Indiana Legislature Adopts School and Reform Measures
In Sarvenay and subsequent sessions from Feb 6 to Feb 12, Indiana Senate and House debated and advanced multiple bills. Key items include raises and reforms for Purdue University funding, a Bride law on city bonds, compulsory education debates, and measures on reformatories, voting rights for women, and home insurance regulation. The week featured passage of a constitutional resubmission bill, disciplinary proposals, and investigations into benevolent institutions. Leaders announced joint conventions for Prison Directors and a focus on extending authority over schools and public welfare.
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Purdue University
Voor-House
Houe
University Park
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George Monsor
Norrow
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Terry Haute
Bonica
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Marcus R. Sulzer
Jefferson
Go Wiliams
Gray Tuunsday
Brown
Houge
Henderson
Johnson County
Perdue University #choo
Wes
Silas T. Brandon
Jackson Township
Jackson County
Frmay
Poindexter
Daris
Bensters Woods
Viche
Beaverlake
Newton County
Dearboro
Vanderburgh County
Porter County
Joel J. Finney
Wayne
Prison South
A. C. Belson
Randolph
W. T. Horvin
Lake
Leopold Levi
Huntington
SaTunday
Seuare
Wood
Kankakee
Lindley
Hamilton
Population of Indiana by counties first census count
Population of Indiana shown by counties from schedules returned to the Census Office by enumerators. This first count reflects preliminary totals per county as compiled for official census documentation.
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Indiana
Census Office
Boston Globe 1981 Edition Promises Futuristic News
The piece advertises a January 1 1981 Boston Globe issue presenting news from 100 years ahead. It touts talkogram and photophone reporting, a future aviation accident discussion, a 1981 hoax forecast, and a horse racing boast about Hiram Grant's bay mare Broad 8 trotting a mile in 1 373.
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Boston Globe
Hiram Grant
Messrs. A. Vogeler & Co
Baltimore
Coloring Canaries at Berlin Bird Show
A Berlin bird show featured green canaries with others in red, light brown, and gray. Reported color variations were linked to age and quantity of cayenne pepper given to the birds.
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Berlin
Germany
Doings in Congress Report on Senate Debates and Legislation
The Senate debated census fraud claims in South Carolina and clashed between Butler and Conkling. They moved through district and pension measures, river and harbor bills, and a broad set of rail, land, and tariff proposals. The electoral count proceeded, declaring Garfield and Arthur elected, with ceremonies in the Hall and House, as committees arranged inaugurations and related procedures.
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Secretary of the Interior
Carolina
Messrs. i Butler
South Carolina
Conk Hng
New York
Combling
Butler
South
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Blair
Philetus Sawyer
Wisconsin
Arthur P. Gorman
Maryland
Senator Conkling
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New York Custom House
Tne East
Congregamunt
Wew Hare
Melars
Brigga
Mall
Rey
Bland
Bowman
Sherwin
Putnam Farmer's Poised Henhouse Mystery Tale
A Putnam man learns his dog, a Maltese cross cat, and twenty nine hens fall prey to a mysterious intruder. He poisons eggs and discovers more dead animals, culminating in the eerie reveal of the culprit lurking near the hills as local history chronicles this odd incident.
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Putnam
P. C
Shades
Burlington Lawkeye
Moon Effects on Fish and Humans Reported by Professor Legate
The Virginia City Enterprise notes Professor Legate’s experiments suggesting moonlight harms fish by accelerating decay and also claims lunar influence on humans. He links atmospheric tides to moonlight effects and cites a blind episode after a strong moon on a vessel near Africa.
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Virginia City
New
Africa
Colorado climate not suited for invalids says Inter Ocean
The Chicago Inter Ocean argues Colorado climate harms delicate constitutions. It notes dry, light air reduces weight by up to one eighth in a season and impairs mental and physical labor. Dogs reportedly have shorter lives there. consumptives misjudge the climate's suitability.
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Colorado
Chicago Inter'-Ocean
Judge Thatcher and the Boston Bench Posture
The piece notes Judge Thatcher succeeding Mr. Quincy on the Boston bench and comments on his stern temper. A prisoner questions the meanings of also and likewise, and asserts that Judge Quincy was patient and gentle while the current judge is also a judge but not libertine.
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Thatcher
Quincy
Boston
Quotations and thoughts from classic novels and Carmelite order note
A collage of aphorisms from Adam Bede and Middlemarch, interwoven with reflections on genius patience and fate. The text shifts to a descriptive note about Carmelite habit colors, the order’s global spread, and Baltimore’s Carmelite convent lineage dating to 1790, cited in Harper's Bazar.
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Port Tobacco
United States
Harper's Bazar
Pottery Industry Growth in the United States
Harper's Magazine notes the U S pottery scene with about 80 potteries supplying half the nation’s wares. East Liverpool Ohio leads as ceramic hub due to fuel and clay resources. Tirenton New Jersey prospers from rail and canal links. White ware emerged after 1873 with white granites and cream colors produced by several firms.
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Tirenton
Jersey
East Livine
Union
Pennsylvania
Delaware
Maryland
New Jersey
Ohio
Missouri
Indiana
East
Liverpool
China
Huarper’s
The Carmelite Order and Their Reform History
The Carmelites trace origins to Mount Carmel about 1209 under Patriarch control. A female branch emerged in the fifteenth century. Early rules required eremitic living, prayer, property abstinence, and labor, later loosened and split by reform efforts led by Teresa in 16th century.
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Mount Carmel
Constantinople
John Soreth
Teresa
Value of reliable tools and St Jacobs Oil praised
A Boston firm, Jones Cook & Co., Bay State Brewery, reports using St Jacobs Oil among workers and finding it helps them every time. They endorse the pain healing liniment as reliably effective.
Old Ironsides Poem Spurs Patriotism and Preservation
A Washington pamphlet recalls Oliver Wendell Holmes writing the poem Old Ironsides to rally support for saving the frigate Constitution from being broken up. The 1812 15 era piece sparked New England pride and widespread reprinting, leading to orders to break up the ship being countermanded.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
Jackson
Constitution
England
Boston
New England
Holmes
Washington
What We Know About It and St Jacobs Oil Claims
An Roe of the Cairo newspaper reports in a reader letter that a long time subscriber, a man in the city, suffered rheumatic agony and spent much for relief. He bought St Jacobs Oil, tied it, and says it is the best remedy for rheumatism he ever heard of.
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Cairo
Ill
St. Jacobs Oil
Dess
Revenge Note Sparks Old Romance Tale
A young woman engaged to a rich man abandons the match for a newer prospect. She asks for her photograph back, prompting an ex suitor to reply he cannot part with it or he would ruin his euchre deck by losing diamonds.
Two Organs Regulate the Stomach and Liver for Health
A Maine Farmer advises regulating the stomach first and the liver second to perform their functions perfectly. He claims this will remove nineteen-twentieths of all ills humanity faces in any climate and promotes Hop Litters as the only remedy for healthy natural satiety of two ox fans.
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Maine
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