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Boston Weekly Globe

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

May 13, 1884

Page

8

Pension Petition Drives Union Backing for 8 Dollar Bill

Massachusetts Grand Army post 15 leads a nation wide drive sending circulars and a petition to every post to back House bill 6463 for veterans pensions. The effort has gathered about 1000 favorable responses from states coast to coast with only one opposed.

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General Butler Proposes Plan for Soldier Pensions

The interview outlines General Butler's view to fund universal wartime pensions by taxing whiskey and tobacco, replacing the internal revenue tax with a war-time pledge to honor veterans. He argues for a maximum pension with proportional awards, ending pension agents, and distributing surplus to states while preserving essential relief for all deserving soldiers.

Butler United States Committee On Congress Jackson Internal Revenue Internal Revenue Bureau North

Fifty four days without food ends in Sparta death

Mrs. Armstrong of Sparta died in Lackassk Wisconsin on Tuesday night after surviving fifty four days without food. Her body showed extreme emaciation and internal fever was noted as a contributing condition.

Lackassk Wis Lancaster Ont Clveland Cinema George Wallace Ruther Glen Glasgow Scotland Andrew Anderson James Wyllie

Catarrh Cure Offered Free by Brooklyn Doctor

A clergyman afflicted by catarrh for years found a prescription that cured him. Readers suffering from the disease may obtain the recipe free by sending a self addressed stamped envelope to Dr J A Lawrence at 250 Schermerhorn Street Brooklyn NY.

Catarrn J. A. Lawrence Schermerhorn Street Brooklyn N. X U. Q

Power of the Cradle Beecher Sermon on Baptism as Parenthood

Rev. Henry Ward Beecher preaches on infant baptism with 33 babies in attendance, arguing the rite reflects parental covenants and the kingdom of God as heart and character. He contrasts traditional rites with a view of love, humility, and spiritual evolution, stressing that true faith accepts God as a child does.

Henry Ward Beecher New York Mr. Beecher Wineh Clurch Adan Goa Christ Earield Ethrone Christ Jesus Paul Moses God

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