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About Missouri Mud

All they have to do is look at the highway.

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(Baltimore News) Tourists who have driven from California to New York claim that there are 500 miles of bad road. One mile is in Iowa and the rest are in Missouri.

One guy has been seven years trying to get from St. Louis to Kansas City.

He says the mud is so deep that even pigs are making detours.

One fellow's machine sunk seven feet in the mud the other day. It would have gone further only it settled on top of a Ford.

Another guy started digging in the mud and found the covered wagon.

Nearby states are beginning to complain. Tourists get mud on their shoes in Missouri and wipe their feet in Illinois.

Men and women both walk home from automobile rides in Missouri.

Most of the roads are dirt, and if it doesn't rain they send a sprinkling wagon' out over it.

Tourists from California never need a map to tell when they're in Missouri.

But the roads aren't dangerous, because when you can't move you can't hit anything.

In most states tourists read the sign posts to keep on the highway, but in Missouri they read the signs to keep off of it.

One little kid asked his father if they were on the right road to St. Louis. The father said: "Yes, son, I'm afraid we are."

Just then the machine began sinking and 10 minutes later he was in the highway up to his neck.

He hollered to his wife to keep her mouth closed so that she wouldn't choke on the road.

When they got to St. Louis they all agreed that Missouri had the worst roads they had ever tasted.

They spent three days at a hotel picking the highway out of their teeth and scraping it off their shoes.

In spite of these terrible roads the Chamber of Commerce says that thousands of tourists are settling between St. Louis and Kansas City every year.

This is certainly the truth, because most of them get stuck in the mud in Missouri and can't get back.

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