Hoover Curtis Ticket Nominated at Republican Convention
Herbert Hoover and Charles Curtis were nominated on the first ballot at the Republican National Convention in Kansas City Missouri. The platform backed agriculture relief through surplus disposal and a federal farm board, while endorsing strict enforcement of Prohibition.
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Ohio
Maine
California
Oregon
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al Smith
Houston
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Inois Agricultural Association
Lafollette
McNary-Haugen
Borah
Great Shaft to Mark Site of Old Fort Washington
Plans to restore Fort Washington include a public park and a 280 foot marble shaft rising above Manhattan. Architects Stoughton & Stoughton design multiple features, a peristyle base, trees, decorative carvings, and a carved fort plan on granite. The monument aims to educate future generations about the fort’s Revolutionary past.
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Fort Washington
Bunker Hill Monument
Fort Washington Monument
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Hudson River
Stoughton & Stoughton
New York
Boston
Bunker Hill
Song of Peace on a Quiet Battlefield Pastoral
Poem reflecting on peace after war with images of green fields, quiet waters, and harvests. It honors fallen heroes who fought for peace, noting the earth healing and the refrain that they rest in peace along a peaceful shore under a national republic.
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Bunker Hill
National Republic
Fort Washington Monument to rise 280 feet on Manhattan
A New York Herald Tribune report recalls the fort's fall and Washington's troops marching into New York. It notes a future Fort Washington monument will stand 280 feet high on Manhattan's highest ground, with drawings and a color sketch marking the historic site.
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New York
Washington
Fort Washington
Fort Washington Monument
Words that started a great cause in the Declaration
In the course of human events words that nurtured a great cause, held struggling men together until victory, inspired faith in adversity, founded a nation, withstood assaults, these are the phrases that begin the preamble of the Declaration of Independence.
Nantucket Ships That Brought Tea To Boston Harbor
In St Nicholas, Francis A. Collins recounts Nantucket ships Dartmouth Beaver and Bedford sailing whaling voyages before the American Revolution. They later carried whale oil to England and, on return, arranged with the East India Company to bring tea to Boston. The jettisoning of that cargo in Boston harbor sparked far-reaching consequences.
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South Pacific
Cape Horn
Francis A. Collins
St Nicholas
Dartmouth
Beaver
Bedford
England
East India Company
Boston
Powder From Georgia Fired at Bunker Hill
Georgia supplied gunpowder for the siege at Bunker Hill. In Savannah a large magazine buried twelve feet underground held ammunition Governor Wright did not protect. The colonists broke in and seized 600 pounds of gunpowder and sent it to Beaufort for safekeeping before shipment to Boston.
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New England
Georgia
Savannah
Wright
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