Bad Roads Hamper Progress and Social Life in Rural Areas
The piece argues that bad highways raise transport costs, hinder farming profits, depress education and social life, and push youth to cities. It cites the National Educational Commission on consolidated township schools, the rise of tenantry, soil depletion, and the urgent need for good roads to enable parcel post and rural delivery.
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Johnny
Lizzie
National Educational Commission
Central West
Ireland
Department of Agriculture
Parcel Post
Electric Mules for Panama Railroad to Be Built Along
Panama plans an electric railway to move ships from ocean to ocean along the canal route. The first steel shipment arrived in New York for building the system. The commission will construct it and have it working within two years for the canal opening.
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Panama
New York
Panama Canal
Commission
Northwest roads push to link Seattle and Tacoma this summer
A Seattle Intelligencer article notes plans for a first class macadamized highway to connect Seattle and Tacoma by summer’s end. In King County, about 320000 dollars, including state aid, will fund road improvements this year to link Seattle and Everett.
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Northwest
Seattle
Tacoma
King County
Seatte
Everett
Wealthy Louisville Widow Remarries in Fourth Marriage
Pittsburg reports Mrs Katherine Maxon Smith Baumgardner famed as Louisville’s wealthiest woman, wed Carl Neumeyer in a nuptial ceremony. She nears eighty three, he a bit over forty. In Paris, Mrs Albert Clifford Barney of Washington, aged sixty one, wed Christian Hemmick, twenty six, as matrimony again alters lives.
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Pittsburg
Katherine Maxon-Smith-Baumgardner
Louisville
Carl. Neumeyer
Paris
Albert Clifford Barney
Washington
Christian D. Hemmick
Silver-Eyed Beefsteak and London Fish Diet
The New York Press notes Londoners eat fish for health and economy, contrasting beef and pork. It claims fish contain more water and less fat than beef, with eel salmon herring around five percent grease and halibut mackerel two to five percent fat, while cod whiting haddock are under two percent.
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London
New York Press
Tacoma Road Plan Ties State to Coast Highway Dream
Tacoma officials describe an improved road as part of a statewide trunk line from north to south forming a main route from the Great Lakes to the Ocean. The plan envisions a continuous network connecting Washington with British Columbia and down to Mexico, a goal asserted to be realized soon.
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Tacoma
Washington
Great Lakes
Ocean
British Columbia
Mexico
Willis Gillis quarrels over military school ad failures
Judge notes pupils could not remain atop horses long enough for photographs used in the school advertisements. The exchange frames the school's lack of success and a frank assessment of its outcomes.
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Willis
Gillis
Judge
Worth Thinking About Eve Adam Dialogue
Eve tells Adam to remember that when she looks, half the world watches him. The exchange frames public gaze and personal pressure in a brief, quotable moment.
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Eve
Adam
Public care for tuberculosis falls short of need
The National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis warns that despite 31 states having sanatoria and 114 municipal or county hospitals in 26 states, public provision remains far short. East of the Mississippi many states offer sanatoria, while western states have established facilities. total institutional care numbers about 200, leaving private philanthropy to shoulder most of the burden.
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National ‘Association For the
Mississippi River
Minnesota
Iowa
Missouri
Arkansas
Texas
Kansas
Nebraska
North Dakota
South Dakota
Montana
Oregon
Massachusetts
Connecticut
Pennsylvania
Adam Grouchy Over Woman and Peace Plans
A comic panel quote shows Adam grousing that rivaling human and ape ideas undermine his vision of universal peace, with the Ape retorting that the arrival of woman derails his plans.
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Adam
Serpent
Puck
Grape-Nuts Claim Restores Health for Welden Woman
A Welden Illinois woman bedridden by stomach trouble and headaches credits Grape-Nuts with restoring her health. After trying many foods, she says the product digested well, boosted strength, and she gained 20 pounds in weeks. She praises Postum Co. and the book The Road to Wellville as part of the diet change.
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Welden
Postum Co
Battle Creek
Mich
Wellville
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University School of Music
Lincoln
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E. B. Carder
Lincoln Sanitarius
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