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Elkton and Oxford Railroad

The Cecil Whig, Elkton, MD, January 18, 1873

Enginneer Hood and party reached Elkton last Thursday, in completing the survey and estimate of the line of the proposed railroad between Elkton and Oxford, 18 miles. The estimates are, for grading and masonry, $59,168.23; Engineering, office and incidental expenses, $10,000. Total, $69,168.23. This is the estimate for putting the road in order to receive the cross-ties and rails.

A meeting was held at the office of Hon. Hiram McCullough, and the books opened for subscriptions for stock.

This road, if built, and we hope it will be successfully pushed forward, will be a continuation in this direction of the Peach Bottom Railway, which is now under contract.

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Congressional Proceedings

Evening Star, Washington, DC, January 17, 1856

In the House yesterday, after we went to press, other gentlemen explained the reasons actuating them in voting on Mr. Thorington’s resolution, viz : Messrs. Purviance, Sherman, Dunn, Fuller of Pa., Stanton, Thorington, Wade, and Washburn of Me.

Some debate took place between Messrs. Stephens, Zollicoffer, and Richardson, in the course of which the latter took occasion to say that while he believed that, according to the letter of the constitution, Congress had the power to exclude slavery from the territory of the United States, yet that it was unjust and wrong, and in violation of the spirit of that instrument, to do so, as the constitution was made for the purpose of securing equality among the States and to the people of the whole country.

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Fist Fight in State Senate

The Tacoma Times, Tacoma, WA, January 16, 1917

Olympia, Jan. 16 — Great commotion was caused on the floor of the senate this morning when Senators Howard Taylor of King and Tom Brown of Whatcom engaged in a fist fight.

Brown had accused Taylor of trying to make himself “King of the Senate,” and had made other accusations against him.

Taylor had offered Brown “to go Into the ante-room and repeat what he said, but Brown had refused, saying that he would repent his accusations on the floor.

Taylor reached over Brown’s desk and struck him a resounding whack full in the face.

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The Gift to Gen. Kilpatrick

Vermont Daily Transcript, St. Albans, VT, January 15, 1869 We mentioned two or three days ago that Gen. Kilpatrick, at the close of his lecture in Hartford, was presented with…
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Where’s Mr. Ebling?

The New York Herald, New York, NY, January 14, 1856 The Commissioner of Streets and Lamps has issued several proclamations in relation to the present horrid condition of the city…
1896 map of Martian “canals” based on Lowell’s observations.
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Signaling to Mars

The Gold Leaf, Henderson, NC, January 9, 1902 The Difficulty of Doing So by Means of Light. The very largest city that this earth has ever known would be altogether…
Steam Schooner (Yosemite)
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The Deep Sea Fishing Company

The Daily Morning Astorian, Astoria, OR, January 8, 1887 The Dolphin, the new steam schooner of the Astoria Deep Sea Fishing Co., went out yesterday, for the first time. She is…
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Two Amazons

Bellows Falls Times, Bellows Falls, VT, January 7, 1876

About a year ago a man named Jonas Butler went into the wild region around the head waters of the Delaware River, about twenty miles above Delhi, N. Y., for the purpose of cutting railroad ties and peeling bark, on contract for some parties in Greene County. He erected a log cabin, where he and his wife, his daughter Jennie, aged sixteen, and an infant child made their home.

On Sunday, Dec. 19, Butler was absent from home, and about 5 o’clock in the afternoon of that day Mrs. Butler and her daughter heard an unusual commotion among the pigs in the pen, a log inclosure a few rods away from the house.

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The Carpatho-Russians

The New York Herald, New York, NY, January 5, 1920

To the Editor of the Herald : —

There is considerable confusion concerning the term “Carpatho-Russians,” and the facts are often still more beclouded by newspaper articles which put the Ukrainians and Carpatho-Russians together. Such an article appeared in the Herald on December 29, under the caption “Ukraine Congress Here to Protest Polish Mandate.”

In the first place, there is no such nation, race, language, country or religion known as Carpatho-Russian. The Carpatho-Russians are an insignificant political party — nothing more. Ever since East Galicia, peopled by Ukrainians formerly unwilling subjects of the Russian Empire, became a part of the Austrian Empire, the Russian Tsar sought to win the territory back to his domain. He sent into East Galicia many agents, some political, some of them Russian Orthodox priests, to try to convert the people into Russophiles. These Russian Tsarist agents, together with the few converts they made, were the Carpatho-Russians. In race and language they are Ukrainians; in religion and politics they are Russian. Out of a total Ukrainian population of more than four million in East Galicia the Carpatho-Russian party numbers less than fifty thousand.