Electoral Votes Count in Electing President
A writer in the Cleveland Plain Dealer explains that a president can be chosen by a minority of national popular votes because electors, not direct popular vote, elect the president. States typically award all electoral votes to a candidate, though rare splits occur. later examples show presidents elected without a majority of popular votes, such as Hayes in 1876 and Harrison in 1888, despite Cleveland leading in votes in 1876 and 1884.
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Cleveland Plain Dealer
John Quincy Adams
House of Representatives
James K. Polk
Zachary Taylor
James Buchanan
Abraham Lincoln
Rutherford B. Hayes
James A. Garfield
Grover Cleveland
Benjamin Harrison
Woodrow Wilson
Samuel J. Tilden
Hayes
Cleveland
Harrison
Bequeathed Bridal Crown Draws Visitors to Visingso
In Visingso Sweden Ebba Brahe who loved Gustavus Adolphus but married Jakob De La Gardie left behind a golden bridal crown worn by generations of brides. Visitors to Brahe church can view the crown, kept in a heavy oak chest in the sacristy, a relic tied to three centuries of weddings.
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Vattern
Sweden
Visingso
Ebba Brahe
Gustavus Adolphus
Ebba
Jakob de la Gardie
Brahe
Prescott’s Life and Work by William Hickling Prescott
William Hickling Prescott, born in 1796 in Salem, rose to fame through 16 historical volumes on Spanish conquest. Despite losing an eye and using a ruined eye, he finished college at Harvard and pursued history as a profession with assistants reading material to him daily.
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Prescott
William Hickling Prescott
Salem
Mass
Harvard
Americas
Acrobat Charles Bloudin crosses Niagara Falls riskily in 1859
The Frenchman Francais Gravelet known as Charles Bloudin walked a rope across Niagara Falls in 1859 earning astonishment worldwide. He later repeated the feat with a wheelbarrow and a man on his back while blindfolded, and wore stilts. An Italian counterpart Marie Spellernix attempted to emulate him by crossing with her feet in baskets.
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Niagara Falls
Dean Francais Gravelet
Charles Bloudin
Marie Spellernix
Women Wore Men's Shoes in Early Ohio Churches
In yesteryear Ohio forests were swampy making it hard for women to walk in delicate footwear. They wore menfolk’s rough shoes for travel then swapped to dainty shoes near destinations, saving their Sunday footwear for years.
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Ohio
Montreal crosses commemorate pioneers and river relief
Montreal marks many historic crosses raised by pioneer inhabitants to note relief from the St Lawrence river’s ravages before control. Founded by Paul de Chomedy le Sieur de Vaisonneuve, the city’s first cross remains famed. Wimtreal is frent ly called the UCI of Creocses.
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Montreal
St. Lawrence
Paul de Chomedy
le Sieur de Vaisonneuve
UCI
Lover's Delight at Candyland Sparks Change in Joe
Polly confronts Joe Blake about his wasted talent at the soda fountain. She pushes him to commit to drawing, then later learns he has found a job as a commercial artist with Jack Clifford. Polly, hopeful and cautious, decides to try a Lover's Delight sundae as a sign of new beginnings.
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Polly Prances
Candyland
Joe
Joe Blake
Polly
Pally
Main Street
Eifel Lakey
Adele Vreeland
Adele
Folly
Ethel
Jack Clifford
Jack
Shortest Prize Fight in Montreal 1928
Collier's Weekly reports the shortest prize fight in professional pugilism history. Al Foreman of England knocked out Ruby Levine of Russia in eleven and a half seconds, including the count, in Montreal in 1928.
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Pugilim
Montreal
al Foreman
England
Ruby Levine
Russia
Collier's Weekly
Matter of Taste Stamps and Personal Letter Fees Debated
A discussion questions whether to affix stamps personally or pay postage for a letter. The exchange suggests it is customary for the sender to place the fee on the letter, with emphasis on personal handling and customary practice.
Two Music Lovers Thirteen Years After the War
Otto Hintz, a Wall Street young man with four forehead scars, is drawn to music after hearing a Chopin nocturne and a Grieg concerto from a neighbor pianist. He meets Joan Durham, who discovers his passion, and the two bond over music, imagining a future together at a Carnegie Hall concert.
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Otto Hintz
Wall Street
Germany
China
Teutonic
United States
Hiller
Oto Hitz
Otto
Greig
Siy
Joan Durham
Otto Tinta
Himmel
Fraulein
Loraot
Joan
Carugo
Jean Durham
Wees Durham
Mees Durham
Carnegie Ball Symphony
World's Youngest Mayor Visits New York City
The 17 year old Danny Kampan, mayor of Boys Town, Nebraska, toured New York as Fiorello LaGuardia hosted the world’s youngest mayor. They discussed budgets, exchanged credentials, and heaped praise on Father Flanagan’s Boys Town. Hoover praised Boys Town’s impact in a letter cited by Flanagan.
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New York
Danny Kampan
Boys Town
Nebr
Fiorello LaGuardia
LaGuardia
Kampan
Father Flanagan
Gily Hall
Wes Father Flanagan
Omaha
States
Union
Flanagan
J. Edgar Hoover
Hoover
Young Ampan
Eastern Preparatory
Eastern College
Ile
Father Planagant
Daniel Kampan
Fianazon
Tuberculosis Toll in Pennsylvania in 1935
In 1935 Pennsylvania recorded 4,647 TB deaths, a rate of 46.2 per 100,000. The Negro death rate was 175.4, over four times the white 39.8. From 1906 to 1935 about 256,626 people died of TB in the state, about 7.5 percent of total mortality.
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Pennsylvania
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