Improved Roads Spending Reaches 400 Million in 1919
United States Department of Agriculture reports 1919 rural roads and bridges expenditures exceed 400 million dollars. Labor and materials totaled 390,455,991 with convict and statute labor estimated at 122,000,000. State highway departments increased oversight from 117,285,268 in 1918 to 200,292,040 in 1919, while local funds rose to 180,103,287.
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Wid
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Trees Beautify Our Roads and Remembrance Plantings
Across the nation patriotic groups and women’s clubs are planting roadside trees along highways to honor World War I veterans. The Federation of Women’s Clubs helped lines Lincoln Highway with oaks and elms, a beautification and memory project. In Macon Georgia the chamber of commerce women’s auxiliary leads a large tree planting in tribute to local service men and women.
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Lincoln Highway
Victorian Puter Stevenson
Sinclair
America
American Forestry Association
Georgia
Macon
Chamber of Commerce
Nut trees along highways in Michigan lead road plan
Michigan becomes the first state to offer rewards for planting nut trees to improve highways. European roadside trees support road maintenance profits. public sentiment protects orchards. The Roads Meet and Great Bridge project spend 140 million annually on highway improvements by dragging to shape curvature, drainage, and a hard base surface.
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Michigan
Europe
Fines for Overloading on Pennsylvania Highways
Fines ranging from twenty five to eighty one hundred dollars are imposed on offenders who drive overloaded motor trucks on Pennsylvania highways.
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Pennsylvania
Mother's Cook Book Menu Ideas and Leftover Mackerel Dish
A 1992 Western Newspaper image shows recipes from a Mother's Cook Book style page. It describes Leftover Calf Mackerel With Potato Balls and a Pacific Salad using spaghetti, celery, sweet corn, cabbage, and early season dressing. The text frames economical daily meals, offering a step by step method to combine leftovers with simple staples for wholesome, unusual meals.
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Weamrn
Timtony
The Woods and a Lover's Vision in Rustic Dawn
A lyrical passage contrasts rural life with city temptations. The speaker, a poet, praises forest kinship, the north wind, and honest love while lambasting urban hollowness. The excerpt ends with a modern quip on age and looming world debts.
The Job And The Man By F A Walker
A reflective piece on enthusiasm at work contrasts a snail's sluggishness with an ant's constant engagement. It argues every person should be deeply engaged in their tasks, urging readers to seek work that excites and motivates, and to change jobs if needed.
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Eothuetiem
Ettixon
Galileo
Curie
Women in Banks Offer Early Career Openings
Women entering banking face early positions with strong upward potential. A New York Trust company hires women as assistants to prepare client budgets and advise minors, while Guaranty Trust employs a female bond clerk. With night courses and initial small roles, capable graduates can gain financial office experience and advance, as prejudice against women fades in this expanding field.
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New York ‘Trust Company
Guaranty ‘Trust Company
Bond Aitew
Wetuwl Tauch
Condit Hong
Copyria
Imperial Glass Coach in Films May Earn 100000 Crowns
Vienna reports the Hapsburg imperial glass coach, once tied to royal ceremonies, is now used in cinema for 100000 crowns. The lavish coach, drawn by eight white horses, ferries dignitaries and provisions, with actors still holding stage contracts. part of the era’s ceremonial pageantry survives in film. A separate item notes a mob in Purvis, Mississippi lynching pastor Caleman Brown over a murder allegation of a young girl, amid sheriff descriptions of the case.
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Vienna
Imperial Glass
Hapsburgera
Autos Punished on Steep Hills
The article by Allen argues that climbing steep hills in high gear imposes maximum stress on engines and car components. He urges motorists to use low and intermediate gears for ascent, explaining physics of gear ratios wheel revolutions and horsepower, and noting the added work of gravity and friction on steep grades.
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Allen
Aner Lea
Allen Sayes
Foot Warmer For Severe Weather Inventions
Simple portable foot warmer described by Hervey Mead in Popular Science Monthly. Constructed around a firebrick heat carrier with metal shell and fireproof packing, placed in a box about 12 inches long and one foot high to heat feet in cold car interiors.
Automobiles and dangers of driving in wartime era
Pedestrians warned as street crossings prove hazardous while Britain designs adaptive chairs for disabled soldiers. US auto output tops six million cars and 61 thousand trucks. Atlantic City fire dept. modernization lags. fuel shortages hit Germany. US exports two years total 650 thousand water vehicles valued at 1.25 billion. Police uncover a large motor theft ring moving cars by disassembly. Safe fueling tip: wipe gasoline can mouth before filling to avoid dust.
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