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COUNTRY NEWS. DESTRUCTIVE FIRE IN GEORGE – STREET,

... when his identity was fully established as a party concerned, and he was held to bail to take his trial for the offence. LINCOLN.—HIGHwAY Ronann.y.—Early on Friday morning se'nnight three feotpads stoppe I and robbed Mr. Flowers, the carrier between Middle ...

Published: Sunday 14 February 1841
Newspaper: Planet
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 5620 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

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... the proposals for celebrating the centenary Lincoln's birth, oortainly tho most grandiose the scheme for constructing Lincoln Highway from the door of the White at Washington battlefield Gettysburg, distance of sixty miles the crow Cics. The road to be ...

Published: Wednesday 10 February 1909
Newspaper: Islington Gazette
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 804 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

BUST OF LINCOLN IN THE CAPITOL AT WASHINGTON,

... local and national. Congress voted a sum of money for a statue of the martyred President and for the construction of a Lincoln Highway; while it was arranged that several special meetings should be held in New York, and that memorial buildings should be ...

Published: Saturday 13 February 1909
Newspaper: Illustrated London News
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 422 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Motoring -Notes. 4. 4.4. (By KUK1.011.) The R.A.C. Trial

... which it is hoped to complete in time for the Panama-Pacific Exhibition at the latter city next year. To be known as the Lincoln Highway, in honour of Abraham Lincoln, the road will be 3,500 miles long. The initial cost of prospecting was met by a few automobile ...

Published: Friday 08 May 1914
Newspaper: Daily News (London)
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 593 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

BUILDING ROADS in the UNITED STATES: What the Lincoln Highway Means

... BUILDING ROADS in the UNITED STATES. What the Lincoln Highway Means. Described for The Sphere by Thomas W. Wilby AS Englishmen we understand in a casual fashion that the Americans are construct ing a 3,500-mile-long road from the Atlantic to the Pacific ...

Published: Saturday 25 July 1914
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1037 | Page: 18 | Tags: Photographs 

Motoring Notes. (By KUKLOS.) Electric Lighting

... will be taken up by commercial motor vehicles. • Part of the decoration scheme will consist of productions of of the Lincoln Highway— the great trans-America road which we were once told would be completed to coincide with the opening of this exhibition ...

Published: Saturday 20 February 1915
Newspaper: Daily News (London)
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 715 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

LONGEST ROAD IN THE WORLD

... quite recent—our Met turnpike dates from 1663—and the miles we in this country are no older than coach travel. So the Lincoln Highway of America, now being built—New York to 'Frisco, 3,364 miles—is wonderful chiefly in the sense that it is the loogest ...

Published: Saturday 04 September 1915
Newspaper: Daily News (London)
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 92 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

REALLY LONG ROADS

... width is aliont sixty feet. and it paws in n dirrct line thiongh twelve States and more than counties. It been thii-tcoed Lincoln Highway, after the miarixred who freed the skives. The taniirm. Rood.'' which runs zeros , Siberia from Nishni-Norgorod to lie-akh-ta ...

Published: Friday 14 January 1916
Newspaper: Woodford Times
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 210 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

MOTOR NOTE: WASTE IN WAR-TIME; A Top Speed Trial

... WASTE IN WAR-TIME --J A Top Speed Trial I SEE the 12-cylinder Pathfinder car has crossed the American Continent by the Lincoln Highway (4,889 miles) on top gear. At the end, it did a mile in 59.20 seconds on the Sheepshead Bay Speedway. This proves power ...

Published: Wednesday 20 September 1916
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 588 | Page: 42 | Tags: none

NIGHT SURVEYING IN THE DESERT

... NIGHT SURVEYING IN THE DESERT In laying out the seventeen-mile tangent the Lincoln Highway across the Utah dase . rt it was found very difficult to carry on the work in the day time. Says the Engineering News Record, the sunlight reflected from the gelds ...

Published: Friday 13 December 1918
Newspaper: Acton Gazette
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 127 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

NIGHT SURVEYING IN TILE DESERT

... NIGHT SURVEYING IN TILE DESERT In laying out the seventeen-mile tangent of the Lincoln Highway across the Utah desert it was found very difficult to carry on the work in the day time. Says the Engineering News Record, the sunlight reflecied from the fields ...

Published: Wednesday 18 December 1918
Newspaper: Middlesex County Times
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 124 | Page: 3 | Tags: none