Colorado battleship leads nation’s naval pride in new era
A detailed profile of the battleship Colorado, its 32 600 ton displacement, eight 16 inch guns, and advanced turbine electric drive. Notes on crew, officers, and the ship’s role under the Washington conference while contrasting with earlier Colorado predecessors and evolution of naval technology.
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Colorado
Centennial State
Pueblo
St Ap
West Virginia
United States
Westinghouse
Washington
West
Mutsu
Maryland
Reginald Rowan Belknap
Belknap
Annapolis Naval Academy
Messina
Navy
North Sea
Delaware
Naval War College
Wilson Brown
United States Navy
Colorado River
Norfolk Navy Yard
William Marvine
Gulf of Mexico
Key West
Rio Grande
Farragut
New Orleans
Mississippi Bar
H. K. Thatcher
Territory of
Louisiana Purchase
Texas
Mexico
Congress
Pacific Reserve Fleet
G. W. Williams
New York
Bos’n’s
M. A. Neeland
New York Shipbuilding Corporation
R. R. Belknap
U.S. N
Bronze Tablet To Old Put Domingo Danvers Tribute
A bronze tablet unveiled in Danvers Massachusetts honors Israel Putnam birthplace with a two hundredth birth anniversary inscription though his birth was over two centuries ago. The piece lauds Old Pat for daring deeds from Bunker Hill to Concord and beyond, praising his feats and legacy in American history.
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Danvers
Mass
Israel Putnam
Pat
Bunker
Hill
Macauley
Concord
Bunker Hill
Clinton
Edmund Palmer
P. S
George Puttenham
Crown Point
Montreal
Havana
Pontiac
Conway
Gates
Charles Lee
New York Tribune
Army Ants Clean House
The Detroit News reports that Guiana Indians respect army ants for cleaning homes. They clear roaches and other insects from crude huts to wooden houses, leaving interiors tidier than before. A single queen lays eggs. winged young queens and males depart in marriage flights to found new colonies.
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Guiana
Detroit News
Abandonment of Indelible Allegiance in 1870 Act
The indelible allegiance doctrine was formally abandoned by Parliament in 1870. Previously English law held allegiance to the British crown could not be resigned, influencing debates around expatriation and the War of 1812. The United States later legalized expatriation in 1868, declaring voluntary renunciation a natural right of citizens.
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United States
Detroit News
Fort Dearborn
Chicago
Wiliam Wells
Harmar
St. Clair
Wells
Rebekah Wells
Nathan Heald
Fort Wayne
Inn
Dearborn
Pottawattomies
Heald
Lake Michigan
Pottawattemies
Rebekah
Black Snake
William Wells
Bazaar Plan Aims to Raise Needed Funds
In a Sunday announcement the vicar admitted slower money flow but remained hopeful. He praised past honest efforts and announced a bazaar as the next step to raise the required funds.
Times Change and the Birthday Knife Exchange
The dialogue presents a clerk and colonel exchanging quips over a birthday gift described as a Birmingham knife with 16 blades and a corkscrew. Confusion arises as one says 16 blades and corkscrews, the other insists on a plain knife with 16 cork screws and one blade.
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Bludgood
Birmingham
Blugrass
Boy’s Fire Fear Sparks Summer Wisps of Humor
A child bursts into his mother’s heat drenched day with a claim of a fire, she dismisses it as foolish, and the banter ends in a London Humorist style quip about the unlikely spark on such a hot day.
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London
Quite Reasonable Retort Sparks Household Cash Debate
A fraught exchange shows Mr. Pester pressing for more money as his wife explains she spent yesterday’s $50 on a gold mesh purse. She insists she needs funds to use the purse.
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Pester
West New Union Listed in 1923 Directory
A fragment notes a 1923 entry for West and New er Union, indicating a historical organizational or locality reference from the era.
The Voyageurs and the Fur Trade Frontier
A vivid vignette recalls the fur trade era on the Middle Western frontier with French Canadian voyageurs and bourgeois traders. It describes harsh duties, meager wages, and the strict terms of engagement, including a tale of a voyageur ordered to chop wood but forced to steer a boat instead.
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Middle Western
M. St
Upper
Mississippi
M. St. Jean
Monsieur
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Mean
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