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Newspaper
Greencastle Star
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 24, 1880
Page
4
The speaker argues converting silver dollars into gold to back greenbacks and extinguish debt, leveraging a growing gold output to control currency. He calls for rapid currency expansion under natural, safe laws and urges other nations to join in a bimetallic standard when beneficial, criticizing ongoing legal tender debt.
Mrs Grant notes the prettiest traveler seen at Reno station. Miss M E Gage advances mining stocks in New York. Mrs Cordelia Miller donates 30000 to Evanston Great Biblical Institute. The widow of G P R James lives in Ray Clare Wisconsin. A Boston teacher retires after forty one years. Thirteen teachers in Boston City schools exceed thirty years. A Michigan school principal resigns to study medicine. WCTU Boston seeks women voting rights on liquor licenses. Mrs J C Greene gives 100000 to New York American Sunday School for literature development. Philadelphia ladies teach housekeeping gratis to poor girls. Boston boards of charitable institutions include eight women. Women prove sensible and practical in public service.
A dispatch outlines surveys for extending the Indianapolis Decatur Springfield road from Decatur to Roadhouse. The route would form an air line to Kansas City, 229 miles long, linking with the I S and S to create the Indianapolis and Kansas City Short Line. The piece also notes political shifts, especially German Republican defections affecting Grant’s third term bid, and a New York electoral change debate in the Legislature.
The Indianapolis wheat market shows No 2 red at 125 to 122 with possible declines. The Supreme Court rules soldiers in Soldier's Homes cannot lose pensions, ending power-of-attorney schemes and enabling inmates to recover amounts paid, with many disabled veterans due substantial sums. In rail news, L N & C R R passes to new management and major stock moves bind L&N with Louisville and Nashville’s footprint from Chicago to New Orleans via a 65 mile Michigan City link.
A Senate report notes Senator Perry introduced a joint resolution for a constitutional amendment granting women the ballot, praised by suffragists who convene and promise to nominate him for President. The piece also covers a Johnson desertion case in Shelby County and a broad critique of Democratic census appointments in Washington.
The piece notes cold extremes from Jacksonville Oregon where no frost compares to 1856, to E Penning near Sandy River Oregon dying from severe cold. It records 350 mile sleigh routes in Idaho and long stage trips from Hunt's Perry to Bois and Walla Walla to the Dalles. Carson City Nevada records 20 below zero as rabbits sit stiff beneath sagebrush.
A 19 year old sues Joseph Boicourt for breach of promise after his four marriages. Boicourt wed his son’s divorced wife, and a Brown County woman awaits his reply to a second betrothal. Lawyers debate the legal ties and inheritance of a child born to the last marriage.
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