Oakland Cash Bonuses for City Improvement Suggestions
The Oakland civil service board seeks constructive suggestions from city employees to improve organization methods efficiency salaries leaves and promotions. Each good idea earns credit toward efficiency ratings and, if adopted, could lead to a city cash bonus program. Committees will assess proposed plans with emphasis on tangible efficiency gains and potential profit for further development.
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Civil Service Board
Civil Service Department
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Beautifying Ridgewood Tracks Beauty with Park Plan
Ridgewood New Jersey cooperates with the railroad to remove blight and create a park near the station. Prominent resident George Oreut pushes for a 260000 dollar beautification goal to rival other scenic New Jersey towns.
Expositions In California and San Francisco Travel Ad
The Panama Expositions in San Diego and San Francisco offer a grand chance to see the United States with routes and limited trains like the Golden State Limited Rocky Mountain Limited and Cal-Morning. Low round trip fares liberal stopovers long return limits. Our folder explains how to go what to see and our travel experts will plan an economical trip.
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San Diego
San Francisco
Rocky Mountain
Ridgewood to Beautify Town With $150000 Plan
The Ridgewood Woman's Club spurred a major civic project led by Mayor Donald Garber. A vote passed 4 to 1 to create a park around the station, with Erie Railroad contributing. total cost estimated at $400,000, town funds about $80,000, railroad the rest. An old station will be replaced with a new $150,000 structure and underground tunnel will replace grade crossings. Other street improvements will complete a town-wide facelift.
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Ridgewood
Donald Garber
Orcut
Erie Railroad
Erie
New York
Hospital Ship Androscoggin Serves Grand Banks Fishermen
The United States revenue cutter Androscoggin is now in service as a hospital ship and will operate among fishermen on the Grand Banks of Newfoundland. It is said to be the first US government hospital ship outfitted for service with a fishing fleet, though the concept exists with other nations.
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United States Revenue Cutter
Androscoggin
Grand Hanks
Newfoundland
Aaid
United States
Popular Mechanics Magazine
Soldier Wakes To Bullet Lodged In Thigh
From French trenches in Alsace a soldier slept undisturbed until a morning crawl in his thigh. His superior urged him to move, a doctor was sent, and it was found a bullet had lodged in his thigh after piercing the shelter roof, never waking him.
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Alsace
City Planning Talk Emphasizes Practical Needs Over Ornament
Mr J Horace McFarland, president of the American Civic Association, urged a Washington convention audience to redefine city planning. He warned that many see it as mere city beautiful display and urged focus on intercommunication, transportation, markets, housing, factories, water and sewerage, parks, and overall prosperity and efficiency.
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Poetic Advice for Quincy's Growth and Civic Gardens
A Quincy traveler sends a reflective poem urging residents to blame themselves for local decline and work together to revitalize the town. It urges gardens in vacant lots to beautify the city, foster good citizenship, and curb selfishness. The piece ends noting India’s debt laws to curb marriage pomp.
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Chicago
India
Plant snapdragons for beds and borders
Plant a bed of snapdragons for the garden. Sow seed indoors in pots or outdoors when weather allows, broadcast. When plants reach five inches, transplant in rows two inches apart. Close growth yields the best display. All colors and both tall and dwarf varieties bloom reliably.
City Gardens Movement Aims Chicago as Garden City
A campaign to transform Chicago into a city of gardens has begun as a model for nationwide adoption, urging other cities to embrace urban greenery and public horticulture.
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Chicago
Japan Sends Lobsters to Yokohama Voyage
Japanese visitors to the country brought back tales of lobsters and a plan to propagate them in Japan. Twenty seven lobsters were shipped from the Maine coast to Yokohama early in winter. eleven reached there, the first of their kind to Japanese shores and the survivors of the longest journey lobsters have ever made.
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Japan
Maine
Yokohama
New English steel promises nonrusting table cutlery
An English firm introduces a new process steel claimed to be nonrusting and untarnishable. It remains polished with use and contact with acidic foods, though the coating is about twice as thick as ordinary steel.
Aeroplane Deafness Reported by London Specialist
A London specialist notes many travelers in airplanes experience aeroplane deafness. Causes include rapid air pressure changes during ascent and wind pressure on ears and nose, as described in Pearson's Magazine.
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Pearson's Magazine
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