Woman's Column Highlights Temperance Era Actions
Collected notes from Carthage W C T U report licensure actions in Lynn Massachusetts where ten hotels lost licenses for Sunday sales. A Chicago child near-fatal whisky poisoning prompts criminal inquiry into a Bedford boarder. At Fargo a banquet honored Judge Dillon with water to toast his birthday. Honolulu reports 200 kegs of Portland beer dumped by customs with no duty paid. Princeton University faces closure of its grill room after a faculty resolution aims to purge intemperance among undergraduates. The column adds temperance preaching on mental and moral suasion plus legal and prison measures for drinkers.
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Lynn
Mass
Lodge of
Good Templars
Eric Parnell
Chicago
Monroe Pointer
Fargo
North Dakota
John F. Dillon
Honolulu
Sandwich Islands
Portland
Oregon
Princeton
N. J
Princeton Inn
Board of Trustees
Patton
Market optimism and trade gains amid 1898 outlook
Washington reports indicate renewed confidence in industry and trade as stock market activity rises at year start. Bank clearings reach 1.418 billion dollars, with declines in 1897 failures and a strong export push, notably in wheat and corn, supported by McKinley era policies and Secretary Gage's banking actions.
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McKinley
Union Pacific Syndicate
Gage
United States
Europe
Ireland
Ripley Township Republican Convention Called at Carthage Hall
Republican voters of Ripley Township meet at Newsom's Hall Carthage Indiana at 2 p m January 22 1898 to select precinct committeemen and address any business arising. Committee names W L Walker R B Henley J B Herkless.
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Ripley Township
Newsom’s Hall
Carthage
Ind
Republican District Convention in Cambridge City Indiana 1898
The Republicans of Indiana's Sixth Congressional District plan a delegate convention in Cambridge City at 1 p m on Tuesday February 1 1898 to elect a member of the State Central Committee. Delegates are apportioned by votes for Henry G Thayer at the November 8 1896 election with one delegate per two hundred votes or fraction over one hundred per county. Counties listed include Franklin Hancock Fayette Rush Shelby Union Wayne. L P Mitchell serves as District Chairman and a note on low price printing follows.
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Indiana
Cambridge City
State Central Committee
Henry G. Thayer
Central West
Indiana Farmer Co
Indianapolis
Ind
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EK. J. Dunn
E. J. Dunn's
Furniture House
William Henry Fortiskew
de Avernew
Gore
H. G. Wheeler
Boston Traveler
Thomas A. Ellison
Samoa
Woman’s Column
Carthage W.C. T.U
Washington
W. L. Walker
R. B. Hentey
J. B. Herkless
Committee
Franklin
Hancock
Henry
Fayette
Rush
Rhelby
Union
Wayne
Raeeer
Total
L. P. Mitchell
White
R. E. Henley
The
New York Tribune
Imp
Carthage Record
Inn
Coffin’s Drug Store
O. S. Coffin
Imperial Watch CO
New York
Indiana Farmer
Washington Law and Claims Company
Government Departments
Congress
District of Columbia
Court of Claims
Supreme Court of the United States
Post Office Department
John G. Slater
Louisiana Ave
Washington, D. C
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