Hoosier State Auto Club Marks Roads Across Indiana
The Hoosier State Automobile Association reports progress on marking 29 cross-state highways with pole signs and steel mile markers. A touring department maintains current road data, and county sign surveys are offered free of charge. Officers include A G Lupton President and Martin Luecke Vice President, with a broad board across Indiana.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Hoosier State Automobile Association
Claypool Hotel
Automobile Association
Michigan City
E. J. Fogarty
State Highway Commission Fund
The
Jackson Highway
Michigan
Perry Lewis
Hoosier Motor Club
Indiana
A. G. Lupton
Hartford City
Martin Luecke
Fr. Wayne
M. O. Reeves
Columbus
D. M. Peck
Crawfordsville
W. C. Hand
Union City
Thos. A. Wynne
M. BH. Noblet
Milton Elrod
Hubert 2. Kroh
Admonition on Friendship and Self Knowledge
A Bacon quotation urges men to heed admonition from friends to avoid vanity and ruin. It compares lack of wise counsel to gazing in a mirror and forgetting one’s own form, stressing that the best guidance comes from trustworthy friends.
Quarter for a Ball Helps a Boy With Toothache
A father gives Bobby a quarter to spend on a toy ball to ease a minor toothache. Bobby rushes to his mother and boasts that his father is easy for giving more money than his toothache seems worth.
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Bobby
Daddy
Warts Shown Contagious By University Doctors
University of Michigan Medical School researchers Dr. Udo J. Wile and Dr. Lyle B. Kingery conducted finger experiments that indicate warts are contagious. They propose a virus that passes through a filter and easily through skin.
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Udo J. Wile
Lyle B. Kingery
University of Michiigan Medical School
The Man and the Job
A reflection on work and character notes that success depends on the person more than the task. It emphasizes responsibility ambition loyalty and honor as the core ingredients of meaningful effort. The speaker asserts that individuals bring more to a job than the job offers in return.
Tears Benefit the Eyes Italian Child Crying Customs
A description explains that Italian children are allowed to cry rather than rub their eyes. Tears are said to beautify and clear the eyes, while rubbing is portrayed as harmful, with crying encouraged as the preferred response to distress.
New Sign of Character Women with square feet have
The fragment suggests a playful or puzzle oriented line about readers decoding a secret to read character. It mentions women and square feet but lacks clear action, dates, or entities to identify.
Character Traits From Ancestry Census Describe Women
Practical, strong, honest natures mark their roles as wives and mothers. Long, slim feet hint at a sensitive, vain and proud disposition.
Novel danger signal for mines using odorized compressed air
The United States Bureau of Mines announces a new danger warning method for metal mines. Compressed air circulates through the workings and an ill smelling substance is injected into the air line. Within minutes the odor spreads through all parts of the mine, signaling danger.
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United States Bureau of Mines
Inspiration and sudden insight from subconscious effort
The text discusses how inspiration often arises after prolonged mental labor when a breakthrough occurs unexpectedly during unrelated thoughts. It notes that preliminary toil operates subconsciously, yielding the final result after a period of fruitless effort.
Do Animals Commit Death by Their Own Action
A correspondent reports observations of animals driving themselves to death. A deer allegedly leapt from a precipice while fleeing wolves, and mink muskrat and other trapped animals are said to drown themselves rather than endure pain. A rabbit pursued by a weasel is claimed to have leapt or drowned.
Appreciation of Cucumbers in Cairo and Alexandria
In Cairo and Alexandria Egypt cucumbers are highly valued and widely eaten by natives. The text notes cucumber juice is used as a skin lotion by beautiful women who understand its value.
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Cairo
Alexandria
Egypt
Value of Molybdenite in Tasmanian Steelmaking
The principal value of molybdenite lies in steel production where it enhances hardness and toughness for propeller shafts boilers and gas equipment. Much of Tasmania's molybdenite production is exported to England for use in industry.
