Irrigation Advances in Western States Report
The Office of Experimental Station notes progress in irrigation as waste declines. In the San Joaquin Valley initial pages used nine feet of water, now reduced. Colorado and Greeley show higher yields with less water. Western states cooperate with the Department to expand investigations and apply irrigation methods in humid regions to guard against droughts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stafond
San Joaquin Valley
Greeley
Colorado
San Francisco and New Orleans Vie for Panama Exposition Site
San Francisco and New Orleans compete for the Panama Canal Exposition site with headquarters in Washington. Each city showcases a strong delegation from their states while pledging a determined, lengthy campaign as Congress debates the location. Both camps prefer no action over a rival advantage, and both expect a long fight in a short session.
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San Francisco
New Orleans
Panama Canal
Washington
Congress
Womanly Wisdom from a Past Recipe Advice Column
A quirky excerpt offers domestic tips and aphorisms about managing thorny rose metaphors, commanding the body, and practical kitchen tricks. It suggests using turkey fat as a substitute for butter and describes whipping Gruold to froth for serving in a dainty cup.
Practical Household Tips From a December Farm Journal
Useful household hints cover mending stockings into broom sacks, shrinking sweaters by warm water, unraveling carpets to secure ends, gifting canned fruit jelly or pickles, and making doughnuts with a generous hole. Odor control from cabbage and onions, candle making from suet, and breakfast ideas like fried mush appear alongside meat preparation, storage, and cooking methods.
Out of the Ginger Jar and Puzzling Sayings
A fragmentary column notes humorous misdirections about counts and elections. It references Mrs Cityman about cow horn wrinkles, Wyandotte and Minorca dialogue, and quips on bonnets and cigars as fluff in a December Film Journal context.
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Cityman
Wyandotte
Minorca
The Troth VAN Out Wich Banker
Fragmentary dialogue reveals a banker speaking of dowry and marriage with overheard sarcasm about wealth and affection, suggesting tensions over expected wealth from a daughter's marriage. The text reads like a clipped exchange with indeterminate characters and unclear setting.
Gumption On The Farm And Everyday Advice
A rural column offers aphorisms on thrift, opportunity, and bending resources to work. It warns against overreliance on loans, promotes pen and ink contracts over lead pencils, and urges practical fixes from barn repairs to prudent legal writing. It also notes social favors, friendship with animals, and the perils of debt.
Too Honest for a Lawyer in a Tennessee Town
A Philadelphia attorney who moved to Tennessee years ago returns to his native town and boasts of legal success. His brother stayed behind, yet a chance meeting with an old darkey reveals Jim Blank’s fortune in Philadelphia while Tom Blank remains poor, as the elder remarks.
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Philadelphia
Tennessee
Darky
Hallo
Elilan
Blank
Jim
Tom
Lawdy
Missionaries Visit Schedule by Local Delegates
The Home lists visiting parties with John A. Bevan W G Shields Clove Dee and Vernon 25th E M Atkin Geo L Tate Stockton Dec 11 1910. T Brown Wm Spelberg Lake View Dee 11 1910 ET 25th. W H Cassity Jno J Gillett Batesville Dec 11 1910 Grantsville 40 25th. Gustave Anderson H H Milward St John Dee 25th. looele 25th.
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Vernon Ward
St John
Crarksville
Batesville
Iakeview
Toocle
John A. Bevan
W. G. Shields
Dee
Vernon
E. M. Atkin & Geo, L. Tate
Stockton
Mercur
T. Brown
Wm. Spelberg
Lake View Dee
W. H. Cassity
Jno. J. Gillett
Grantsville
Gustave Anderson
H. H. Milward
St. John Dee
Looele
Sunday School and Religious Services Listings
LDS Sunday School every Sunday at 10 o clock am in district school house for Kindergarten Primary Intermediate Theological and Parents Department Religious Services in the Meeting House at 6 30 pm All welcome Silas C Orme Peter Clee Alvin A Walters Ward Bishopric Methodist Shared Service at the Methodist Church preaching Sundays 7 05 pm Sunday School 11 am and prayer meeting Wednesdays 7 30 pm Cordial invitation extended to all. T P Cook Passion
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LDS
Silas C Orme
Peter Clee
Alvin
Walters Ward
Methodist
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Devember Farm Journal
Frm
Avery
Tooele
Tooelé
Tooele Building Association
Commercial Sanktah
Beye
Ooele
Erebirato A
Prac
Tooele Improvement Company
Wan UY
Church News
Cook Pasion
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