Plans to rush battalion to Canada faced protest in Congress
Philadelphia dated 1776 report on New York delegation objections to congressionally naming officers for a new battalion raised in New York by Col. Lewis Dubois. Protests cited labor demand delaying recruitment, with voting avoiding blame if Canada mission failed. Includes officer appointments and bounty policy.
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Ruth Finney
Philadelphia
Canada
New York
Continental Congress
Congress
Lewis Dubois
George Clinton
Francis Lewis
Wm. Floyd
Henry Wisner
John Alsop
Jacobus
Bryan
William Goforth
David Dubois
Elias van Banschoten
Thomas de Witt
Isaac Wool
Philip Bevier
Richard Platt
Albert Pawling
Cornelius T. Jansen
James Gregg
Aaron Austin
Jonathan Piercy
Evans Wherry
Garret van Wagenan
Henry Vandenburg
Nathaniel Conklin
Henry Dodge
Daniel Gano
John Coates
Henry Dubois
Magazine boys share at exposition grounds in Philadelphia
Three head magazine boys each held an equal share of papers and gave to 12 newsboys one sixteenth of their own shares. After distributing, each magazine boy had 40 more papers than each newsboy. Determine the original number of papers per magazine boy.
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Exposition Grounds
Philadelphia
Berlin Not Alone in All Alone Charge
Abe Brown claims he wrote the song before Aug 15 1924 and that Irving Berlin did not author All Alone though it bore his signature Brown sues in Federal Court with Goldstein and Goldstein representing him asserting theft and pending outcome in New York.
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Marine Committee
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Mons
Antoine Felix Welbert
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Timea Bregete
Irving Berlin
Abe Brown
Tin Pan Alley
Abe
Ellin Mackay
Irving
Brown
Goldstein
Fog in the Atlantic Spans Roughly Thirty Miles
A fog layer over the Atlantic Ocean typically covers about thirty miles in diameter.
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Atlantic Ocean
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