Reclamation for All Arid Areas Urged by Mead Report
Washington December 11 The Mead commission proposes congressional action to study western agricultural resources and to develop a reclamation and power program for arid regions. It supports coordinated land settlement, state cooperation, and government control of excess privately owned lands to enable affordable farm parcels and orderly development. The 1923 irrigation program produced crops valued at over 65 million dollars on about 1.2 million acres with extensive dam and canal works.
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Water project milestones on irrigation network built
The program developed extensive irrigation works including 9 500 canal structures and 1 100 bridges. Total excavation reached about 235000000 cable yards, illustrating the scale of civil works completed.
Bandits Use Buddhist Temple as Prison During Ransom Plot
Shanghai reports police raided a temple used as a prison by a bandit gang near Fukow Henan province. They arrested the gang chieftain a wealthy Yenling citizen and several accomplices and freed multiple captives. Local workers had been repairing the temple drawing no suspicion until the raid.
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Sunday School Lesson by Rev Fitzwater in Moody Bible Inst
A concise Sunday School discussion led by Rev. P. B. Fitzwater, D. D., teacher at the Moody Bible Institute in Chicago. Copyright 1918, Western Newspaper Union.
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The Rising of Lazarus Lesson for December 14
A pastors lesson outlines Jesus comfort to the Bethany family amid Lazarus illness and death. It covers Martha and Mary’s faith, Jesus delays, the call and resurrection, and the subsequent division among observers. Also a stray note mentions cocoa entering Europe centuries ago.
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