Hyper ambitious plan to turn Mediterranean into Sahara Desert
An American engineer Dwight Braman proposes flooding 100000 square miles of southern Tunis and Algeria to create an inland sea and alter climate across North Africa. He estimates reclaiming the land for 50 million dollars with artesian water and underground storage, arguing a climat e transformation could spur development and future miracles.
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Sahara
Muscle Shoals
Boulder Dam
Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Deep Waterway
Dwight Braman
New York
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Mediterranen
Sahara Desert
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Tripoli
Mediterranean
Answers to Yesterday's Questions and Obituary Notice
The text lists yesterday's trivia answers and reports the death of W Gibson aged 65, former Citizens Trust Company president of Clarion, known in northwestern Pennsylvania, who died at his Pasadena home on Wednesday. The scramble includes League of Nations, Shakespeare, Mother's Day art, Valley Forge location, British Army rank, ostrich height, and Harvard founding date.
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United States
League of Nations
Shakespear
Valley Forge
Harvard
Manilla
Storm W.gibson
Citizens Trust Company of Clarion
Pennsylvania
Pasadena
Calif
Twenty Years Ago Journal Clippings May 2 1909
Summary of brief local items including Henry Peterson's fatal accident near Childs on a Pittsburgh to Buffalo train and other notes about social events, theater, and community movements from Clymer, Wayne, and nearby towns. Names include B Fett John Silverwall Adam Abbott and Gertrude Pitts.
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Henry Peterson
Clymer
B. Fett
Pittsburgh
Huffalo
Childs
Corry
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Arthur Colegrove
National Advertising Rapipeenath
Kago Chamber of Com
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F.C. Chapin & Son
Center St
John Silverwall
Adam Abbott
Wayne
Joe Garry
King's School of Oratory
Gertrude Pitts
Today's Magazine
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W. M. Davis
Irvington
Grand Chapter of
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C. E. Woodward
Corning
Pennsylvania Railroad
W. L. Gordon
St. Vincent’s Hospital
St. Erie
Burton J. Kelly
Erie
Waterford
A. A.B. Store
South Center Street
Postoffice
North Center ST
Corry, PA
Ray's
Cretonnes
Men's Athletic Union
Madras
Coats
Opportunity Bargain Save AT
Oil City Trust Company
Oil City
Simmons
Art Cretonne
R. E. Palmer CO
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