Rise of the City of Washington and Jefferson's Election
Elmo Scott Watson recounts the early growth of the capital from New York to the District of Columbia, the selection of the Capitol site, Thornton and Hallat’s competing plans, Hoban’s Capitol design, and the 1801 Jefferson victory after a tense electoral tie and political deal, marking the first inauguration in the new capital.
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Congress
United States
Washington
New York City
John Langdon
New Hampshire
Senate
Frederick A. Muhlenberg
Pennsylvania
George Washington
John Adams
Patemae River
Anacostia River
New York
Philadelphia
Potomac District
Wash Indon
Marylannd
Virginia
Potomac River
National Capital
District of Columbia
Maryland
Potomac
Thomas Johnson
David Stuart
Daniel Carroll
Maj
Pierre Charles L'Enfint
Boston
Stephen ‘Hallate
New’ York
William Thornton
Thomas Jefferson
Capitol
Jefferson
Thornton
Hallate
Hallute
James Hoban
Aquin Creek
Federal
Congress of the
Adams
Democratic Republican Party
Charles Cotesworth Pinckney
Aaron Barr
Aaron Burr
House of Representatives
House
Burr
Vermont
Marshall
Supreme Court
James A. Bayard
Delaware
Publc
Bayard
Western
Union
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Eastern Railroad Curves Through New York and Pennsylvania
The New York Ontario and Western line traverses central New York and into Pennsylvania coal regions. The main route is a maze of crooked curves, with segments so winding rear coaches appear from the front. At Youns’s Gap in 1932, the main hump required two engines to pull and a third to push to clear the incline.
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Cpuor CT
United States
New York, Ontario & Western
New York State
Pennsylvania
Youns
Washington Star
True Fish Story Echoes Market Prices
A Ludlow Courier-Journal item quotes a fisherman in a playful exchange about catching fish and their high perceived value. The brief dialogue underscores a market price joke within a local paper’s light humor column.
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Loussville
Barker-Wet or dry, sir asks, patron deflects
A terse exchange unfolds as a customer refuses to reveal political leanings and redirects the conversation to a trivial grooming remark about combing hair. The moment hints at underlying tensions in a social interaction without asserting any concrete stance or outcome.
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Barker
Dr Caldwell Syrup Pepsin touted for mothers and children
An advertisement extols Dr W B Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin praising a fifty year Illinois practice record and claiming zero mother or infant loss in Pratt County. It urges use for stomach, liver and bowels, touts constipation relief, appeal to children, and notes it is a prescription ready at drug stores. It closes with a comic strip and a radio joke fragment.
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Pratt County
W. B. Caldwell
Illinois
Dr. Caldwell
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