Online Vital Record + President Hayes' Telephone

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(1) Emily Sweeney, A New Window on Bay State's Vital Records; Files-hunting couple sells trove to website. Boston Globe, Mar 20, 2012.
http://articles.boston.com/2012- ... stry-com-halls-town
("Unlike the cities and towns [where anybody can go and asks for viewing or copying paper vital records with minimal cost]. Ancestry.com has taken public records management a step further by digitizing documents and creating a searchable database that it charges people to use. The records acquired by Ancestry.com document births, deaths, and marriages of residents of 315 cities and towns over 330 years")

Note:
(a) Caption of a photo highlighting an entry in a page (photo source: Ancestry.com) reads: "The vital records include the intention to marry filed by John Adams and Abigail Smith on Feb 25, 1764, with a note that the ceremony was performed Oct 25."
(b) John Adams (1735-1826; second President of the United States (1797–1801))  
(c)
(i) Clara Barton
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clara_Barton
(1821-1912; organizing American Red Cross in 1881)
(ii) International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Int ... d_Crescent_Movement
(International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is a private humanitarian institution founded in 1863 in Geneva, Switzerland, by Henry Dunant; The ICRC was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on three occasions (in 1917, 1944 and 1963))
(d) Massachusetts
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massachusetts
(There are 50 cities and 301 towns in Massachusetts, grouped into 14 counties)
(e) Pilgrims in the ship Mayflower arrived at Plymouth in December, 1620--almost 400 years ago.
(f) vital record
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vital_record
(Vital records are records of life events kept under governmental authority, including birth certificates, marriage licenses, and death certificates)


(2) Editorial: Obama: Of Rutherfords and Rushmores. Boston Globe, Mar 20, 2012.
http://articles.boston.com/2012- ... ign-trail-rushmores

Note:
(a) Alexander Graham Bell
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Graham_Bell
(1847-1922; born in Edinburgh; died at his private estate in Nova Scotia, Canada)

Quote: "On March 10, 1876, three days after his patent was issued, Bell succeeded in getting his telephone to work, using a liquid transmitter similar to Gray's design. Vibration of the diaphragm caused a needle to vibrate in the water, varying the electrical resistance in the circuit. When Bell spoke the famous sentence 'Mr [his assistant Thomas A] Watson—Come here—I want to see you' into the liquid transmitter, Watson, listening at the receiving end in an adjoining room [in Boston], heard the words clearly).
(b) Rutherford B Hayes
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rutherford_B._Hayes
(1822-1893; US president 1877-1881; Republican; Hayes decided not to seek re-election in 1880, keeping his pledge that he would not run for a second term)
(c) The Providence Journal
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Providence_Journal
(Headquareters  Providence, Rhode Island; the largest newspaper in Rhode Island; first published in 1829 [by John Miller] and the oldest continuously-published daily newspaper in the United States)
(d) typewriter
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typewriter
(The first typewriter to be commercially successful was invented in 1868 by Christopher Latham Sholes, Carlos Glidden and Samuel W. Soule in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, although Sholes soon disowned the machine and refused to use, or even to recommend it. The working prototype was made by the machinist Matthias Schwalbach. The patent (US 79,265) was sold for $12,000 to Densmore and Yost, who made an agreement with E Remington and Sons (then famous as a manufacturer of sewing machines) to commercialize the machine as the Sholes and Glidden Type-Writer. This was the origin of the term typewriter. Remington began production of its first typewriter on March 1, 1873, in Ilion, New York. It had a QWERTY keyboard layout, which because of the machine's success, was slowly adopted by other typewriter manufacturers)