Inventor of the steamboat debate spans several figures
An article surveys who deserves credit for the steamboat, weighing Fulton against John Fitch, Samuel Morey, Oliver Evans, Robert Livingston and others. It notes Fitch’s descendants push for Hall of Fame recognition and cites 18th–19th century experiments, including Rumsey, Evans, and Shreve, to trace the evolution of steam propulsion.
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Robert Fulton
New York University
America
John Fitch
Delaware River
Fulton
Hudson
Clermont
Fitch
Fitch Family Association
National Patriotic Societies
Witch
Bardstown
New York
Albany
Malcom Keir
Yale University Press
Samuel Morey
New Hampshire
Hartford
Morey
Bordentown
Delaware
William Longstreet
New Jersey
Savannah River
Elijah Ormsbee
Connecticut
Cranston
Providence
Pawtucket
Oliver Evans
Robert R. Livingston
John Evans
Hoboken
N. J
Maryland
Franklin
Rumsey
General Washington
Bath
London
Livingston
Henry M Shreve
Shreveport
Shreve
Washington
Louisville
New Orleans
Western Newspaper Union
Origin of Tariff Systems Not Known
Washington Australia adopt a new tariff law with duties on US imports and require written consent for many articles. A National Geographic bulletin surveys history from Babylon to Rome, Venice, Egypt, and medieval Europe, tracing how customs and duties evolved into modern tariff systems.
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Washington
Australia
United States
National Geographic Society
Babylon
Greece
Rome
Carthage
Corinth
Venice
French Yeggs Turn to American Ideas
Paris reports crooks shift to new methods inspired by American peers. In 1929 France saw 38,000 cars stolen with only 493 recovered soon after. thieves target Citroens Renaults Peugeots and small cars. Dope patches, repainting, and quick resale help crooks. buyers pay bargain prices for costly machines. Theft risk historically low due to insurance and locked closed-service cars. A new scandal involves driving licenses sold by officials and testers for 1500 francs instead of 30. An estimated 1,500 bogus licenses exist.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Prefecture de Police
France
Old Bill Fined in Highgate Court for Hanging on to a Motor Van
William Shakespeare failed to answer when named in a Highgate local court and was fined for clinging to a motor van instead of riding his bicycle in the normal manner.
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Highgate
England
William Shakespeare
Billy the Kid Grave to Receive Marker in Fort Sumner
Fort Sumner New Mexico moves to preserve the grave of Billy the Kid, placing a concrete curb and slab with plans for a marker on the site beside Charley Boudrey and Tom OPhallion. Jesus Silva, 72, helped locate the grave and recalls the 1881 firefight with Sheriff Pat Garrett at Pete Maxwell’s ranch.
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Fort Sumner
N. M
Billy the Kid
Kid
Southwest
Charley Boudrey
Tom O’phallion
Billy
Jesus Silva
Pat Garretts
Silva
Pete Maxwell
Maxwell's
Garrett
Death by Own Action Continues in Germany Postwar Crisis
Berlin reports an ongoing personal crisis with 26 suicides daily in Prussia. In 1928 total 9,530 deaths by self harm. 6,690 men and 2,840 women. Two thirds from towns, 3,117 from rural areas. Causes include mental illness 38 percent, emotional strain 28 percent, physical pain 12 percent, poverty 11 percent.
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Berlin
Germany
Prussia
U.S. Per Capita Cash Wealth Estimated
The Treasury estimates each American holds 87.80 in cash, down from 39.62 per person a year earlier. Using a 121,213,000 population, total circulation was 4.521 billion on June 30, and 4.746 billion on June 30, 1929.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
United States
Treasury Department
Coast Rose Bush Bears 40000 Blooms on Pacific Coast
The Pacific coast hosts the largest rose bush bearing about 40 000 roses and rosebuds. L Tucker of Calistoga California planted the Cherokee variety 81 years ago and never pruned it. The trunk now measures three feet in circumference. Olympia Washington boasts the largest rose bush in the state at under two feet in girth.
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Seattle
Pacific Coast
L. Tucker
Calistoga
Calif
Washington
Olympia
Diphtheria Decline Sparked by Public Health Drive
The 1929 annual report of the diphtheria commission under Dr. Shirley Wynne notes modern publicity and large scale health administration reduced diphtheria in New York and predicts near elimination within five years. Half a century ago the fatality rate was about 50 percent.
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New York
Witty Fragments and Aphorisms From Various Voices
A collection of short, dated style lines including quips from a grandma and a child about a cat and a mouse. It blends proverbs on preparation, duty, and life’s end with a Penn quotation on life that never ends and a note on reading and feeding.
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Penn
Woman Built Up By Lydia E Pinkham Vegetable Compound
Mrs Joan Osborn of La Junta Colorado writes that after her daughter was born a neighbor urged her to try Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She reports improved appetite sleep nerves and energy enabled her to do all her own work and care for six children.
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Junta
Colo
Lydia E.pinkham
Joan Osborn
la Junta
Colorado
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U. S
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Rinso
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