Morgan's Riflemen and the Green Mountain Scouts
Seventy five years after the Second Continental Congress created a rifle corps, the famed Morgan’s Riflemen are chronicled as frontier sharpshooters who joined Washington’s army at Cambridge. Led by Daniel Morgan, they deployed long rifles, fought with woodcraft, and earned fame from Boston to Saratoga and beyond.
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Elmo Scott Watson
Corps of Rangers
Morgan
Second Continental Congress
Pennsylvania
Maryland
Virginia
Boston
Congress
Appalachians
Dechert
Decherd
Deckard
Deckhard
Mills
New
Leutenant
King George
Winchester
George Washington
Potomac
Cambridge
William Thompson
Carlisle
Edward Hand
James Chambers
Robert Cluggage
Michael Douder
William Hendricks
Abraham Miller
George Nagel
James Ross
Matthew Smith
John Lowdon
Lowdon
Sam Brady
Ohio
Gabriel Long
David Elerson
Ellison
Boon
Tim Murphy
Michael Cresap
Logan
Cresap
Washington
Fort
Braddock
Pake
Murphy
Elérson
Patrick Henry
Atlantic
England
Smith
Hendricks
Arnold
Montgomery
Quebec
Pennsylvania Riflemen
Hand
Long Island
New Jersey
Daniel Morgan
New “Corps of Rangers
Richard Butler
Ninth Pennsylvania
Joseph Morris
Samuel J. Cabell
James Parr
Hawkins Boone
Daniel Boone
Matthew Henderson
van Swearingen
Knox
Thomas Posey
Wayne
General Howe
New York
Iowa State News Flurry of Projects and Civic Updates
Keosauqua bids opening within thirty days for new schoolhouse with $50,000 bond sale. Sioux City dedicates $3,000 animal shelter led by John W. Marshall. Iowa law sets drunken driving penalties up to $1,000 fine or a year in prison. Grand Junction funds band concerts. Escher-Ryan Angus herd moves to Carroll. Mason City to host fifty-first G A R encampment June 9 to 11. Wayland absorbs Farmers Savings bank. Marion courthouse closes after eighty-five years. Cedar Rapids opens new $800,000 courthouse May 4. Indianola to spend nearly $500,000 on buildings and paving. Sioux City builds $25,000 Riverside swimming pool ready June 1. Iowa National Guard aero squadron blocked by lack of funds. March tuberculin tests: 140,297 cattle. February 121,000 tests. Fruit crop outlook bright per Herrick. Des Moines Cedar Rapids Davenport lead March building permits. Northwest Iowa Methodist conference insures minister lives at $2,000 each.
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Keosauqua
Iowa City
Register
Des Moines
J. H. Moore
Clarion
Tall Corn Trail Association
Waverly
Sioux City
John W. Marshall
Iowa
Shelby County
Grand Army
Mason City
Wayland Savings Bank
Wayland
Farmers’ Savings Bank
Marion
Cedar Rapids
Indianola
Riverside Park
Iowa National Guard
Lasher
R. S. Herrick
State Horticultural Department
Davenport
Northwest Iowa Methodist Episcopal Conference
Cagay Veuce
Oskaloosa promoter and Iowa amusement park projects noted
The article recalls John Fletcher college founder in Oskaloosa and his donations, mentions a $150000 Fort Dodge amusement park with a $30000 pool and $35000 roller coaster by Riverside Amusement of Des Moines, plus county road contracts and a drought of legislative measures in the Forty first assembly. It also reports loans to 13319 Iowa farmers totaling $130,941,651 from federal land banks secured by 1,824,675 acres valued at $334,975,238.
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Oskaloosa
Lae
John Fletcher College
Hawkeye Fair Grounds
Fort Dodge
Riverside Amusement Company
Des Moines
Franklin County
Jefferson Highway
Hampton
Minnesota
General Assembly
Iowa
Agricultural Foundation
How He Discovered Best Constipation Relief
Mr Joseph F Glas of Brooklyn New York writes of decades of constant trouble with constipation and failed remedies. He credits Carter s Little Liver Pills as the only remedy he can use steadily with reliable relief, available at all druggists.
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Joseph F. Glas
Brooklyn, Y
Lawyers Among U S Presidents Chiefs of Law
Twenty of the twenty nine U S Presidents have been lawyers. The list includes Adams, Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Jackson, Van Buren, Tyler, Polk, Pierce, Buchanan, Lincoln, Hayes, Garfield, Cleveland, Harrison, McKinley, Taft, Wilson and Coolidge. A pointed remark on notoriety follows.
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Adamses
Jefferson
Madison
Monroe
Jackson
van Buren
Tyler
Polk
Pierce
Buchanan
Lincoln
Hayes
Garfield
Cleveland
Benjamin Harrison
McKinley
Taft
Wilson
Coolidge
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Hindas Rescue al Sa2ato
ISO
Burgoyne
General Gates
Howe
Gates
Freeman's Farm
Stillwater
Des Tim Murphy
Gener
Frazer
Des
Canada
Murffaylor
Benedict Arnold
Sara’st
LB Sanne
Valley Forge
Major Posey
Monmouth
Mohawk Valley
Sullivan
Dave Elerson
Schoharie
Saratoga
Middleburgh
Ced
Torenra He
Fir
Dartiel Porgate
Chay
Keira Haru
Iowa State News
Ed Amond Suze
Pcrosson
Peterson
Mra. F. BE. Root
Michigan Street
Buffalo
N. Y
Peterson Ointment Co
Doan
Z. T. Moore
2Nd St
Tracr
Doan’s _118
Foster-Milburn Co
Mig. Chem
Buffalo, N. Y
Tanlac
Babies
Winslow's Syrup
Rene
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