Road Types and Construction Standards for State Aid Roads
The article argues for a unified system of State Aid roads connecting main trading points, detailing gravel, macadam, bituminous macadam, brick, and Portland cement concrete options. It discusses durability, cost, and maintenance, noting the governor and Highway Commission aim for permanent, well-graded roads with proper drainage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oid
State Highway Commission
Bondisi
Ieee
Illinois
State Highway Department
Dunne
Ilinois
Highway Commission
City’s Low Cost of Living for Working Girls
An exchange reports that a London girls club, linked to the Social Institutes Union for Women and Girls, offers the cheapest lunch in the city. About 200 working girls dine daily at 18 cents, a rise from 10 cents prewar, with menu items including roast mutton and steak pie. The club charges four cents monthly, provides a cozy rest room, and welcomes all neighborhood workers.
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Germany
London
Social Institutes’ Union For Women and Girls
Lady Ancaster
W. H. Smith Memorial
Portugal Street
Kingsway
Risked life for his pipe on submarine run
A merchant seaman ashore after Gallipoli recalls a night in mid seas when an Austrian U boat stopped a ship and seized papers. As crew fled by boats a blue overalled figure climbed back aboard to retrieve a rubber pouch and a clay pipe, delaying the firing order by a full minute and puzzling the submariners.
Women to Raise Drugs in English Gardens
The Woman's Herb Growing association in England has drawn up a list of medicinal plants for women to cultivate. It argues domestic cultivation can replace imports from Germany Austria Hungary and the Balkans and cites monk's hood camomile deadly nightshade thornapple henbane purple foxglove fennel opium poppy valerian as urgently needed crops.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Woman's Herb Growing Association
England
Germany
Austria-Hungary
Balkans
Hingland
Snoring Sparks Divorce Under French Law
A newly married couple both snorers found sleep impossible as they woke each other with loud noises. They tried separate rooms and increasing distance but the snoring persisted, leading to a mutual decision to divorce as the only solution.
Public Forum on railroads as public servants and shipper protection
Chas C Prouty argues ICC shifts from protecting shippers to ensuring railroads receive fair returns. He cites Judge Cooley's view that railways are public servants and calls for government to aid railroads to grow, funded by private investors seeking returns through stock and bond markets.
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Chas. C. Prouty
Interstate Commerce Commission
Judge Cooley
Cooley
Commission
Women Lead National Clean Up and Paint Up Drive
The nation credits women with transforming living conditions through the Clean Up and Paint Up campaign. Allen W. Clark cites over a million participants in 1915, with clubs and organizations pushing year round civic and moral improvements across the country from Maine to California.
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Allen W. Clark
National Campaign Bureau
St. Louis
Bangor
San Mego
Cal
Bureau
Mr. Clark
New England
National Bureau
Clarence Baxter
Kirksville
Civics
National Federation of Women’s Clubs
E. T. Senseney
Pure Food
Consumers’ League of St. Louis
W. R. Chivvis
Missouri Federation of Women's Clubs
Philip N.’ Moore
National Federation of Women's Clubs
Thomas. Sherwin
Department of Streets and Alleys
Women’s Municipal League of
Boston
T. United States
National
United States
Clark
The
Bildungskanone Books for Soldiers Drive in Germany
Reading for the soldiers becomes a national effort as field libraries on wheels, led by Undersecretary Conze, deliver 100 mobile branches. Each motor library holds 1,000 to 1,500 volumes with a librarian, first five sent to the eastern front, and crates arranged to suit poor roads in Poland and Serbia. One library serves about 20,000 men.
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Germany
Bildungskanone
Berliner Tageblatt
Poland
Serbia
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Popular Mechanics, Magazine
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Avenue
Chica
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