Perilous Mission Near Valley Forge Recalled
Major Lawrence arrives at headquarters at night on Hamilton's summons. General Hamilton, Washington, Gibbs and Maxwell discuss wartime plans and winter privations, recalling Harlem, Albany and Valley Forge as they prepare for action.
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Baron de Steuben
Sir Henry Clinton
Maxwell
Knox
Artllery
Valley
Orward
Lawrence
Gibbs
Hamilton
Potts House
McIntosh
Washington
Colonel Gibbs
Maryland
Harlem
Duty as Double Agent Moves to Philadelphia Mission
A young officer named Lawrence is chosen for a dangerous undercover assignment. Washington and Hamilton detail a plan to send him impersonating Lieut Fortesque to Philadelphia to gather intelligence on British strength, dispositions, and Clinton's plans, requiring speed, disguise, and careful navigation of loyalist and enemy observers.
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Hamilton
Long Island
New York
Washington
Massachusetts
John Lawrence
Lee
Lawrence
Newtown
William Howe
Philadelphia
Edgar Fortesque
Regiment of Foot
Fortesque
Howe
Henry Clinton
Sir Henry
Clinton
Strike Spreads as Boston Elevated Workers Walk Out
Disturbances hit Cambridge and South Boston as the Boston Elevated Street Railway strike grows. Police beatings reported, a streetcar conductor fired upon, and nearly thirty arrests for intimidation and assault. Union claims 3500 strikers, company says about 1000, among 8000 total employees. Bancroft refused to negotiate with the Amalgamated Association, triggering the walkout. Several defendants received three month sentences in the house of correction.
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Boston Elevated Street Railway Company
Cambridge
Boston
Boston Elevated Company
Boston Elevated Railway Company
Amalgamated Association of Street Railway Employees
Bancroft
House of Correction
Injunction Upheld Against Philadelphia Train Union Strike
Judge Bregg in common pleas court issues an injunction restraining federated committees of the Brotherhoods of Trainmen Conductors Firemen and Engineers from striking on Pennsylvania railroad lines east of Pittsburgh and Erie. The move follows a petition by engineer John S Hemphill of West Philadelphia who argues the Engineers and Firemen do not have right to join inter-brotherhood conferences. About 155 federated members have been meeting in the city. core dispute centers on employing steam engineers on a percentage of electric trains between New York and Newark.
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Philadelphia
Bregg
Common Pleas Court
Brotherhoods of
Pennsylvania Railroad
Pittsburgh
Erie
John S. Hemphill
West Philadelphia
Brotherhood of Engineers and Firemen
Within the Enemy's Lines in a British Escort
A lone rider, cross the Schuyl Kill and into Philadelphia, evades pickets using a British uniform and Life Guard horse. escorted by Queen's Rangers, he reaches Howe's quarters amid a city under siege, noting Mischianza preparations and naming officers like O'Hara Wrattlesly Gardiner and Montresor before ending with a promise to secure a ticket of invitation.
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Schuyl Bill
Valley Creek
Hamilton
Philadelphia
Queen's Rangers
William Howe
Callowhill
Fifty-fifth Regiment
Howe
High Street
New York
State House
Mischianza
Fortescne
Major Gardiner
Montresor
Andre
O'Hara
Leutenant
Tortesque
Coca Cola remedy and construction firm ad text
The passage touts Chamberlain's Cough Cholera and Diarrhea Remedy as a uniform success and a dependable favorite available through dealers. It also mentions the Kimballton Construction Co for well curb pipes and culvert pipes.
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Chamberlain
Kimballton Construction CO
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Tpandall Parrish
Atego Donede
Tienry Thiede
Forty-Second Regiment
Lst
Central Iowa Poultry & Egg Company
East 2Nd Street
P. A. Casey,mer
Iowa
Minnesota
Musson
U. S
Ormsby McHarg
Taft
Roosevelt
Stike
Railroad Union
DE. C. I. Campbell
Gillespie Building
Maseem
D. K. Folloce
West Fifth Street
F. W. Porterfield
C. G. Clark
Gamble Opera Houses
Moscow
Black
U. 8. Mullins
Chas. D. Finley
DES, Miller & Allender Dentists
Gilleaple
E. T. Hupp
Chestnut Street
Chamberlin
T. B. Swan
Aids
J. B. Rockafellow
al Law
Chas. A. Grubb
Dir
Chestnut Streets
Herbert Abstracts
Pressnall
Oransky's
Atlantic
A. W. Lange
W. J. Robinson
Elm Street
Phares
Min Green
Bell
M. H. Butler
Musson Phone
J. L. Winne Furniture and Undertaking
C. L. Slagner
J. A. Giffen Ecessor
C. Thurm Furniture Company
W. M. Bailey
Mossai
J. Burner Wholesale and
West Sixth Street
C. B. Osborne
Nels Jensen
L. A. Peterman
Munson
Bone Green
Cedar Street
Matuiesen & Larsen 7
Mathiesen
Ed Pratt
Orden
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