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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Batman_2000, post: 303059, member: 481&quot;]No idea about the authenticity of the ticket itself, but I&#039;m inclined to think the event <i>did</i> take place. The book that bakersgma linked to has some other information too... &#039;American Eagle Association&#039; is also referred to as &#039;American Eagle Chapter&#039; and &#039;American Eagle, No. 8&#039;, all in Paterson, NJ. It was one of many chapters belonging to the &#039;Order of United Americans&#039; (O.U.A.). I also found some of the names associated with it too.</p><p><br /></p><p>Congress Hall was a hotel in Paterson, but it seems to have burned down. It was on &#039;Main Street&#039;.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;d give you links, but I spent a very happy hour hopping from page to page and got completely lost! Fascinating stuff! I used the following site for some of it (free and very useful for American newspapers of the time): <a href="https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov" rel="nofollow">https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov</a></p><p><br /></p><p>As for the colour of the ink on the ticket, is it possible that it wasn&#039;t originally this colour/shade, but has faded this way? Maybe it was a later printing sample that referenced a real event?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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