Lafayette memorial tribute urged nationwide schools enact
A historic Lafayette remembrance proposes a national school driven drive on October 18 to fund a 290000 monument. Notables including Allison Hale Harris Ireland Mackay Peck Dawes back the effort with governors and city leaders as the plan asks schools to collect modest donations from students and parents.
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Yorktown
Paris
Tlon
William B. Allison
Edward Everett Hale
W. T. Harris
Archbishop Ireland
John W. Mackay
Ferdinand W. Peck
Melville E. Stone
Alexander H. Reyell
Charles G. Dawes
Testates
Robert J. Hampson
Cuicage
Cornwallis
United States
Sh&t
Memorial Commission
Washington
Jefferson
Fox
Lafayette
Napoleon
Charles X
Elonda
Great Britain
Jackson
United States Army
Navy
Washingon
Virginia
Lafayette’s US Return and Final Farewell Tours
A sweeping review of Lafayette’s 1824-25 tour through Boston Portsmouth New York Philadelphia Trenton Princeton Yorktown and Washington recounts grand processions crowds and tributes. The narrative covers honored receptions at Frankford and the state house visit in Philadelphia the Yorktown camp the grand ball at Castle Garden and a final Washington farewell with Congress granting him gratitude funds and land.
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Tafayatte
New York
Boston
Connecticut
Corporation of the Cty
Common Council
Lafayette
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
Httle
Portsmouth
New Hampshire
Hudson
Lafarette
Philadelphia
New Jersey
Trenton
Princeton
Joseph Bonaparte
Pennsylvania
Keystone
Frankford
State House
Theo
Battle
Yorktown
Anston
Rior
Battle Grounds
Concord
Lexington
Han
Castle Garden
Taylor
Old Dominion
Jefferson
Madison
P Lafayette
Washington
Congress
House
Senate
Charlestown
New Orleans
St. Louis
Cincinnati
Pittsburg
Buffalo
Albany
Bunker bHi Monument
Brandycwine
Battlefords
Virginia
Nie
Monroe
Jeferson
Chesapeake
France
Havre
Quaint and the Queer Inventions and oddities compiled
A collage of curious facts and antiquated trivia covering Dutch letter boxes on omnibuses, German breweries, the Severn bridge of 1777, rapid wing movements, Moscow’s orphanage funding, London cathedral completion by 1900, lobsters fleeing thunder, meteors burning up in air, Persian glass and Egyptian relics, plant leaf motion, Russian flogging machines, Devonshire clergy lengths, cranberry freezing, a Tehuantepec flower changing color by sun, and English coronations in Ireland with multiple crowning instances of Henry VIII, VII, II and V.
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FLUGO
Germany
Severn
Moscow
Orphan Asylum
Catherine Il
London
British Museum
Russia
Hartland
Devonshire
Manitoba
Tehauutepec
Ireland
Henry VII
Westminster
Worcester
Henry Tie
Gloucester
Henry
Paris
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Corporation
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West Point
New York Bay
Ting
Ame
Whitayette
Econgress
America
Staten Island
Lton
Hamilton
Laurens
Huwsilan Commercial and Sugar Company
Spreckels
Streckels
Oshkosh
H. I. Weed
State Senate
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