Policy of New State Highway Commission Sees Road Builds
Greensboro dispatch reports the first sessions of the North Carolina State Highway Commission adopting a policy to fund hard surface roads where traffic demands and county requests justify. It approves maintenance plans, district allocations, and a four district structure to oversee county road projects with state matching funds and federal aid estimates.
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New State Highway Commission
Greensboro News
Frank Page
North Carolina
J. G. Stikeleather
J. K. Norfleet
Norfleet
Stkefeather
State Highway Commission
Commission
Page
Faith the Concrete Vessel Heads to Europe on Big Cargo
A New York steamer named Faith, built of concrete yet appearing wooden, lies at a dock. Captain says she rides waves like a sea gull after discharging sugar from a Valparaiso voyage via the Panama Canal. He adds the ship will sail to Europe with cargo worth millions despite critics.
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New York
Faith
Valparaiso
Panama Canal
Europe
Baltimore Sun
Odessa Falls to Bolshevik Troops in War Move
Bolshevik forces seize Odessa after Allied evacuation. Fertile lands and vast grain coal and mineral resources are now under Bolshevik control. The transport Powhatan carrying 2 400 troops, mainly from the 80th division, arrived at Charleston harbor last Thursday evening. The 120th infantry was part of the contingent.
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Odessa
Russia
Powhatan
Charleston Harbor
120Th Infantry
North Carolina to Use Federal Aid for Road Projects
The state plans eight pending project allotments with surveys and an estimated $166,000 in federal aid. An amended project adds about $40,000 from the government, totaling roughly $720,000 for approved or pending projects. In all, about $3.5 million from federal sources is expected within 15 months, all earmarked for road work in North Carolina.
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Commission
North Carolina
Soldiers May Retain Uniforms Under War Department Rules
The War Department issued a detailed list of clothing and equipment soldiers may keep after discharge including overseas caps hats uniform parts toilet items and gas mask and helmet Officers and enlisted men who served since April 6 1917 may apply for these articles through the domestic distribution branch of the director of storage in Washington The notice also notes how to apply and locations for further information Greensboro Asheville Charlotte Durham Fayetteville Raleigh and Winston Salem. Miles Osborne Sherrill former North Carolina state librarian died in Greensboro at 74 after a Confederate service including a wound at Spottsylvania.
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United States Army
Washington
Greensboro
Asheville
Charlotte
Durham
Fayetteville
Raleigh
Winston-Salem
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Sherrill
Army of the South
Spottsylvania
Enormous Winter Wheat Crop Forecast by Agriculture
The Department of Agriculture projects a record winter wheat harvest for the year based on April 1 conditions. The estimate 837,000,000 bushels would be valued at about 1.29 billion dollars at 2.26 per bushel. If favorable, this year’s crop could exceed the 1914 record by 152,000,000 bushels and last year’s output by 248,000,000.
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Department of Agriculture
Count Festetics Suicide Reported in German Wireless
A Berlin wireless dispatch states Count Festetics former Hungarian minister of war in the Karoly cabinet died by his own hand. The message notes his resignation and subsequent death, reflecting a political suicide while in exile.
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Count Festetics
Michael Karoly
Old Military Posts and Fort Howard Legacy
The C S Monitor recalls how historic houses in Michigan Wisconsin and Illinois once stood behind fort palisades as officers quarters on the national frontier. Built by soldiers from local timber, these homes reflected social life of the era and Indian borderlands beyond. Fort Howard in Green Bay cost 20477 dollars and 60 cents, a substantial early military outlay.
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Christian Science Monitor
United States
Michigan
Wisconsin
Illinois
Fort Howard
Green Bay
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy Praised by Mothers
The text notes Chamberlain's Cough Remedy as safe pleasant and effective for children coughs and colds based on long experience and maternal approval. It also cites interstate commerce commission reports showing February railroads net earnings of 10.1 million with revenues 351.9 million and net revenue 5.0 million, aligning with unofficial figures.
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Interstate Commerce Commission
Dean's Kidney Pills Help Hickory Man Heal
Local note reports many in Boone area suffer kidney related symptoms with unclear cause. Testimony from N. G. Deal of Hickory describes backache, restless nights, and weakness improving after using Doan's Kidney Pills. Price 60 cents at dealers. Fos IEEE Co Buffalo NY.
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Pete Dean
Deal
Fosieee Co
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