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Newspaper
Van Buren News Eagle
Location
Van Buren, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1913
Page
8
Motor cycles and motor boats from 1913 offered at bargain prices with new machines and easy monthly plans. Includes used cycles plus a mail reply offer. Write Lock Box 11, Trenton Michigan, enclosed stamp for reply.
Classified notices urge lonely readers to join the Re liable Confidential Successful Club and Mission Unity. Ads promise descriptions free and access to hundreds of marriageable people from diverse backgrounds in Oakland Toledo and San Francisco.
Miss Ethel Eubanks aged 14 wed Mr Clifford Doyle in Benton Harbor Michigan. The couple left soon after for Illinois where Doyle has prepared a home for them. Ethel is daughter of Mrs Leander Eubanks and many friends will miss her locally. Doyle is son of Wm Doyle and has been working in Illinois.
E. E. Chamberlain of Clinton Maine praises Bucklen’s Amica Salve for cuts bruises burns and sprains claiming it removes pain and terrors. The ad notes the remedy is an equal healing agent and priced at 25 cents at City Drug Store.
Walter Estep died from a base skull fracture after a motorcycle he rode collided with a park car at Marion on Sunday afternoon August 3. He did not regain consciousness and passed away at 7.45 o clock Sunday night.
Rev H Stubenwoll of Allison Iowa hails Dr King's New Life Pills for constipation as perfect and essential for every home. Claims they regulate liver and bowels with guaranteed results and encourages purchase at City Drug Store for 25 cents.
Miss Ida Geiger of Oklahoma visited the Jeffries family on her return from Pennsylvania where she had gone to tend her sister who died July 21. They met again after nearly 18 years. Geiger won a claim in the Cherokee land opening and developed it into a fine farm, recently turning down an offer of $15,000.
Mrs D L Kenny reports Dr Hobsons Eczema Ointment cured her tetter after more than fifty years of suffering. The advertisement notes the product sells for 50 cents through Peeffer Chemical Co and local druggists in St Louis and Philadelphia.
The article discusses drainage culverts and crossing bridges, comparing wood, pipe, and reinforced concrete options. It covers pipe sizes, depth, head walls, and live loads, explains timber bridge components, and presents load calculations for stringers. It also highlights reinforced concrete and steel I beam culverts with references to design bulletin No. 39.
The article argues wooden bridges are a menace and costly to maintain as timber prices rise and traffic increases. It promotes reinforced concrete as the best solution for highway bridges and culverts, asserting bridge construction is the engineer's domain and expertise should be secured.
The article discusses three road maintenance methods: contract system, labor tax or personal service, and permanent crews. It notes the contract system has been used in states but is not satisfactory, as payments are small and service often poor, sometimes worsening roads.
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