Government Fire Prevention Measures for National Forests
The article argues for stronger forest fire prevention citing 1908 fires causing massive losses. It notes government costs to combat fires, improvements in patrols and cooperation with settlers, and plans like brush regulation, firebreaks, road and trail building, telephone lines, and tool distribution. It projects that full nationwide protection could cost under three million dollars annually and save about twenty million in timber losses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. J McGee
United State Department of Agriculture
Sam
California
Forest Service
United States
Late Bishop Potter and a Charming, Funny Dinner Moment
A New York beauty recalls Bishop Potter paying a compliment during a charity subscriptions table scene at a Vermont country house. He jokes about grave compunctions over asking for useful work and compares it to hash from a gold dish and Venetian lace. A maid quips about rising wages after breaking china.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bishop Potter
New York
Benvenuto Cellini
Poor Man Heir To Fortune From German Carpenter
A German carpenter Schmidt of Spendelhof has inherited 6.5 million dollars plus vast estates from a Russian army general relative who married a countess and died childless. After a three year search the Bavarian legation in St. Petersburg learned the heir, unaware of his wealth, lived in a tiny Palatinate village.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Schmidt
Spendelhof
Germany
St. Petersburg
Palatinate
Camel meat becomes Parisian fashion delicacy
The London Telegraph notes camel meat as the autumn fashion in Paris due to Morocco's opening. A large Paris wholesale butcher has contracts for a month to supply humps and heads. Camel is praised as tastier than prime beef with camel foal favored by gourmets over veal. hump and head are delicacies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morocco
Paris
London Telegraph
Winter greens from a simple greenhouse harvests vegetables
A woman with a small greenhouse argues that fresh winter vegetables are affordable for many. She describes a three quarter span greenhouse with two compartments for flowers and vegetables, detailing tomatoes from November to June, pruning, fertilizing, and temperature ranges from 50 to 75 degrees. Lettuce, cauliflower and radishes provide daily winter supply.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Warwick
Game Law Highlights for Kentucky Hunters
The Kentucky game laws restrict hunting of quail partridge and pheasant from January to November with penalties of ten to twenty five dollars for a first offense and twenty five to fifty dollars for subsequent offenses. Adults may hunt rabbits with dogs or snares. Violations incur fines and possession prohibitions under the 1895 1904 statutes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kentucky
Dead man stands erect in churchyard after hanging
At Stinford in Sussex Maurice Ganaway a 37 year old laborer hanged himself to a yew tree. His body remained erect for about thirty minutes after the rope was removed before a doctor laid him prone. Rigor mortis set in and two small twigs under the feet kept the stance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stinford
Sussex
Maurice Ganaway
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Ramsey Transfer Co
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Winchester News
Winchester
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