Forestry Crisis in the Mississippi Valley and Public Lands
A lengthy speech argues forestry is a national issue from New Orleans to the Rockies, urging consolidation of forest reserves under a federal bureau, repeal of the timber and stone act, and bold steps to plant forests in the arid plains to conserve water and support mining. It condemns the public lands committee for inaction, calls for regional forestry districts, and promotes irrigation and tariff repeal to protect forest industries.
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Mississippi Valley
New Orleans
Rocky Mountains
Canada
St. Francis
Congress
Treasury
United States
Public Lands Committee
House
United States Treasury
House Public Lands Committee
Dent
Gifford Pinchot
Secretary of the Interior
General Land Office
Tur
Senate Committee On the Public Lands
House of Representatives
Senate Committee On Public Lands
Senate
T. . Walker
Senate Committee
Northwest
Innesota
Senate Public Lands Committee
Lorest
Bureau of Lorestry
North Dakota
Montana
West
Oregon
Hermann
Willamoport
Oregon Grand Jury
Portland
Grand Jury
Kermann
Caliornis
National Irrigation Association
California
Mexico
Great Plains
Kinkaid
Rocky Mountain States
Public Printer Stillings Leads World’s Largest Press
Charles A. Stillings becomes executive head of the Government Printing Office after Roosevelt's nomination and Senate approval. The agency paid 4.62 million in wages last year and spent nearly 3 million on supplies and maintenance. Stillings brings broad experience from Boston, Philadelphia, and Washington.
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Charles A. Stillings
Frank W. Palmer
Roosevelt
United States
Boston
Philadelphia
Washington
Stillings
Government Printing Office
Senate
Revolution reshapes Russia toward a republican future
The writer compares Russia to France and Britain, arguing the revolution cannot be quelled by force. concessions to liberty earlier would have reduced upheaval, but now the proletariat's struggle intensifies. Russia will become a republic, likely turbulent, yet eventually learn liberty through a parliamentary system.
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Great Britain
France
Russia
European
Moscow
Poland
Lithuania
Finland
Baltic
Black Seas
Warsaw
Napoleon
England
Europe
Reichstag
Spain
Italy
Austria-Hungary
Actor Nat Goodwin Teaches Streetwise Brooklyn Bridge Lesson
Nat Goodwin, the actor, was approached on Broadway and Thirty-fourth Street in New York City by a puzzled country man asking to go to the Brooklyn Bridge. Goodwin replied with a curt remark directing him clearly amid the chaos of six converging car lines.
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Nat Goodwin
Goodwin
Broadway
Thirty-fourth Street
New York City
Brooklyn Bridge
Printing executive rises in local government circles
Surrounded himself in the administration of government affairs. He learned at Phillips Grammar School and Boston English High School. He started in his father’s printing shop, rose to general manager and later sales manager of Griffith- Stillings Press, which took over Stillings senior’s business. A magnet for dignitaries, he is a Mason in the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite and a Mystic Shriner.
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Phillips Grammar School
English High School
Boston
Griffith- Stillings Press
Stillings
Stilings
Improvised Excuse From Absent Student Sparks Suspicion
Tommy missed a school day but returned with a handwritten note claiming a legitimate detention at home. The note, oddly forged in a feminine hand and allegedly written by Afrs. Mulligan, reads Please excuse Tom for not coming to steal yistidy tore my pants. The teacher doubted the authenticity of the excuse.
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Tommy
Mulligan
Unclear text fragment from obituary style piece
Partial lines describe a Mary Ann resting on a symbolic Bosom of Abraham scene. The tone hints at funeral or memorial language with religious imagery, contrasting Mary Ann’s serenity and Abraham’s hardship. The source lacks concrete facts.
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Mary Ann
Abraham
Farmer Trades Bicycle Dream For Jersey Cow Joke
In Central New York a bicycle salesman touts the gadget as a time saver and status symbol but an old farmer counters he needs a good Jersey cow more. The farmer buys the cow with the saved money and quips he’d look funnier milking a bicycle.
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United States
New York
Farmer Wilson
Yatas
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Minnesota
o.Guoodugeres
National Treasury
Hue
Revolutionary Russia
Don
Agate
Eddr
Wing & Son
13Th St
True Blue CO
Dept
Mass
Kirk
James S. Kirk & Company
Chicago
Ike
Eagle Tank Co
N. Green St
Chicago, Il
Mae Wells
Mac
Maxwell’s
Homemaker Magazine
Fisher Building
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