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For Better Roads

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Parent Issue
Day
18
Month
January
Year
1893
Copyright
Public Domain
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The bdcycle blesses both the Tider and fhe road. At least it is bound to benefit he latter and every person who walks or travels in any fashion over the road:--. If the money spent for drink could be used for lmprovement of highways what a changed condition touW result. The blcycle is one of the most cfo&rmlng inventions of the age. People who can hardly hope for a pair of wings In the next world actually fly in this. When all nature is liHtening so intently th,t not a leal is stirred by th gentlest of zephers, the bityclist mounts his wheel, stirs up the atmosphere and gete tooi. The boy and girl who haven't trot wheels are looking forward to the day viien they will have them, and that day to moet of them is bound to be realized. Every -wheelman at once begins to see fhe necessity of better toadB. The farmer may squander his tiinie werking his roaü taxes and not discover, wben he draws his ?rain to niarket or takes hie wifo to church lic titeáis himself by ko doing ; the lovo-.snk swain holds his reins in one hand and neee the other to keep hiimself in the buggy, while his "best" .struicgles hard to sit upriight, and he oever thinks of ueing gravel on the rotula ; luit the wheelman (of both masruliiie ;md feniinine persuasión) have 110 poor, dumb brute to pull them through the mud, their minde are full of tlhe charme of cycling and bad roads destroy the charm. Henee all bioyclists are in favor of organizing for letter roede and we are Klad to note that a moveinent i.s nlready on toot to eecuire better roads by cstablisliing a road department in Washinirtdii as well as a coraprehensive exhibit of rood conetruction and maintenanoe at the World'8 Columbian Exicisition at Chicago. An opportunity an li bad at our office by those interested to ign a petltion to cOHtfreee

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Old News
Ann Arbor Courier