Hurry Up and Drive Less in Missouri, Drivers
A reflective piece argues against speeding on Missouri roads. It contrasts past slow travel with 1939 high speed automobiles and cites risky behavior by young couples and workers. It warns that saving seconds can cost lives, citing two nurses injured after an icy road incident.
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Beware of Glare Bulledin Warns on Night Driving Hazards
The Trippe Safety Foundation Chicago warns motorists about glare from headlamps as nights lengthen. It explains uncontrolled high beams and reflected glare from rain fog snow and dust reduce visibility and cause accidents. It urges slower speeds and ground level auxiliary lights with sharp cut off in fog and rejects colored fog lights as beneficial.
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Giving First Aid to Injured Persons
Missouri Highway Department urges proper scene handling to reduce fatalities from traffic crashes. Do not move victims until an ambulance arrives. if spinal injury is suspected, roll onto a blanket or plank and avoid tilting the head. Keep lifters at head and feet to maintain spinal alignment during transport.
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Byron Polk Stookey
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Notice to all careless drivers in obituary warning
A terse notice urges careless drivers to visit a mortuary before driving to leave birthplaces relatives and other information for obituary purposes. It suggests consulting an attorney about property disposition before travel and adds a plug for Herald advertisers.
Fatalities rise in Missouri road crashes this year
Jefferson City reports 2,197 motor vehicle accidents on state roads in the first seven months. 1,964 nonfatal, 233 with fatalities. 270 killed, 2,744 injured. Leading causes include driving off road, driving on wrong side, turning left, and passing.
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Where Conoco Products are Sold in Missouri
Directory listing stores selling Conoco products across Missouri towns. Includes Bud Schrader Agest Phone 112 or 95, Schroff and Aufdenberg Station in St Louis area, Archie Cook S. Kingshighway and Highway 61, Sikeston, Noxall Store Noxall, Stroud and Lindenschmidt Noxall, F Spann Vanduser DeField Station East Prairie, Drake Auto Service Matthews, M Miller Charleston, Conoco Station Kluge's Hill on Highway 61, KH O Alfatis Oran, KK Averret Charter Oak, JIm Breeden Morehouse.
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Division Ten Roads Work Boosts Missouri Construction
Division Ten Roads Secretary reports more road work ahead as 31 projects in 25 counties seek bids in Jefferson City on September 22. Projects in Butler Dunklin New Madrid Pemiscot counties total about 13.0 miles to close gaps on Routes 53 62 and complete Route SA between 84 and 61. A note recalls the ninth day of the ninth month of the year 139 with a cotton picking sunny day.
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Malden
Pemiscot County
Highway Death Toll Declines in Missouri for Seven Months
The Missouri Highway Safety Bureau said the state death toll from motor vehicle crashes reached 270 for the first seven months of 1939, down 23 from the same period in 1938, per an Associated Press dispatch.
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Pershing Observes 79th Birth Anniversary
Gen. John J. Pershing marked his 79th birthday by issuing a statement from Walter Reed Hospital where he is undergoing a routine medical checkup, according to an aide.
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