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Scope and ContentNewspaper article: HOBOCAN HACKINGH Interesting History of the First Ferry From This City. Plucky John Stevens of Hoboken He Would Not Be Denied Even With Two Legislatures Fighting His Progressive Ideas - He Ran the First Steam Ferryboat in This Country. (Extracts from Winfield's History of Hoboken.) Published Saturday, January 18, 1896 in a local newspaper (name not known, but display ads on reverse are Hoboken businesses.) A long (not full height) single column (scanned image is in overlapping sections.) The clipping was part of series of at least 14 extracts taken from Winfield's history and credited in the title as "Extracts from Winfield's History of Hoboken." This one is probably the seventh. They were all published in published in January and dated by the collectors, Matthias H. and May Georgia Taylor of 525 Garden St., in pencil or ink. This source text was: Hopoghan Hackingh. Hoboken, A Pleasure Resort for Old New York. This work was an 80-page history of the city written by Charles H. Winfield and published by Caxton Press, New York in 1895. See library catalog 2004.056.0001 for the original source. The article may be considered as promotion for the volume.