Indian irrigation works rival El Dorado in scale
The article surveys century of British led irrigation in India. It highlights Arthur Cotton repairs, Cauvery and Godavari canals, Ganges and Jumna projects, Baree Doab schemes, and proposed Indus valley waterworks. It notes economic payoffs, famine prevention, and vast canal networks supporting millions of acres under cultivation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scientific American
India
Africa
Asia Minor
Persia
Punjaub
Scinde
Ganges
Madras Presidency
Peoman
Indus
Himalayas
Arthur Cotton
Madras
Presidency
Cauvery
Kistna
Bengal
Jumna
Amritser
Lower
Orissa
Brahminny
Mahanuddy
Godavery
Cotton
Reform Dress for Women Promotes Loose Underwear and New Garments
In August 1869 the article outlines a reform fashion scheme by Fanny M. Steele advocating lighter, looser garments to replace corsets. It details proposed items like a hemisope and a body-coat, explains benefits for health and ease, and notes current pattern access and potential makers while urging adoption by American women.
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Butterick
Metropolitan Magazine
Boston Woman's Journal
Boston
Boston Committee
Fanny M. Steele
Marquette
Mich
Lapizs
Noman
Dansville
Livingstone County
N. Y
Tragic Reflection on Poverty and Knowledge by Carlyle
This fragment reflects Carlyle's warning about the poor's deprivation of knowledge and spiritual light. He laments that while toil and hunger persist, the soul often remains uninformed and stunted, a tragedy intensified by repeated cycles of deprivation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nazareth
Carlyle
Women Fire Fighters Shine At Crown Point Center Fire
The Troy Times reprints a letter praising local women who helped during a large fire at Crown Point Center. Sisters and neighbors formed a bucket line, a woman climbed to the roof to hand water, a milliner carried goods, a young wife managed shoppers from a counter, and others moved furniture and trunks. The piece extols mothers and daughters for courage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. Thompson
William Fuller
Crown Point Center
Bascom
Troy
The Science of Adulteration by P Sharples State Assayer
In cream of tartar a 2 to 3 percent gypsum impurity with rice flour is found. Rice flour is used to adulterate sugar granules. a rice based product mimics granulated sugar. Adulteration in bread with alum is detected best via ash analysis. many methods fail. Five presidential wives survive: Polk, Fillmore, Tyler, Lincoln, Johnson.
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P Sharples
State Assayer
Hassal
England
Boston Journal of Chemistry
Polk
Fillmore
Tyler
Lineceln
Johnson
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J. M. Freeman
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Sec'y Union Colony
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Masonic Block
Greeley
Colo
Qargent
Denver, Colorado
J. M. Moss
Maple St
Mr. Moss
Pioneer Saddle and Harness Shop
N.B
R. E. Hart
OLD Colony
Colorado
Senate of Colorado
D. S. Marvin
Watertown
AY H. Boughton
Fort CoLlins
Larimer County
Gfe
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McPhee & Co
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WM. BE. Pabor
Pabor & Allen
Noaher, Allen
Cache la Poudre
B. A. Haynes
A. E. Gipson
Aynes & Gipson
F. Sanborn
Life and Fire Insurance
J D Buckley
Weld County
G. Stinson & CO
Portland
Maine
Geo. P. Rowell & Co
Park Row
New York
Tripune, N. Y
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