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The Great White Hurricane
Check out this slideshow and the very fitting Enya
song that plays along with it.
400 people were killed in this storm, which occurred
in March incidentally, about 40 to 50 inches of snow
fell paralyzing the northeast for a week, it was the
worse recorded blizzard in history, and was part of
the inspiration for the first ever subway system in
our country. Maybe you have heard about this storm,
but thought I'd share the slideshow anyway on this
snowy evening.
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The rules of rural Pennsylvania |
 Today's useless fact - When in American history was it a crime to
criticize the president?
It was during the second half of John Adams's administration,
which has become known as the Federalist Reign of Terror. Under
the Alien and Sedition Acts, it became a crime to criticize the
president or the government. It got so bad that his vice
president, Thomas Jefferson, stopped signing his letters,
correctly assuming that government agents were reading his mail.
More than twenty newspaper editors and a member of the House of
Representatives were jailed. (Representative Matthew Lyon got
four months in jail and a $1,000 fine for writing an editorial in
a Vermont newspaper; his constituents re-elected him while he was
in jail and paid his fine.) The law finally expired after
Jefferson became president.
~source used: "Just Curious about History, Jeeves"
by Erin Barrett & Jack Mingo
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THE CHAMPION CUCUMBER RAISER
Mrs. Josiah DOWEY claims to be the champion cucumber raiser of Lehigh county,
having a cucumber thirteen inches long and measuring eleven and a half inches
in circumference. She has some that are very nearly as large and claims they
are about three-fourth grown. They have been raised on good Republican soil
she says.
Ref: Town and Country Newspaper
Pennsburg, Montgomery County, PA
Saturday - August 20, 1904
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