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Methanol, also known as methyl alcohol, wood alcohol, wood naphtha or wood spirits, is a chemical with the formula CH3OH (often abbreviated MeOH). Methanol acquired the name "wood alcohol" because it was once produced chiefly as a byproduct of the destructive distillation of wood. Modern methanol is produced in a catalytic industrial process directly from carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, and hydrogen.
Methanol is the simplest alcohol, and is a light, volatile, colorless, flammable liquid with a distinctive odor very similar to that of ethanol (drinking alcohol).[9] However, unlike ethanol, methanol is highly toxic and unfit for consumption. At room temperature, it is a polar liquid, and is used as an antifreeze, solvent, fuel, and as a denaturant for ethanol. It is also used for producing biodiesel via transesterification reaction.
Methanol is produced naturally in the anaerobic metabolism of many varieties of bacteria, and is commonly present in small amounts in the environment. As a result, there is a small fraction of methanol vapor in the atmosphere. Over the course of several days, atmospheric methanol is oxidized with the help of sunlight to carbon dioxide and water.
Methanol also forms in abundant quantities in star forming regions of space, and is used in astronomy as a marker for such regions. It is detected through its spectral emission lines.[10]
Methanol burns in oxygen, including open air, forming carbon dioxide and water:
Methanol ingested in large quantities is metabolized to formic acid[11] or formate salts, which is poisonous to the central nervous system, and may cause blindness, coma, and death. Because of these toxic properties, methanol is frequently used as a denaturant additive for ethanol manufactured for industrial uses. This addition of methanol exempts industrial ethanol (commonly known as "denatured alcohol" or "methylated spirit") from liquor excise taxation in the US and some other countries.
- 1 Occurrence
- 2 Toxicity
- 3 Applications
- 4 Production
- 5 Quality specifications and analysis
- 6 History
- 7 See also
- 8 References
- 9 Further reading
- 10 External links
Human metabolite
Methanol is poisonous to the central nervous system and may cause blindness, coma, and death. However, in small amounts, methanol is a natural endogenous compound found in normal, healthy human individuals, concluded by one study which found a mean of 4.5 ppm in the exhaled breath of the subjects.[12] The mean endogenous methanol in humans of 0.45 g/d may be metabolized from pectin found in fruit; one kilogram of apple produces up to 1.4 g methanol.[13]
Methanol has a high toxicity in humans. If as little as 10 mL of pure methanol is ingested, for example, it can break down into formic acid, which can cause permanent blindness by destruction of the optic nerve, and 30 mL is potentially fatal,[14] although the median lethal dose is typically 100 mL (3.4 fl oz) (i.e. 1–2 mL/kg body weight of pure methanol[15]). Reference dose for methanol is 2 mg/kg/day.[16] Toxic effects take hours to start, and effective antidotes can often prevent permanent damage.[14] Because of its similarities in both appearance and odor to ethanol (the alcohol in beverages), it is difficult to differentiate between the two (such is also the case with denatured alcohol). However, there are cases of methanol resistance, such as that of Mike Malloy, who was the victim of a failed murder attempt by methanol in the early 1930s.[17]
Methanol is toxic by two mechanisms. First, methanol (whether it enters the body by ingestion, inhalation, or absorption through the skin) can be fatal due to its CNS depressant properties in the same manner as ethanol poisoning. Second, in a process of toxication, it is metabolized to formic acid (which is present as the formate ion) via formaldehyde in a process initiated by the enzyme alcohol dehydrogenase in the liver.[18] Methanol is converted to formaldehyde via alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH) and formaldehyde is converted to formic acid (formate) via aldehyde dehydrogenase (ALDH). The conversion to formate via ALDH proceeds completely, with no detectable formaldehyde remaining.[19] Formate is toxic because it inhibits mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase, causing the symptoms of hypoxia at the cellular level, and also causing metabolic acidosis, among a variety of other metabolic disturbances.[20]
Methanol poisoning can be treated with fomepizole, or if unavailable, ethanol.[18][21][22] Both drugs act to reduce the action of alcohol dehydrogenase on methanol by means of competitive inhibition, so it is excreted by the kidneys rather than being transformed into toxic metabolites.[18] Further treatment may include giving sodium bicarbonate for metabolic acidosis, and hemodialysis or hemodiafiltration can be used to remove methanol and formate from the blood.[18] Folinic acid or folic acid is also administered to enhance the metabolism of formate.[18]
The initial symptoms of methanol intoxication include central nervous system depression, headache, dizziness, nausea, lack of coordination, and confusion. Sufficiently large doses can cause unconsciousness and death. The initial symptoms of methanol exposure are usually less severe than the symptoms resulting from the ingestion of a similar quantity of ethanol.[9] Once the initial symptoms have passed, a second set of symptoms arises, 10 to as many as 30 hours after the initial exposure to methanol, including blurring or complete loss of vision, acidosis and putaminal hemorrhages, an uncommon but serious complication.[18][23] These symptoms result from the accumulation of toxic levels of formate in the blood, and may progress to death by respiratory failure. Physical examination may show tachypnea, and ophthalmologic examination may show dilated pupils with hyperemia of the optic disc and retinal edema. Small amounts of methanol are produced by the metabolism of food and are generally harmless, being metabolized quickly and completely.
Ethanol is sometimes denatured (adulterated), and made poisonous, by the addition of methanol. The result is known as methylated spirit, "meths" (British use) or "metho" (Australian slang). These are not to be confused with "meth", a common abbreviation for methamphetamine, and an abbreviation for methadone in Britain.
Methanol, a common laboratory solvent, is especially useful for HPLC, UV/VIS spectroscopy, and LCMS due to its low UV cutoff.
The largest use of methanol by far is in making other chemicals. About 40% of methanol is converted to formaldehyde, and from there into products as diverse as plastics, plywood, paints, explosives, and permanent press textiles.
Also in the early 1970s, a methanol to gasoline process was developed by Mobil for producing gasoline ready for use in vehicles. One such industrial facility was built at Motunui in New Zealand in the 1980s. In the 1990s, large amounts of methanol were used in the United States to produce the gasoline additive methyl tert-butyl ether (MTBE). While MTBE is no longer marketed in the U.S., it is still widely used in other parts of the world. In addition to direct use as a fuel, methanol (or less commonly, ethanol) is used as a component in the transesterification of triglycerides to yield a form of biodiesel.
Other chemical derivatives of methanol include dimethyl ether, which has replaced chlorofluorocarbons as an aerosol spray propellant, and acetic acid. Dimethyl ether (DME) also can be blended with liquified petroleum gas (LPG) for home heating and cooking, and can be used as a diesel replacement for transportation fuel.
