Early Settlements West of the Alleghenies in Colonial Era
The Ohio Valley's early settlement unfolds with the Ohio Land Company chartered in 1749, Gist's trading post at Willser eek, Morgantown's rise, and the 1760s frontier spread. Descriptions cover Virginia and Pennsylvania gains, clashes with French forces, and the rugged explorations of Simpson and Pringle as settlers push beyond the Monongahela and Youghogany into what becomes northwestern Virginia.
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Great Brill
Allegheny Mountains
Ohio
Ohio Land Company
Ferea
King George
Wills Ereek
Cumberland
Laurel Hill
Fayette County
Indiana
Virginia Assembly
Virginia
Fort Duquesne
Forbes
Fort Pitt
Ohio Valley
Paris
France
England
George the III
Monongahela
Pennsylvania
Thomas Decker
Morgantown
Rachel Morgan
James Chew
James Prickett
Ohio Country
Buckhannon
Tygart’s Valley
Pittsburg
William Childers
John Pringle
Samuel Pringle
Joseph Tinsey
Belle of Villistas Visits U S Capital
Miss Clementina Llorente daughter of Enrique Llorente chief of the Villa agency at Washington, visits the capital with her father. They lived in a hollow sycamore near Buckhannon, a tale of frontier life and the Pringle brothers who endured three years of isolation before planning to settle near their tree.
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Clementina Llorente
Enrique Llorente
Villa
Washington
Miss Llorente
Turkey Run
Buckhanon
Court’ House
Buckhannon
Atrest
John Pringle
Shenandoah
Samuel Pringle
John
Fort Pitt
Potomac
Permanen
T. L. Russler
Mabel
Martinsburs
Cumberland
Old Hen lick er found in hills of Greenbrier
In Greenbrier County a home brew nicknamed Old Hen is described as a crude moonshine blend. Attorney George W. Crabbee of the Anti-Saloon League encountered the drink in a sunward wash tub setup that involved cornmeal sugar cayenne and rainwater setting for three weeks before bottling.
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Greenbrier
Charleston
George W. Crabbee
Anti-Saloon League
Catlettsburg
Sherman
Lumberman Injuries Reported After Tree Accident
Elkins area items note Wilbur Taylor of Kerens in hospital after a heavy log rolled over him with severe injuries to ear jaw and head. The report also covers weddings, a fatal accident in Maryland, and local notices including school staffing changes and a nurse’s resignation.
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Elkins
Wilbur Taylor
Kerens
Curlish
Seymour Harper
Wsi Lumber Company
Hambleton
Davis Memorial
Western Maryland
Camphal
Nix
Fifteen Cent Cucumbers Lead to Fine in Wichita
In Wichita on August 21 Mrs. Robert Williams was fined ten dollars and costs for stealing two pounds of cucumbers valued at ten cents from the garden of H. A. Knowles in Riverside. Knowles produced a photo showing Williams with a bag of cucumbers as she claimed they were for her husband to prove their chickens trespassed. She appealed to district court.
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Wichita
Kan
Robert Willams
Riverside Addition
H. A. Knowles
Knowles
Cabbage Soup Aims To Beat High Cost Of Living
A Minneapolis report extols brassica oleracea cabbage as a budget saver. Cabbage at wholesale cost 15 cents for 12 heads yields 132 gallons of soup from 132 pounds, enough to feed 1,056 pints across many servings, illustrating frugal prep against rising prices.
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Minneapolis
Mugra
Lalla Urich
Up rising in church at Ocean Grove stalls service
Aug 21 Ocean Grove report notes vandal had placed tacks on about ten thousand auditorium seats. Worshippers entering for morning services found painful seats as tacks stood end upward on many cushions. Police investigated the mischief and sought suspects amid the unusual disturbance.
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Ocean Grove
Hermit Heir Elias McDaniel Disappears Rejoined
Danville Indiana August 21 An heir to an estate Elias McDaniel resurfaced after more than twenty five years Living as a hermit and trapper in a forest cabin near Portland Oregon He refused to reclaim his share of about seven thousand dollars but agreed to authorize sale of the property to send him the proceeds The motive for the estrangement between father and son remains unclear
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Danville
Ind
Elias McDaniel
McDanel
West
Levi Brown
McDaniel
Portland
Ore
Mrr. Brown
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Looney’s Creek
Joan
Glades
John Simpson
Simpson
Pringles
Cheat River
Horse Shoe
Tucker County
Pleasant Creek
South Branch
Elk Creek
Clarksburg
West Fork River
Carpenter
Cottrill
Dean
Valley
Buckhannon River
Belle OF Villistas
U.S
Miss Clemintina Liorente
T. J. Stalnaker
Joseph Burke
Prisot
3. R. Elton
Junior
Seattle
San Francisco
Canal
New York
Gible Allbright
Elkins High School
Ive Tolbard
Ward Lutz
Mill Creek
Presbyterian
Hallie Davis
Henry
Long Island
Altert H. Glenn
John T. Davis
Potomac River
Maplewood Cemetery
J. W. Bischoff
Margaret
Mary McClellan
Davis Memorial Hospital
Harriet Linn
Miss McCellan
Huntington
H. M. Haldeman
Chesapeake and Ohio
Haldeman
Tyatts Valley
Grafton
Thither
Upshur County
Mary Jones
Ors. D. R. Shull
Keyser
Arthur ‘Lee
Graceland
Mrs
Howard Sutherland
Carl, Gladys and
Blanche Price
B. E. Price
R. Gilkinson
Fairmont
Flora Gawthrop
Bridgeport
F. H. Crissman
Trostburg
Susanna
Welch & Fullerton, Druggists
Hoosier
the Globe
West Main Street
Irwin-Lockwood
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