Chesterton Tribune, Thursday, 27 July, 1916
Chicago papers have discovered a woman who chooses to live and dress like a hobo, and make her abode in the sand hills northwest of here, and they have made a water nymph out of her. This woman succeeded George Blagge as guardian of the sand hills, and took possession of his old stamping grounds. These same Chicago papers can give no space to warn its citizens against killing themselves by speeding through this territory. Instead, let a Porter county official arrest one of these law breakers, and the Chicago editor will write a column making fun of the boob officer. Chicago papers, like the Heathen Chinee, have ways that are dark, and tricks that are vain.*
Chesterton Tribune, Thursday, 23 October, 1941
Yellow Lines Which Glow at Night Increase Safety on Indiana Roads
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Applying Yellow Lines on a State Highway
Yellow lines, glowing under the headlights of automobiles and trucks traveling Indiana's highway system at night, have proven a major contribution to motoring safety.

These yellow lines, when on the driver's side of the black center stripe, mean that sight distance ahead is too limited to permit safe passing of other vehicles in the same direction and thus designate "no-passing zones" on the state highway. Introduced as an experiment by the state highway commission in 1935, use of the yellow line has become a part of the standard marking of roads in the state system which carry a heavy volume of traffic.

Originally yellow paint was used to mark the no-passing zones but the resulting line was difficult to see at night and frequently motorists found themselves across the yellow line on curves or grades. Now the yellow line has been made visible for night drivers by mixing tiny glass beads with a specially prepared paint, resulting in a line which glows under the approaching headlights and warns the driver that he is entering a no-passing zone.

In applying the reflectorized yellow line, highway engineers have utilized the same machine which they developed for marking the centerline on Indiana highways. A special container is added for the beads and tubes carry these particles of glass into smaller containers from which they are sprinkled onto the freshly-painted yellow line. The equipment makes it possible to apply the beaded line on either side of the center line or on both sides at the same time.

*Yow. Newspapers have changed in 80 years, at least in some ways.
The woman referred to was the so-called "Diana of the Dunes." There are a number of pages on the web about her, all but one of them written by authors more concerned with telling a good story than with accuracy.
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