Water project ties 19 Southern California cities to a vast aqueduct
The Los Angeles area and 18 other cities form the Metropolitan Water District to build a Colorado River aqueduct. The plan envisages a 260 mile, 200 million dollar tunnel to carry water to the coastal plain, with six to eight years of construction and a cost under one cent per day per taxpayer. The illustration shows Hoover Dam and hydroelectric plants, with 80.5 million acre-feet impounded behind the dam.
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California
Los Angeles
Metropolitan Water District
Anaheim
Beverly Hills
Burbark
Colton
Fullerton
Glendale
Long Beach
Pasadena
San Bernardino
San Marino
Santa Ana
Santa Monica
Torrance
Colorado River
Arizona
Boulder
Boulder Canyon
Colorado
Parker
California Coastal Plain
Hoover—dam
Graham Gems Breakfast Bread Recipe
A vintage recipe describes Graham flour gem bread using graham flour sour milk eggs sugar shortening and soda with warm shortening and raisins added to a light bread sponge for baking in gem pans. The instruction emphasizes mixing and bringing together flour liquids and fats to form a baked breakfast or luncheon loaf.
Wolverine outsmarts traps in Green Meadows tale
In this bedtime tale a clever Wolverine named Glutton causes trouble in the Great Woods. Peter Rabbit and Buster discuss a trapper who sets many snares along the lake shore, while Glutton quietly learns and follows, feasting on bait.
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Glutton
Green Meadows
Green Forest
Hye
Buster
Peter Rabbit
Pineapple Layered Dessert With Whipped Cream Story
Recipe style directions describe mixing sugar and cinnamon, rising dough, baking, and assembling a layered fruit cake with pineapple, crumbs, whipped cream. Interleaved is a Northern U.S. humorous tale featuring Buster Bear and Honker the Goose, discussing gluttony and fur coats from a 1931 Western Newspaper Union fragment.
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Western Newspaper Union,y
Buster Bear
Buster
Honker
Paddy Beaver
Nonker
Appointment of Henry as Olympic sports technical director
William M. Henry of Los Angeles is named sports technical director for the 1982 Olympic Games by the Olympic Organizing Committee. The department under Afr Henry will oversee technical preparations for fifteen sports, align with international federations, and manage stadiums venues and aquatic facilities.
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William M. Henry
Los Angeles
Olympic Organizing Committee
Afr. Henry
Glutton Outwits Hidden Trap in Clever Escape
In a tale recounted by Buster and Honker, Glutton shows sharp wits by spotting a trap and pulling free without being caught. The exchange highlights Glutton’s intelligence and the trapper’s failed setup.
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Buster
Honker
J. G. Lloyd
Wild Bill Hickok Fast Gunman and Noted Frontiersman
James Butler Hickok known as Wild Bill Hickok held offices served as pony express rider with Buffalo Bill and worked as a scout and spy in the Union army. He was shot dead in a Deadwood saloon on August 2 1870 at age thirty nine by Jack McCall.
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James Butler Hickok
Wild Bit Hickok
Pony Express
Buffalo BU
Hickok
Deadwood
S. D
Jack McCall
Balloon entertainments thrill crowds in early Ranelagh
In the early 1800s a large captive balloon over Ranelagh, England hosted a square platform below. From it, various entertainments were staged including displays by noted boxers, among the most popular attractions for spectators.
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Ranelagh
England
Erosion a Major Cause of Land Loss Warns Expert
Ben Nett of the United States Department of Agriculture warned at the American Forestry Association meeting in Asheville NC that sheet erosion is widespread and gradual, destroying vast tracts of tilled land. He urged soil protection through terraces forested areas and better land use. regional stations study erosion and prevention.
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HW. Bennett
United States
Department of Agriculture
American Forestry Association
Ashville
Nett
Bureau of Chemistry and Soils
Nennett
Edit
Phosphorus Essential for Bone and Seed Grain Growth
Phosphorus is a material necessary for bone construction and at its greatest value aids seed and grain production. It drives protoplasmic nucleus formation around which grain forms, with deficiency indicated when grain lag relies on leaf growth and stalk development lags nitrogen availability. Rich humus land yields stalks over grain unless phosphorus is increased.
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Geneat
Getting Rid of Moles in Lawns and Gardens
The report notes trapping as the best method to remove moles in lawns and gardens. For few moles, moth balls or naphthalene flakes placed at runways with a trowel can deter moles by odor, then cover the earth.
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Biological Survey
United States
Department of Agriculture
Oats as Stock Corn Threateningly Cheap
The item notes oats must be exceedingly cheap to rival oats for stock feed. It argues oats priced around 20 cents a bushel would make oats for milk cows an excellent feed option.
Dairy Herd Rations Favored for Grain Balance
Ohio State University extension specialist C L Blackman explains grain rations boost dairy output even on good pasture. A practical herdwide mix includes corn or corn meal, oats, bran, linseed or soybean meal, and cottonseed or oil meal with variations for cows prone to fattening or thinning.
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C. L. Blackman
Ohio State University
Blackman
Cod Liver Oil Not Needed in Calf Ration
Wisconsin researchers Bus Bohstedt E B Hart and I W Rupel tested calves on a vitamin D deficient diet and found cod liver oil improved growth but not rickets. After six to seven months calves on the deficient ration showed rickets while those given cod liver oil stayed healthy, indicating vitamin D is needed in normal calf growth.
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Bus Bohstedt
E. B. Hart
I W. Rupel
Wisconsin College of Agriculture
Dairy Notes on Silage and Calf Feeding Practices
Dairy notes discuss advantages of silage for convenient feeding and its role with pasture grazing. It covers grain supplementation for high milk yield, risks of overfeeding calves, and suggests early grain and hay for calves with salt access. It notes silage’s winter substitute for pasturage and summer supplementation, with emphasis on clean, sanitary feeding.
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By Thornton W. Burgess
Hoover
Dieudonne Coste
Maurice Bellonte
Washington
Paris
France
Lanes Ly
Nora
WWNU
Germany
Fuosphorus
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