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2 stories matching alkalin
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- The Healing Lake That Hid a Walking Fish
On the Columbia plateau near Spokane lies a strange saline lake with no inlet and no outlet — credited with curing rheumatism, foaming like soap in the wind, and home to an axolotl that fooled the naturalists.
- The Tomato Whisperer of the Columbia Valley
After two decades of watching his crops wither, a local farmer discovers the surprising secret to thriving garden plots in volcanic soil.
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- Turning Alkali Wasteland into Productive Soil
A Yakima farmer reports a successful experiment in reclaiming unusable alkali land through irrigation and flooding.
- Turning Salt Flats into Wheat Fields
A Yakima sheepman discovers how to reclaim abandoned alkali-ridden soil through careful irrigation.
- The Dairy King of the Northwest
How a Seattle entrepreneur consolidated the regional dairy market by centralizing production and expanding into international trade.
- The Hidden Poison in Your Pantry
An official investigation exposes the widespread use of ammonia and alum in common baking powders, arming local housewives with kitchen-tested methods to unmask the dangerous additives.
- The Rare Earth That Could Take On the Powder Trust
A deposit near Blue Creek is promoted as a safer, cheaper ingredient for blasting powder—and as a way to loosen DuPont’s grip on the explosives trade.