Sunday Milk Train Pioneers New York Rail Route
A historic account recalls Thaddeus Selleck starting a milk store in 1842 and the New York and Erie Railroad enabling Sunday milk deliveries. Despite strong ministerial opposition and a wreck on the first Sunday run, the service persisted, shifting farmer shipping to Sundays and eventually normalizing church relations as milk trade expanded from Goshen to Middletown.
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Pioneer
New York City
Thaddeus Selleck
Orange County
New York & Erie
Goshen
New York
Piermont
Hudson River
Capt. Ayers
Hank Stewart
Middletown
Sloatsburg
Forger’s Double Haunts Rush in a Web of Trials
A New York businessman F N Rush is pursued by forged checks and a clever lookalike. He endures arrests, police coercion, and a string of identifications before an alibi and relentless legal twists lead to an acquittal. The case spans Cincinnati Chicago and Washington with a dramatic, farcical courtroom arc.
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New York
F. N. Rush
Mr. Rush
Ruch
Rush
Cook County
Prigent
Ford
Washington
Iag
Cincinnati
John F. Blair
John L. Baldwin
Boyd G. Clark
J. B. Rush
S. 8
Pickney
Chicago
s.Rush
Newcomer
Cowe
New ‘England
B&ll
Réddy
Sander
Miss Lucy Kemp-Welch Horses in Victorian Fame
Miss Lucy Kemp-Welch, renowned painter of animals, especially horses, studied at Herkomer School and Bushey. She debuted at the Royal Academy in 1894 at twenty. In 1897 the Chantrey trustees bought her Cult Hunting in the New Forest, and in 1900 the National Gallery of Victoria acquired Horses Bathing in the Sea.
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Lucy Kemp-Welch
Herkomer School
Bushey
Royal Academy
Chantrey Bequest
New Forest
National Gallery of Victoria
Cultured Curiosity in a City Tour of Rich Mansions
A chauffeur tours a metropolis with tourists pointing out grand mansions of the nabobs. A dowager remarks on “Oliver Wendell homes” as they request a look at one. The dialogue includes Mrs. Sharp and Mrs. Gossip discussing the wife of a western oil millionaire and her past as a laundress.
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Metropolis
Pye
Oliver Wendell
Chicago Tribune
Ten Commandments Debate Seen For Other Men
The Portland Oregonian highlights a viewpoint arguing that the Ten Commandments should apply to others, not to the speaker, reflecting a political or moral stance within the era.
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Portland Oregonian
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Montana
Erie Railroad
Tye
Batchellor
Zeetontin
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