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...Recent Attempts in Administrative Reorganization--the County, Town, Township and Administrative Area," Professor Sly, Sever...
...clear, preparation was made for her starting. The placing fire in the furnace and raising steam occupied 20 minutes. The engine (with her tender) moved from the depot in beautiful style, working with great ease and uniformity. She proceeded about half a mile beyond the Union Tavern, at the township line, and returned immediately, a distance of six miles, at a speed of about 28 miles to the hour, her speed having been slackened at all the road crossings, and it being after dark, but a portion of her power was used. It is needless to say that the spectators...
...Theological School was not formally organized until some years later: funds were lacking for its efficient functioning although in 1813 Samuel Parkman of Boston, a wealthy and public spirited merchant conveyed to the Collage a township of land in Maine "for the support of a Professor in Theology." The benefits of this gift were great in prospect, but it was of he immediate help to the department...
...Locust Township lies in a quiet, verdant bowl in the mountains of Columbia County, Pa. Broad farms with prosperous farmer families upon them pattern the land like a soft patchwork quilt. It is ten miles to a town or city...
...that, I live in the best corner of the best township in the best county in the best state in the best country in the world...