Highways in Europe and England's road system
The piece discusses historical road funding and management in England and France. It notes tolls, troop interference, and bread shed before a better system, explains four road classes, and cites provincial maintenance by communes with occasional government aid. It mentions road widths and repair practices from the American Asphalt Journal.
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England
Macauley
Eresty
Taw
National Treasury
American Asphalt Journal
Chestnut Cultivation Pioneer Skips Dated Growth
Coleman K. Sober of Union County owns the nation’s largest chestnut grove, spanning 205 acres with over 190 000 trees. He aims to profit vast wild mountain lands and recounts grafting as a boy, now harvesting about 4000 bushels next year at an estimated $4 per bushel, with firebreaks and controlled regrowth on the property eight miles from Shamokin.
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Coleman K. Sober
Union County
United States
Philadelphia Press
Sober
Igmberman
Lewisburg
Shamokin
Sian Farms
Rarm Telephone Tints Framing Pole Rights and Roads
A correspondent asks about rights of way for telephone lines across towns and fields. The president of a line-building firm explains franchise needs, pole placement, crossing existing lines, and farmer veto rights. Government road funding is unlikely. urban taxes fund roads, with farm lands bearing road costs.
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Ilegal
Pripuies
William Wilson
Orange
Judd Farmer
Durable flood gate system for stream banks
A compact set of instructions for building a flood gate along small streams. It outlines tying four pieces, joining them with planks, forming a gate in a J shape, placing frames on each side of the creek, sinking into rock, and anchoring with a pole between forks to create a cheap, effective barrier.
Letting Down Fences for Temporary Stock Move
A brief ad style note explains a simple method to lower a wire fence between staples on a tree to move stock without disconnecting gates. Two staples are driven a half inch apart, wire placed and nailed into position, then released by pressing the wire down after use.
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Orange Judd Ferrer
Exterminate Rats in Philippine Barracks Urged by Gen Chaffee
Gen Chaffee orders immediate rat extermination in all troop housing in Manila to avert plague. Officers and civilians must disinfect quarters and use arsenic poison. detailed methods given for killing rats and disposing of corpses in carbolic acid solution.
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Philippines
Manila
Chaffee
Washington
Remarkable Niagara Oyster Feeds 75 Men with Pearls and Meat
Two Buffalo fishermen hoisted a colossal oyster from the Niagara River. The shell weighed 212 pounds, 2 feet 8 inches across, 19 inches abreast, containing 50 genuine pearls. They exhibited it a Buffalo saloon for a week, cooked the meat into stew, feeding 75 men. The find occurred when their net caught a snag in shallow water. one man jumped in, found a rocklike mass, and later revealed a giant pearl-oyster.
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Niagara River
Buffalo
Skun ks Thief Plagues Montour County Farmer
Francis Woll a Montour county farmer reports 75 fine skunks and 300 bull frogs stolen from a remote farm. He suspects a skilled thief who knew skunks well, noting the fenced enclosures were breached and every animal vanished in one night while he had been unable to find any trail.
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Francis, Woll
Montour County
Woll
Hazleton
Chicago
Inter Ocean
Wolf
Prodigal Prince David Kawananakoa Hosts Hawaiian Musicians
A San Francisco correspondent notes Prince David Kawananakoa, nephew of Queen Kapiolani, entices Hawaiian musicians to stay a month at the Occidental Hotel after the Buffalo expedition. He entertains large crowds in Honolulu and once hosted 1,200 constituents at a campaign feast. The prince funds music during dinners and values hosting in Waikki style open-air gatherings.
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Prince David Kawananakoa
Kapiolani
Hawaii
Cupid
San Francisco
New York Tribune
Buffalo
Midway
Honolulu
Prince David
Occidental
San Fracisco
Occidental Hotel
Honolalu
Waikiki
Congress
Wu Ting Fang Critiques Oriental Art Difference
A Washington report notes Wu Ting Fang visiting the Corcoran to contrast Eastern and Western art. Dutch painter Hubert Vos displays portraits of races including Thibetan lamas and Li Hung Chang. Wu questions two portraits while Vos explains three quarters view and the Chinese minister comments on the tone of a physician’s letter.
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Wu Ting Fang
Corcoran
Washington
Hubert Vos
Hemicycle
Vos
Prince Ching
Li Hung Chang
Mr. Wu
Ching
Invention age quip lands in Brooklyn Eagle
A thin man with a wart on his nose quips about modern invention while a bald companion notes his widow wife owns a phonograph that endlessly replays her first husband’s records. The exchange captures a playful, era reflecting banter from the Brooklyn Eagle.
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Brooklyn Eagle
A Ditter Blow and the Slippery Street Irony
A prostrate horse groans and moves an injured leg on slick pavement as an automobile ambulance is summoned to the veterinary hospital. Town Topies notes the odd humor of fate and a horse’s good humor despite injury.
Vanity Declares Harsh Words Against Store After Altered Outfit
A Vanity complains of insult from a haberdasher who refused a complete harmony outfit. A clerk recalls a bow tie moment as the customer, Too Literally Harm, leaves without selection, prompting a store dispute referenced by the Los Angeles Herald.
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Europe
Rattan
Riuhin
Ertelion
Polen
Wren
America
H. W. Conn
Department of Biology
Wesleyan University
Middletown
Conn
Piaod Gatr
Mutual Reserve Fund
Frederick A. Burnham
Ant
Highty
A. Berthiaume
Bottineau
Mevater Hox
Viadosta
Ted
Prodigal
Hawa
Cape
Ashington Star
Jones
A. G. Burr
Athens
Naxaus D. Wi
Nannie Davis
Tom
Peerless
NTG
M Lauhdry
oRriine
Reel Law
York
Boehnke
Cinger
Malin Barect
Bohen EE
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