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Newspaper
Shepherdstown Register
Location
Shepherdstown, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1920
Page
5
The article advocates planting nut trees such as hickories and chestnuts along roadsides as durable, self-sufficient shade providers with potential local profits. It cites Dr. Robert T. Morris supporting the value of nut trees and argues for turning highways into majestic avenues bordered by nucifers to benefit communities and reduce routine maintenance.
The text notes animals that awake briefly in winter to eat such as field mice and bats, while woodchucks stash dry grass near their hole for spring. It then reports Hydrographic Office measurements of Atlantic waves, averaging around 30 feet and up to 40 to 80 feet in rough weather, with long periods and a half mile longest wave. The excerpt ends with a proverb-like line urging effort.
War secrecy lift reveals Muscle Shoals Alabama built the largest ammonium nitrate plant for 13 percent of Allied explosives. Construction began Nov 1917 and production started Oct 1918, underpinning U.S. wartime industrial capacity and contributing to Germany's surrender.
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