Pioneers Shaping Home Life and Education in 1916 Indiana
A 1916 address discusses the law of compensation for wrongdoing, the value of home life, and state efforts to aid orphans and dependent children. It stresses fostering citizenship through private homes, and notes Indiana's progress in free schools, vocational education, and state universities as pivotal to future welfare.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hoosterdom
Hoosierdam
Thessierdom
Pweeld
Ils
Yose
Board of State Charities
State Charities
Commonwealth
Aiso
Ife
Indiana
Indiana University
Purdue University
State Normal School
Nineteen Hundred and Sixteen
Wall Street
Davids
Jonathans
Hitler
Indiana’s Centennial Speech Praises Statehood Heritage
A 1916 centennial tribute extols Indiana’s birth in 1816, praising Harrison County as the cradle of statehood and Indiana's progress in education, literature, and civic ideals. The address lauds the flag, liberty, and republican values, cites 13 as a pivotal number, and previews a century of cultural achievement led by poets and authors such as Riley and Tarkington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Union
Indiana
Logan Issurey
Department of History
Indiana University
Atory
Parker and Heiney
Riley
Ben Hur
Charles Major
George Barr McCutcheon
Booth Tarkington
Gene Stratton Porter
Meredith Nicholson
Nicholson
Edward Huggieston
James Whitcomb Riley
Iggleston
Mr. Riley
Figoritiz
Indiana's Literary Achievements Highlighted by Myr Dalley
Myr Dalley delivers an address praising Indiana's culture and, briefly, its agricultural and industrial standing. The fragment notes Indiana's wheat rank within a 36 000 square mile territory and mentions corn whisky swine and other production metrics, though details are unclear.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Myr. Dalley
Indiana
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Corydon
Vallee of Hone Life
Indiana Historical Commission
Golconda
Harrison
Harrison County
Jiere
American Republic
Frank
Dailey
Huntsville
Ala
Bell Telephone
Southern Telephone
Evansville
North Carolina
Asheville
Black Mountain
Hendersonville
Brevard
Lake Toxaway
Saluda
Waynesville
Lake Junaluska
Flat Rock
Hot Springs
Tryon
Tate Spring
Tenn
Ridge Crest
N.C
Ournhern
Southern Railway
B. H. Todd
Louisville
Kentucky
Emma Miller
Ind
Beanblossom & Shuck
John H. Heth
Ballett
Corydon, Ind
Earth
P.P. Q
P. D
Gian & Barrel
B.D
Kintiata
2 Company
Terre Haute
J. L. Lugkett
Undertaker
Land of the Sky
Corydon Junction
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