The Declaration and the Road to Independence
A 1921 analysis explains the causes of the American Revolution, linking political and economic factors, Hancock and Franklin's quotes, and the path from colonial quarrel to independence. It traces chronology from 1760 through the 1776 Declaration, naming key figures and events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Dickinson Sherman
Second Continental Congress
John Hancock
United States of America
Congress
Massachusetts
George II
Benjamin Franklin
Pennsylvania
Uncle Sam
John Bull
Atlantic
Hancock
Franklin
Lexington
Concord
Admiralty Court
Thomas Hancock
Ocean
Arne
George III
Canada
Second Continental
Virginia
Richard “Henry Lee
Thomas Jefferson
John Adams
Roger Slerman
Robert R. Livingston
Colonies
Settlement Reached In In the Sweet Bye and Bye Copyright Case
The Oliver Ditson company paid 560000 to the estate of Mrs. Joan H Webster widow of Joseph P Webster author of the hymn In the Sweet Bye and Bye to settle a 1906 royalties suit from Lyon Healy Chicago who originally licensed the work. The case traced back to a 1865 contract granting 8 cents per copy. court action was dormant for years before today’s out of court resolution.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
OSTON
United States Equity Court
Boston
America
Oliver Ditson Company
Joan’ H. Webster
Joseph. P. ‘Webster
Webster
Elkhorn Wis
Louis Webster
Joseph Webster
Lyon & Healy
Chicago
Oliver Ditson & Co
Ditson & Co
Anaster
Samuel K. Bennett
Bennett
Americans a Most Thriftless People
New York bankers cite a lack of budgeting across American households and government waste. The study from the American Bankers Association shows a grim aging arc: from 100 vigorous twenty fivers to only one very wealthy by fifty five, and 95 percent lacking funds for funeral costs by seventy five, with most dependent on relatives or charity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
York
United States
New York
Congress
American Bankers’ Association
Baby given to stranger linked to wary mother in Chicago
In a personal column mystery a Chicago baby swap case unfolds with Dolores, a store counter worker, claiming a lover promised marriage then fled after the baby’s birth. A $200 reward is offered for information. The man and his wife reportedly live near Hubbard Woods and had given the infant to a stranger.
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Sheridan Rd
L” Station
Baby
Love
Dolores
Belmont Avenue
Hubbard Woods
Moonshine Lynch Plot Foiled by Police in Vanston
In Vanston Illinois a lynching plan by four Evanston men was interrupted by Policeman Robert McCaull. George Logan Donald Stewart Charles Butler and William Miller were arrested and fined ten dollars plus costs after a rope and noose were readied for a wagon passenger. The victim escaped.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vanston
Ill
Robert McCaull
Churches
George Logan
Donald Stewart
Charles Butler
William Miller
Evanston
McCaull
Also Mentioned on This Page
DwNan Arately
Winaues
Townsend
Lord North
Salem
General Gage
Quebec
Continental Congress
Philadelphia
Ticonderoga
Crown Point
Bunker Hill
Montgomery
George Washington
Charleston
N. C
Long Island
Trenton
England
France
Spain
James Otis
Otis
George
Ohio River
Gage
Trie
Sarah Gell Dodson
Pac Listle
Eliast Pari
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