Ride of Caesar Rodney Secures Delaware Vote for Independence
A history of the Declaration of Independence recounts Caesar Rodney’s perilous 80‑mile ride from Dover to Philadelphia to cast Delaware’s decisive vote for independence. The moment unified the colonies, as crowds cheered and the Liberty Bell rang proclaiming liberty to all.
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Philadelphia
Liberty Bell
Caesar Rodney
Congress
Pennsylvania
Delaware
McKean
Rodney
Dover
Byfield
Poplar Grove
Paul Revere
Philip Sheridan
Memory of Prof Weber Honored in Simple Columbus Service
In Columbus a memorial near the Weber home featured an urn and two brief prayers with no music as Dr. W. O. Thompson lauded Prof Henry Adam Weber a renowned sugar expert and patent holder. About 200 attendees, mainly from Ohio State University, witnessed tributes to his scientific contributions.
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Thompson
Weber
Education boat to travel Pittsburg to Cincinnati
A. P. Sandles announces an educational agricultural boat running next fall from Pittsburg to Cincinnati. The state board of agriculture will cooperate with Cincinnati businessmen, featuring on board lectures on agriculture and exhibits of Southern Ohio products alongside Cincinnati factory products. Iron markers will be placed on state canal property lines by E. E. Booten with a $20 000 appropriation. About 60 convicts will work on Carroll County roads under an agreement among the county commissioners the state highway department and the state board of administration.
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A. P. Sandles
State Board of Agriculture
Pittsburg
Cincinnati
Ohio
E. E. Booten
State Canal Land Department
Carroll County
State Highway Department
State Board of Administration
Madness or wandering end of Rev Fuller mystery
Rev L Fuller, missing since February 2 from Evergreen Gallia county after conducting revivals, returns to report his identity since March. Relatives searched coast to coast fearing foul play or insanity. A Kansas kin found him preaching in the Missouri Ozarks, prompting questions about his sanity and motives.
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Rev. L
Fuller
United States
Missouri
Evergreen
Gallia County
Kansas
Ozarks
Missouri Hills
Ohio to Install 88 County Farm Experts Beginning July
Ohio will place a resident farm expert in each of its 88 counties starting July 1. The position, overseen by a state leader and seven district supervisors, follows an agreement between the Ohio experimental station at Wooster and the United States department of agriculture. Salaries are shared by the Wooster station and the government.
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Ohio
Ohio Experimental Station
Wooster
United States Department of Agriculture
Wooster Station
Certificates Granted to Teachers and High School Applicants
Eighty three applicants qualified for life teaching certificates and thirty five for life high school certificates in the recent exams, per School Commissioner Miller. The state board of health cites Cleveland to show cause why polluting source of the Cuyahoga river should not be removed. Allen Spain’s parole suspension was lifted and later rescinded by Governor Harmon. Nine delegates to the Negro National Educational Congress were named by Gov. Harmon for a St. Paul meeting July 15.
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Carolina
Georgia
New York
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Delaware
Maryland
South Carolina
Congress
New Hampshire
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
Connecticut
Virginia
North Carolina
Independence
Dickinson
Philadelphia
Washington
Boston
Loyaliata
State House
Ohio
Harmon
Congress of Hygiene and Demography
Taft
Miller
Asking Life
State Board of Health
Cuyahoga River
Cleveland
Allen Spain
Indiana
Gov
Howard H. Girard
R. B. Henderson
Columbus
Negro National Educational Congress
St. Paul
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Colonies
Lossing
Thomas Jeffer
Aptn Tee Deciarelton
Benjamin Franklin
Franklin
John Thompson
Journal de Paris
Jefferson
United Colonies
Great Britain
North
Liv Dependence Hall
Washington and
Flas Officers
Liv
Liseriv Bell
President Thompson
University
Henry A. Weber
Federal Census Bureau
Toledo
L. H. Schuh
Capital University
Board of Trustees
R. C. H. Lenski
R. V. Schmitt
Dayton
Joint
Synod of the Lutheran Church
Lenski
Schmitt
United National Association of Postoffice Clerks
Postoffice
Uncle Sam
Warren G. Harding
Chicago
Indiana Association of Ice Cream Manufacturers
Express
Indiana Victory
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