Methanol-to-Olefins/Methanol-to-Propylene (MTO/MTP), among others processes such as: Metathesis, Propane Dehydrogenation (PDH), High Severity FCC, and Olefins Cracking, is a new and novel lower-cost chemical process for on-purpose propylene production technology of high interest to the petrochemical marketplace, to supply the tight market for propylene.
The market became tight because of the ethane prices falling in the USA, due to the exploration of shale gas reserves. The low price ethylene produced from this raw material has given chemical producers in North America a feedstock advantage. Such change has put naphtha-fed steam crackers at a disadvantageous position, with many of them shutting down or revamping to use ethane as feedstock. Nevertheless, the propylene output rates from ethane-fed crackers are negligible.[24]
Fuel for vehicles
Methanol is used on a limited basis to fuel internal combustion engines. Pure methanol is required by rule to be used in Champcars, Monster Trucks, USAC sprint cars (as well as midgets, modifieds, etc.), and other dirt track series, such as World of Outlaws, and Motorcycle Speedway. Methanol is also used, as the primary fuel ingredient since the late 1940s, in the powerplants for radio control, control line and free flight airplanes (as methanol is required in the engines that primarily power them), cars and trucks, from such an engine's use of a platinum filament glow plug being able to ignite the methanol vapor through a catalytic reaction. Drag racers and mud racers, as well as heavily modified tractor pullers, also use methanol as their primary fuel source. Methanol is required with a supercharged engine in a Top Alcohol Dragster and, until the end of the 2006 season, all vehicles in the Indianapolis 500 had to run methanol. Mud racers have mixed methanol with gasoline with nitrous oxide to produce more power than mixing gasoline and nitrous oxide alone.
One of the potential drawbacks of using high concentrations of methanol (and other alcohols, such as ethanol) in fuel is the corrosivity to some metals of methanol, particularly to aluminium. Methanol, although a weak acid, attacks the oxide coating that normally protects the aluminum from corrosion:
- 6 CH3OH + Al2O3 → 2 Al(OCH3)3 + 3 H2O
The resulting methoxide salts are soluble in methanol, resulting in a clean aluminium surface, which is readily oxidized by dissolved oxygen. Also, the methanol can act as an oxidizer:
- 6 CH3OH + 2 Al → 2 Al(OCH3)3 + 3 H2
This reciprocal process effectively fuels corrosion until either the metal is eaten away or the concentration of CH3OH is negligible. Concerns with methanol's corrosivity have been addressed by using methanol-compatible materials, and fuel additives that serve as corrosion inhibitors.
When produced from wood or other organic materials, the resulting organic methanol (bioalcohol) has been suggested as renewable alternative to petroleum-based hydrocarbons. Low levels of methanol can be used in existing vehicles, with the use of proper cosolvents and corrosion inhibitors.
Methanol fuel has been proposed for ground transportation. The chief advantage of a methanol economy is that it could be adapted to present internal combustion engines with a minimum of modification in both engines and infrastructure to store and deliver liquid fuel.
Government policy
The European Fuel Quality Directive allows up to 3% methanol with an equal amount of cosolvent to be blending in gasoline sold in Europe. China uses more than one billion gallons of methanol per year as a transportation fuel in both low level blends used in existing vehicles, and as high level blends in vehicles designed to accommodate the use of methanol fuels.
In the US in 2011, the Open Fuel Standard Act of 2011 was introduced in the US Congress to encourage car manufacturers to warrant their cars to burn methanol as a fuel in addition to gasoline and ethanol. The bill is being championed by the Open Fuel Standard Coalition.[citation needed]
Other applications
Methanol is a traditional denaturant for ethanol, the product being known as "denatured alcohol" or "methylated spirit". This was commonly used during the Prohibition to discourage consumption of bootlegged liquor, and ended up causing several deaths.[25]
Methanol is also used as a solvent, and as an antifreeze in pipelines and windshield washer fluid.
In some wastewater treatment plants, a small amount of methanol is added to wastewater to provide a carbon food source for the denitrifying bacteria, which convert nitrates to nitrogen to reduce the nitrification of sensitive aquifers.
During World War II, methanol was used as a fuel in several German military rocket designs, under the name M-Stoff, and in a roughly 50/50 mixture with hydrazine, known as C-Stoff.
Methanol was used as an automobile coolant antifreeze in the early 1900s.[26]
Methanol is used as a denaturing agent in polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis.
Direct-methanol fuel cells are unique in their low temperature, atmospheric pressure operation, allowing them to be miniaturized to an unprecedented degree.[27][28] This, combined with the relatively easy and safe storage and handling of methanol, may open the possibility of fuel cell-powered consumer electronics, such as for laptop computers and mobile phones.[29]
Methanol is also a widely used fuel in camping and boating stoves. Methanol burns well in an unpressurized burner, so alcohol stoves are often very simple, sometimes little more than a cup to hold fuel. This lack of complexity makes them a favorite of hikers who spend extended time in the wilderness. Similarly, the alcohol can also be gelled to reduce risk of leaking or spilling, as with the brand "Sterno".
Methanol is mixed with water and injected into high performance diesel and gasoline engines for an increase of power and a decrease in intake air temperature in a process known as water methanol injection.
Energy carrier
Methanol is also useful as an energy carrier. It is easier to store than hydrogen, burns cleaner than fossil fuels, and decomposes to water and carbon dioxide if spilled.[citation needed]
Safety in automotive fuels
Pure methanol has been used in open wheel auto racing since the mid-1960s. Unlike petroleum fires, methanol fires can be extinguished with plain water. A methanol-based fire burns invisibly, unlike gasoline, which burns with a visible flame. If a fire occurs on the track, there is no flame or smoke to obstruct the view of fast approaching drivers, but this can also delay visual detection of the fire and the initiation of fire suppression. The decision to permanently switch to methanol in American IndyCar racing was a result of the devastating crash and explosion at the 1964 Indianapolis 500, which killed drivers Eddie Sachs and Dave MacDonald.[30] In 2007 IndyCars switched to ethanol.[31]
Methanol is readily biodegradable in both aerobic (oxygen present) and anaerobic (oxygen absent) environments. Methanol will not persist in the environment. The half-life for methanol in groundwater is just one to seven days, while many common gasoline components have half-lives in the hundreds of days (such as benzene at 10–730 days). Since methanol is miscible with water and biodegradable, it is unlikely to accumulate in groundwater, surface water, air or soil.[32]
From synthesis gas
Carbon monoxide and hydrogen react over a catalyst to produce methanol. Today, the most widely used catalyst is a mixture of copper, zinc oxide, and alumina first used by ICI in 1966. At 5–10 MPa (50–100 atm) and Script error: No such module "convert"., it can catalyze the production of methanol from carbon monoxide and hydrogen with high selectivity (>99.8%):
It is worth noting that the production of synthesis gas from methane produces three moles of hydrogen gas for every mole of carbon monoxide, while the methanol synthesis consumes only two moles of hydrogen gas per mole of carbon monoxide. One way of dealing with the excess hydrogen is to inject carbon dioxide into the methanol synthesis reactor, where it, too, reacts to form methanol according to the equation:
Some chemists believe that the certain catalysts synthesize methanol using CO2 as an intermediary, and consuming CO only indirectly.
where the H2O byproduct is recycled via the water-gas shift reaction
This gives an overall reaction, which is the same as listed above.
