Seneca Derelict Destroyer Planned For High Seas Salvage
The Treasury invited bids for a specialized craft named Seneca to locate derelicts, receive and share position data, carry high explosives for sinking wrecks, flood magazines in emergencies, and aid salvage and life saving with 1700 horsepower engines. The Navy Hydrographic Office notes five derelicts in the North Atlantic, often submerged and hard to detect, posing collisions risk to ships.
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Treasury Department
Seneca
Navy Department
The Origin of Flowers Poem by Maurice Mean
A verse tracing flowers back to a child’s death in Eden and the grave yielding violets for its eyes and petals for its smile. The poem links natural blooms to the first child’s earthly burial, framing flowers as born from grief.
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Paradise
Maurice Francis Mean
Glockner's Scheme Ends With Wedding Standstill
In a rural gossip tale, Joanna Glockner’s suitor Caleb Wells presses the old man Glockner for permission to wed. Glockner stalls until harvest completion and corn shucking ends, offering a compromise to wait until evening after chores.
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Joanna
Paw
Gulch
Lee Robinson
Lee
Jack Ritchie
Jack
Caleb
Glockner
St. Caleb
Squire Peterson
Squire’s
Kenneth Harris
Chicago Daily News
STATE CONTROL OF WATER IN OREGON Cited At Grange Talk
John H. Lewis argues Oregon’s water is the state’s key asset yet faces chaotic rights and litigation. He criticizes lack of public control, outline how rights are claimed by notice, and warn that court decrees fail to settle distribution, urging state administration and storage reforms. He cites Baker County Powder river records and Walla Walla disputes as evidence. (Concluded next week.)
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Oregon State Grange
John H. Lewis
Oregon
Baker County
Powder River
Baker City
Deschutes River
Salem
California
Commonwealth Club
Bar of
Ditch
Walla Walla River
Supreme Court
Water Right
Wyoming
Idaho
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Great Deep
North Atlantic
Lloyds
Europe
Marvin Parsons
Washington Hancock
Solomon Baker
Bigley
Hancock
Dave Harper
Var
Dave
T Hancock
Figrin
Jin Sellers
Parsons
Jim Sellers
Malviny Bigley
Malviny
Joanna Glockner
Glockner Place
Caleb Wells
Avig
Utah
Mizzoura
Paye Ue
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