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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 22, 1906
Page
6
The article describes Uncle Sam's work on rain and snow origin to ocean return, and surveys of surface streams, subterranean waters, and water pollution. It notes about 800 gauging stations record stream discharge for power, cities, and irrigation.
Herschel, famed astronomer, was also a gifted musician and Bath Orchestra proprietor. The late 1600s boasted figures like Franklin Pitt Burke Hume Gibbon Watts Sheridan Garrick Gainsborough Reynolds Voltaire Paine Blackstone Goldsmith Wellington George III and Washington, marking a golden era of achievement.
The author describes a visit to the Ponce De Leon hotel with Senator and Mrs. S, praising the Moorish architecture, vast courtyards, a fountain with bronze frogs, frescoed halls, marble floors, and ornate furnishings. Nearby hotels Alcazar and Cordova are noted, with banana plants and tropical interiors, as part of a tour of Florida landmarks.
A small grave of Civil War memory near Groveton marks the site of the old railroad cut where Jackson faced Union assaults in the second Bull Run battle. Veterans erected the monument after the war, noting the deaths along the disputed line. Few visitors pass the isolated woods today.
Mrs. Clarence Burns of the Little Mothers Association told the New York Federation of Women's Clubs that wage earning women, including 22 708 saleswomen and 2 094 boxmakers, earn as little as three dollars a week and need affordable, respectable hotels in the city. She urged organized effort to establish such housing.
The Great Salt Lake in Utah measures seventy five miles long and thirty five miles wide with a 291 mile circumference. It contains six islands the largest of which is sixteen by five miles and rises about 3000 feet above the lake. Its waters are extremely dense allowing easy floating and second only to the Dead Sea in density. The lake's waters are slowly receding from the shoreline.
A Colorado farmer narrates how interconnected weather and irrigation produced extraordinarily large sugar beets. He describes a blast of growth from river water, harvesting in thirty foot slabs, sending timber and cattle profits to fund further farming. He touts sugar content and farm wealth from beet and cattle ventures.
Clocks now made with talking machine discs as alarms can pronounce hours or mimic sounds such as a cock crow or a voice. The discs are replaceable to avoid familiar slumber, promising to overtake ordinary bells as alarm clocks.
The piece condemns deception in food preparation by hotels and describes canvasback ducks prized for wild celery flavor. It explains Chesapeake Bay ducks feed on wild celery, how divers stay underwater to reach plant buds, and how decoys lure birds and rifled shots drive them to water to escape retrievers.
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