From methane
The direct catalytic conversion of methane to methanol using Cu-zeolites or other catalysts is an alternative process for the efficient production of methanol.[33] This is currently an active field of research, however there are challenges including lifetime of the catalysts and use of affordable reactants to oxidise the methane.[34]
From carbon dioxide
Methanol has been generated directly from carbon dioxide in solution using copper oxide (CuO) nanorods coated by cuprous oxide (Cu2O) and energy from (simulated) sunlight. The process operated with 95% electrochemical efficiency and is claimed to be scalable to industrial size.[35]
Production of synthesis gas
Originally, synthesis gas for the production of methanol came from coal. Today, synthesis gas is most commonly produced from the methane component in natural gas, because natural gas contains hydrogen. Three processes are commercially practiced. At moderate pressures of 4 MPa (40 atm) and high temperatures (around 850 °C), methane reacts with steam on a nickel catalyst to produce syngas according to the chemical equation:
This reaction, commonly called steam-methane reforming or SMR, is endothermic, and the heat transfer limitations place limits on the size of and pressure in the catalytic reactors used. Methane can also undergo partial oxidation with molecular oxygen (at atmospheric pressure) to produce syngas, as the following equation shows:
This reaction is exothermic, and the heat given off can be used in-situ to drive the steam-methane reforming reaction. When the two processes are combined, it is referred to as autothermal reforming. The high pressures and high temperatures needed for steam-reforming require a greater capital investment in equipment than is needed for a simple partial-oxidation process; however, the energy-efficiency of steam-reforming is higher than for partial-oxidation, unless the waste-heat from partial-oxidation is used.
Stoichiometry adjustment
Stoichiometry for methanol production requires the ratio of H2 / CO to equal 2. The partial oxidation process yields a ratio of 2, and the steam reforming process yields a ratio of 3. The H2 / CO ratio can be lowered to some extent by the reverse water-gas shift reaction,
to provide the appropriate stoichiometry for methanol synthesis.
Alternate feedstock materials
Although natural gas is the most economical and widely used feedstock for methanol production, many other feedstocks can be used to produce syngas via steam reforming.[36] Steam-reformed coal is sometimes used as a feedstock for methanol production, particularly in China. In addition, mature technologies available for biomass gasification are being used for methanol production. For instance, woody biomass can be gasified to water gas (a hydrogen-rich syngas), by introducing a blast of steam in a blast furnace. The water-gas / syngas can then be synthesized to methanol using standard methods. The net process is carbon neutral, since the CO2 byproduct is required to produce biomass via photosynthesis. Using a composition for wood of 50% carbon, 42% oxygen, 6% hydrogen[37] we can represent wood with the formula C11H16O7 (we could also use C8H12O5). Then some combination of the following two formal reactions will occur:
Quality specifications and analysis
Methanol for laboratory use
Methanol is available commercially in various purity grades for fine chemicals: 1) "Synthesis" quality (corresponding to normal commercial methanol) 2) Certified analytical quality 3) Extremely pure qualities for semiconductor manufacture
Commercial methanol
In addition to laboratory grades, commercial methanol is generally classified according to ASTM purity grades A and AA. Methanol for chemical use normally corresponds to Grade AA. In addition to water, typical impurities include acetone (which is very difficult to separate by distillation) and ethanol. When methanol is delivered by ships or tankers used to transport other substances, contamination by the previous cargo must be expected. Comparative ultraviolet spectroscopy has proved a convenient, quick test method for deciding whether a batch can be accepted and loaded.Traces of all chemicals derived from aromatic parent substances, as well as a large number of other compounds, can be detected. Further tests for establishing the quality of methanol include measurements of boiling point range, density, permanganate number, turbidity, color index, and acid number. More comprehensive tests include water determination according to the Karl Fischer method and gas chromatographic determination of byproducts. However, the latter is relatively expensive and time consuming because several injections using different columns and detectors must be made due to the variety of byproducts present.
In their embalming process, the ancient Egyptians used a mixture of substances, including methanol, which they obtained from the pyrolysis of wood. Pure methanol, however, was first isolated in 1661 by Robert Boyle, when he produced it via the distillation of buxus (boxwood).[38] It later became known as "pyroxylic spirit". In 1834, the French chemists Jean-Baptiste Dumas and Eugene Peligot determined its elemental composition.[39]
They also introduced the word "methylene" to organic chemistry, forming it from Greek methy = "wine" + hȳlē = wood (patch of trees), with Greek language errors: "wood (substance)" (Greek ξύλον, xylon) was intended, and the components are in the wrong order for Greek. The term "methyl" was derived in about 1840 by back-formation from "methylene", and was then applied to describe "methyl alcohol". This was shortened to "methanol" in 1892 by the International Conference on Chemical Nomenclature.[40] The suffix -yl used in organic chemistry to form names of carbon groups, was extracted from the word "methyl".
In 1923, the German chemists Alwin Mittasch and Mathias Pier, working for BASF, developed a means to convert synthesis gas (a mixture of carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, and hydrogen) into methanol. A patent was filed 12 January 1926 (reference no. 1,569,775). This process used a chromium and manganese oxide catalyst, and required extremely vigorous conditions—pressures ranging from 50 to 220 atm, and temperatures up to 450 °C. Modern methanol production has been made more efficient through use of catalysts (commonly copper) capable of operating at lower pressures. The modern low pressure methanol (LPM) was developed by ICI in the late 1960s with the technology now owned[citation needed] by Johnson Matthey, which is a leading licensor of methanol technology.
