Lincoln and New Salem 1831 37 a chapter in his life
The piece recounts Abraham Lincoln’s six years in New Salem from 1831 to 1837, detailing the town’s growth, key local figures, and Lincoln’s rise from a penniless flatboat worker to a future statesman. It notes New Salem’s 1828 founding, dissolution by 1845, and ongoing restoration by the Old Salem Lincoln League with the Lincoln museum funded by Hearst.
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Lincoln
New
Salem
Ill
New Salem
Abraham Lincoln
Springfield
Congress
Blackstone
Ann Rutledge
Old Salem
Lincoln League
Honest Abe
Lincoln Museum
William Randolph Hearst
Old Salem State Park
Abe
Cameron's Mill
Sangamon River
Sangamo
Sangamaw
Sangamon County
Vandalia
John M. Cameron
James Rutledge
Sangamon
Clary’s Grove
Athens
Sugar Grove
Beardstown
New Orleans
Graham
Tom” Reed
Maine
House of Representatives
Peter Cartwright
White House
Purdues Dean Potter launches student character study program
At Purdue University Dean A A Potter of the engineering school starts a cross faculty character analysis of each student. Over 100 faculty and friends will rate accuracy, attitude, leadership, and other traits using year end interviews and scholastic records to guide self improvement.
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Fayette
Ind
A. A. ‘Potter
Engineering School
Purdue. University
Dean Potter
Wright Hero of Oil Field Delivers Narrow Nuclear-like Blowout
Powell Wright a Texas oil well shooter prevented a catastrophic blast by grabbing a 20 quart nitro glycerin torpedo as a gas blowout lifted it toward the surface. He held the torpedo, sent it back, escaped the explosion, and despite the derrick’s destruction and shattered windows two miles away, he and nearby men were unharmed.
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Beckenridge
Tex
Texas
Powell Wright
Wright
Breckenridge
Airedale Dog Sets a Home-Run Record
Edmonton, Alberta story of Buster the Airedale who traveled from Vancouver to Edmonton by rail, then to Ardrossan, and back home via the mountains. The dog reportedly covered about 770 miles with no human guide, subsisting on the journey and defying expectations of Airedale intelligence.
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Airedale
Dmonton
Alberta
John McLennan
Edmonton
T. A. Fee
Vancouver
B. C
Express
Canadian National Railway
Thomas Paton
Ardrossan
Grand Trunk Pacific Railway
Buster
Investi
Gation
Grand Trunk Pacific
Canadian National
Elopement leads to murder suicide on ship Vasari
Louis Campagna of Bay Ridge shoots his young lover Vivian Dresser after two years of clandestine romance. The couple fled January 10 aboard the steamship Vasari, where Campagna killed Dresser and then died by suicide as his family faced a grim homecoming. The tale includes Campagna’s ties to New York business and a failed passport-related perjury charge.
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I York
Louis Campagna
Seventy-seventh Street
Bay Ridge
Barbados
Elopers
Vasari
Lamport & Holt Line
State Department
Buenos Aires
Department
Campagna
Italy
West Street
Virginia
Twenty-seventh Street
Fourth Avenue
Manhattan
Vivian Dresser
Irving Avenue
Brooklyn
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Rutledge and
Cameron Mill
Lincoln’s
Steamboat
R. J. Onstott
Rev
John Pee - Eee
Rutledge Tavern
Springfield Road
Lincoln & Berry Grocery
Dr. John Allen
Hill & McNamer
Chrisman Bros
Peter Lukins
Dr. Rainer
Bale
Trent Brothers
Philiman Morris
Alexander Waddell
Hatter
Robt. Johnson
Res
Wheelwright
H. Onstott
Cooper Shop
Kelso
Miller
Blacksmith Shop
Minta Graham
Grave Yard
Herenden
John Dickinson Sherman
Samuel Hill
John McNeil
John McNeill
John McNamer
New York
Ann
McNamer
George Warburton
Chrisman Brothers
Isaac P
William Clary
John
Clary
Doctor Allen
Hill & McNeill
Henry Onstott
Denton Offut
Main Street
Philemon Morris
Joshua Miller
Alexander Furgeson
Robert Johnson
Martin Waddell
Jacob Bale
Hill
Herndon Brothers
Jack Kelso
Henry Sinco
Doctor Regnier
Doctor Duncan
David Wherry
Isaac Burner
Edmond Greer
Issac Gollamer
Robert
William McNeely
Caleb Carmen
Rock Center
Trent
Lincolny & Berry Grocery
Poel, Fed, & Itiaper
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