Father of Irrigation Newlands Earned His Title
Congressman Francis G. Newlands of Nevada is hailed as Father of Irrigation for pushing a landmark bill that uses proceeds from public land sales to fund arid land reclamation. The plan automates funding for irrigation works without direct treasury appropriation, transforming the Great American Desert into fertile land and homes for millions. Newlands, Yale graduate and longtime congressman, is noted for his intellect and anticipated Senate succession after his current term.
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Newlands
Nevada
Great American Desert
Arid Land Reclamation Fund
Secretary of the Interior
Francis G. Newlands
Stewart and
Jones
Senate
Yale
Washington
San Francisco
William Sharon
United States
Congress
Peary's Polar Quest and Record Northward Ascent
Lieutenant Peary and the Windward set course for the North Pole facing ice ridges and fissures. He established a new American latitude record and prepared for a multi-year push with support parties ready to aid or retreat as needed.
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Biopole
Et Pole
Robert E. Peary
Nansen
Lockwood
Greely
Peary
North Pole
United States
Lieut
Navy Department
Greenland
American Bay
Independence Bay
The Ritchie Plantation Love Across the James
A Virginia plantation tale follows Margaret Ritchie the widow and her daughters Barbara and Elizabeth. Barbara weds Lt. Theodore Benton in secret on the eve of Fort Sumter. Postwar, Mrs. Ritchie blocks the union romance with a claim of illness, then a plantation visitor delivers a note to Mrs Theodore Benton amid siege of Petersburg.
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James River
Richmond
Margaret Ritchie
Barbara
Elizabeth
Benton
Washington
Ritchie Plantation
Malvern Hill
Sieut. Benton
Theodore
Grant
the James
Petersburg
Theodore Benton
Reunion Under War Time Storm Ends In Black Jubilee
In 1862, Benton and Barbara reunite after a family fraud unearthed by Mrs. Ritchie. Barbara had been misled into a presumed estrangement, and the marriage resumes with Benton granted leave to wed. The ceremony draws rejoicing from enslaved people grateful for a new master and daily life ahead.
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Theodore
Barbara
Benton
Household Adornments from Odd To Practical Uses
The article surveys unusual decorations found in Britain, from shark jaw gateways to swordfish table palings, button summer houses, cigar ribbon walls, and doors forming artful room surfaces. Notable examples include Leeds posters scrapbook walls and frames made of sharks teeth.
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Scilly Islands
Sussex
Leeds
Garret
London Express
North County
Wakefeld
Liscard
Cheshire
Liverpool
Birmingham
Royalty Holds Odd Records In Wealth Travel And Arts
The German Emperor tops travel and estate records with 199 days of journeys covering 18 750 miles and eighty three estates. The Shah of Persia speaks six languages. Queen Sophie of Prussia married 145 royal guests in 45 minutes. Russia’s Czar oversees vast crown lands and mines, while Wilhelmina of Holland is the tallest reigning queen at 5 5 and a half feet.
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Persia
Italy
Roumania
Paris
Europe
Carmen Sylva
Carlos
Portugal
Russia
Sophie
Prussia
Wilhelmina of
Holland
London Mail
Oscar
Sweden
Czar
Nonogenarian Carves His Own Tombstone in Indiana
A monogenarian at the State Soldiers Home in Lafayette Indiana carved his own tombstone and built a brick walled coffin cavity beneath a plain grave. The six by two foot monument bears an epitaph by Hugh Dewitt who warns others not to live badly. The burial includes a cement bottom and a turn around space under three feet of earth. The stone covers a coffin with two slabs on top and the cemetery grave appears ordinary from the surface.
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Hugh Dewitt
State Soldiers’ Home
Lafayette
Ind
Dewitt
Dewittt
Mark Twain's First Winning Tale From Hannibal
Rev Henry M Wharton recounts a boyhood anecdote of Sam Clemens in Hannibal. A hill rock project ends with the boulder launching into the Mississippi, prompting a government dredge to clear the obstruction.
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Henry M. Wharton
Mr. Clemens
Hannibal
Sam
Herve
Mississippi River
Silk industry in the United States at a glance
The United States imports 25 million dollars worth of silk while 107 million dollars worth is produced domestically. The industry employs 24 thousand men 36 thousand women and 6 thousand children in 485 mills with 31 million dollars in capital.
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United States
A Bad Break and a Note on Returns
A brief comic note contrasts a groom’s worry that a gift carries a sentimental birthday greeting with a book agent’s wry remark that they rarely lose their first wind. The passage hints at the humor in unexpected greetings and professional resilience.
Glass Jar Ballroom: Electric Trick Dances with Paper Figures
A vintage note describes using a glass sheet and warm cloth to energize tiny paper figures placed beneath the glass. Rubbing the glass with fabric makes figures stand and leap toward the ceiling, then fall back, resuming their dance, recharged by a hand touch to revive the display.
Letter to Pomp from a Boston kitchen queen
A color woman in a Boston kitchen asks her mistress to write a simple letter to Pomp. The note should say she will not marry him and warns him to hurry with Susy Ball or remain a miserable bachelor.
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Jess
Missy June
Boston
Hester
Bachelder
Klondike Community Demographics Highlight U S Ties
The Klondike region is described as American in character with around seventy percent of its population tracing origins to the United States. The note emphasizes cross border connections and regional composition.
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Klondike
The
United States
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Cient
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Hugh J. Lee
Lee
Explorer
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Arctic Circle
Whale Sound
Sherrard Osborn Fjord
America
Lieut. Benton
Capitol
Binks
Dinny
Jinks
Detroit News-Tribune
Mark Twain
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