Methanol is one of the most heavily traded chemical commodities in the world, with an estimated global demand of around 27 to 29 million metric tons. In recent years, production capacity has expanded considerably, with new plants coming on-stream in South America, China and the Middle East, the latter based on access to abundant supplies of methane gas. Even though nameplate production capacity (coal-based) in China has grown significantly, operating rates are estimated to be as low as 50 to 60%. No new production capacity is scheduled to come on-stream until 2015.
The main applications for methanol are the production of formaldehyde (used in construction and wooden boarding), acetic acid (basis for a.o. PET-bottles), MTBE (fuel component and replacement for the very volatile diethyl ether) and more recently for the formation of methyl esters in the production of bio-diesel. In China, demand is expected to grow exponentially, not only caused by a growing internal market of the traditional applications, but accelerated by new applications, such as direct blending (with gasoline), Methanol-To-Olefins (e.g. propylene) and DME. Methanol can also be used to produce gasoline.
The use of methanol as a motor fuel received attention during the oil crises of the 1970s due to its availability, low cost, and environmental benefits. By the mid-1990s, over 20,000 methanol "flexible fuel vehicles" capable of operating on methanol or gasoline were introduced in the U.S. In addition, low levels of methanol were blended in gasoline fuels sold in Europe during much of the 1980s and early-1990s. Automakers stopped building methanol FFVs by the late-1990s, switching their attention to ethanol-fueled vehicles. While the methanol FFV program was a technical success, rising methanol pricing in the mid- to late-1990s during a period of slumping gasoline pump prices diminished the interest in methanol fuels.[41]
In 2006, astronomers using the MERLIN array of radio telescopes at Jodrell Bank Observatory discovered a large cloud of methanol in space, 288 billion miles across.[42][43]
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- ^ Boyle discusses the distillation of liquids from the wood of the box shrub in: Robert Boyle, The Sceptical Chymist (London, England: J. Cadwell, 1661), pp. 192–195.
- ^ A report on methanol to the French Academy of Sciences by J. Dumas and E. Péligot began during the Academy's meeting of October 27, 1834 and finished during the meeting of November 3, 1834. See: Procès-verbaux des séances de l'Académie, 10 : 600–601. Available on: Gallica. The complete report appears in: J. Dumas and E. Péligot (1835) "Mémoire sur l'espirit de bois et sur les divers composés ethérés qui en proviennent" (Memoir on spirit of wood and on the various ethereal compounds that derive therefrom), Annales de chimie et de physique, 58 : 5–74; from page 9: Nous donnerons le nom de méthylène (1) à un radical … (1) Μεθυ, vin, et υλη, bois; c'est-à-dire vin ou liqueur spiritueuse du bois. (We will give the name "methylene" (1) to a radical … (1) methy, wine, and hulē, wood; that is, wine or spirit of wood.)
- ^ For a report on the International Conference on Chemical Nomenclature that was held in April 1892 in Geneva, Switzerland, see:
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p. 398: 15. The alcohols and the phenols will be called after the name of the hydrocarbon from which they are derived, terminated with the suffix ol (ex. pentanol, pentenol, etc.).
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- ^ Amos, Jonathan (5 April 2006). "Merlin sees vast alcohol stream". BBC News.
Further reading
- Robert Boyle, The Sceptical Chymist (1661) – contains account of distillation of wood alcohol.
External links
- International Chemical Safety Card 0057
- The Methanol Institute Industry trade group, lots of information on methanol's use in fuel cells and as an alternative fuel.
- Methyl Alcohol (Methanol) CDC/NIOSH, links to safety information
- CDC – NIOSH Pocket Guide to Chemical Hazards – Methyl Alcohol
- China Takes Gold in Methanol Fuel
- The methanol story: a sustainable fuel for the future article by Ford Motor's Roberta Nichols, the mother of the flexible fuel vehicle, discussing Gasoline-Ethanol-Methanol flexibility in the Journal of Scientific & Industrial Research
- Methanol Fact Sheet – National Pollutant Inventory
- Methanol Discovered in Space
- Calculation of vapor pressure, liquid density, dynamic liquid viscosity, surface tension of methanol
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Missouri CourthousesContact and other information about this county is available on the National Association of Counties website, http://explorer.naco.org/.
Gasconade City, Bartonville and Mount Sterling were early locations of Gasconade's county seat. Courts began meeting in Gasconade City, located on the Gasconade River, in 1821 and continued meeting there until 1825, when flooding caused relocation. The second site, Bartonville, was also located on the Gasconade River, in what later became Osage County. It, too, flooded, and the county seat next moved to Mount Sterling in 1832.
Volume A of the County Court Record indicates that the court planned a one-story, 22-foot-square, hewn-log building; however Goodspeed's History of Franklin, Jefferson, Washington, Crawford and Gasconade Counties of 1886 describes a 20-by-24 foot, log, two-story building on stone foundation, with a stone chimney and two fireplaces. The courtroom was on the first floor. Joshua Cox contracted the building for about $300.
After an election on March 14, 1842, the county seat moved to Hermann. The town paid for the courthouse, which was built in the center of a block on East Front Street (Figure 1). This site, high on a bluff above the Missouri River, is one of few courthouse sites that takes advantage of a natural vista. The square, two-story, brick building with hip roof cost about $3,000 (Figure 2). The County Court used this courthouse until 1896 when they ordered it razed.
Figure 1Gasconade County Courthouse, Hermann, 1842-1896, top of hill on right. Drawn by Robyn ca. 1859-60. (Courtesy: State Historical Society of Missouri)
Figure 2Gasconade County Courthouse, Hermann, 1842-1896. (Courtesy: State Historical Society of Missouri, gift of W. J. Eitzen)
The present courthouse, a gift to the county from Charles D. Eitzen, was built in 1896-98. Architects were J. B. Legg, St. Louis, and A. W. Elsner, Jefferson City, who originally presented plans calling for a 143-by-88-foot building. The two-story courthouse had a finished basement and a dome that rose 120 feet. Originally, the building was to be constructed of light-gray or medium-buff brick with matching terra cotta trim. The main roof was to be dark Pennsylvania slate, the dome roofs of tin, painted a copper color. The rotunda and corridors were to be tiled in Italian marble and mosaic.
In February 1897 the court called for bids. Thirty contractors responded, but all bids for the Legg-Elsner design were too high. The architects then modified the plans, eliminating some of the more costly specifications. Red brick with white stone trim was substituted for the gray or buff brick. Again the court called for bids; H. J. Wallau received the building contract for $41,500 and completed his work in 1898 (Figure 3). On the first floor, offices open off a long east-west hall; the 41-by-44-foot Circuit Court room is located on the west end of the second story. Dedication took place May 25, 1898. Fire damaged the building Feb. 3, 1905.
