First Flag Raising at Fort Schuyler in 1777
The first recorded raising of the American flag authorized by Congress occurred at Fort Schuyler New York in summer 1777. Garrison improvised a flag from shirts red cloth and a cloak cloth for the blue field. James Macpherson published Ossianic Poems in 1760 sparking a sensation though later found to be a fabrication.
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Continental Congress
Fort Schuyler
N. Y
Congress
Abraham Swarthout
James Macpherson
Tax worries and the burden of government aid
The piece argues a $4 billion tax increase would fall on corporations and, in turn, the public as goods are bought. It notes Senate voices urging restraint, warns against overreliance on federal aid, and stresses economy as a personal responsibility amid rising taxes. It also reports a Sioux County tuberculosis case-finding effort led by Ruth Van Alstine with local and state health collaborators.
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Washington
Congress
McClellan
Truman
Fulbright
Uncle Sam
America
Ruth van Alstine
Sioux County
Miss van Alstine
C. D. Oelrich
State Health Department
Sioux County Tuberculosis Association
The
County Medical Society
Iowa Tuberculosis and Health Association
Flancher
Reverse refrigeration gains skilled workers in new fireless furnace trade
Practical Trades Institute at 25 University Ave SE Minneapolis offers a nine month course in reverse refrigeration using the fireless furnace heat pump. The system runs on electricity, absorbs heat from water air and earth, and cools buildings in summer with thermostats. Veterans approved. Locomotive coal use varies but averages about one ton per nine miles in road freight service.
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Practical Trades ‘Institute
University Ave SE
Minneapolis
Practical
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