Spirit of Bunker Hill Commemoration Imagery
A National Magazine piece by Joe Mitchell Chapple recalls the June Bunker Hill commemoration in Charlestown. It describes battlefield scenes, heroic imagery, and the enduring patriotic memory preserved by women, linking the 1775 battle to national identity and liberty.
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Boston
Bunker Hill
Charlestown
Bunker HM
Daniel Webster
Charles River
Massachusetts Bay
Vermont
Connecticut
Mystic
Anon
Werton Moterer
Wes
Bunker, Hill
Battle of
Bunker.Hill
Joe Mitchell Chapple
National Magazine
Ice by Mail for Nevada Millionaire
Uncle Sam proves mail handling by sending fifteen pounds of ice to Dr. A. M. Miller of Hawthorne Nevada. A Reno ice company shipped the package to the millionaire who desired a cooling drink. Eleven pounds were lost en route.
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Nevada
Uncle Sam
A. M. Miller
Hawthorne
Nev
Reno
New
Dr. Miller
Split Rock chosen for Champlain monument site
Burlington dispatch reports a monument to Champlain’s discovery of Lake Champlain may be built at Split Rock point. The site overlooks a lake width of half a mile there and broadens to fourteen miles northward, with a top light visible over fifty miles for craft on the lake.
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Lake Champlain
Samuel de Champlain
Split Rock Point
Burlington
Split Rock
Paris Landmark to Vanish Remembered on Petit Pont
A tablet on Street du Petit Pont recalls a 883 defense by twelve Paris women and men who guarded a wooden tower at the bridge head to阻止 Norse invaders reaching the city.
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Paris
du Petit-Pont
Petit-Pont
Emperor William Receives Ornate Scissors Gift
A steel merchant presented Emperor William with a pair of insignia engraved scissors valued near 500 dollars. The blades bear the emperor's portrait and famous landmarks. The engraver reportedly spent five years completing the intricate work.
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William
Giant 10 Million Pound Testing Machine Aims to Safeguard Bridges
New York Times reports engineers envision a colossal hydraulic testing system in Philadelphia for the United States Geological Survey. The 200 ton plus machine would test entire bridge columns and materials up to 100 feet long, potentially preventing failures like the Quebec bridge collapse. Senator Teller proposes an even larger 11 000 ton compression and 5 500 ton tension unit, with a 1.75 million dollar price tag plus building costs.
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Civil
Philadelphia
United States Geological Survey
United States
Quebec
Quebec Bridge
Watertown Arsenal
Watertown
A. H. Emery
Stamford
United Sates
Geological Survey
Congress
Department of Geological Survey
Teller
Linery
Watertown Marine
New York Times
Government to Open Indian Lands for Lottery Farm Settlements
The United States plans to open 3,750 farms on Coeur d Alene Flathead and Spokane lands via lottery. About 6387 Coeur d Alenes in Idaho 2379 Flatheads in Montana and nearly 700 Spokanes in Washington affected. Registration runs July 15 to Aug 9 with drawings beginning Aug 9. Priority to Indians, then white settlers. payments and timelines outlined with residence and cultivation requirements. Boston Herald reports from Washington Cot.
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Sam
Montana
Idaho
Washington
United States
Coeur d’Alenes
Flatheads
Northwest
Land Office
Coeur d’Alene
Flathead
Kalispell
Missoula
Mont
Coeur d'Alene
Ida
Coeur
Judge Witten
Boston Herald
Memorial Park Planned For Jefferson Davis Birth Farm
A portion of the Kentucky farm where Jefferson Davis was born has been bought by a southern association. The site will be developed into a park and kept as a memorial to the president of the Southern Confederacy.
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Jefferson Davis
Kentucky
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