Aging in Congress: average ages and listed veterans
The piece notes average ages of senators and representatives around forty to forty five, and department officials around thirty five. It cites Morrill of Vermont as nearly eighty next April, with lengthy service in both senate and house, Payne of Ohio near Morrill in birth year 1810, and other seniors: Dawes, Sawyer, Vandever, Plumb, Reagan, Hampton, Evarts, Bates, Rice, Harris, and Hearst aged seventy to seventy three.
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Congress
Senator Morrill
Vermont
Morrill
Senate
House
Payne
Ohio
Dawes
Massachusetts
Sawyer
Wisconsin
Representative Vandever
California
Plumb
Ilinois
Reagan
Hampton
Evarts
Bates
Representative Rice
Minnesota
Harris
Hearst
Revised prayer book makes Nicene creed mandatory on five holy days
The Protestant Episcopal church will require ministers to repeat the Nicene creed on Christmas Day Faster day Ascension day Whitsunday and Trinity Sunday when the revised prayer book is printed. The House of Deputies at the triennial General Convention approved the change by a large majority, abridging the previous option to substitute the Apostles' creed.
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Protestant Episcopal Church
United States
House of Deputies
Purchase of Lower California Might Return to Congress
The senate irrigation committee in California studied a vast fertile but water-starved bottom land in southern California and across the border in Lower California. A canal to the Colorado River could irrigate millions of acres, suggesting Mexico might sell the peninsula to create a Pacific coastal terminus akin to Florida. The irrigation issue grows urgent and the committee’s report could push acquisition plans forward.
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Mexico
California
Congress
Senate Committee On Irrigation
Colorado
Pacific
Florida
Atlantic
Senate
Lower
Dr Moffat Preaches at First Presbyterian Church
Dr Moffat occupied the pulpit at the First Presbyterian Church delivering a sermon on the transfiguration's divine pronouncement This is my Beloved Son Hear ye Him He emphasized Christ as the pathway to salvation and urged acceptance of the gospel to obtain peace and joy in this life and the next State Secretary Humphrey led afternoon services at two CM A locations and spoke at Wayne Street M E church in the evening setting a strong evangelical tone.
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Riaut
Monsionori O'Conneell
American College
Rome
New York
Leo XII
Cardinal Gibbons
Baltimore
United States
D. W. Moffat
First Presbyterian Church
Christ
God
Jesus
Moffat
Dr. Barns
Wayne Street
M. E
Lot
Sodom
Plains
Barns
Bowers
Christendom
Talmage
Holy Land
Providence
Brooklyn Academy of Music
Abbott
Plymouth Church
In Silence We Buried Our Love One
Poem-like lines reflect on burying a loved one in silence. The speaker recalls sorrow at the bier and hope of reunion in heaven. The verse contrasts absence of danger with a comforting belief in reunion after death.
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Amber Gray
Ant
Bill
Republicans Seize Looming Legislature Fight in Beaverhead
In Hiersa Montana on October 14 Colonel Seligman heads the Republican central committee as returns show Republicans may control the legislature by one or three seats. Beaverhead County elects James P. Bennett and Henry Bir to the lower house with a four vote margin. Silver Bow recounts await disputed precincts. Democrats fear loss while Marcus Daly consults with leaders. The Independent alarms on a GOP steal of the legislature and two U.S. senators. In Huntington Indiana an ex-sheriff’s residence is broken into with jewelry, money, and railroad passes stolen from Mrs. H Welsh guest from Columbus, Ohio.
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Moses Fowler
Lafayette
Ind
Indiana
Boswell Argus
Mr. Fowler
Fowler
Wabash Valley
Hiersa
Mont
Seligman
Republican Central Committee
Beaver Head
James P. Bennett
Henry Bhir
Deer Lodge
Silver Bow
Council
Marcus Daly
Anaconda
Brookwater
Hansen
Independent
United States
Felician Slamaper
George R. Torrence
Saior
Allen County
Court House
Fort Wayne
Gale
John Klinger
Klinger
Wayne Trace
Portheast
Coombs Avenue
Edsalls
City of
Wayne
Daniel J. Slntaper
Dorgan and Kerr
Lownsnip Thirty
Section Seven
Township Thirty
Daniel L. Slamaper
William 8. Oppenheim
North Dakota and South Dakota Election Returns Reported
Drismanck N D notes North Dakota first state election yields 39500 votes. Republican Hansbrough leads Congress with 15600, Miller governor with 12600. Prohibition wins by 1100. In South Dakota, Republicans win 1385 of 169 districts, Democrats 27, independents seven. Pettigrew Moody favored in gathering for legislature.
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N. D
North Dakota
Hansbrough
Congress
Miller
Prohibition
Tierns
South Dakota
Pettigrew and
Moody
Talgerton
Wardell
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