Figure 3Gasconade County Courthouse, 1898. Architects: J. B. Legg and A. W. Elsner (From: postcard, Trenton Boyd collection)
This courthouse may be compared with two similar courthouses Legg designed a few years later: Mississippi County, also of red brick, and St. Charles County, done in gray stone.
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God that was satisfying. The Dress Porn at the Costume Institute Gala was satisfying, wasn't it? That's what's great about Dress Porn -- even when it's bad, it's GREAT. Because sometimes hating is more fun anyway, which is a truth that's only safe to admit in the context of style. So here we are, at the Oscars of Style. An event that takes place in New York. Where, presumably, everyone else at the party "gets" it, and they're really the only people who matter -- in this conversation -- anyway. So why worry about the wife of an old ass Academy voter who lives in Palm Springs? You have succeeded if the pearl-clutching fans of Reese Witherspoon's red carpet aesthetic snort in disgust. You have failed if Duana uses the word "mumsy" to describe it. This is what happened to the celebrity who will go on to be named Worst at the MET Gala 2013. But I reserve the right to change my mind. At this writing, I've not seen all from every angle yet. I can tell you right now though that Best MET won't be Claire Danes or Emily Blunt. For the MET Gala? Really? This? Pink eye shadow doesn't turn a boring black dress into punk awesome. Sorry, but it's not enough.
Remember, PUNK is the theme. Pretty is not the theme. If it's punk and it happens to be pretty, fine. But PUNK should be priority. It's the annual all MET Gala edition of the blog. Ready to yell at each other over Dress Porn?
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Have been building this one on and off over the last year or so, she's stalled a bit of late due to other stuff
getting in the way, here is the build diary started around May 2012
Going to have a go at building a push bike something like this, it's a Zundapp used by the German army during
WW II sort of stand off scale, hopefully I'll get her done in the time? So sketch first and a bit of planning.
Been a model maker for some time, so got a 1/24th scale kit of the bike to get an idea on some of the details.
Bit more planning with pencil on paper.
Drew up a scaled up plan for the frame, just slightly smaller than a real one.
Donor bike and some bits of steel for the frame.
So here is the front section of frame, mounted up on a jig of plywood with nails to hold it's position.
Multi pie cuts to get that aggressive curve in the lower frame, will be tricky to weld. The top end not so difficult
Here are the frame parts pretty much ready to be welded together, hopefully soon.
Feel like I have done a lot but not got far, at least I have a rolling frame! So here is a bit of a mock up of the
beginnings of this bike. Yep she will be chunky, yep she will be a little heavy but hey weight will mean momentum
right! Took a bit to hold all this together and get her welded.
Here is how I got around those fine pie cuts front lower frame, covered them with a plate and welded
the edge of the plate.
Here is the front end, that little stork will be for the gear lever. Will run the gear and brake cables
down the centre of the upper lengths.
The rear of the frame just behind the seat post to the start of the donor frame section that I used.
Had a few headaches getting this section right, you can see my finger pointing to the rear of the
frame where I put a cut to bend the section down.
The bars are some stock cruiser bars with a short length extending them slightly.
No fancy mig or tig welder for me, old school arch welder low amps and 2mm rods and blast a few
holes then fill them! Most people who have mig welders here have real problems with feed as the
salt air creates corrosion on the coil of wire and it doesn't feed well, none of these problems with
arch. Now take it easy on my welds folks, far from a master. Also notice the rust, only welded up
a couple of days ago photographed this afternoon, the salt air thatsurrounds me doing its stuff!
Here she is all mocked up, at least she looks a bit like the real thing.
The chrome fenders will be painted.
Working light is just a cheapy torch, the wartime bikes had shades so they couldn't be seen so well at night.
As I pulled here down I took a pic with the rear seat off, looks okay like this I think.
From here a bit more welding, and a heap of sanding and filling of the ply bits, then paint and assembly
can see the glow at the end of the tunnel!
So a bit of slow progress, seem to have done a lot but doesn't look like much, lots of filling and sanding
to get to where she is now at least it is all one colour!
She will be a two seater like to original but will spend sometime as a single seater as I think she looks
better with out the second seat.
That's a Honda CT 90 headlight surround and a VW oil filler cap topping off the fake tank.
The little box on top of the tank was used for storage on the original, seats will be covered eventually.
The original had heat shields on the muffler, I am using them to stop the passengers feet getting stuck
in the spokes. The foot pegs again from a Honda CT90
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Postby Pushie Pirate » Fri Jan 03, 2014 8:51 pm
Cut it up and turn it into something else!
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How's the clearance for some extra fat 26" tyres?
How's the clearance for some extra fat 26" tyres?
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Postby Pushie Pirate » Sat Jan 04, 2014 6:25 am
HappyHumber wrote:Impressive!
How's the clearance for some extra fat 26" tyres?
Yep good question, got "around it", scuse the pun, the real ones had
good clerance between the tyres and guards as they where used off
road a fair bit, won't have real fats on this one, 125s only.
Cut it up and turn it into something else!
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Postby jaffaman » Sun Jan 19, 2014 7:03 pm
Love the build. Particularly those dual seats, and modelling it on a classic motorbike is a great idea.
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Postby cray- » Fri Jan 31, 2014 2:27 pm
Shame it's so hard to fit decently chunky rubber on a pushie. Apart from that it looks like a very interesting built. Amazing what a bit of bog/bondo, sandpaper and primer can do. Look forward to seeing more progress.
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Postby Pushie Pirate » Mon Mar 03, 2014 7:57 am
Plodding away on this one managed to get a bit more detail on her getting close to paint.
Used an old trailer hitch for the passenger handle, scrap foam and paint on the seats.
Really wanted a taillight close to to original, so scratch built this, an old can and some plywood.
Bit of bondo and some sand paper got me close.
Finally a shifter from a couple of VW Beetle heater cable levers.
Used an old trailer hitch for the passenger handle, scrap foam and paint on the seats.
Really wanted a taillight close to to original, so scratch built this, an old can and some plywood.
Bit of bondo and some sand paper got me close.
Finally a shifter from a couple of VW Beetle heater cable levers.
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PORTSMOUTH — Just looking at the license plates in the parking lot of Portsmouth's Frank Jones Center gives one an idea of the popularity of the Seacoast Spring Doll, Bear & Folk Art Show.
With New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Vermont, Maine and New Hampshire residents in attendance, promoter Wendy Collins was overjoyed on Sunday, November 4.
