Paradise Key Royal Palm Park Preserved Everglades Jewel
Paradise Key, now Royal Palm State Park in Dade County Florida, preserves primeval subtropical jungle conditions. The 1915 legislature created the park with land donated later, protecting royal palms and diverse flora and fauna including strangling figs, orchids, various birds, and the roseate spoonbill. The site lies about 37 miles southwest of Miami with a warden and accessible highway entries.
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Heliconius Charitonius
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Tower Creek
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Ponce de Leon
Jonathan Dickenson
Moving Telephone Pole To Move Pole Line For Highway
A local telephone company shifted its entire pole line of 430 poles ten feet to one side to clear a highway between two eastern cities. Six workers in two gangs completed the task without cutting any circuits or interrupting service. The sequence involved raising the first five poles one foot then the first four another foot, the first three another, and the first two a final four feet, culminating with dragging the first pole to a new hole along a ten foot oak plank.
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Popular Mechanics
Barrlitt's Remarkable Record
Elihu Burritt, known as the Learned Blacksmith, was an American reformer author and linguist who lived 1810 to 1879. He started as a blacksmith around 1827 and studied languages during spare moments, mastering 18 languages and 22 dialects by dint of daily toil.
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Elihu Burritt
David's Grief Over Absalom and Sinful Roots
Lesson text analyzes David’s adultery with Bathsheba and Uriah’s murder, then details Absalom’s rebellion and death. It emphasizes idle living as breeding sin, David’s sorrow, and the biblical moral: consequences follow wrongful choices, with a call to parental responsibility and divine love reflected in Christ.
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King’s Vale
The Greatest Man Chooses Right with Resolute Faith
Quote from Channing defines the greatest man as one who makes the right choice with firm resolve. He resists temptations, bears heavy burdens cheerfully, stays calm in adversity, and relies steadfastly on truth virtue and God.
Profit by Mistakes
A reflective aphorism credits learning from errors to wisdom, contrasting human fever with steady progress. It cites Plutarch on how mistakes guide future improvement and prudent judgment.
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Plutarch
Alaska Development Drive Receives Federal Backing
Secretary of the Interior John Barton Payne leads a mission to Alaska with Dr. Alfred H. Brooks to promote large scale resource development. The interdepartmental advisory group urges lower ocean rates, unified federal control, road networks, a development board, and funding for roads, copper smelting feasibility, and a major pulp wood and water power program.
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Department of Agriculture
Joint Committee on Reorganization Aims to Improve Government
A proposed joint committee of six members from the Senate and House would survey the government’s administrative services. It seeks to identify powers, overlaps, and possible regrouping to boost efficiency and economy, with regular reports and a final plan due by December 1922. Agencies must provide requested information.
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Farmers Resent Being Classed as Books
Remark by Representative Layton of Delaware condemns treating farmers as mere price takers. He argues the farmer’s inputs price his crops and tools, and that contractors, merchants, and manufacturers set prices at every step of farm life. He warns devaluing farmers would hasten national decline.
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Layton
Delaware
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Speaker
Reasons Why H C L Waxes Fat Told in Tomato Tale
Representative Summers recounted a White Salmon tale about tomatoes moving through multiple markets from farm to Portland and back, with each transfer adding cost. The story, told in Congress, ends with a family dinner noting the irony and urging local production.
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