Road building push and postwar transport plans in early America
The piece surveys postwar highway policy with a $70,000,000 federal aid plan for new roads, noting a shift toward federal management and the role of soldiers in road work. It references McAdoo's decisive actions over express company control, and reports a broad casualty and memorial list from World War I, including the Peace Conference outlook and a casualty roster with names and towns.
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Department of Agriculture
Washington
United States
Chicago
American Association of State Highway Officials
The
Highway Industries Association
France
Belgium
Italy
Post Office Department
Long Likely List of Names Appears in Historical Directory
A dense roster of personal names and places listed in a historical publication. Entries include Fred Currier Rosehill Percy Deyo Colwein Otto Harris Lamont John Boyd Tingley Ernest Meisner and many others with multiple surnames and towns such as Sac City Dubuque Dyersville Rock Rapids Indianola Liberty Des Moines Council Bluffs Creston Os kaloosa Cresco and Fairfield. The list reads as a directory snippet or social register without narrative context or events.
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Fred Currier
Rosehill
Percy Deyo
Colwein
Otto Harris Lamont
John Boyd
Tingley
Ernest Meisner
Elkador
Mahlon Gray
Hartwick
Rudolph Mangels
Wolcott
Herbert Stoltenberg
Tipton
Joseph Hrubes
Britt Carl Johnston
Roger Frank Phillips
Sac City
Helmuth Althaus
Dyersville
Charles Wacker
Rock Rapids
Kilmer Boyce
Greenwood
Eugene Boothe
Indianola
John Buss
Parkesbury
George Harris
Liberty
Richard Henry
Lowa Falls
Dushan Samarchck
Council Bluffs
Geo. Notson
Hamberg
Alfred Badcock
Fredricksburg
Stanley Neale
Red Oak
Roy Hurdle
Commendhe
Clarence Warding
Des Moines
Orlando Qverholser
Creston
Leonard Sanders
Leon Christ Landorin
Cresco
Harm Viel
Clarksville
Harvey Stewart
Orient
Renke Gerdes
Munson
John Bartow
Oskaloosa
Lacy Dewitt
Coggan
Ronald Kent
Chelsea
Harry Hutchinson
Bussey
Harry Paulson
Crystal Lake
Earl Allender
Arthur Faux
Patterson
Metric Denominations in Early Volume Measures
The text lists old metric capacity units and their relations: kiloliter equals one cubic meter, hectoliter equals one tenth cubic meter, deciliter equals one tenth liter, and milliliter equals one cubic centimeter, outlining the hierarchies from kiloliter down to milliliter with decimal multipliers.
War Savings drive tops county quota by $1740
The War Savings Stamp drive in the county closed with a total of $228,740, surpassing the $227,200 quota by $1,740. Thanksgiving purchases totaled nearly $70,000. many stamps have been cashed at the post office, but most remain until maturity unless outright cashing is needed. Also notes the German title Of Honor Won, describing its hereditary or royal bestowed nature across various ranks.
Pleasant Old Age as Leisure and Study
The passage extols aging as a period of tranquil reflection after years of desire, ambition, rivalry, hatred, and passion. It suggests the soul enjoys solitude and the “food of study and philosophy,” making old age a blessed, peaceful exchange of active striving for contemplative leisure.
Valuable Reproof Inspires Moral Cleaning Remark
A fragmentary quotation discusses reproof as a cleansing force for character, likening it to fuller's earth that removes spots and dries away. The source presents a quotation attributed to Williamson, though the text is incomplete and difficult to date.
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Fuller
Wilamson
Church Notes Resume Services Citywide Meeting Decides Return
Representatives from Methodist and other churches met in the city to plan a full resumption of church activities across all locations. The group unanimously agreed to resume all services and activities until further orders from the Board.
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Methodist Church
Church Activities Amid Flu Risk and Holiday Programs
Health officials ready to close churches if needed as services resume cautiously. Thursday 7:30 p m midweek prayers and Sunday Communion at 10:15 a m with prior enrollment. Christmas program planning, baptisms, and Missionary Society meetings noted. English services at 8:60 p m and Y P L at 7:15 p m. Public events include Great Supper and Bazaar at the Christian Church basement. Treasury certificates called for redemption December 19 1918 by the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago.
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Board of Health
A. Berge
The
Christian Church
New Christian Church
First Church of Christ Scientist Public Library
God
Preserver of Man
Gardston
Treasury
United States Treasury
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Government Bond Department
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Baterea
Es Werville
Towa
Vindicator
Emmet County
Republican
Aap Vindicator
McAdoo
Interstate Commerce Commission
American Railway Express Company
Consolidated Express
Railroad Adinistrator
McAdon
Th Express Company
Rad
Great Britain
Town Casualty List
Raymond J. Broghamer
Decorah
George F. Canney
Frederick George Royster
Lehigh
Willam Detert
Solon
John Bezzenberger
Bloonfield
George Kunz
Dubuque
Claude Swisher
Julius Shryer
Durant
Paul Dean
Carl Jacobsen
Long Grove
Jesse Byers
Archer
Martin A. Hepyer
Renwick
Henry F. Horstman
Primehar
Ronal
B. Weimer
Ottoriwa
Arthur Jarvis
Joseph Judge
Boone
John Tastone
Granville Otte
Troester
Osterdock
Guy Worrel
Farmington
Edward Nussbaum
Lemars
Lloyd Breneman
Marion
George Thaen
Cumberland
John Burke
Perry Burnham
Redfield
Roy Crotinger
University Park
Ernest KE. Herndan
Lucas
Charles Cumiingham
Warren P. Rierson
Princeton
Oscar Nelson
Ottumwa
Claire Pierce
Harlan
Conrad Abels
Holland
Geo
Bessman
Dows
B. K
Burt & Jones
Mahlum & Anderson’s
Jacob Sauter
George
Arnold Utvig
Estherville Commercial Club
A. O. Peterson
Sec
Methodist Episcopal Church
Norwegian Lutheran Church Dorcal Society
A. O. ‘Myhre
Presbyterian Church
the Missionary Society
B. B. Anderson
Anderson
McLean
Coleman
Evangelical Lutheran Church
J. E. Andreae
Hilver
Darvel Post
Philadelphia
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