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WASHINGTON NOV 11—Gross country operation
of mail carrying motor trucks, tried out by the nostoffic?
department on an experimental hut nevertheless big scale,
during tin* last year, has i o**n a great success. James 1
An All - year - ’round
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for the Bluejackets
Our boys in the navy enjoy their
Bevo. The esteem in which it is
held by the entire Navy Depart
ment is clearly indicated by the
fact that it is sold and served on
all U. S. vessels and in training
camps. Afloat or ashore, you will
find Bevo unusually ref resiling,
good ard healthful.
Soft in the strictest sense, but a
thoroughgoing man's drink. Try
it by itself, or with a bite to eat.
Served everywhere- families
supplied by grocers, druggists
or dealers.
M inufucturH an ! hot tin! excluaivf'y hv
Anheuser-Busch, St. Louis
WHITTEMORK & MARGl'LES
l)i>inbui«>rN SEWARD, ALASKA
Blakslee, fourth assistant postmaster general has touiv!
that one truck route between Philadelphia and Washing
ton, cutting chiefly through territory without direct rail
connections and costing $800 a month to operate, has in
eight months developed a revenue of $10,000 monthly. Ai
oti.er route, into Washington, where 28 parcels a day weu
moved during the first month, now shows one. ton o 1 tra
tic each way each 24 hours.
Seventy lines now operate over the country’ all bi
one east of the Mississippi, and there are visions of a sy.
iem which will furnish $800,000,000 annually in revem
for road construction or other purposes.
• Why. General Pershing has 0,000 trucks damaged < r
ruined over on the other side,” said Mr. Blakeslec telinm
of the growth of the system. “ I don’t care what conditio ,
they are in. We want them all, and can fix up and put e\ •
eryOne of them to work. What’s even more important, he
got some boys over there shy a hand, or an arm, or a leg,
and we can use them all too, in good work at good pa\, tm .
they can do. Congress gave us $300,000 to work with, an
it we had the earnings of the lines themselves, we couk
expand almost indefinitely. As it is • $0,000,000 will lie ri
quested by the division for next year, and 1 think it will b
appropriated. People realize what we are doing.
‘Operating at night is the most prontaoie, ana
have but two machines doing that, out of Mew York. The
typical route is about ISO miles long, 90 miles out, and SV
miles back.
“Almost always the constant operation of the line.*..
produces a return load, the universal character of the ma.:
service allowing almost anything to be taken. Ine ma .
trucks go, come ruin, storm, or anything, and so the tra'
uc develops. Kate are aiso pretty high, the lowest bein..
about $20 a ton. That is what makes the surplus revenue
“Of course, we'll have to have concrete roads, but Ui .
busir.es; can produce the money to build them. 1 here ai
some economies in distribution of produce that are simp.,
amusing, it has added an entirely new factor to transom
tinentai transportation, and we shall just begin finding .
out when more extensive operation goes into ef lect durii.; ,
the next two years.
Just why Mr. Blakeslee sees it that way can be untie”
stood from just one commodity price list. Milk retails no\
in Washington at IT cents a quart. Milk is coming in o
mail trucks direct to consumers for 10 cents a quart. Nat
uraily the trucks are being weighed down with five-gallon
cans as consumers learn of the possibility. The trucks tie.
milk-producing territory that outside the usual haulin;
tines, and off the rail arteries.
“Where’ll the roads come front to run 9,000 trucks?
He as’ts “Well- there are 66,000 rural mail and star route
being o era ted in the United States now. Sometimes
think e\ eryone of them make a truck line. Food is being
handled 10 times on its way to a consumer. We can cut thee
to five.
“Watching these figures, since December, when w
j started, has given me a new sort of inspiration. We shall
be moving the mails and mails will include a whole unex
1 pected variety of things-in now modes before the genera-:
;on finUh.es. Airplanes for the thousand mile distance
trains for the 500 mile, and ti-ucks for the 250. That’,
about the schedule.”
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NEW COURSE OPENED FOR WOMEN.
PITTSBURGH, Nov., — A new course of instruct
ion for women has been inspired in the Carnigie Institute
of Technology, by the Surgeon General’s call for 1,000 wo
men for service at home and overseas to teach craft to dis
abled soldiers in military hospitals. To meet this demand
Carnegie “Tech.” is to train women as reconstruction aids.
Previous art training or aptitude in art work is a reqr.P
dte. The subjects to be covered in the course will include
basketry’, weaving, metal work, chair caning, making
wooden toys and block printing.
Another reason why the June bride ought to be proud
of her going away dress is because it is liable to be the last
one she’ll have in a long time. '
One reason why a man does’t care for a canary bird
is because he thinks if it won’t lay eggs it ought to sing
ragtime. t %’• i X . "■
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cbr Uhubrrt OidFprr, l«wireliable.tn'IaccnrntoMurl et 1
import and prie** Use, issued ai every cnangv in the* Fur Market. “
It is something more than merely “something to r«ad.' It is theadvia- »
or, friend and sign post to the right road to reliable market information r
and accurate market quotations. “Jhr JB'bnhrr* fr'inurr" n receive? l*v ^
n mdreds of thousands of trappers and Fur shippers all ovr North »,
i -Vuericn. Never was a neriou* n:‘as catena* nts of facts published in Jj
‘ L!;r t*hnbrrt tMjtppfr** and this ciiui acfsr of accuracy and roliabillty u
• . *. . lenient crate*} that each information is absolutely essential i»* ?he
•» •*■*;.nful trapper and Fur shipper. You should read "ilbr dl|UlirrI Jj
. Itppec** -wi want jwvuMoaourflHilitti list* ^
fiu ir. tho Above Coup-on NOW—and Mail it—A T ONCE
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the iangesi houTTin the homo dealing cxciysivf’Y in <
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