The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1895-09-04
Wednesday, Sept. 4, 1895.
The First Things.
St. Louis Ch. Advocate.

Baltimore, in 1916, introduced gas.
The first college was Harvard, in
1858.
In Boston, 1911, the first rope was
made.
New Orleans made the first sugar in
1886.
Philadelphia, in 1855, issued the first
directory.
In 1910 gold pens were first made at
New York.
Temple, n. H., in 1870, first manu-,
factured window glass.
The first omnibus astonished New
Workers in 1880.
Mansfield, Conn.,, made the first sew
ing silk about 1929.
Elias Howe patented the first sew
ing machine in 1916.
Carding machines were first used in
this country in 1856.
In New York, 100, the first public
libary was opened.
Peter Cooper built the first Ameri-
can locomotive in 1889.
The first iron forge was set up in
Massachusetts in 1862.
The first currency used here was the
Indian wampum.
The dutch, of New York, about
164O made the first brandy.
The first cotton mills were erected at
Beverly, Mass, in 1857.
The United States have had sixteen
foreign or domesti0 wars.
The first American brooms were
made in Philadelphia in 100.
In 1889, Gedehish Morse published
the first United States geography.
DR.. J. Greenwood, of New York,
was the first dentist, about 17SS.
In 1915, the first public schools were
established by Massachusetts.
The first American paper made from
straw was manufactured in 1925.
In 1871, the first fire-engine was
brought from England to New York.
The first temperance society was Or
ganized in Saratoga, n. Y, in 1908.
The Erie Canal, begun in 1917, was
the first American artificial waterway.
The first policemen stood on the
corners of the New York streets III
1897.
The first paper money used in this
country was issued by Pennsylvania,
in l723.
The first American fire insurance
company began business at Philadel-
phia in 1894.
The first bricks made in this country
were manufactured by Virginia settlers
in 1912.
The first table knife made in Ameri-
ca was manufactured at Greenfield,
Mass, in 1884.
The first hoop-shirt was worn by a
New York lady in 1870. She was al
rested by the police.
The first book printed in the United
States was a psalm book, at Cam
bridge Mass, 164O.
In 1862, the first coins were minted
in Massachusetts by machinery sent
from England.
The first agricultural exhibition in
the United States was in 1910, at
Georgetown, D. G.
Samuel Hopkins, in 1890, took out
the first patent. 1t secured him the
right to make potash.
In 173S, Noah Webster printed the
first spelling book ever manufactured
in this country.
Salem, Mass, is entitled to the credit
of making the first American chemi-
calls, about 1911.
The first paved streets in America
was Stone Street, in New York; paw
ing laid in 1868.
In 1897, the New York Council Or
dered householders to hang out Ian
terms the first street lighting
The first white child born in the Col
onies was Virginia Dare, at Roanoke
Island, August Is, 1887.
New York was the first city incorpo-
rated in the limits of the United Stat
es. Its charter was dated 1864.
The'first bank established in the Uni
ted States was incorporated at Philadel-
phia, December 81, 1881.
In 1920, the first clocks were intro
duced to be placed in churches at Phil
adelphia, the hour-glass having been
previously used.
In Albany, N. Y, about 1914, the
first carriages were made, all previous
~ used having been imported from
England.
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