... Mills who came on board Mills when he found that Dickens refused to honor the call by coming out of his cabin took the matter quite coolly Dickens reported to Forster and retired to the top of the wharf with a big stick and a whittling knife with which he worked so lustily staring at the closed door of our cabin all the time that long before the boat left the big stick was no bigger than a ...
... R R DOUGLAS HURT Ohio Agriculture Since World War II The atomic bombs which exploded over Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945 not only ended the Second World War but they also marked the beginning of a new age Thereafter life was never quite the same as it had been prior to the bombing of Pearl Harbor Indeed fundamental change spurred by wartime industrialization and economic need characterized American life after the war The history of Ohio agriculture since World War II is the story of ...
... 262 Ohio Arch 262 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications Fort Miami -- We regret to report that this property is still in the hands of owners who do not seem much interested in its historic value Fallen Timbers-- At this writing the State Architect is engaged in landscaping the site chosen for the future monument to honor the memory of a great soldier and mark an historic spot It will be recalled that two years ago the Legislature appropriated 2000 for this purpose We had asked for 40000 for ...
... ROBERT EARNEST MILLER ROBERT EARNEST MILLER War Within Walls Camp Chase and the Search for Administrative Reform The historical literature about Civil War military prisons can be divided into three major categories prisoners' accounts accounts of the camp administrators and subsequent historical analyses1 Interest in how captives lived in these prisons North and South has never abated The historian's desire to find out what prison life was really like however has been frustrated by the utter ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews Bougainville The Forgotten Campaign 1943-1945 By Harry A Gailey Lexington The University Press of Kentucky 1991 vii 237p maps illustrations notes glossary bibliography index 2700 On November 1 1943 US Marines landed on the west coast of Bougainville the largest and most northerly of the Solomon Islands Following successes on Guadalcanal and New Guinea this assault opened the last phase of the campaign to reduce Japan's base at Rabaul and oust Japan from the southwest ...
... OHIO OHIO BY J J BLISS BUCYRUS Lo next the Union stars and stripes Ohio's pennant streaming Lo in the field of brightest blue The Buckeye emblem gleaming Come muses then in chorus join To voice Ohio's praises Aright your sweetest notes attune And choose your fairest phrases CHORUS Ohio our Ohio most favored by the fates Hurrah for dear Ohio and our great United States Sing forests vast of stately trees Choice orchards ranked in order Sweet silver streams and lakelet gems That fertile fields ...
... Comments Notes and Reviews Comments N otes and Reviews 141 the contrary A shade of pathetic and almost tragic sadness was cast over the proceedings of the of the meeting by the fact that only a few short hours before the wires across the wide waters had flashed the news that General Roberts with the British troops had occupied Pretoria meaning that it was the beginning of the end for the plucky but all too rash Dutch descendants in the African republic and that England's star of empire was ...
... Mills They incorporated Mills continued through Mills and maintained a paternalistic relationship with the men and women who worked at the mills This concern for the workers was probably engendered by the dangers of powder manufacturing explosions and loss of life were not uncommon ...
... 518 Ohio Arch 518 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications Following Mr Burton's address President Johnson said We may well hope that a million radio listeners scattered from lakes to gulf and from coast to coast have been sitting at their instruments listening to these lessons of truth and magnetism We are greatly indebted to Mr Burton for the message which he has brought us I am sure you will all join in a vote of thanks to him for coming to Columbus and appearing before this assembly Mr ...
... A CLEVELAND DRUG STORE OF 1835 A CLEVELAND DRUG STORE OF 1835 by HOWARD DITTRICK MD Editorial Director the Cleveland Clinic Cleveland This presentation outlines many activities of an early Cleveland druggist with some mention of contemporary patrons and customs The information is based upon a manuscript volume which was presented recently to the Howard Dittrick Museum of Historical Medicine in the Cleveland Medical Library Written in long hand the book deals with drugs medicine and a number of ...
