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...effect of legalizing previous diversions of Great Lakes water by Chicago through its drainage canal out of Lake Michigan to the Illinois River. Other states bordering the Great Lakes are fighting this diversion tooth and nail in the courts. Their Congressmen have grown hoarse and damp-eyed relating piteous tales of the mud flats, grounded steamers and stricken trade resulting from fallen lake levels. The matter has been reported in "threatening" terms by Canadians to their Parliament...
None appreciates this more than Natural Scientist Minnie Moore-Wilson of Kissimmee, Fla., authority on Southern bird life and Seminole Indians. Last week she raised her voice in piteous protest: "There are no great national parks in the East. A 100,000-acre track in the Everglades set aside as a sanctuary for wild life would be a primeval forest appearing almost exactly as it did when Columbus set foot on the North American continent . . . The areas most suitable for the location of a bird sanctuary are worthless for agricultural purposes. To attempt to cut up the Big Cypress Swamp...
While the wedding-guests danced and laughed, and the vodka flowed like water, Boryna's farm was the scene of piteous, hidden tragedy. Honest Kuba, servant of Boryna, had been induced by the Jew Yanka, his creditor, to poach on the Manor. The forest-keeper had shot him in the leg, and he had not dared tell until the night of the wedding when his agony became unbearable. Drunken Ambrose, examining the wound, told him that amputation at the hospital was his only hope. Kuba, companioned only by a dog, lay in the stable, listening to the sounds of feasting...
Water, water almost everywhere and not a drop too much to drink! The piteous cry has resounded through Cambridge during all this week of "gala festivities". Portly undergraduates and graduates have been dwindled to emaciated shadows; it is not inconceivable that some unfortunates disappeared under the confetti shower of Tuesday in nameless but heroic graves...
...being made for new, worn or resoled shoes for the peasants in France who have been afflicted by the war, by Mrs. Winthrop, of 38 Beacon street, Boston. She has received a letter from Madame Nina Duryea, who has just returned from Raen l'Etape, Vosges, describing the piteous condition of the peasants there with their homes in ashes and their feet bare. Anyone wishing to contribute may send shoes to the above address and they will be forwarded to the Secours Duryea, Paris...