"I have been in this business for many years," she said, "and doing this show since 2005. This is a good as I have seen it; lots of regulars."
With over 85 tables of exhibitors, the large crowd was assured of finding items of interest. Things such as antique dolls, items by original artists, and folk art of all kinds.
"One man's trash is another man's treasure," remarked Lewis Costanza of Melrose, Mass. as he looked at a table holding hundreds of Beanie Babies. "I can remember when people waited in line for hours, sometimes days for these, and now they're on sale for a dollar apiece."
Kimberly Kittredge of Mansfield, Conn. was showcasing her wares, consisting of pre-1930s artifacts such as a 1910 child's elephant and teddy bears, circa 1920.
"I really like this show, it is so well run and well attended," she said. "I have been involved in this business, actually more of a lifestyle, since I was a young girl. My mom was an antique dealer and I used to follow her around. I guess you could say I followed in her business footsteps as well." Kittredge runs a large show in Sturbridge, Mass. as well. "This show is very good, it has a great following."
Eleven-year-old Jenna Redlefsen of Medford, Mass. was attending the show for the second year with her father David.
"I like all doll clothes and American Girl doll stuff," said the smiling ten year old while brandishing a bag holding American Girl Rollerblade and searching for her father, who is the checkwriter. "I like the bears too," said the fourth grader.
At the age of 11, Jenna was not the youngest attending; if there was a prize it would go to Liam Dinwoodie of Rollinsford.
"Liam will be two years old in January," explained his mother Renee, "and this is actually his second visit to this show; he came last Spring." Liam was an experienced shopper, eyeing the teddy bear collection while hanging on to his personal animal, Clifford the Big Red Dog.
Dover High School senior Jen Blake was strolling through the crowd with her mother Pauline. The two were combing through toys looking for those "that I played with when I was young," said Pauline, holding up a Liddle Kiddles Klub carrying case.
"My girls love coming to this kind of a thing; it's mother daughter bonding."
Family was also playing a part in a McWhinnie family table of 1980s items. Jeri McWhinnie's mother was a dealer who passed away recently. "This is a one-time show for us," explained Jeri's sister-in-law Bari. "We are selling her mother's collection. I am sure she is looking down on us with approval." They were ably assisted by Bari's mother Shelley Bice of Amherst, who may have been the star of the show fully attired as Andy of Raggedy Ann and Andy fame.
With people rolling in at lunch time there was hot clam chowder available. Isabelle Brewster and her great aunt, Del Floyd of Limerick, Maine, were partaking and chatting about what they had seen this day. "I own a museum in Limerick called Playthings & Pastimes and we have a lovely collection of items. Eleven-year-old Isabelle from Cornish enjoys miniatures and is in the sixth grade at Sacopee Valley School.
Commented Floyd, "One thing that is so funny about these shows is people talking about new innovations in doll technology. One of the new things is ball joints in dolls." She joked: "It is so new it goes back to the sixties, the 1860s.
Doll, Bear, Folk Art Show sees a resurgence
PORTSMOUTH — Just looking at the license plates in the parking lot of Portsmouth's Frank Jones Center gives one an idea of the popularity of the Seacoast Spring Doll, Bear & Folk Art Show.


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SOMIS, Calif. - On Monday the Lipscomb men's golf team opened the Jones Invitational by playing 36 of the 54-hole event.
As a team the Bisons posted a total score of 631, 55-over par and finished the opening day tied for 11th in a 12-team field.
Freshman Stoney Crouch paced the Bisons on Monday, firing a five-over par 77 in the opening round. Crouch followed with a 78 in the afternoon round and finished the day 38th overall with a two round total of 155.
After carding an 81 on the opening 18 holes, Sydney Chung bettered his scored with a 78 in the second round. His 159 total puts him in a tie for 50th.
Dowling Armstrong finished just behind Chung, tied for 53rd. Armstrong posted rounds of 77-83 for a two round total of 160.
Rounding out the Purple and Gold scorecard from the Saticoy Country Club was freshman Mikey Feher (57th) and junior Caston Roberts (63rd). Feher shot a 6-over 78 in the first round before turning in an 83 for the second.
Roberts, former Pepperdine stick swinger, was just five over par through the first nine holes of the day, but a 7-hole stretch on the backside proved costly, where he went nine-over par to finish with an 86 in round one. Roberts cashed in two eagles on the backside par-5s in the second round to improve his day with a seven-over par 79 to end day one.
No. 23 ranked Southern California leads the Jones Invitational with a team score of 585 (+9).
The third and final round will begin with an 8 a.m. shotgun start Tuesday.
A full tournament recap will be provided after the final round on Tuesday on Lipscombsports.com.
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Hot off the heels of her husband's better than expected debate performance, Ann Romney has booked her own gig in the public eye. The sixty-three-year-old wife, mother and equestrian enthusiast will appear on Good Morning America on October 10 and take up residence in Robin Roberts' empty chair.
The regular anchor is still on sabbatical fighting Myelodysplastic Syndrome. Rather than bring someone on board for the entire period of her absence, the show has gone the Live With Kelly! route and rotated through a slew of famous people including Stephen Colbert and Jessica Simpson. First Lady Michelle Obama was reportedly offered a chance to make an appearance as well, but thus far, she hasn't committed.
There is, of course, far less pressure on Ann than there is on her husband Mitt, but it's still beneficial for all involved if she comes off positively. Either way though, the real winner will probably prove to be ABC. It would be a shock if more viewers than usual didn't tune in. In fact, the better question isn't whether more people will tune in but how many more people will tune in.
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Volume 18 Issue 8 | July 15-21, 2005
Edward Albee, playwright, discusses writing his play The Zoo Story.
Bohemia in downtown
Documentary shows decades of the Villages impact on American culture
By JERRY TALLMER
Edward Albee sits on a park bench in Greenwich Village and says: Id read about the Village, how Bohemian it was, and after getting thrown out of college, couldnt wait to get here.
Norman Mailer, at his ease in the White Horse, thinks back to his boyhood in Brooklyn in the 1930s: Our one idea above all was to get laid. The mecca for that was Greenwich Village. It had a wonderful patina. I got to the Village in 1955. One of the ironies of today is that unless youre pretty high up in the bourgeois world, you cant afford to live in Greenwich Village.
He talks of E.E. Cummings, John Dos Passos, William Faulkner, Hart Crane, Theodore Dreiser, Sinclair Lewis, Mark Twain
Tim Robbins sits on a stoop on St. Lukes Place and says: What astonishes me about growing up [on King Street] in Greenwich Village is that Id be walking down the street with my baseball glove going to play softball, and Id be walking next to Allen Ginsberg or Bob Dylan.
