Big Irrigation Projects Aim to Reclaim 1,000,000 Acres
National government launches five major irrigation schemes across Montana Wyoming Colorado Arizona and Nevada with $10 million seed fund. dire climate and terrain promise dramatic yields if dam Salt River near Phoenix and Gila diversion succeed. Expert team led by Prof. F H Newell to oversee engineering under secretary of the interior.
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Secretary of the Interior
Salls
Chicago Journal
Anay
F. H. Newell
Geological Survey
George Y. Wisner
Detroit
A. P. Davis
J.H. Quinton
H. A. Storrs
W. E. Swift
Montana
Wyming
Colorado
Arizona
Nevada
Salt River
White Mountain Indian Reservation
Phoenix
Gila River
Gadsden Purchase
United States
Mexico
Yuma
Gila
California
Colorado River
Gulf of California
Jefferson Medal to Honor Jefferson’s Declaration Author
The Thomas Jefferson Memorial association will soon receive from the Philadelphia mint the first impression of a bronze medallion honoring Thomas Jefferson. This seven ounce, three inch bronze piece bears a Jefferson portrait on the face and a Jefferson quotation on the obverse, with the association’s name around the edge. Each subscriber of one dollar or more to the memorial fund will receive one medallion, and the pieces will not be sold.
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Thomas Jefferson Memorial , Association
Philadelphia
Thomas Jefferson
Treasury
Philadelphia Mint
Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association
Mint
Jefferson
Association
High post for Clark in new labor department
Edgar E. Clark of Cedar Rapids is eyed for assistant secretary of commerce and labor. The selection recognizes labor interests. Clark's coal strike commission work and railway conductors leadership earn broad endorsements from lawmakers and unions. Also notes Canada's centenarian senator Wark, New Brunswick legislator since Confederation.
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Edgar E. Clark
Cedar Rapids, Tn
The
Brotherhood of Railway Conductors
Ment of Commerce
Lohor
Clark
Coal Strike Commission
Java
Cortelyou
Lsbor
Canada
Senator Wark
New Brunswick
Monkey faced owls surprise naturalists in Los Angeles
A report from Los Angeles describes an owl with a monkey-like face and full set of teeth, plus five siblings, hatched by a ground owl. Monkeys were kept as pets on Haggin's ranch, and a trained monkey learned to open cages, letting the owls and the monkey share spaces. The young owls grew large and varied in appearance, some resembling barn owls with pronounced monkey features, and one developed a full dentition. The finders sold the three oddly marked owls for a dollar each, while two hundred dollars was refused for the remaining trio.
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Los Angeles
Haggin
Delitzsch sparks debate over Babylonian origins of Old Testament
Dr Friedrich Delitzsch, Berlin University Assyriologist, has provoked sharp criticism from the German Emperor for his lectures arguing Babylonian roots in Old Testament religion. While his archaeological work is praised for illuminating ancient life and institutions, his religious conclusions meet strong opposition from Biblical critics, even as his linguistic fluency and broad interests earn him wide respect among American students.
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Friedrich Delitzsch
University of Berlin
Delitzsch
Frans Delitszch
Utter
Friedrich Delitzxeh
Bax
Hilprecht
University of Pennsylvania
Delitasch
Sayx
Germany
Chip of Old Block: J Pierpont Morgan Jr in London
J Pierpont Morgan Jr is 24, born to finance, educated at Harvard, sent to London as head of the Morgan banking house. He brought wife Miss Grew and four children, living at a modest South Street and Park Lane home. The Morgans avoid society, preferring a small circle and wholesome sport.
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J. Pierpont Morgan, Jr
England
Harvard University
London
Morgan Banking House
Miss Grew
Boston
Mr. Morgan
South Street
Park Lane
Morgans
Dove farm grows from 400 to twelve thousand birds
J. Johnson began a dove farm at Elysian Park in southern California five years ago with 400 birds. Now the operation holds about 12,000 doves, mostly white, selling at two to three dollars a dozen. Daily, they eat eight to ten sacks of wheat and 20 sacks of screenings.
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Elysian Park
California
J. ¥. Johnson
Ingenious Hotel Clock Announces Wake Up Ring System
A unique clock designed for hotels sits in the office and can be set to emit an awakening ring in any room at a specified time. The device promises faithful service without oversleeping, addressing the frequent issue of inattentive porters and hotel staff.
Man of broad ideas Archbishop Montgomery’s coast leadership
California prelate Archbishop Montgomery known on the coast for years as priest bishop and coadjutor. He served as San Francisco secretary and chancellor, shaping Los Angeles diocese after 1904. A democratic Catholic demagogue critic of aristocracy and defender of free speech, he favors labor and opposes persecution. He expected to stay in San Francisco, not Manila, he said.
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Archbishop Montgomery
San Francisco
Riordan
Dr. Montgomery
Los Angeles
Montgomery
Anetropolitin
Manila
Daviess County
Kentucky
Lecelinn College
St. Mary's Seminary
Baltimore
Cardinal Gibbons
Amerilem
Rome
Wayne Down South in Dixie composer Dan Emmett at 87
Dan Emmett father of burnt cork minstrelsy and composer of Way Down South in Dixie lives in a Mount Vernon area hermitage. He still has the original fiddle he played the melody on. Emmett created Dixieland words and music in minutes after rain and a southern wish inspired by the negroes’ phrase. Now 87, he is cared for by the Actors' Relief Association after a hard career.
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Daniel Decatur Emmett
Emmett
South
Dixieland
Uncle Dan
Iris
Actors’ Relief Association
Dr Abbott cites faith tested by a boy’s verse I knowed it
Dr Lyman Abbott recounts a boy who learned Psalm 23 and, after being whipped for doubting its comfort, declares the verse untrue. The piece also notes Count Pepe Fugger’s death in Kamerun from a poisoned arrow and mentions a claim about origins of wig hair.
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Lyman Abbott
Jenro
Chile
Pepe Fugger
Reconti
Kamerun
Germany
Augsburg
Maximilian
Charles V
Charles
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