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October 31, 2021
W. F . Burr
Inventor W. F . Burr gets a patent for the Switching Device for Railways on this day in 1899.
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Elihu Embree
The first Anti-Slavery newspaper devoted to the abolition of slavery ended publishing on this day in 1820. It was published by Elihu Embree at Jonesborough in Tennessee.
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