... ADDRESS AT FORT MEIGS ADDRESS AT FORT MEIGS By W J CAMERON The best proof a nation can give that it is gro w ing up is a lively interest in its history From the records of what they have done a people can form an estimate of what they are and from that they may draw an augury of their future Not only does history recall the past it also explains the present This pilgrimage to scenes immortalized in early northwestern history arranged by the historical societies in Ohio Indiana Michigan and ...
... The Allen County Historical Museum The Allen County Historical Museum By ROBERT C WHEELER An Allen County dream is about to become a reality Late in 1955 the new Allen County Historical Museum will open to the public an event long awaited in and around Lima Few cities in the country can boast such facilities for preserving and interpreting their past The new museum will have in addition to ample exhibit space an auditorium seating 225 a local history library and a thirty-car parking area ...
...1902 by Edward F Haas of Wright State University The Hagley Museum and Library has opened the records of the Pennsylvania Railroad for research This 1600 linear-foot collection includes minutes board files and other corporate records of the Pennsylvania Railroad proper 18461968 and nearly 400 of its predecessor and subsidiary firms 1810-1968 Major bodies of correspondence and case files are available from Vice President Samuel Rea 1898-1912 the ...
... 1902 a fifty year-old 1902 was extremely disappointing but the accounting provisions were encouraging In a reactionary attempt to maintain control the state government provided a great service in the area of municipal accountability by requiring standardized financial reporting The clear result was Progressivism but for all the wrong reasons Perhaps the most important antecedent of the ...
... BOOK BOOK REVIEWS CHARLES EVANS HUGHES AND THE ILLUSIONS OF INNOCENCE A STUDY IN AMERICAN DIPLOMACY By Betty Glad Urbana University of Illinois Press 1966 365p bibliography and index 595 Charles Evans Hughes Secretary of State under Presidents Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge 1921-1925 is considered important because he carried major responsibility for the definition of the foreign policy followed by the United States up to the eve of World War II p 1 Miss Glad divides her study into three ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy By William Wade Hinshaw Richmond Ind Friends Book and Supply House distributors 1937 Vol I 1185p 2000 with discount to libraries and Meetings Genealogy which is an auxiliary of historical science has been defined as the systematic account of the origin descent and relations of families Genealogical knowledge becomes of great importance in many ways both as to individual interests and as an aid in interpreting historical ...
... Forty-First Annual Meeting 661 Forty-First Annual Meeting 661 President Johnson then introduced Mr Walter D McKinney a life member of the Society who had previously presented the rare original painting of Simon Kenton and who had brought to the meeting a painting of Thomas Walker Cridland Mr McKinney came forward with the painting in its pioneer frame which he presented to the Society in the following interesting and informing address THOMAS WALKER CRIDLAND Two years ago it was my privilege to ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews A Signal Victory The Lake Erie Campaign 1812-1813 By David Curtis Skaggs and Gerald T Althoff Annapolis Maryland Naval Institute Press 1997 x 244p illustrations notes appendix glossary glossary of nautical terms bibliographic essay index 3495 The battle of Lake Erie in which an American naval squadron annihilated its British counterpart on 10 September 1813 was one of two defining engagements of the War of 1812 in the Old Northwest The British-Indian capture of ...
... INDEX I NDEX A hunters 57 hunted in the spring 57 love of nuts 57 skins of little value Aboriginal Races of North America The 57 King of 58 fond of pigs 58 see Drake seized women and children 58 more Account of the History Manners and common in Iroquois country 58 and Customs of the Indian Nations An panther fight 60 sacrificed to dead see Heckewelder 140 Achewilens a rich man 146 Beard pulled out 12 Achsunnami1unschi Delaware name for Beaver season 13 described 61 scarce sugar maple 48 in ...
... DOCUMENTS DOCUMENTS A LETTER FROM GREENE COUNTY OHIO DECEMBER 28 1817 Among recent acquisitions to the Manuscript and Archives collections in the Library of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society is the following letter which describes pioneer conditions in Greene County Ohio in the year 1817 The letter was addressed to Nathan Fisher Mendon Worcester County Massachusetts and was postmarked at Xenia December 31 It evidently reached its destination January 18 1818 The postage was ...