Fires and civic pride in volunteer fire companies
In New York a reflection on how cherished paintings and historical memory fade as time passes. The piece recalls the early volunteer fire brigades and their fierce street clashes, noting their intense civic pride and the lore that could fill many columns.
Washington News Letter on boosters plans for a greater city
Charles P. Stewart surveys Washington boosters aiming for a 1,000,000 population. They push wider streets and demolition of trees, parks, and older rookeries to shape a uniform modern metropolis with standardized housing and fewer local quirks while preserving the city’s sunlit image.
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Charles P. Stewart
Boosters
Washington
Itan
Boostera
Ashington
The Missing Chrome Echos of 1850s Firefighting Rivalry
A tale centers on early volunteer fire engines and their rivalries. The 1850 disappearance of a famed painting by Quidor from Engine Company 14 sparked town gossip, a costly punishment, and a public chase as city officials dispatched detectives to recover the missing chrome.
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Metropolitan Museum
No. 14
Corporation Yard
Jolly Butcher’s
Fire and Water Committee
Quick Car Disposal Offer With Easy Terms
A brief car sale pitch promises a small down payment for the balance over 52 weeks or more with no red tape or embarrassment. It notes using the present car as part payment and invites readers to learn how quickly and pleasantly arrangements can be disposed of.
Fire fighting engines and their painted pride in old fire houses
Historic fire companies are described by colorful engine paintings. Paintings honored foremen and famous scenes from fires and voyages, including Niagara Company’s “Old Race Horse” engines and images of Niagara Falls, Jupiter, Father Knickerbocker, and the privateer Black Joke.
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Jim Lyons
Niagara Company
Old Race Horse
Niagara River
Niagara Falls
Father Knickerbocker
Esgla Company
Jupiter
Old Maid
William Peterson
Aetna Company
Mount Aetna
Blue Boys
Old
Jefferson Company
Father of Democracy
Gouverneur
Lady Gouverneur
Harlem Company Honors Heroine in Rescue Portrait
A Harlem company salutes its heroine with a picture depicting her rescue of Captain John Smith. The display frames others as sentimental art, but asks where those glorified images are now.
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Harlem
John Smith
Craig Heads S. S. Association
Erie Pa Oct 16 The Pennsylvania Sabbath School Association adjourned its sixty third annual convention deploring lax law enforcement and urging Sunday School people to accept citizenship duties to keep communities safe for children and youth Percy L Craig of New Castle was re elected president and Reading Pa was chosen for the 1926 convention
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Erie
Pennsylvania Sabbath School Association
Percy L. Craig
New Castle
Reading
Uncle Eben Ponders Speech on Repeating Tele Tradition
A clipped excerpt shows Uncle Eben debating whether a new telecommunication echo resembles an epoech or a vocal Belgation as he recalls making it the same way many times.
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Eben
Uncle Eben
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