Birthplace of Daniel Webster draws curious visitors
Franklin New Hampshire tour guides describe the cottage where Daniel Webster was born. The wooden house, moved and rebuilt over the years, sits on a granite-lined back road and opens to tourists in summer. Inside are period furnishings, a baking oven, a bread trough, and a life insurance policy tied to Webster. Webster’s career spanned law, diplomacy, and statecraft, from Dartmouth defense to the 1842 Canada treaty, with tavern life shaping his local reputation.
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N.H
UPI
Daniel Webster
Webster
Stephen Sawyer
Ebenezer
New Hampshire
Delehanty
Rogers
Canada
United States
Amherst
Pownal Church Picnic and Service Weekend News
The Wesleyan Class of Pownal United Methodist Church plans a 6 pm picnic at Mrs. Daisy Dorman’s home with Mrs. Charles Mason leading the post picnic program. Alcoholics Anonymous meets 8 pm Saturday at the Pownal Recreational Community Center. Sunday worship at North Pownal Congregational Church at 10:15 am features a sermon Is God Responsible For Life's Tragedy and Pain from Job 28 10 and a junior sermon on Loyalty Visitors welcome. Last Sunday Adams Congregational Church donated 50 hymnals to the church.
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Pownal
North Pownal Congregational Church
Job
Merck Forest plans fifth botanical walk on Aug 1
The Sunday series at Merck Forest resumes on August 1 at 2 p.m. starting at the barn. The route to the stone lot area features old farm remnants, stone walls, and foundations with fields and forest. orchids and other plants will be seen. The two hour, under a mile hike includes a steep return up the logging road. No fee, but a contribution supports botanical research.
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Rupert
Merck Forest
Beebe Pond
Mount Antane
Mount Antone
Adirondacks
Deerfield Health Center Arts and Crafts Show Schedule
The 13th annual Art and Craft Show at Deerfield Valley Health Center Wilmington runs Aug 6 to Aug 15 at Haystack Base Lodge off Coldbrook Road. Over 100 artisans present paintings sculpture graphics and crafts with demos in painting glasswork calligraphy weaving and jewelry.
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Deerfield Valley Health Center
Haystack
Coldbrook Road
Thomas Butler
Susan DeLucia
Dee Ertell
Joan D. Goodrich
Muriel
Edward Rice
Vermont Village Guild
Schaghticoke Fair invites amateur crafts submissions
Schaghticoke Fair opens arts and crafts entries to all Rensselaer County residents who are amateurs. Premium books available at the Fairgrounds or from Mrs Diane Caird Troy. Entries due by August 26 1976. Demonstrations include embroidery, dolls, stained glass, macrame, oil painting and quilling. A bicentennial show Sept 3 features The Flag Man and his 200 flag collection. fair runs Sept 2-7. In Culver City California William Ogg 22 pleaded guilty to theft of a sailboat stranded at sea for two weeks before rescue and surrender.
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N.Y
Schaghticoke Fair
Arts and Crafts
Rensselaer County
Diane Caird
Pawling Ave
Marilyn Coll
Williamstown
Mass
Eileen Kasper
Schenec
Tady
Mary Gallagher
East Greenbush
Janet Alber
Defreestville
Rudy Helmo
Albany
Louise Denison
Anne Hurley
Lily Anderson
Philip Daigneault
Armed Services
United States
Culver City
Calif
UPI
William Ogg
Detroit
Ogg
Pacific Ocean
Japan
Epiphytic orchids yield the world's smallest plant seeds
United Press International reports that the Epiphytic orchid produces minute seeds, with an astonishing 35,000,000 seeds per ounce, highlighting extraordinary size differences among plant reproductive units and noting implications for propagation.
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United Press International
Addison County Independent to be sold to Gordon Mills
The Addison County Independent, Vermont’s large weekly, will transfer a controlling interest from Col. William Slater after 30 years of ownership to Gordon Mills, editor of the Burlington Free Press. Mills will resign as Free Press editor at end of August to run the Addison paper and its print shop, a business Slater and his late wife started in 1947.
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Vermont
Col
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Gordon Mills
Burlington Free Press
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Free Press
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Celine
Four escapees from Chittenden County Center surrender
One of four men who escaped last week from the Chittenden County Community Correctional Center surrendered Wednesday. William Charlton, 19, of Burlington, turned himself in. The others remain at large: George Pregent 29, George Goldberg 20, and Hampton, Virginia, resident Richard Henry 24, with the escape occurring Saturday night via a ripped screen from a library ventilator.
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South Burlington
UPI
Chittenden County Community Correctional Center
William Charlton
Burlington
George Pregent
George Goldberg
Hampton
Richard Henry
Peabody
Mass
Laconia
N.H
Hamburger stand robbery leaves $1500 in hands
Police hunt three thieves who robbed Shelburne Road Burger King manager William Means as he found a flat tire. In separate reports, Vermont plans separate driving tests by vehicle size, state seeks 800000 for Kingsland Bay lakefront, and Timothy Drown, 18, arraigned in Lyndonville stickup after gas station hold up.
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South Burlington
UPI
William Means
Shelburne Road
ST. Johnsbury
Timothy Drown
Vermont
Lyndonville
Drown
U.S. 5
Crown
State taxes delay ire hits New York properties
In Hoosick Pittstown Berlin Grafton and Stephentown county officials accuse New York State of four months of delinquent property tax payments totaling 34000 dollars. Ren sselaer County Executive William J Murphy says the state earns interest on delayed payments and keeps money that should go to the county. Albany Gov Hugh Carey vetoes a bill to exempt farms from inheritance taxes when passed within the same family, citing constitutional concerns and potential revenue loss of about 3 million dollars annually.
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New York
Hoosick
Pittstown
Berlin
Grafton
Stephentown
Rensselaer
William J. Murphy
Murphy
Albany
Hugh Carey
Carey
New York State
Conte predicts Ford gains GOP nom within days after Schweiker move
In Berkshire congressman Silvio Conte says Ronald Reagan’s pick of Sen. Richard Schweiker as running mate solidifies Ford’s path, while calling the move a major strategic shift that may backfire among purist conservatives. In Great Barrington a female Atlantic salmon died at Holyoke dam, likely from mechanical failure during transport, extending recent losses.
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Silvio O. Conte
Ford
Ronald Reagan
Richard Schweiker
Conte
Commonwealth
California
Great Barrington
Holyoke
Berkshire
Fisheries and Wildlife Service
U.S. Department of the Interior
Hartsville Hatchery
Fisheries & Wildlife Service
Roger Lanse
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