Forest Service Mission and Fire Prevention Policy
A historic overview of the U.S. Forest Service strategy, stressing public ownership, sustainable use, fire prevention, and the dual role of forests as timber suppliers and watershed guardians. It highlights the scale of national forests, the duty of rangers, and the goal to balance private use with public welfare while preserving water, timber, and grazing resources for future generations.
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Gifford Pinchot
Division of Forestry
Forest Service
National Forests
Texas
Ohio
Army
Navy
Delaware
Arizona
California
Minnesota
Arkansas
Reclamation Service
Frederick Haynes Newell
Wereinles
Backache Is Kidneyache Promoted By Remedy Endorsement
Thompson Watkins a professional nurse from Parsons Kansas testifies that back pain and irregular kidney secretions disappeared after using Deans Kidney Pills. She urges readers to remember the brand and notes it sells for 50 cents a box through Foster Milburn Co of Buffalo New York.
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Thompson Watkins
N. 23Rd St. Parsons, Kan
Dean
Foster- Milburn Co
Buffalo, N. Y
Jersey Lily and a Bar Harbor dinner anecdote
A Boston woman lauds the wit of Edward Everett Hale in a humorous Bar Harbor dinner tale. A farmer warns trespassers with a pun, and Hale replies we are Unitarians, provoking the farmer’s puzzled question. Washington Star.
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Bar Harbor
Boston
Edward Everett Hale
Dr. Hale
Prison for obstreperous tramps at Salisbury workhouse
Tramps spending weekends at Salisbury workhouse were deprived of clothes on Sundays and kept in cells all day in a provided shirt. Thomas, who demanded his clothes, assaulted the porter and smashed windows. Salisbury magistrates jailed him for 21 days.
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Salisbury
England
Thomas
Expensive Silence Turns into a Nickel Bargain
A quirky four year old, Alice, ignores crying fits until her father offers a penny. She responds that a nickel is the minimum she will accept, continuing her protest with a whiny, humorous retort.
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Alice
Editorial Banter About Hats and Hair Styles
In a humorous exchange from the Sterling Bulletin and Sedgwick Vantagraph editors, Junkin notes his red hair while Cretcher, bald, jokes about a hat incident. The quip ends with a lighthearted line from Everybody's.
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Junkin
Sterling Bulletin
Cretcher
The
Sedgwick Vantagraph
Mac
One Part Melodrama and a Bridge Jump
A Louisville Courier Journal quote frames drama about a single star staging a big scene alone. The exchange centers on personal worth, citing Henry I. Amiel on what a man is rather than what he has or does.
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Louisville Courier Journal
Henry I. Amiel
A Banker’s Nerve Restored by Postum
A prominent Chattanooga banker describes coffee’s adverse effects on his nerves and mind. He stopped coffee, began Postum, and reports steady hands, clear thinking, and absence of distressing symptoms for decades, claiming Postum kept him alert past age 90.
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Postum
Chattanooga
Wellville
Annenna
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National Forest
Forest Ranger
Jersey Lily
Mr. Brown
Cook
Mary
Lily
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