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Newspaper
Warren Ledger
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1890
Page
3
Special correspondence from Albany describes Congress authorizing seventeen cruisers early in the American Revolution. These vessels carried ten to seventeen guns each to counter British cruisers and capture transports, aiding privateers in preying on British commerce and building a naval force before ironclads.
Frederick G. Marner chronicles the rise of the US Navy from 1794 six frigates through 1854 steam frigates, noting the Constitution and Constellation, ship types, and pivotal events such as the Merrimac and Monitor, culminating in a shift to ironclads after Norfolk and Hampton Roads.
In a December dispatch, Manm Petravsky observes New York shop girls as well dressed yet low paid and long hours. They live in boarding houses, endure strict timekeeping with fines for tardiness, and rely on careful self presentation to advance. The piece contrasts courteous, adaptable sales tactics with the social divide among workers and notes a few who rise to high society after humble beginnings.
Sir Daniel Gooch valued attention to every detail in railway work. It is recalled he ordered porters to be transposed after one spoke Acton with an aspirate and another at Hanwell omitted it, so that the errors of critical people would not recur, per the San Francisco Argonaut.
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