Steve Schlurak, bartender at Chumleys, points out Table 8, where Scott and Zelda Fitzerald are reputed to have consummated their romance.
Woody Allen looks back to his start in Village clubs like the Comedy Cellar and The Village Gate (where this journalist first saw him): You always had an audience and they were good ones.
Lorraine Gordon in the Village Vanguard talks of her husband Max This was his salon, his living room and of Dinah Washington, Coltrane, Miles Davis, Yul Brynner, Mingus breaking down the door, Bill Evans looking like a wounded bird.
Roy Haynes talks of playing with Charlie Parker and Art Tatum at Café Society Downtown, and of Billie Holiday, in that basement at 2 Sheridan Square.
Maya Angelou sits on a stoop in North Carolina and talks of her middle-class background, her early reverence of poets, and of how when I got to the Village I felt like Brer Rabbit in the briar patch
home at last, home at last.
Another Maya, and a great one, filmmaker Maya Deren, you wont see in this film, because she is long gone, but if you look sharp you may catch a glimpse of her as the camera pans past a wall of book jackets at Chumleys.
It was in fact the legacy of Maya Deren, in particular her golden glorious Meshes of the Afternoon, that inspired Karen Kramer, the first time she saw Meshes, back in college in Denver, Colorado, to become a filmmaker herself.
The climax to a full career of almost 30 years in that line well, the climax so far is an evocative, informative 70-minute documentary, The Ballad of Greenwich Village, more than a dozen years in the making, thats on its way to the Quad Cinema on 13th Street.
Allen Ginsberg you wont see (except in beautiful photos of him as a very young man) because he died just before Karen Kramer could get him on camera.
Id had a preliminary meeting with him, she says. A very generous guy. He talked about Walt Whitman and other poets. It was when Allen died [in 1997] that I took whatever little money I had and began to interview people, beginning with the folksingers. (Theres also some strong, frantic footage of cops manhandling folksingers and listeners in the 1960s in Washington Square.)
When I met with Richie Havens in front of the Bitter End, some nearby construction was making a lot of noise. Richie asked the construction workers to stop, and they all did. After the interview he went up to each of them and shook their hands.
What had taken all those years until then was two things. One, to raise the money, and two, because Im such a thorough researcher. Even before I interviewed Norman Mailer, in December 1999, I went and read all his books.
All of them?
She moves her hands in a gesture of Oh, well. Some I skimmed through. But I read all his nonfiction. And with Edward Albee, I read everything. I hope people get the symbolism of Edward being interviewed on a park bench a visual reference to the whereabouts of The Zoo Story, Albees first produced play,
I did not think the funding would come easily, she says. But beyond that came the problem of how to take this enormous amount of material and put it shaping the figure with her hands into a funnel.
It kills me, all the stuff I couldnt put in. Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitneys studio on 8th Street. Eddie Condons on 3rd Street. Pfaffs Beer Hall of the 1850s. Charles Pfaff, a German immigrant, was Americas first Bohemian. And on and on and on. All the artists and writers. Every writer passed through Greenwich Village.
I began to see that certain things have to stand for everything, like Café Society for Jazz. You know, some people hated Café Society because it was interracial. Theyd throw tomatoes at the customers.
Karen Kramer had been making movies about other places, other cultures including Maya Derens Haiti since 1977, when one day, standing in line in a grocery store on Bleecker Street, she got chatting with an 87-year-old woman who started telling anecdotes about all the wonderful people shed known in the Village.
I never saw that woman again, but I thought I really should document some of these people before its too late. Maybe I would tell the story of Bleecker Street. Then, when I began research, I saw how far back Bohemia goes in Greenwich Village back past the hippies, back past the Beats, back past John Reed
The more research I did, the more it got like one of those Russian dolls within a doll within a doll. I had a very logical plan. I would raise the money, do the research, write the script, start shooting.
It didnt work like that. A whole other component was getting the archival material. A task so labor-intensive, working with the Museum of the City of New York, the New York Public Library, the Library of Performing Arts, also with private collections.
There are at least 120 stills in the film, but its not just finding the stills. You have to get the rights and thats not easy. And once youve got the photo and once youve got the rights, then you have to make the photo compatible with the editing process and thats a nightmare.
And theres a third component, says the filmmaker. I wanted some neighborhood people to be in this like Jean Murai, for instance, that elegant lady in a red suit. She used to be a folksinger; shes also an activist, interested in human rights. I first met her at a protest meeting against something NYU was doing. She called the other day and said: Karen, whens my movie opening?
Its opening July 22 at the Quad, and Leroy Street resident Karen Kramer, who as a young woman made a beeline for the Village from where shed grown up in the suburbs hopes that all Greenwich Villagers will be proud of it.
I will die, wrote Edna St. Vincent Millay, but that is all I will do for Death. This documentary seconds the case.
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Responding to mushrooming right-to-know requests is preventing Justice Department attorneys from performing other legal services, Attorney General Michael Delaney told budget writers Friday.
|Attorney General Michael Delaney
Delaney appeared before the Governor's Fiscal Year 2014-15 Operating Budget Hearing Friday and said while the state's public information law allows broad access to public records, there is a cost for that broad access.
Delaney said his agency cannot recoup the full costs of responding to the requests and suggested the state consider making more information available through technology that would eliminate citizen needs to make requests and his agency's time and expense to produce the information.
He noted when former Attorney General Kelly Ayotte ran for U.S. Senate, his office had to go through her emails one by one to respond to one right-to-know request, and alluded to other similar requests.
"We need to make this information available to the public, but the cost to produce government records about actions taken in the past is materially undermining our ability to perform current functions," Delaney said. "We need to have a serious discussion about funding options or alternative ways to allocate these costs."
Delaney asked state budget writers for a 17.6 percent increase in his budget funded through state tax dollars. In the current biennium, the department received $16.1 million, and Delaney requested $18.91 million for the next two-year cycle.
He noted during this biennium, his agency has produced $160 million in revenue through national lawsuits such as the mortgage foreclosure settlement with five large national banks.
"We've demonstrated we are a good investment," Delaney said. "We defy the model that legal services are a cost center and not a revenue center."
Delaney also noted while his agency has lost 15 attorneys through budget reductions, other state agencies are adding lawyers.
"In my opinion, this trend toward the decentralized provision of legal services is not consistent with sound public policy," he said. "It leads to the state taking inconsistent legal positions, a disjointed development of the law, and significant inefficiencies."
