Mary Marie's Double Life in Early Boston Tale
Excerpt from a diary styled narrative recounts Mary Marie and her mother’s strained divorce plans, a nurse narrator, and a move from Andersonville to Boston. It chronicles family tensions, class contrasts, and Mary’s perspective on divorce, marriage, and new chapters in Boston while hinting at a larger climate of land reclamation rhetoric interwoven in the text.
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Mary Marie
Andersonville
Mary
Nurse Barah
Viola
Ceuer
Abigail Jane
Boston
Etee
Aix
Jones
Seach
Mr. Jones
Harris
Harrie
Tom Harrie
Sarah
Mother
Reagan
Tna
Ahab
Tonan
Father
New York
Carrie Heywood
Cquree
Jane Anderson
St. Paul
Bealde
Jane
Grandpa Desmond
Jad
Gramps Desmond
Reclamation of arid lands and irrigation expansion in West states
Speech by Don B Colton of Utah in the House on June 20 1922 discusses the Reclamation Act of 1914 and the revolving fund for constructing canals dams and related infrastructure across the West including Arrowrock and Elephant Butte dams. It notes 12 600 miles of canals 100 storage dams 96 tunnels and 1 000 miles of road among other feats.
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Congress
Thi
America
Alo
Mississippi
Atlantic States
West
United States
Reclamation Service
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Department of the Interior
Arizona
California
Colorado
Idaho
Kansas
Nebraska
Montana
Nevada
New Mexico
Dkota
Oklahoma
Oregon
South Dakota
Utah
Washington
Wyoming
Texas
Secretary of the Interior
Arrowrock
Elephant Butte
Rio Grande
Grand River
Don B Colton
House of Representaties
Colton
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L. H.woodard
Vernal, Utah