Hovenweep and Palm Canyon Named New National Monuments
National monument designations include Hovenweep on the Colorado Utah line and Palm Canyon in Riverside County California. The article explains jurisdiction by the National Park Service and the need for congressional action and Indian consent, detailing locations, features and the preservation aims for the Washingtonian filifera palms and prehistoric ruins.
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Ivenweep National Monument
Palm Canyon National Monument
Hovenweep Las
Colorado
Utah
United States
Palm Canyon
California
National Park Service
Forest Service
Congress
Interior Department
Shiloh
Gettysburg
Lincoln's Birthplace
War Department
Big Hole Battlefield
Cabrillo
Department of Agriculture
National Forests
Harding
Hovenweep National Monument
Hubert Work
J. Walter Fewkes
Bureau of Ethnology
Smithsonian Institution
Hovenweep Castle
Helly Canyon
Holly House
Hovenweep Monument
Secretary of the Interior
Riverside
Agua Caliente
Sam
Andreas
Murray
Palm
Palm Springs
Colorado Desert
Queer Bedfellow in Mattress With Snake
A Farm Journal anecdote describes a couple sleeping through a winter with an 18 inch snake inside the mattress. A rat cut a hole in fall airings allowed the snake to enter. The snake rested quietly until spring when it moved about, prompting a nighttime search and the mattress being opened to reveal the snake on the floor.
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Farm Journal
English village plans war debt payment via American tourist spending
The Cheam parish council weighs funding the war debt to America by tapping funds from spending by American tourists. The plan also aims to rent a new town hall using revenues generated locally.
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America
Cheam
Cheam Council Plans Cottage Tour for Pilgrim Descendants
The council rents a 40 year old cottage as a chamber and proposes charging American visitors a guinea to view the building. Opponents are silenced and the town awaits Pilgrim Fathers descendants arriving next summer.
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Reach Cheam
Stray Bits of Wisdom Poem Fragment
A brief quotation from Chateaubriand on poets as birds, noting how even the smallest prompt makes them sing. The line reflects a reflective, literary mood typical of a fragment in a column of aphorisms.
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Chateaubriand
British Honduras Belize A Patch of British Empire On Coast
Prepared by National Geographic outlines Belize as British Honduras a tropical coastland with British law and order, mahogany timber industry, and a mixed population. It covers low coastal plains high inland forests, rivers for travel, and a southern banana region served by a railroad. American influence grows as newspapers US writings flood in and money uses the American gold dollar.
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National Geographic Society
Washington, D. C
British Honduras
Belize
Canada
North America
Central America
Curacao
Bobby
Puerto Cortez
Honduras
Puerto Barrios
Guatemala
Coxcomb Mountains
All Pines
Stane Creek
Middlesex
Orange Walk
Wallis
Massachusetts
New Jersey
Yucatan Peninsula
Nicaragua
Salvador
Costa Rica
Jamaica
Caribbean
Great Britain
Spain
Yucatan
United States
America
England
Banks and Stokes Story On Storage Charge
C F Stokes of Trenton New Jersey recites a tale from a bank cashier to an old customer. The board of directors has decided not to renew the note but will not turn him down they will charge storage on it after twenty five years.
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FE. C. Stokes
Trenton
N. J
Berlin Population Declines Since 1913
Berlin’s population has fallen by 4000 since 1913 as deaths exceed births, contributing to a shrinking city demography.
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Berlin
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