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• San Luis, Arizona’s Main Street is unusual in that it comes to a dead-end at the Mexican border. • The Main Street of Melvindale, Michigan runs through a trailer park near The Ford River Rouge automobile plant, which was the largest factory in the world when it was fully operational. The Rouge, which is now a museum, was where the Model A automobile was first produced in 1927. The gigantic facility was Henry Ford’s idea with a factory that would achieve “a continuous, nonstop process from raw material to finished product.” • The Rouge in many ways functioned as a city, without its own Main Street or residents! It had its own railroad with 16 locomotives, a bus network with 15 miles of paved streets, a police force, fire department, and even a fully staffed hospital. In the 1930s, at its peak, more than 100,000 people were employed at The Rouge.

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• The entire small town of Eureka Springs in the Ozark Mountains or northern Arkansas is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. South Main Street is included in a loop that can be enjoyed on a drive or trolley ride through the hilly terrain. Like many historic small towns, tourism is the biggest business.

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• While many towns and cities have Main Streets that thrive because either the city government kept the downtowns alive or private citizens invested time and effort, some have needed help from outside interests. In the U.S., the National Trust for Historic Preservation has a nonprofit subsidiary, the National Main Street Center, Inc., that provides grants and advice to help.

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MOMENTS IN TIME • On May 10, 1749, the 10th and final volume of Henry Fielding's novel "Tom Jones" is printed. The serialized novel told the humorous story of the attempts of the illegitimate but charming Tom Jones to win his neighbor's daughter. • On May 5, 1904, Boston Red Sox pitcher Cy Young (born Denton True Young) throws a perfect game against the Detroit Tigers. It was the first perfect game of the modern era; the last had been thrown by John Montgomery Ward in 1880. It was the second of three no-hitters that Young would throw, and the only perfect game. • On May 9, 1926, according to their claims, polar explorer Richard E. Byrd and co-pilot Floyd Bennett fly over the North Pole in a triple-engine Fokker monoplane, the Josephine Ford. However, the discovery in 1996 of the diary that Byrd kept seemed to suggest that he and Bennett may have turned back 150 miles short of the pole because of an oil leak. • On May 6, 1940, John Steinbeck is awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his novel "The Grapes of Wrath."

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ANNE MURRAY (continued): • Murray’s music hit the charts in country, pop, and even children’s genres. Her songs “You Needed Me,” “Could I Have This Dance,” and “A Love Song” are songs still requested today. The children’s album she recorded, There’s a Hippo in My Tub, in 1978 was reissued in 2001. • Many honors have been bestowed on Anne Murray including three honorary doctorates from University of New Brunswick, Saint Mary’s University, and University of Prince Edward Island. She graduated from University of New Brunswick with a physical education degree and taught high school in Summerside, Prince Edward Island before her singing career took off. • On June 29, 2007, Murray was honored when Canada Post issued a limited edition Anne Murray stamp. • If you want to see the list of the many honors and awards that Murray has received through the years, pick up a copy of her autobiography, All of Me, which was released in the fall of 2009. She has won a long list of Canadian Juno Awards, which is understandable since it is her home country – but – she also has won four Grammy Awards, a Country Music Association of Great Britain Award and as they say…the list goes on and on! She has been honored by many for her beautiful voice. • Springhill, Nova Scotia, Murray’s hometown, is home to The Anne Murray Centre. Since opening in July, 1989, there have been over 400,000 visitors from around the world to explore the memorabilia of this world-class singer.

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The first road signs used were milestones that indicated the distance and directions to destinations. Used as early as the 4th Century, BC, there were approximately 50,000 miles of roads in the Roman Empire. • The saying “all roads lead to Rome,” was really true in ancient times. Rome was the hub for trade, commerce, culture, politics and military might in all of Europe for many years. • The Forum Romanum, which is the center of the city of Rome, Italy, has the remains of the Milliarium Aureum (column), or the “Golden Milestone.” It was erected in 20 BC by Augustus, first emperor of the Roman Empire, The column was covered with gilt bronze and was the spot whereby all roads pointed out of the city. The names of the principal cities were engraved on the column along with their distances from Rome.

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• It was noted Democratic politician Adlai Stevenson who made the following sage observation: "In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take." • You might be surprised to learn that notorious FBI director J. Edgar Hoover at one time had presidential aspirations. He reportedly believed he would be able to defeat president Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1936, though nothing came of his ambition. • Those who study such things say that a lion and a leopard can successfully interbreed. The resulting offspring is called a leopon. • The first pocket calculator was introduced by Texas Instruments in 1961, intended originally for use by the Air Force. Weighing 10 ounces and being only slightly larger than a pack of cigarettes, the company claimed that it could perform the same calculations as a computer 150 times its size.

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• One known for busy streets, the New York two city wooden spokes, then hitched device to a is horse. It plowed the heavy Illinois soil City, where the proposal for adopting unilike a road charm. In fact, farmersymbols who happened versal signs and atraffic started. to be observing test run put The proposal wasthe brought by immediately the Deputy Chief in an order for his own John Deere plow. Inspector of Police in New York in 1925. • The In short Deererecord gave up • first order, historical ofhis a blacksmith STOP sign shop and focused on making plows. The was in 1915, in Detroit, Michigan. Of course, company grew steadily and added many emmaybe that was because most cars at that time ployees. In the late 1840s, John relocated the were manufactured in Detroit. entire operation to Moline, Illinois. Ashamed

• The Manual on Uniform TrafficJohn Control Deof his own lack of education, sent his children the state’s schools. One of vices for toStreets and finest Highways (MUTCD) his proudest daysinoccurred when sontoday, Charles was first drafted 1934. Still used but theupdated, equivalent an MBA from ofearned course, it of standardized theBell’s signs, Commercial College in Chicago. signals, locations, marking and maintenance roads traffic devices. • for With his and son Charles managing the company, Johnoctagonal found time to pursue philanthropic in• The shape of “STOP” signs was terests. He co-founded both the First Nationfirst recommended by the Mississippi Valley al Bank and the First Congregational Church. Association of State Highway Departments He was elected the mayor of Moline in 1873, inwhere 1923.one Now used,– the signs of universally his first actions the red replaceare easily Originally ment of therecognizable. city’s open drains with a yellow, sewer the red signs with white letters were used pipe system – saved countless lives bynot reducuntil thespread MUTCD revision of 1954. ing the of disease.

• signs are designed instead • Many The original John Deere with logo,figures registered in of1876, just words. makes them recognizable depictedThis a deer that was native to Africa. Thirty-six years 1912, it was re-if without knowing thelater, localinlanguage. Now, withcrossing the image American aplaced kangaroo signofisaonNorth the road, you’ll white-tailed deer. you’re In theindecades that folmost likely know a land down-unlowed, theNew now-familiar “outline” logo took der, not in York City! over as the symbol of the John Deere brand.

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ROAD SIGNS (continued): • Several versions of signs were tested during DEERE. JOHN (continued): the early years ofDEERE. the proliferation of autos. for living the shapes and colors of signs • Standards It was while in Illinois that John noticed developed. the problems that farmers facedused whento were Round signs were attempting to till crossings; soil. Because area had warn of railroad the the octagon was formerly been woodland, the soil was rich used to warn drivers to stop; diamonds were withtohummus, whichthat clumped to used alert drivers cautionand wasclung needed; the blades of the plows farmers were accusrectangular signs were chosen for providtomed to using. While repairing a broken cir-In ing directions and regulatory information. cular saw, Deere stumbled upon an idea. He the beginning signs were all black letters on employed his smith skills to fashion the steel white backgrounds. blade into the shape of a plow. He affixed

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