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Newspaper
Yerington Times
Location
Yerington, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1918
Page
7
Little Berdy, dressed in khaki with long trousers, asks if he is now a man like papa. His mother confirms and he says he will take a dime from his bank to the barber shop for a first real grooming, signaling a rite of passage.
A collage of advertisements and jokes including Dr Kilmer’s Swamp Root claims of kidney and bladder remedy benefits. It cites testimonials and mail-order availability, plus a humorous exchange about a fork and a hangman joke from London Tit-Bits.
A garbled ad style piece mocks freckles and beauty tonics promising to erase flaws with dubious double strength formulas. It weaves in unrelated lines about negotiation instruments and a joke about a mandolin, reflecting fragmented OCR text from an old newspaper page.
A 20 horsepower farm tractor used in Atkinson New Hampshire with a road machine to prepare roads replacing horses. The tractor handles six to eight horse work faster with two men instead of four, doubles ground coverage, and, when wired to a road drag, rounds and smooths more road per day. It hauls four to six cartloads of gravel per load, costing about $8 for $24 worth of work, saving 25 to 50 percent in time, per Popular Science Monthly.
A speaker argues for a nationwide highway network linking major cities to rural homes. He envisions trunk lines with concrete or brick surfaces for heavy traffic, with others of waterbound macadam or gravel and regionally economical rolled roads. Minor wagon ways should stay native and well maintained.
United States Department of Agriculture notes that better roads will strengthen the country school system. Improved roads enable consolidation and centralization of schools with graded programs within four to five miles, attracting more competent teachers and modern facilities in rural areas.
Experiments to improve deep sand roads will test a straw hay or wire grass carpet with tar on Wisconsin highways near Big in Columbia county. The aim is low cost road hardening with a predicted three year life under light traffic and other resurfacing tests planned on the Barabee Kilbourn road. Thirty four hundred sections have been staked for varied treatments.
County plans to install enameled signposts on Malin and cross roads in Ohio. Approved designs await county commissioners' approval to issue a list of all needed signs for the region.
A fragment suggests advocates link air travel and auto roads, predicting widespread discussion on building hard surface highways as aircraft use expands and commerce grows. The text hints at public chatter about infrastructure and modernization driven by transport advances.
Edward W. Pickard reviews Allied resistance as Germany’s U boat raids fail to intimidate nations. American troops aid at Chateau Thierry and Neuilly Wood, with bridge heads secured, Germans repelled, and US engineers dynamiting crossings. Allies expect renewed drives while warning of French and British praise for Yankee grit and marksmanship.
A humorous Indianapolis News spoof jokes about measles outbreaks and doctor evasions. It compares the illness to joining a secret order and notes variants like a five day vacation or a 24 hour form called Duke's disease, delivered in a playful, ironic tone.
A simple experiment uses a water bowl with lycopodium powder and a straight mark drawn in charcoal. By aligning a stick parallel to the mark and observing after hours the black line shifts opposite to earth’s rotation, proving the earth moves while water is carried by rotation.
Town records reference the market place from 1686 with earlier notes. In 1633 the general court ordered a weekly Boston market every Thursday at State street’s widest section where Water street and Market street meet Roxbury’s main road.
An editorial style meditation extols true friendship as the most blessed reality. It urges not to endure anxiety or grief alone and urges to hold steadfast companions close. The piece invokes a line about friends who have stood the test, gripping the soul with enduring loyalty.
Experiments in Munich and Vienna used Roeptgen rays to examine old portraits. A Munich museum curator uncovered evidence of later overpainting on a Madonna portrait, while Prof Max Dvorak tested a Degenerate school painting to reveal its original content, showing X-ray photos can disclose hidden features.
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