For the Ohio the New Promised Land
Rufus Putnam helped spark the Ohio Company and the northwest movement. He drafted petitions, coordinated meetings in Boston and Massachusetts, and united figures like Manasseh Cutler to push Congress toward the Ohio venture. The first pioneers left Danvers in 1787 under the banner For the Ohio, seeking an empire beyond the Forks of the Ohio.
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Rufus Putnam
Congress
Putnam
Legion
Flower of
Army
Anthony Wayne
Connecticut
Benjamin Tupper
Ohio Country
Rutland
Ohio
Ohio Company of Associates
Washington
The
New England
Massachusetts
Boston
Bunch of Grapes
Ohio Company
Bracket’s Tavern
Cornwallis
Parsons
New York
Manasseh Cutler
Carrington
Richard H. Lee
Virginia
Dane
Kean
South Carolina
Smith
Doctor Cutler
Yates
Cutler
Athens
Danvers
Ipswich
Pomeroy Bend History Written by Charleston Woman
The New Haven News reports Miss Lederer of Charleston has written a history of Pomeroy Bend titled The Rise of the Pomeroy Bend An Industrial Drama in narrative form. The book covers from the mid eighteenth century to the present, detailing nineteenth century settlement coal mining early industries and land surveys with maps and illustrations for the Ohio Company sesquicentennial.
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Pomeroy
Pomeroy Bend
Mason City
New Haven
West Virginia
Lederer
Charleston
King Coal
Queen Salt
Ohio River
Ohio Company
Perry Abbott Dies Sunday at 80 in Leading Creek
MIDDLEPORT Perry Abbott aged 80 died Sunday afternoon at his daughter Mrs. Earl Roush home in Leading Creek. He leaves five sons Homer Sterl Frank George and Orille and a daughter Mrs. Roush plus several grandchildren. Funeral arrangements not announced.
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Middleport
Perry Abbott
Earl Roush
Leading Creek
Homer
Sterl
Frank
George
Orille
Roush
Abbott
Distillery reps hold hotel birthday party for bourbon
Cleveland hosts a hotel party where distillery representatives celebrate a bottle of whiskey marked as two years on the market. The guest of honor is a bourbon linked to its limited release. Separately, Greenwich, England features a historic naval observatory built in 1675 for navigation.
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Cleveland
Naval Observatory For the Advancement of
Greenwich
England
Libby
Sheriff Sale Notice in Athens County Partition Case
In Athens County Common Pleas Court case 16932 Charline Malone et al vs Anna Donovan et al a sheriff sale is set for April 5 1938 at 1 30 P M at the courthouse door Athens Ohio. The sale includes multiple parcels in Troy Township and Coolville area with total appraised value 9300 dollars and no bid below two thirds of that amount. Cash is required day of sale. Sheriff Charles W Bayless and Deputy Westher B Grogs handling. Attorney A D Russell listed.
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State of
Ohio
Athens County
Common Pleas Court
Charline Malone
Anna Donovan
Athens
Troy
Fracton
Ohio Company
John Bailey
Troy Township
Coolville
Charles W. Bayless
Wsther B. Grogs
A. TD. Russell
Prowler Arrested Near Holzer Hospital Nurses Home
Gallipolis officers, on a complaint from residents of Holzer Hospital training school Nurses' Home, detained 20 year old Lawrence Mehl after a prowler was seen peeking in windows. He was held in the county jail following arrest by Sheriff Hatfield and Patrolmen Leeper and Cooper in the alley beside the jail.
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Gallipolis
Holzer Hospital
Lawrence Mehl
Hatfield
Leeper
Cooper
Mehl
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Marietta
A. E. Wagner
Bertha Harris
Home Economist
Messenger
Cooking
Westinghouse
H. P
Prtra Beauty
Paha
Modern Appliance Co
McHenry's Basement
C. Kelch
Fi — Sgorn
C. D. Shafer Co
Jmato
Syrat
Messenger Cooking School
Leadway
Medea
Chicago
Atlanta
Send
Cote
Cdldress
National Line
Bertha M. Harris
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