Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 71, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 December 1911 — December 11 In History. [ARTICLE]

December 11 In History.

Monday, Dec. 11, was the anniversary of many important events in history: December 11, 1777, Washington went into winter quarters at Valley Forge, Pa.; December 11, 1816,' Indiana was admitted to the L'nion .as the nineteenth state; December 11, 1833, the first newspaper in Wisconsin, the Green Bay Intelligencer, was started; December 11, 1843," the first lecture was delivered in Rush Medical college, Chicago; December 11. 1852, Indiainapolis paper: "The blacksmiths in this city have raised the price of horseshoeing from $1.25 to $1.50 a set. This has been done on account of the sudden rise in the price of iron”; December 11, 1862," battle, of Fredericksburg, Va.