Word: settlement
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Once the common grazing ground of the colonial settlement. Drill ground of the Continental Army during the Revolution. On the night of June 16, 1775, twelve hundred armed citizens assembled on the Common, where they were led in prayer by President Langdon, of Harvard College, at the start of their march to participate in the battle of Bunker Hill. The original Common extended a mile northward towards Lexington...
...Forty-seventh state: New Mexico. Forty-eighth: Arizona. *The site of Oklahoma City was opened to settlement on April 22, 1889. By night it had a population of 10,000 under tents. By 1910 it had 62,205 inhabitants, was the State's biggest and most prosperous city. Even more phenomenal was the growth of Tulsa whose 1,390 inhabitants multiplied 13-fold between 1900 and 1910. Score to date: Oklahoma City, 185,389; Tulsa...
...Pittsburgh by her father to see a glass factory. The sight of frightened youngsters working over "the glory hole" reduced her to tears. She went to Cornell, wrote a thesis on "The Law and the Child." She worked at Chicago's Hull House, Manhattan's Henry Street Settlement, traveled abroad, became an out & out Socialist. She married a Polish count, bore him two children, took the name of Mrs. Florence Kelley after her divorce. She served four years as Illinois' first factory inspector. She helped to found the National Consumers' League, was its longtime secretary. Because...
...With no settlement in sight and Russo-Japanese feelings tense over the Chinese Eastern Railway, the Kronotsky incident left Russians inflamed. Still more crabbed was Hajime Suritate, head of the Kakumeiso reactionary organization in Tokyo. Brooding the fate of his compatriots on the cape, angry Hajime broke into the office of Soviet Commercial Attache M. Kotchetov with a large glittering sword in his hand. Shrilling Japanese imprecations, he poked his sword through the windows, chopped up the office railings, hacked at the desks, made ineffective swipes at the office staff before retiring to the police station and giving himself...
Divorced. Robert Sengstacke Abbott, 62, founder-publisher of Chicago Defender, Negro weekly, and Abbott's Monthly; by Helen Thornton Abbott, circa 36 (TIME, June 26). By a property settlement Mrs. Abbott received $50,000, silverware, the family Pierce Arrow...