Roosevelt Dam Project Will Supply Water for 200,000 Acres
The Roosevelt irrigation dam in Arizona near Phoenix will be 270 feet high and create a 25 mile long reservoir. The project includes a power plant delivering free electricity for night work and aims to reclaim over 50,000 acres, with costs estimated at 3.2 million dollars. The Water Users' Association pledges 200,000 acres to guarantee repayment.
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Planta
Secretary of Interior
Roosevelt
Arizona
Phoenix
Salt River
Water Users’ Association
Lkely
Carnegie Libraries Distributed Across the World
The article notes Andrew Carnegie built 1852 libraries worldwide including in New York California Texas and Scotland with Rhode Island and Arkansas lacking none in the United States. US buildings total 671 serving over 18 percent of the population costing 29,807,080 dollars with another 10,608,540 dollars given outside the United States.
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Andrew Carnegie
New Zealand
New York
Texas
Scotland
Union
Carnegie
Rhode Island
Arkansas
Wlineis
United States
Settlers Press Ahead as Salt River Dam Work Expands
The Salt River project area sees a 200,000 barrel cement need for dam construction and a mill capable of 300 barrels daily. A Roosevelt Globe wagon road and a shorter timber access road enable 1,000,000 feet of timber salvage. Settlers move in despite guidance, filing claims under the homestead act while awaiting water to cultivate their eighty acre tracts.
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Nade
Roosevelt
Globe
Sierra Ancha
Salt River Canyon
Fish Creek Hill
Reclamation Service
Domann
Salt River Project
Roosevelt Dam to Feature Massive Hydraulic Gates
The Roosevelt dam will use the largest hydraulic gates ever built weighing 800000 pounds. Gates can discharge 10000 cubic feet of water per second and regulate supply for canals many miles away. A 500 foot tunnel diverts Salt and Verde rivers during construction. Completion is planned in about two years.
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Une
Roosevelt Dam
Vento
Salt River
New High Speed Telegraph Invention Hailed During German Tests
United States Consul Liefeld reports from Freiburg Germany on a British tested telegraph instrument claiming to rival Morse in speed. The system uses perforated paper tape to encode letters and print messages at the far end, delivering about 40 to 60 words per minute and involving three processing stages.
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United States
Liefeld
Freiburg
Germany
State Department
Invention aims to speed telegraphy with typewriter system
Perforated paper causes keys to move and hammers strike forming letters on a telegraph form. The device could vastly cut time as a wire would carry four or five times as many words, reducing worker needs. Any person able to operate a typewriter could transmit messages by the new system.
Curious funnel tale in Me and York Harbor legends
A Times-Democrat inspired anecdote recalls women drawn to a storefront prank titled Men Only, depicting curiosity and blushes as passersby peek into a tunnel exhibit of an artificial leg. The York Harbor lore includes a storm wreck tale and a coroner’s dry verdict, plus a joke about a husband defying a wife’s warning to avoid stairs.
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New Orleans Times-Democrat
Gorgeana
York Harbor
Stageneck
Barbed wire taking up device and windlass design
Describes building a barbed wire taking up device with oak axle wheels and pine uprights. Details include 30 inch 2x4 oak axle, 1x2 side pieces, 4 foot uprights, 14 by 14 inch crossbar, bolts, and a second windlass axle 14 square by 26 inches with a crank.
Breeding Polled Calves and Home Gardening Tips
Breeding guidance discusses whether double standard Polled Durhams reliably produce polled calves on horned cows, noting some bulls exceed expectations and advising choosing an aged, proven horner. A separate Hand Cultivator design outlines a 20 inch wide board wheel frame with a steel scuffledoe blade and curved rods to lift weed roots, adaptable to a deeper cultivation shovel.
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Hines
Durham
Weed killer and cultivator claim surpasses wheel hoe
The article notes superior performance of weed killer and cultivator over a five dollar wheel hoe. It discusses ropy milk from bacteria, urging thorough disinfection of stables with carbolic acid and sun drying to kill bacteria. It adds guidance on daily hot-water scalding of dairy vessels. It also covers lamb dipping to control ticks and warns on rapid tick spread after shearing. It ends with a comparison of hay and corn fodder quality.
Curing and quality of fodder influence livestock feed choices
Farm Visitor notes that bright green corn fodder, shredded or cut, outranks poorly cured hay while good hay beats corn fodder cut late. Tender juicy fodder makes animals prefer stalks for their sugar, though plant growth stage at harvest greatly affects value.
Sub Soiling and Watering for Better Orchard and Swine Health
Subsoiling deepens orchard soil to improve apple root growth, avoiding wet layers and promoting strong trees. Watering swine reduces disease and waste, with clean troughs at feeding time and careful management reducing hog dirt.
Harrow construction and poultry garden tips from old issue
Instructions describe making a six piece harrow with 24 teeth for six foot width, using bolts and center piece, plus farming advice. Poultry tips cover dry chick rations, self feeding grain boxes, bone and bone scraps, mite control, and incubator timing. Garden notes urge pruning gooseberries currants raspberries and timing for sowing peas corn gourds and melons with manure mulch.
Weatherby’s African trek uncovers Livingstone heart site
Explorer Mr. Weatherby, after eleven years among Africans, claims to have corrected map details of central Africa and located the burial site of Livingstone’s heart. He describes encounters with chiefs Kasoma and Menenge, plus a near- foiled greeting and a humorous encounter using a shot cartridge to defuse tension.
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Mr. Weatherby
Africa
London Daily News
Livingstone
British Museum
Bangweolo Lake
Glave
Mshaota
Menenge
Kasoma
Clover enriches soil as green plow under fertilizer
Central Experiment Farm Ottawa reports eight years of trials showing clover plowed under enriches soil with atmospheric nitrogen, increases mineral plant food, adds humus, deepens and mellows soils, and provides a useful autumn cover to protect and improve fertility.
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Central Experiment Farm
Ottawa
Ont
Drummer Somers Relates Early South Town Stay Moment
Thomas F. Somers recalls a night in a tiny southern town when the hotel keeper offered a huge jar of buttermilk and exclaimed they do not keep any pig, inviting him to drink freely.
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Thomas F. Somers
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England
Harper’s Weekly
John
Ria
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