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Tasmania
Unglang
Vanilla as a flavoring extract widely used worldwide
An essay notes that average people rarely eat vanilla fruit like fruit trees but consume the flavoring extract in ice cream and cake. It emphasizes vanilla’s status as a globally common flavoring agent rather than a fresh fruit.
Cremation Debate Echoes in English Medical Thought
An English physician argues cremation is healthier, while the Boston Transcript notes the idea would irrevocably change a person. The exchange reflects evolving attitudes toward posthumous care and identity in public discourse.
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Constitution
Boston
Perfume's Early Development in Persia and Egypt
Perfume first developed in Persia with later refinement by Egyptian priests who, as the era's learned men, dedicated much time to crafting perfume and aromatic oils.
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Persia
Egypt
Baby as Night Alarm Stars Family
The piece describes a baby who becomes the most alert member of the family at night, waking others and surprising them with wide awakenings while the growing boy sleeps more soundly. The narrative focuses on the baby’s unusual sleep pattern relative to the rest of the household.
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Baby
His Inalienable Right Mr Growcher Says Oversleeping
A fragment from a satirical column notes a man claiming marital prerogatives over breakfast routines as a humorous rights debate. The text references a wife preparing breakfast with her hair in curlers, captured in a playful domestic vignette.
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Mr. Growcher
Homel In Korea Man Ignores Wife in Street
In Homel Korea a man meets his wife in public he treats her as a stranger and passes by without acknowledgment, illustrating a cultural distance in everyday social interactions.
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Korea
Life Saving Germs Hint on Longevity
An older health note cites mortality rates for birth to six and to sixty-five, noting that about one-fourth of births die by age six and roughly one in a hundred reach age sixty-five. The piece emphasizes the impact of germ exposure on survival.
Cork Trees in Sardinia Yield Barkless Years
Cork trees grow in Sardinia and are stripped of bark only once in many years, according to local notes. The conservation practice highlights scarce bark harvest cycles and tree resilience.
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Sardinia
Illustrating Progress Across Cities and Fires
A Kansas City Star reformulation notes the Chicago Tribune parable on curiosity, contrasting old fear of the unknown with modern progress. It describes lighting fires by many matches rather than rubbing two, and mentions gas igniting from a match over a stove.
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The
Chicago Tribune
Kansas City Star
Tragic Names for Waterways and Bridges
The Bab el Mandeb strait known as the Gate of Tears links the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean, named for hazardous navigation. The Bridge of Sighs in Venice connects the doge's palace to the state prisons and carries the condemned to execution.
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Bab el Mandeb
Real Patriot Text Inspires Deep Intellectual Joys
Boling broke. The passage praises a true patriot who uses all understanding to direct thoughts and actions for the country’s good, comparing such devotion with Montaigne Descartes Burnet and Newton in their pursuits of knowledge and nature’s laws.
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Montaigne
Descartes
Burnet
Newton
Boling
Teeth on demand in sharks replacement rows described
A note explains sharks’ tooth replacement mechanism. Mr. Pindar states sharks have several rows of teeth and constantly replace outer teeth with those behind them, ensuring a ready supply in emergencies.
Sure Sign Warns of Birthday Clues in Compliments
The office cynic notes a wife saying her husband looks younger often signals her own birthday approaching, a quip from London Tit-Bits.
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London
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American Automobile Association
U.S
Ficers
James Boonshot
Petersburg
J. D. Meyers
Worthington
Chas. W. Lantz
Bedford
T. S. Blish
Seymour
W. C. Osborn
Danville
Frank Anstead
Connersvile
Roy E. Adams
G. Phillips
W. H. Ar
Frankfort
E. A. Brenton
Lebanon
L. H. Wright
Anapolia
S Notch Road
Horgantown
Brown County
St. James
Bacon
Papa
Ffart Schaffner & Marx
Warner & Peck CO
Hart~ Schaffner& Marx
Manhattan
Waynetown
Attica
Covington
Dwiggins & Son
R. L. Manne
South‘ Wine Street
Waxnetown
Lurdner & Krug
Hillsboro
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