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Image 4 of The Hattiesburg news (Hattiesburg, Miss.), May 30, 1911

t j r s t The Everlasting Building Material If concrete is cheap it is not sood and if it is od it is not cheap Good brickwork has to be painted does not disintegrate or BR CK never Cement block as ordinar ily made is both unsight ly and unsafe as a build ing material and this fact should be made known to those wishing to build permanent homes crumble away all di does not stands Riverside Brick Manufacturing Co Hattiesburg Office Ross Building Telephones 290 Yard Riverside Telephone 726 mates rot Miss I I TRIALS OF A REPORTER The newspaper reporter has a very difficult duty to perform when it comes to writing an account of anything wherein the slightest deviation from the course that parties on either side think should ba pursued may bring censure upon him It is not so difficult to write the account accurately if the m I j Ikf V Æm jvul S m l FT 1 Y ft I 1 I l Helpfor All Andrew Carnegie once suggested as an epitaph for hit own tombstone what he said w8 the secret of his success Here lies a man who surrounded himself with

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Image 6 of The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.), July 2, 1908

International Road Congress President Roosevelt Names Commissioners to Represent the U S Government Washington D C June 22 1resi dent Roosevelt lias directed that this Nation be strongly and officially repre seuted at the International Roads Coi gress to be held at Paris the week be ginning October 11 and credentials have been issued naming Logan Waller lage Director of the Office of Public Roads of the U S Department of Agri culture Chairmau of the Commission The other members named are Colonel Charles S liromwell of the United States Corps of Engineers now serving as Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds of the District of Columbia and Clifford Richardson of New York an eminent chemist and one of the worlds acknowledged authorities on bituminous road building materials This coming Congress which will be attended by distinguished delegates from every country in the world is re garded by highway engineers and ex perts as probably the most iniportant ever summoned for the discussion of an economic question Its need is the direct outgrowth of the advent of the automobile for while thousands are ignorant of the fact the solt tires ol the modern motor car are the greatest menace the hard

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