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Teddy Roosevelt: “Everywhere are to be seen the drainage ditches which in removing the water have removed the breeding places of the…”

On the recordDecember 16, 1906
Everywhere are to be seen the drainage ditches which in removing the water have removed the breeding places of the mosquitoes.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

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Message to Congress After Returning from the Canal Zone in Panama

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