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It is a growing practice for street-cleaning departments 

 to place barrels ami baskets along the curb for the 

 reception of newspapers and other large articles pubIicRec 

 of solid refuse. Some of these receptacles uciefor 

 bear a legend to indicate their use and often 

 some simple catch phrase exhorting to cleanliness as, 

 for example, "Be sanitary and you'll be sane." 



There is much to recommend this plan of public refuse 

 receptacles, but it is important that they should be 

 kept clean and never allowed to become overfull. They 

 should be placed in easily accessible positions, for no 

 one is likely to go far out of his way to use them. Proper 

 locations for these receptacles are not easy to find. In 

 well conducted streets obstacles should be kept out of 

 the way of pedestrians. Standing hydrants and lamp- 

 posts are eliminated and post-boxes set inside the house 

 lines in some cities. 



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