After the hearings concluded, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Morse, R-Salem, said this upcoming budget will be as difficult to balance as the current budget, noting state agencies asked for more than taxpayers could afford.
"Honest revenue estimates, responsible spending, and low taxes are the keys to a balanced budget that will help our economy and avoid the mistakes of the past," Morse said.
Overall, state agencies and institutions have asked for an additional $691 million in spending to be funded by state tax dollars for the next two fiscal years, a 26 percent increase.
The total request - including federal and other funds - is an additional $11.9 billion in spending, or 19 percent.
Gov.-elect Maggie Hassan said Monday the departments' requests are unrealistic given the state's fragile economy and slow growing revenue stream.
"Gov.-elect Hassan has met with many of the state agencies, and she struck the right tone earlier this week when she instructed them to pare back their requests," Morse said. "The ball is now in her court, and we look forward to reviewing her proposed budget."
The hearings are the first of many steps before the state's two-year operating budget is finalized in June.
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Weekend 2.
Early Sunday morning I couldn't sleep, so I stayed out on a bale of hay to watch the sunrise.
Then Chris from Stanford stumbled by and kept talking about wanting water and how the lights were like heaters.
While trying to get Chris to leave me alone, "Nina" and Pat walked by after just meeting 10 minutes before.
We all decided to stay together, since none of us could sleep and our friends were all knocked out.
We went to the Silent Disco and got to dance to the very last song before they closed at 6am.
On our way to finally go to Chris' lights, we got our picture taken in front of the Yellow Submarine by an Australian in gold pants,
and a character with neon animal print leggings and Christmas lights around his neck.
These two joined us as we walked upon the grass, still a little "buzzed" from the epic Saturday we all had.
We ended up at the bales of hay near the Store, where we sat and watched the sunrise.
We talked about each other, Australia, Coachella, drugs, pb & j's, and how we all really liked each other.
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After the Coroner's inquest returned their verdict of "undetermined" in the death of George Barclay the funeral was allowed to take place:
"The remains were brought to this city today and were met at the train by friends and Pap Thomas Post No. 30, G.A.R. under who auspices the services were conducted, the murdered man being an old soldier and member of this post.
The funeral services were conducted at the Episcopal church, Rev. C. F Kite officiating. The remains were interred in Evergreen Cemetery. The deceased leaves a widow and one married daughter to mourn his death." From the Cold Blooded Murder article Nov 3, 1898.
Another version of the funeral:
"The remains were brought to Brainerd on Thursday morning for interment and the funeral took place at 11 a.m. from St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Rev. C. F. Kite conducting the services. The members of Pap Thomas Post, G.A.R. and the Women's Relief Corps, met the funeral cortege at the station and marched with the procession to the church and thence to the cemetery." From Cowardly Crime article Nov. 5, 1898.
See post dated November 28, 2013 "Cold Blood Murder and Cowardly Crime – November 1898," for the complete articles.
Alexander, George's brother had heard of the shooting. So he left his home in Farmington, Dakota County, Minnesota to attend the funeral on November 3, 1898. The brothers had served in the Civil War and were G.A.R. (Grand Old Army) members so I know that he would have wanted to attend and be part of the G.A.R. processional.
Source: Local News – A.A. Barckley started for Pine River, Dakota County Tribune.
A.A. Barckley started for Pine River Wednesday morning to attend the funeral of his brother, who was shot there Saturday.
The newspaper combined the murder events with the funeral and didn't prepare a separate article on the events of the funeral of George A. Barclay. Unfortunately the G.A.R. Chapter that George was a member of lost their papers in a fire in about 1910, so I was unable to obtain anymore details on the funeral of George.


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NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J., June 8 (UPI) -- The driver of the limo bus Tracy Morgan was riding in when it crashed said the comedian was "screaming for help" before he was pulled from the wreckage.
The accident Saturday morning killed Morgan's comedy writer, James McNair, and sent Morgan to the hospital in critical condition. Three other people were injured in the accident, which included two tractor-trailers and two cars.
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MILFORD – Sue-Ellen Szymanski pulled a book cart out of her office Monday afternoon.
On it sat the newest, and certainly most expensive, item the Milford Town Library loans out: an Orion StarBlast 4.5-inch Astro Reflector telescope.
Szymanski, the library's youth services supervisor, and her husband, Robert, donated the $350 telescope to the library as part of a new initiative in Massachusetts called the Library Telescope Program.
"We want more young explorers and astronomers," Szymanksi said.
The library will loan the telescope out for a week at a time after July 31, when library and Aldrich Astronomical Society staff will take the tool and four others like it to the town park for demonstration.
More than 50 people are currently registered for the demonstration, but tickets still remain, Szymanski said.
The telescope is strong enough to reveal 7,000 to 8,000 stars out of the range of the naked eye, said John Root of the Aldrich Astronomical Society.
"The moon and deep sky objects will show far more detail than one could see with the common beginners telescopes," he said.
The telescope, like the others employed by the program, is typically intended for advanced and professional use, though the Library Telescope Program modifies the units to make them sturdier and more user-friendly, Root said.
The year-old Library Telescope Program has helped nine libraries in the state acquire telescopes, including Milford's. Root said he hopes to raise that number to a dozen in the coming months. He plans to repeat the process every three or four months, he said.
The New Hampshire Astronomical Society started a similar program in 2008, he said. They now have telescopes in more than 90 libraries. A program in Maine started in 2011 and now has 31.
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National Memorial Day Concert On the eve of Memorial Day, pops conductor Jack Everly directs the National Symphony Orchestra in this concert that pays tribute to all who served during World War II, Korean War veterans and National Guard heroes and families. Performers include cross-over artist Katherine Jenkins, singer-songwriter Chris Mann, and tenor Alfie Boe. Joe Mantegna and Gary Sinise return as hosts for the event on the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol.G
9:30 pm
Masterpiece Mystery! "Inspector Lewis, Series V: Generation of Vipers" Lewis and Hathaway are drawn into a world of virtual bullying, but very real murder, when Professor Miranda Thornton is found dead after her dating video is leaked to a vicious website. Although it appears to be a suicide, the deeper they investigate, the more it seems that Miranda's death is the final revenge of an old enemy.G
11:00 pm
New Tricks "Body of Evidence" When the body of missing computer expert Martin Longthorn, who worked for the Metropolitan Police, turns up in the morgue of a teaching hospital under a false name and address, the UCOS team members find themselves drawn into the unfamiliar world of online hacktivists.G