Forts Ticonderoga Massac Creve Coeur Restored Sites
Three famous American forts Ticonderoga Massac and Creve Coeur are in focus. Fort Ticonderoga on Lake Champlain is being restored, Fort Massac in Illinois is undamaged by floods, and Fort Creve Coeur in Illinois has an officially fixed site with a museum and markers. Restoration work involves the Well family and Col Robert M Thompson with aid from state agencies and historians.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Ticonderoga
Lake Champlain
Ethan Allen
Continental Congress
Fort Massac
Illinois
George Rogers Clark
United States
Mississippi
Alleghenies
Fort Creve Coeur
Iinois
LaSalle
Lake George
St. Lawrence
Hudson
Champlain
Carillon
Montcalm
Abercrombie
Black Watch
Amherst
Green Mountain Boys
Burgoyne
DeWitt Clinton
New York
Columbia
Union
Daughters of the American Revolution
Fort Maassac
Northwest Territory
Indiana
Ohio
Wisconsin
Michigan
Minnesota
Virginia
Kaskaskia
Vincennes
DeSoto
Aaron Burr
Burr
Charles Phillips Aubrey
Illinois Country
New Orleans
Fort Chartres
Aubrey
Massue
Ascension
Fort Ascension
George Washington
Fort Massacre
Clark
Illinois State Historical Society
State Department of Public Works and Buildings
C. H. Wagner
Peoria
Paris
Tazewell
Department of Public Works and Buildings
Illinois State Historial Society
Illinois River
Fond du Lac Township
Tazewell County
The
Fathers Nix in Holiday Toy Window Scenes
A satirical take on middle aged buyers crowding toy shops during holidays. The piece mocks sentimental views of aging patrons as greed or cowardice, quoting Robert Hillyer and Harper’s Magazine to hint at consumer craving and social pretense.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dell
Annie
Alee
Robert Hillyer
Harper's Magazine
Umbrella Charm Prompts Theft Deterrent in London
A London umbrella dealer boasts a cursed umbrella inscribed with a theft deterrent. When asked where to buy one, the carrier reveals the device was borrowed, not purchased, illustrating a humorous but telling tale of trade misfortune and superstition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Twilight timing at equator and poles described
The passage notes that at the equator twilight lasts about 1% hours, at US latitudes it exceeds this and peaks in midsummer over two hours, and at the poles twilight lasts about 21% months. It adds that without an atmosphere there would be no twilight and night would follow sunset immediately.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Hairiet Hornet Bite Stuns Boy, Warns Uncle
A Chicago American note recalls a boy harmed after approaching a buzzing tree. The nephew was struck on the arm by a hornet as curiosity led him toward the insects, leaving him in tears and prompting concern from his uncle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Hard Job Belief in Wife About Husband's Income
A fragmented reflection notes the difficulty of convincing a woman that her husband is genuinely successful through his income and that his honesty may contrast with her belief driven by societal expectations.
Virginian judge chases illegal still on horseback
A recently elected Virginian judge, riding homeward, spots smoke on a hillside and races toward a suspected illegal still. He orders a bystander to hold the horse and vows to stop the operation, warning his district will not tolerate law flouting. The boy jokes about the horse’s care if the judge doesn’t return.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Saturday Evening Post
Cuticura Talcum Powder Promoted In Ad Campaign
An advertisement touts Cuticura Talcum Powder as an antiseptic and aromatic powder for face skin babies and dusting. It claims it renders other perfumes superfluous and identifies it as part of the Cuticura Toilet Trio with Soap Ointment and Talcum.
MIS CRITICISM RATHER HASTY
A dinner with old school friends ends awkwardly when Jack criticizes biscuits, sparking a clash over the baker. Vera responds that the biscuits were from his mother, leaving all guests uncomfortable and the narrator hurried to leave for a prior engagement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jack
Vera
Chicago Tribune
A Fair Trade Cartoon Bargain
A buyer compliments a second-hand bus in cartoons magazine. He agrees to purchase the car with a small needed repair and offers to take care of it, citing prior experience buying second-hand machines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Silesman
Cartoons Magazine
Spohn's Distemper Compound Remedy Ad
Spohn's Distemper Compound promoted for horses coughs colds influenza distemper and related throat nose and lung diseases. Thirty years of use claims it acts as preventive and cure with bottles priced 60 cents and 1.20 dollars. Distributed by Spohn Medical Company Goshen Indiana at drug stores.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
SPOHN
Spohn Medical Company
Goshen
Indiana
New York Artist Misidentifies Alabama Tree as Corot
An American artist visiting a Southern family in Alabama admires a lone meadow tree and proclaims it a perfect Corot. A longtime enslaved servant corrects her, noting the tree is simply a common sugarberry. The anecdote appears in Youth's Companion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Alabamoa
Inman
Corot
Mistis
Fragmentary expletive scene quoted from Life
A coarse, quoted snippet from Life depicts a command to a slave to fetch a wheelbarrow and a pillar of salt turned by a wife, with absurd humor about using her in an ice-cream freezer.
Mistaken Identity at Short Ridge High School
A freshman named Helen shows pride in her school ring from Short Ridge High. A waiter mishears his own inquiry as Shortridge, prompting Helen to ask if he is from there. He repeats his order question, confusingly asking short ribs or roast beef in Indianapolis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Helen
Shortridge High School
Shortridge
Indianapolis News
Is That a True Story or Are You Preaching
A clergyman narrates a bedtime tale to his daughter who sits up and asks if the tale is true or merely a sermon in disguise. The anecdote highlights the line between storytelling and preaching in a father's nightly ritual.
Also Mentioned on This Page
Ticonderoga
Creve Coeur
Assac
Old Fort Massac
Ohio River
State Department of Public Works
Metropolis
Springfield
Hitness River
Nix
Virginia Lad
Stgria
Trecipe
Dude Samuels Pumprir
Genuine Gastoria
Castoria
Pany
New York City
Postum Cereal Company, Inc
Battle Creek, Mich
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!