Drainage of swamp lands eyed as nation wealth
A detailed U S Department of Agriculture report notes 77 million acres of swamp land awaiting reclamation, mainly in the Midwest and South. Draining could cost about a billion dollars but the land would be worth about four billion when developed, offering 1.9 million 40 acre farms. State and federal roles differ for drainage versus irrigation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Reclamation
United States
J. O O. Wright
Department of Agriculture
Middle North
Atlantic
England
Ireland
Scotland
Wales
New England
New York
Pennsylvania
Wright
Sane
Interstate Commerce Commission
Health in the Canal Zone and remedies offered
An article notes high wages lure artisans to Panama Canal construction but fear of fevers deters many. It promotes Electric Bitters as a malaria remedy and cure for blood poison, biliousness, and stomach kidney problems. It also advertises Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea for indigestion and related ailments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Panama Canal
Ell
Hollister
Rocky Mountain
Blackburn
Blowing Rock
A Humane Appeal and Remedies Endorsement in Richmond
A Richmond Indiana resident Mr. A D Williams urges weak lung sufferers to try Dr King s New Discovery praising it as the sole remedy meeting proprietors recommendations It claims to save more lives than other throat and lung medicines and to cure a wide range of conditions including asthma bronchitis croup whooping cough quinsy hoarseness and lung hemorrhages with a trial bottle free and prices 60c and 1 90 Then an unrelated ad notes DeWitts Kidney and Bladder Pills for back ache kidney work and bladder inflammation offered at 25c per week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Navy Department
Atlantic
Pacific
Wyoming
Mare Island Yard
San Francisco
Delaware
North Dakota
Richmond
Holy Trinity Church
Sa.m. Trinnity
J. Pierpont Morgan
New York
G. C. Thomas
Philadelphia
Richmond Ind
A. D. Williams
West Main St
Culture and a Pill Box Parade Headlines
A humorous note laments culture’s pose as bridge players joke about pretended taste for classical music. Between 9:30 p.m. yesterday and noon today a bilious attack caused nausea and a sick headache after discovering a box of Dr King’s New Life Pills sold at all drug stores. The pills are guaranteed for biliousness malaria and jaundice, 25.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dr. King
Mortgage Sale Notice in Watauga County North Carolina
Mortgage sale notice records a 1907 assignment of a mortgage from D Y Winebarger and wife to Wilhe W Miller and a later power of sale by Mattie J Green to Laula Winebarger. Lands in Zionville Cove Creek township totaling four acres will be sold at Boone courthouse door on November 4 1907 to satisfy debt interest and costs. Oct 2 1907 Winnie W Minuet Assignee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
D .Y. Winebarger
Laula Winebarger
Watauga
North Carolina
Wilhe W. Miller
Register of Deeds
Watauga County
Mattie J. Green
Court House
Boone
Zionville
Cove Creek
Dick Gragg
W. B. Davenport
Isolline Profit
R.S. Roten
Younce
BE. F. Jones
Thos, Greer
L. Norris
Winnie W. Minuet
Asssignee
Great Kidney Remedy Swamp Root Ad Narrows Health Claims
An advertisement extols Dr Kilmer s Swamp Root as a universal kidney remedy claiming it purifies blood boosts organ function and cures distressing cases. It promises samples by mail and urges readers to mention the paper when contacting Kilmer Co Binghamton New York.
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Awampioet
Binghamton, N
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Mitchell
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Jefferson, N.C
O. E. Hodges
Sands, N. C
Aug. G. Ly
Edmund Jones
F. A. Linney
Boone, N.C
13Th Judicial District
J.C. Fletcher
Boone, N. C
E. F. Lovill
N. C
A. A. Holsclaw
Mountain City
Tennessee
E. S. Goffey
Atiornex al Law
R. Ross Donnelly
Undertaker & Embailmer Shoun's
NEW Jeweler’s Shop
Critcherik Row
Silas M, Greene
Washington
Kennedy
J. M. Hodges
GeWitt
Utica
N. Y
James P. Taliaferro
Fla
C. $. Hubbard
Frankfort
State Department of Public Works
Talliaferro
Rankfort
Albany
Stevens
Talilaferror
York
United Statates
Canal Zone
Russia
Adam
Rockefeller
Solofion
DeWitt
Ayer
Ayers
Osoh Botsio
Tha J
Ayer Co
Lowel
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