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June 20, 1914

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Residents of Wallace, Idaho, now claim that the results of the disastrous forest fires in northern Idaho in 1910 are being made evident in the changed flow from a watershed, then burned over, which furnishes the water supply of the city.
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June 6, 1914

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The provisional committee charged with perfecting plans for the national exposition to be held near Valparaiso next year, has issued a statement setting forth the reasons the republic has for undertaking a work of such a magnitude as the enterprise in view.
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May 30, 1914

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The Senate territories committee has ordered a favorable report on a bill restoring to the public domain the Chugach national forest in Alaska.
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May 23, 1914

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The general leasing bill for oil, coal, gas, phosphate, potassium, or sodium deposits has been ordered favorably reported by the House committee on public lands, but is still under consideration in the Senate committee.
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May 16, 1914

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Figures have been compiled from public documents to prove that the actual cost of war between nations in the nineteenth century amounted in all to forty thousand millions of dollars.
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May 9, 1914

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An interesting ceremony took place lately at Shalma, in the Gharbieh province, Egypt, when Lord Kitchner formally distributed plots of reclaimed land to the fellaheen.
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May 2, 1914

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At the invitation of the government, a parliamentary party, which included several members of the ministry, recently journeyed to Loxton, a township on the River Murray in South Australia, where three events which markedly illustrate the rapid development and settlement of the agricultural lands south of the river were celebrated.
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April 25, 1914

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The rare collection of works of art belonging to the Marquise Arconati-Visconti, and valued at three million francs, has been given in its entirety to the Louvre museum.
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April 11, 1914

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The coal investigating committee of the New Jersey Assembly has submitted a report to the House that eleven big railroad companies control 87 per cent of the total anthracite mined; that there is a general combination between these companies to fix prices, and that the coal sales companies are owned and controlled by the railroads and are devised by the carriers for the purpose of technically avoiding the commodities clause of the Hepburn railroad act.
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