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REALLY LONG ROADS

... about sixty feet, and it passes in a direct line through twelve States and more than 200 counties. It has been christened Lincoln Highway, after the martyred President who freed the slaves. The famous Exiles nor.d. which runs across Siberia from Nisnni-Novgorod ...

Published: Saturday 15 January 1916
Newspaper: Portadown News
County: Armagh, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 219 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

The memorial gun presented to Crumlin, Co. Antrim, and placed in the War Memori. Park

... road—both with their advocates—modern road building is new language to all of us, and have to recognise that fact. THE LINCOLN HIGHWAY. I remember the time in the United States when, outside the large cities, they had little else than what they call dirt ...

Published: Saturday 01 December 1923
Newspaper: Larne Times
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 1303 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

DEEPEST WELL IN THE WORLD

... passed 8.000 feet—more than 250 feet deeper the former record made by the shaft of the People's Natural Gas Company on the Lincoln Highway, near Pittskurgh. At the depth of 7.000 feet in the California well. temperatures far in exec.. of 212 degrees were ini ...

Published: Thursday 28 April 1927
Newspaper: Fermanagh Times
County: Fermanagh, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 387 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

London Day By Day

... teaching them simple lessons in English. arithmetic, history and penmanship. Three years later he purchased a farm on Lincoln Highway. eleven miles west of Omaha. Again the pawnbroker assisted in the raising of funds. After ten years his dreams came true ...

Published: Friday 12 August 1938
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 543 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

Millifil IN WE NAIL

... When the Paalmiet about the happy people in whore are the highways to Zion, there it no thought of such trade All the Lincoln Highway. The heart it not a builder of made of brick, or broken Acme. or asphalt. Yet before feet of man beat, down the lint path ...

Published: Friday 02 April 1920
Newspaper: Witness (Belfast)
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 551 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

The people love me and the chest is mine

... s are actively interested, and tn.e idea is beginning to take shape as a practical scheme. The United States has its Lincoln highway traversing the continent from coast to coast; why not Europe—in spite of barriers of tongues, types, and tariffs? The ...

Published: Friday 04 July 1930
Newspaper: Northern Whig
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 519 | Page: 14 | Tags: none

SHOCKING CRUELTY TO CHILD

... large areas of the State of Pennsylvania, which has fine highways of concrete or asphalt. One superb road is called the Lincoln highway, and links up many great towns and cities. Outside of large cities the houses are built of wood as rule, and are usually ...

Published: Saturday 23 June 1923
Newspaper: Ballymena Weekly Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 532 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

BOYS TOWN

... for these people that this pamphlet Is written. There is a Boys Town and It is located ten miles west of Omaha on the Lincoln Highway. No stunt is Boys Town, but an actual, legally-incorporated township. But Boys Town is unlike any other township you have ...

Published: Monday 22 May 1939
Newspaper: Derry Journal
County: Londonderry, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 582 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

The msmorlsl gun presented to Cnamlln, Co. Antrim, and placed In the War Park

... road—both with their advocates—modern road building is new language to all of ns, and have to recognise that fact. THE LINCOLN HIGHWAY. I remember the time in the United States when, outside the large cities* they had little else than what they call dirt ...

Published: Saturday 01 December 1923
Newspaper: Ballymena Weekly Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1511 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

MONDAY MORNING. MAY 22, 1939- PAGE 7. BOYS’ TOWN “THE CITY OF LITTLE MEN”

... so. Father Flanagan arranged for the purchase of Overlook Farm, a 160-acre farm lying ten miles west of Omaha on the Lincoln Highway. There were plenty of mortgages against it. but mortgages never worried Father Flanagan. God would look after his little ...

Published: Monday 22 May 1939
Newspaper: Derry Journal
County: Londonderry, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 824 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

Romance and Fur

... company in recognition of the fact that one of its six sport model cars, driven Mr. A. F. Ramect, vice-president of the Lincoln Highway Association, and Mr. E. S. Evans, one of the founders the Association, has crossed the Canadian Rockies, thus marking ...

Published: Monday 27 October 1924
Newspaper: Northern Whig
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 1289 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

TWO MEN INJURED AT FINTONA

... on Sunday morning (Christmas Eve) we wire on our way under the Hudson River and over the Jersey Meadows and on to the Lincoln Highway to (need I tell you) Philadelphia. And so it was we spent a very enjoyable Christmas in the home of our ould friends, ...

Published: Saturday 20 January 1934
Newspaper: Irish Weekly and Ulster Examiner
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 1246 | Page: 2 | Tags: none