Story of Our States: New York’s Colonial Rise and Power
Jonathan Brace outlines New York’s early discovery by Verrazzano and Hudson, the 1625 founding as New Netherlands, the 1664 English takeover, and Manhattan’s sale for beads. He notes Manhattan’s cosmopolitan origins, the colony’s role in forming the United States, and New York’s large electoral influence despite modest area.
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New York
Fleary Hudson
Verrasnano
New York Bay
Hudson
Dutch West India Company
America
New Netherlands
Ely
New Amsterdma
Manhattan Island
New York City
Charles II
Duke of York
United States
Alexander Hanmilton
New Union
Washington
Lyver
Empire State
McClure
The Industrial Home Turns Waste Into Wealth
The Industrial Home converts waste into value by training and employing the unemployed. Able workers receive labor through collecting, sorting, and repairing discarded items, with proceeds funding meals and beds. Salvation Army stores distribute repaired clothes, furniture, and even wedding and housekeeping items at low cost through its sales rooms.
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Borges
Salvation Army
Taiping Rebellion summary of 1850 to 1865
The Taiping Rebellion began in 1850 and ended in 1865 as a large insurrection against the Manchu dynasty. Led by Hong Xiuquan who proclaimed himself heavenly king, the rebels sought universal peace under the Taiping dynasty. British forces under General Charles G. Gordon helped defeat the movement.
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Quian
Heaven
Peking
Detroit News
Hung Siutsuan
Hfe
Heavenly King
Charles G. Gordon
Ball Park Explanation Spurs Compliment For Miss Penchett
In a playful exchange two speakers discuss Miss Penchett noting she is very pretty and amusingly saying a 100 percent fan would take her to the ball park and explain every play. The remarks mix casual flirtation with sports imagery.
Battered Brothers of the Rich Ride a Powder Works Tale
A rambling boast by Pete recounts a wild escape aboard a burning freight car loaded with powder. He outruns a pursuing engine, crashes into a river, and hides among a string of freight cars near Peachlow Powder Works, only to learn the sign warns of harmless paint. The tale ends with a laugh at the mistaken danger and Pete’s grim humor about powder in general.
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Lethargy Landing
Phonogingh
Pete
Sam
Louie
Patrick
Pennsylvania
Santage
Flere’s
Jake
Mt.sours
Loquaelonr
President Johnson and Pepper Friendship Gift Story
A Tennessee governor Andrew Johnson and W W Pepper, a Springfield judge, formed a cordial friendship despite political clashes. Pepper, once a blacksmith, crafted a shovel for Johnson as a keepsake of their alliance, and Johnson replied with a beaver cloth coat stitched by his own hand, a notable keepsake said to endure today.
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America
Andrew Johnson
Lincoln
Johson
Tennessee
W. W. Pepper
Springfield
Pepper
Johnson
Birth of a Young Man from a Mercenary Father
A man of mercenary spirit keeps his son under tight discipline. On his twenty first birthday the son begins packing to leave. The father, misjudging the departure, orders him to stay and work another half day in the potato gate. The exchange ends with the son insisting on his independence.
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Smecvin
Bensh, Jounson
Melvin
Johansork
Euelimaure
Jonathan Brace
The
Taiping
Cie Combustible
Augustus Wittpeld
J. Reynolds Tobacco Co
Wicaton-Salem, N.C
Lowe Brothers
S. E. Douglas
Preston, Md
Goodrich
B.f.goodrich Rubber Company
Akron, Ohio
Goodrich Silvertown
Effec
Short & Company
Rian
Horsey, Roe & CO
Greensboro
Irvin Brumbaugh
J. Virgil Moore
Hughes Lumber and Coal Co
Denton
Maryland
Wesley Collegiate Institute
Henry G. Budd, D. D
Dover
Delaware
Cooper, Wright & Cooper
Insurance Polisy
James J. Ross
WM. Denny
Sec’y-Treas
Kent County Mutual Insurance Co
DOVHR
UN Lawarhe
Carter & Doen, Agts
Denton, Md
Irving Jones
W. Payne
Peesion
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