Wisconsin Highway Commission Explains Gravel Road Policy
The Wisconsin Highway Commission presents its policy on surfaced roads, stressing patrol maintenance and gravel roads over costly new surfacing. It notes Hirst as a major advocate for gravel roads, cites price-driven cuts to concrete work saving over 300000 dollars, and explains cost variation across conditions and states. It also mentions legislation to allow counties bonded for concrete to switch surfacing methods.
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Illinois
Wisconsin Highway Commission
Wisconsin
Hirst
Joint Highway Committee of the Assembly
Senate
Wisconsin Boy Tells of Work in Near East
Jimmie Van Toor, former service man now with Near East Relief, writes from Constantinople recounting crowded streets, diverse crowds, bazaars, and his duties aiding refugees. He describes storage and dispatch plans, including assignments to Adana and famine relief efforts, while detailing harsh conditions aboard ships and the humanitarian effort among Russians, Armenians, and others.
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The
Milwaukee Journal
Jimmie van Toor
Near East Relief
Milwaukee
Constantinople
C. van ‘Toor
Forty-ninth Street
Paris
Red Cross
Bosphorus
van Toor
Sevastopol
Black Sea
United States
Adana
Wrangel
Russia
O. K
Iever
Petrograd
Wisconsin Highway Commission on road contracts
The Wisconsin Highway Commission states it is not building roads regardless of cost but instead builds where there is economic justification, aiming to be cheaper than many states and following the same competitive conditions as other jurisdictions.
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Russia
Wrangel
Morocco
Tunis
Batumis
Caucasus
Athens
Venizelos
Greece
Moscow
Petrograd
Wisconsin
Quintessence and the Four Elements Tradition
The ancient Greeks identified four basic elements fire air water earth, with the Pythagoreans adding a fifth ether. Ether was viewed as subtler and purer than fire, believed to rise at creation and form the stars, hence the term quintessence meaning the most subtle extract of a body.
Accurate Balances at the British Mint
The article describes two large glass cases with scales in a mint room. One set weighs silver by postage stamp, while the gold balance detects tiny weight differences between identical papers, one signed and one unsigned.
Gold Found Almost Everywhere Across the World
The article notes gold as the most precious metal with widespread presence from equator to poles. It mentions dry blown deposits in western Australia, cliffs of Spitzbergen, and Arctic beaches at Cape Neme as sources.
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Equator
Poles
Western Australia
Spitzbergen
Arctic
Cape Neme
Lines to Be Remembered
A Confucius quote emphasizing a gentleman acts on deeds with fairness. It contrasts the vulgar as biased and money focused, urges slow speech and quick action, and highlights aiding the needy over amassing wealth. The passage reads as a moral maxim about integrity and charity.
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Confucius
Coats of Arms and Medieval Armory Relics
A coat of arms served as armored insignia to render knights conspicuous in battle. The heraldic emblems were worn on cloth over armor and many such coats of arms have been preserved by descendants of medieval knights.
Thoreau on the Great Western Pioneer
The writer hails the Great Western Pioneer as a symbol of the setting sun guiding nations westward. Each sunset inspires a pull toward distant western lands, a migratory call that daily tempts observers to follow.
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Thoreau
Actions Speak Louder
A slogan and light dialogue frame a ribald moment in the American Legion Weekly. A man recalls arriving at three in the morning and jokes about plans to pull two front teeth, reflecting humor in wartime veteran life.
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Pat
American Legion Weekly
Crown of England described with precious gems list
The imperial state crown of England is detailed as containing one great ruby and four small rubies, one large sapphire, 16 smaller sapphires, 11 emeralds, 1,363 brilliant diamonds, 1,273 rose diamonds, 147 table diamonds, and 277 pearls.
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England
Brooklyn Eagle
Aztec Wedding Ceremonies Described as Four Day Rite
The source notes the Aztec wedding ceremony as a four day operation with many participants including elder women who watched the couple during the ceremonial trials.
Exceptional Washburn property bargains in city listings
Real estate ads describe multiple Washburn area homes for sale: seven room residence on 25 foot lot with barn, duplex on corner lot with two families and rent potential, seven room on West Third Street with three lots, six room on Fourth Street, and a 5 acre city tract in Springbrook. Prices range around $900 to $1100 with small down payments and rent terms.
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West Third St
4Th Street
Bath
Springbrook
Fair House
Raarup Farm
For Sale Farm Cottage With Three and a Half Acres
A partly built cottage on three and a half acres with clearings and fruit trees is offered as an ideal home for buyers seeking a small rural tract. The Faster cottage is referenced. the broker from Washburn Wisconsin advertises snap pricing and other real estate bargains and invites inquiries about residences or farm properties.
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Wisconsin Highway Commision
Near East
Letters
Stamboul
College
Trebizon
Syria
Aleppo
Bolshis
Beirut
Siberia
Gallipoli
St. George
Mme
Olga
Cossack Cavalry
Quintessence
Coats of
Washburn
Clausen-Oistad Co
Washburn, Wis
W. A. Robinson
Amos M.hansen
Amos Hansen
Markham’s Drug Store
Ashland Shoe Store, Inc
Ashland, Wis
Blexrud
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