Systematic Irrigation in the Arid West by English Speaking People
A historical overview traces irrigation in the arid West from early Mormon efforts at Salt Lake City to modern giant engineering projects. It notes ancient Pueblo and Navajo practices, Spanish missions, and Mexican field ditches along the Rio Grande, highlighting the evolution of irrigation across Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, and California.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Salt Lake City
Utah
Mcrea
Mississippi Valley
Great Salt Lake
Atanda
Greast West
New Mexico
Arizona
Colorado
New
Mexico
Rio Grande
Arkansas River
Pacific Coast
California
Suffragists To Darn Locks At State Fair Booth
Minnesota suffragists plan a booth at the state fair urging women to vote while promoting domestic humor. A campaign cry, Darn the government, darn the socks, was adopted by the suffrage executive committee to encourage turnout and support for reform.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minneapolis
Minn
Minnesota
Suffraget Executive Committee
Struck Bunny In Pulpit At Port Jefferson Church
In Port Jefferson Reverend Yerry B. Ellintt aged eighty nine, longtime minister of over seventy years, was struck dumb while occupying his son's church pulpit. The report notes his long service and age in this incident.
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Bunny
Port Jefferson
L. L
Yerry B. Ellintt
New York University
Union Theologica Seminary
Vic
Gored to Death in Farm Bull Attack
In Filiatville New York a farmer named Thomas Wheeler aged fifty was found dead in a pasture after being gored by a bull. A veterinary examination confirmed the cause.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
N. Yo-Pho
Thomas Wheeler
Perilous trek through Central Asia by young Tokyo priest
Rev Zutcho Yachihais, a Hongwanji temple priest, returns from an eight year expedition across Taklu Makan and into Tibet under Count Otani's guidance. Tachibana, 23, journeyed from London to Semipalatings then Turfan, crossing the Taklu Makan desert and reaching Goma and Kusgar before probing east of Trapin gy and Khota. He collected Wigal writings, a vanished Buddhist corpus, to be reported by the Hongwanji temple.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kioto
Japan
Zutcho Yachihais
Great West Hongwanji
Tachibana
London
Omek
Turfan
Sinklang
Goma
Tarim
Piccadilly
Kusgar
Traplngy
Khota
Stein
Mate Aurel Stein
Tibet
Tavhivana
Sven Hedin
Seminole Nation Endures In Everglades Florida
In southern Florida the remnant Seminole Indians, about five hundred people, live as a distinct nation with own laws and language. The piece recounts their origins from Creek migrants, 18th and 19th century conflicts with the United States, and Osceola leadership during the fiercest phase of the Second Seminole War, including treaties, battles, and the 1837 truce-violating deployment that led to Osceola's death.
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Tampe
Fla
United States
England
France
Everglades
Florida
North America
Georgia
Alabama
Andrey Jackson
Osceola
Thomson
Oscopia
Oscepla’s
Hnelce
Jesup
Ostepin
Charleston
Port Moultrie
Osevula
Murderous rage man attacks wife in city, dies in blaze
In Central City Kentucky a jealous husband 16 months married learned his wife planned divorce. He slashed the wife and the lawyer James Stroud with a hatchet, then set fire to a building after leaping through a plate glass window. Both victims died, the lawyer expected to recover. The attacker also died from his wounds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Central City
Dutsinger
James Stroud
Stramen
Kin
Boy Walked Off Train Near Wilachowle Georgia
Twelve year old Paul Ti man of Tifton Georgia awakened after sliding from a moving Atlantic Coast Line passenger train near Wilacohele. Traveling companion Patrick Davis of Tytu reported not waking and a search found Paul two miles from the railroad between two trees. He recalls nothing of leaving the train and bore no injuries or distress upon waking.
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Tifton
Paul
Timan
Atlantic ‘Coast Line
Wilachowhe
Patrick Davis
Tytu
Willacoeleé
Forty Day Fast Ends in Death in Lynn Man’s Case
Edward Wanton aged 48 died at his son Robert Hanlon’s home in Lynn Mass after fasting forty days with only water. He weighed 230 pounds at onset and reportedly shed about 100 pounds seeking a cure, but the extreme weight loss proved fatal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lynn
Mass
Edward Wanton
Rober Hanlon
Bells Protest in Boston Over Two Hours of Ringing
A Boston Sunday scene drew protests as two churches kept two hours of pealing bells awakening neighbors and disturbing children. Residents of Salem Street and Advent Church complained that the vibrations kept them from sleeping, prompting calls to halt the ringing. The piece notes English origins of change ringing and city interest in reviving old customs as hostility grows.
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Beltry
Boston
Haul Revere
Salem Street
Advent Tun Reta
Polae
Bugand
Dostor Herald
Unclear fragment on church bells and ringing history
Fragment discusses church bell ringing in America with references to Philadelphia 1858 and Salem, noting rarity of full rings or peals and questions about why people stop going to church without being distracted by noise.
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Sud
America
Philadelphia
Salem
Turkey incubates guinea eggs on Gashing farm
A large white gobbler on Charles Obert’s Gashing farm twelve miles northeast of here claims a nest, driving off the resident guinea hen to incubate her eggs. Locals await the 28 day hatch window and wonder if the turkey will remain maternal after the chicks hatch, while neighboring farmer Gurdon Wagner reports a chick hatched on another farm showing game bird behavior.
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Howardevilla
Charles Obert
Here
Nas
Viciully
Gurdon Wagner
Helleville
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Desrt
China
Hangwanji Temple
Europe
Asia
Kalgary
Everglades, Florida
Trice
State of
Ohio
Politz Bros
High St
Reily
State
Doston
Tneyhar
Matyers
Stall Muards
Fred J. Meyers Mig. Co
Lasta
TRON
Bronza
Hamilton, Ohio
Quinta
High Street
Benninghofen Ave
Lindenwald
Corner Seventh
Ludlow
BELL
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