Walter Graves Predicts Huge Water Use From Santa Cruz
The article recalls Walter Graves, a top irrigation expert, visiting near Warner's Lake. It explains his plan to transport Santa Cruz underflow via tile pipes from the river to the mesas west and north of Tucson, using gravity with a head dam to irrigate vast lands. He asserts the water is abundant and underutilized, promising extensive cultivation, local industry growth, and more residents if pursued. Graves has 17 years in government service and helped design the large dam built in Colorado.
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Warner's Lake
Walter Graves
Graves
United States
Southwest
Interior Department
Congress
Bureau
Gila River
Santa Cruz
Gila
Tucson
Northwest
Butte
Montana
Colorado
Santa Cruz Valley
DeWitts Witch Hazel Salve Promises Skin Cure
An advertisement touts DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve as effective for burns cuts wounds and skin diseases. It cites a 30 year leg sore healed after using the product and warns against counterfeit copies with a local distributor endorsement.
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DeWitt
H. C. Hardy
Yankeetown
Ind
D. Bell & Son
Time-Killing Creations in Eastern Penitentiary Cells
In the Philadelphia Record report, inmates fill idle hours by crafting items from scraps and prison materials. A lambrequin decorates a mantel, a blue Theambre quin comes from old trousers, a gilded bracket holds a stuffed rat, and walls display aerial reed art with hundreds of painted birds.
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Philadelphia Record
Pricey drugs and a deadly seed in early pharmacy notes
A Philadelphia Times interview with a druggist highlights rising medicine costs and cites pseudo physostigmine as the costliest drug, priced at 1 a grain or 487.50 an ounce. The seed grows in India, Brazil, and parts of Africa, historically used in ordeals by chiefs, often fatally. The prepared drug is also used for heart disease in some prescriptions.
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Philadelphia Times
India
Brazil
South Africa
First English Sport Book by Dame Juliana Berners
The first printed English sport book is the rhymed Boke of St Albans by Dame Juliana Berners. Wynkyn de Worde issued a 1496 second edition. Her lineage includes Lord Berners, translator of Froissart, and she authored hawking and fishing treatises that inspired Izaak Walton.
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St. Albans
Dame Juliana Berners
Wynkyn de Worde
Lord Berners
Froissart
Edward II
Juliana
Eating crow origin tale and Athens University notes
An ante Revolutionary tale links the phrase eating crow to a British soldier forced to eat a crow after a farmer complained to a colonel. The story claims the farmer faced the soldier with a gun after the bird was half eaten. Separately, the University of Athens, very old, sits on Germain plain with German language prominent, its property sizable and chairs endowed by private donors.
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Virginian
University of Athens
matriculation doubt ties to vaccination report
In a fragmentary exchange from the Chicago Record Herald a Mrs Hammondsine is asked if her son matriculates this year. She says she has heard nothing about matriculation but notes in a letter that he had been vaccinated, which she describes as terrible.
Don't wait to give flowers to friends
A short note from Atchison ilobe urges timely kindness by gifting flowers while friends are alive, emphasizing to share appreciation before tragedy or loss.
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Atchisonilobe
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