Valley Forge Heroines at Stirling Farm House
A 1777 78 Valley Forge account honors Lady Stirling and daughter Catherine Stirling with devotion to wounded soldiers. The text recounts how women of Livingston manor and Jersey hills provided food clothing and medical aid, aided by James Monroe and Lafayette, while nursing, knitting, and writing letters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Valley Forge
Pennsylvania
Gredort
United States
Vatley Forge
Lord Stirling
Tom and
Dred
New York
Shirley
Hraddock
New Jersey
Washington
New York Historical Society
Baskingridge
Philadelphia
Valley Force
Stirling
Win
Livingston Manor
Hudson River
Livingston
Lady Stirling
Catherine
Jersey Hills
General Washington
Pat Owen
Lamar
Haveroft
Weehington
Hoover
Stieting
Enoch Edwards
Kitty
Nanny Browne
Brockholst
St. John’s
Sanitary Commission
Red Cross Association
Miss Nenny
Malvina
le Marquis de Lafayette
James Monroe
Knox
Greene
Morristown
N. J
Jersey
Mr. Irving
Nanny Drowne
van Horne
Nelly Custis
Feneral
Carlisle
John Armstrong
Ireland
John Bull
Lord Howe
Andrew Porter
Elizabeth Parker
Porter
Women Train Workers Debate Opens Rail Job Talk
In a dialogue about railroads 21 women are employed as brakemen and 10 as baggagemen in the United States. A respondent questions why women should not brake and smash things as well as men, reflecting contemporary labor role debates.
The Cause Darkening Face for Winstrel Show
A man’s face grows darker as he blacks up to perform in a winstrel show. The dialogue frames the question of what ails him and reveals the origin of his makeup transformation.
Little Sarah Fadely to unveil Illinois monument
Anderson and Lebanon reports note eleven year old Sarah Fadely will pull the cord to unveil the Illinois soldiers' monument at Kenesaw mountain. Appointed by Governor Dunne on her grandfather W A Peyton's recommendation, she travels with her father Lewis Fadely and Dunne's staff. The event honors Illinois soldiers and honors are shared by the community.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dunne
Illinois
W. A. Peyton
Danville
Indiana News
Anderson
Sarah Fadely
Lewis E. Fadely
Kene- Baw Mountain
Ilinois
Ill
Monument
Miss Fadely
Cof
Sarah
Rush of grain cars spurs railroad shop overtime in Logansport
In Logansport the Pennsylvania railroad assigns a large force to repair and ready every available freight car for grain handling. The shops shift from a thirty five hour week to a fifty five hour schedule to meet expected farm business demand. Other items include a divorce petition continuance in Brazil and several Indiana notices of notable events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Logansport
Pennsylvania Railroad
Stranger repays kindness with steady labor on Indiana farm
In Connersville, a penniless, footsore man named Leo Halle, helped by police and Sheriff Perry D. Ferguson six weeks earlier, found shelter at the jail before working at Charles Moffett's Harrison township farm. Halle, age 53, had lost his wife to a flood and six children since. He had come from near Columbus, and his gratitude shows in his reliable farm labor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Connersville
Leo Halle
Perry D. Ferguson
Charles Moffett
Harrison Township
Halle
Moffett
Columbus
Indiana News in Brief Highlights Local Incidents
A roundup of short reports from Indiana towns detailing a car crash near Alexandria, jail sentences for two men, a fugitive from Denver, tax and school matters in Gary, a burial in Idaville, a truck collision in Brazil, parole issues in Columbus, religious meetings in Petersburg, a murder trial delay in Greencastle, habeas corpus action in Sullivan, a venue change in Bloomington for a double homicide case, tuberculin treatment pleas in Fort Wayne, a Chautauqua schedule change in Brazil, and a stabbing in Sullivan with a teen jailed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alexandria
Shad McConnel
Alexandra
Frankton
Columbus
Len Disney
Steve Cooper
Brooklyn
Cook
Denver
Colo
George
Starr Piano Company
Newcastle
Gary
William Wirt
New York Board of Education
New York Board
Wirt
Monticello
Steward Marshall Gibson
Chicago
Idaville
Gibson
South Hammond
Brazil
Sherey & Kidd Company
T. E
Freemont Miller
I. N. Mann
Edward F. Fogarty
Isaac Jacobs
Petersburg
Holiness Association
John F. Owen
Boaz
Ala
Jenkins
Wilmore
Greencastle
Abraham McCammack
Belle Union
Spriggs
Nazil
Spencer
Bloomington
Thomas Hardin
Monroe County
Wison
Owen County
Hardin
Lawrence County
Fr. Wayne
Fort Wayne
Anti-Tuberculosis
St. Anthony's Hospital
Terre
Oba Rucker
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Pator
Lord Siting
Lady Catherine Duer
Lord Stllngs Delcater
Miss Sarah Fadely
Kenesaw Mountain
Lebanon
Citizens’ Loan and Trust Company
Trust Company
Indianapolis
Mary BE. Rose
James D. Rose
Clay Circuit
Missouri
Lawrenceburg
Tropique
James A. Aldred
John W Crouch
Lafayette
Indiana
Leona Holland
Southern Pacific
Imperial
Cal
Vincennes
Ind
Michael Lagout
Claude Harvey
Vernla Mendenhall
Harvey's Park
Sullivan
Advance Oil Company
White & Moore
Bowing Green
Arthur Hunt
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