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...those which mark the sites of first houses, Indian massacres, and colonial gin-mills. The beneficent oil company, which for several years has conspired with farmers and sign-painters to initiate passers-by into the historic past of Hicks Corners and Pumpkin Village is to be thwarted. The murderous motorist will no longer be reminded that Elljah Stockbridge was shot here by Indians, and joy-riders, pleasure bent, will forget that in this village Deacon Whosis was placed in the stocks for kissing his wife on Sunday. The whole restraining force of tradition will be incredibly weakened by the removal...
...cows will cease to graze the unfertile slopes of New England. Perhaps, under a more rigorous law the defacers of highways may be forced to renounce entirely their motto, "He who rides must read", and in some Elysian future flamboyant advertising will no longer stun the senses of the motorist, country bent...
...favorite outdoor sports of summertime is doomed. Soon the aesthetic plaints of the motorist will be ended, for the loathsome billboard is going. The traveler must then confine his remarks to those queer flowers, that old house, or those funny people. On Sunday afternoons, when the clouds of gasoline smoke hide all these possible objects of observation, comments and curses must be reserved for the dust and the numbers of miles to the gallon. The art of conversation, which has been lagging since the days of Emerson and Holmes, seems about to suffer an extensive mutilation...
...Pensacola, Fla., a traffic officer reported that he had been obliged to drive his motorcycle at 72 miles an hour in order to overtake a speeding auto and issue a summons. The halted motorist was Charles W. Bryan, ex-Governor of Nebraska, ex-candidate for Vice President, touring south to visit his brother, William J., ex-Secretary of State...
...device uses a plate set in the pavement. When an automobile passes over this, it makes an electrical contact. A large sign "DANGER" over the roadway is automatically lighted, giving the motorist a chance to slow down. A similar sign on the cross-street also lights up to warn cross-traffic...