of converting old houses into modern residences. It mentions cost figures running to several thousand dollars and resulting homes valued higher than the investment.
Davis Eyes 12 Hour Cross Country Flight From Los Angeles to New York
Atlanta pilot Doug Davis aims to cut the LA to New York record to about twelve hours using a Travelair Mystery monoplane described as bullet like and highly maneuverable. He previously shaved hours from the New York to Atlanta leg, flying 800 miles in four and a half hours through rain and fog, with two fuel stops totaling five hours.
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Atlanta
Los Angeles
New York
Doug Davis
Frank Hawks
Travelair
Davis
America
Cleveland
Gothany
Georgia
Castoria Advertises Gentle Relief for Children
A vintage ad promotes Castoria for infants and older children. It touts Castoria as pleasant tasting and effective for coated tongues, constipation, and sluggishness, urging buyers to seek the genuine product with Charles H. Fletcher’s signature on the wrapper.
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Chas. H. Fletcher
Plans Airplane Capable of 2 000 Miles an Hour
New Yorker report notes German inventor Fritz von Opel plans a practical rocket powered plane reaching 2000 mph. He says a new fluid explosive, made from two high power materials, will drive it. He aims to attempt a Channel crossing next year and will consult U.S. navy officials in Washington.
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Harry A. Miller
Los Angeles
Phillip Chancellor
Davis
Cleveland
New York
Fritz von Opel
von’ Opel
Herr von Opel
Colbi
United States
Navy
Washington
Tax Irks Shanghai Merchants Rally Against New Duty
Chinese shopkeepers in Shanghai resist a local 80 percent superstition tax on incense and candies. They threaten a strike unless the order is rescinded and unity is declared.
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Shanghai
Millions of Chinese Children Fail to Read
In Hopei province three million Chinese children cannot read or write in any language. The provincial education department urges compulsory education for all, estimating an initial cost of 30 million dollars. Due to existing expenses it doubts a real start soon, proposing a temporary step to begin in large cities where inhabitants may afford it.
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Pbiping
China
Hopet
Department of Education
Evening Musings and Market People in Louisville
A fragment from the Louisville Courier Journal reflects on social roles and attention. The passage contrasts dance learning with public presence and notes farmers' use of male scarecrows, then hints at matrimonial arrangements.
Nujol Reputed as Health Aid in Travel Tale
A narrator recalls dangerous travel and home hazards linking health to Nujol as a reliable remedy. He describes illnesses from a trip and endorses Nujol as a trusted health keeper, likening it to a cleansing bath for the body. The tale frames Nujol as a colorless medicine that lubricates the body.
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Kit Kwon
Nujol
Yaniout
Brazil
United States
Najol
Najal
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