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Excerpt from Unveiling TributesResulting from a conference held on June 3, 1890, at Omaha, Nebraska, the Woodmen of the World was organized. Sovereign Joseph Cullen Root, the present Sovereign Commander, extended the invitation, to which nine men, well known for their business abilities, responded. The Sovereign Camp was organized a year later, and now embraces practically all of the States in the Union except those in the Pacific Jurisdiction...

Excerpt from Lake George and Lake Champlain: From Their First Discovery to 1759The hotels dotted in here and there, like so many icebergs set in a background of emerald, furnish unexceptionable comfort to the sojourner.Every American, at least once in his life, should visit Lake George and Lake Champlain, and view for him self the scenes made historic by the events imperfectly described in the following pages.About the PublisherForgotten Books...

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Excerpt from An Essay Concerning Blood-Letting: Shewing the Various Effects and Peculiar Advantages of Bleeding in Different Parts of the Human Body, Particularly in the Foot, With Proper Directions How to Make Such a Choice, as Well Best Answer the End, in All Variety of Cases WhateverChar IV. Concerhihg the DE R I vation and revulsion that happen m every blood-letting, their different Bfiefis. End in what Cafes we is ptefimht'e to the other....

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Excerpt from From Home-Spun to CalicoRichard arkwright, the youngest of thirteen children, was born in 1732, the same year that george washington first saw the light, who became the great exponent of civil liberty in the new world. He was bred a barber, which pursuit he followed till he was thirty years of age.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis b...

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Excerpt from Our Country and Our Washington a Discourse: Delivered on Sunday 22, 1852 the Birthday of Washington in the Hall of the House of RepresentativesWe have heard With our ears, O God, our Fathers have told us What work thou didst in their days, in the times of old.-psalm 44 1.This Birth-day of washington is a Thanksgiving Day to the people of this country, which it needs no proclamation of Governors to persuade them to remem ber and to...

Excerpt from The College Ideal and American Life: An Address Delivered at the Seventy-Fifth Anniversary of Colby UniversityThe record of the student enrollment is an interesting study. In 1870, the total was 53. With steady additions this rose, in 1879, to 155. From that time it decreased, until, in 1886, there were 118 students in attendance. Since 1886, an uninterrupted increase has brought the enrollment to more than four times that of the ...

Excerpt from The Ritualism of Law, in the Protestant Episcopal Church of the United StatesThe title of the work indicates its aim. As Bishop Hopkins has sought a Law of Ritual ism for the innovations which he advocates, the author has endeavored to show the duty of abiding by the Ritualism of Law as it is already established.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgotten...