Temperance meeting and legislative notes in Indiana
The Indiana State Temperance Alliance met at the Masonic Hall in February with broad state representation. Col. John W. Ray was elected president, Rev. Martindale named state agent, and resolutions urged anti liquor laws, licensing reform, and election of temperance-inclined officials. Legislative updates cover the state printer inquiry, a county offices pay bill, school and gravel road laws, plus party conventions and trials in progress.
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IndiaNa
Col. Ray
Washington Street
Artemus Ward
Ain
Ives
John W. Ray
Martindale
Greenfield
Alliance
Conner
Mirror
Primter
Col. Comer
Madison County
Col. Milt. Robinson
Congress
Pratt
Howard
Fion
Jas. N. Tyner
Kokome
Clem
Revenue Assessor
From the Altar to the Grave in Giles County
A tragically doomed elopement ends with a brother shooting the bridegroom as the couple prepares to wed. The bride aids the dying husband, and the ceremony is completed afterward. the killer fled and has not been seen. A separate note reports a Fountain County petition urging laws against Texas or Cherokee cattle imports and compensation for prior losses.
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Giles County
Nashville Banner
Pulaski
Connersville
Texas
Fountain Country
the Ledger
Remonstrance Against Payment to Four Men In Lincoln County Case
Bloomington Progress notes a remonstrance by P L D Mitchell opposing a claimed $4,200 payment to four men who fled to Indiana from Kentucky after a raid on Absalom Ketcham’s home. It cites Senate testimony and argues sending compensation would be a grave injustice and a political ploy by some Democrats.
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P. L. D. Mitchell
Bloomington
Dear Brethren
Hughes
Ketchum
Senate
James Morris
Southern
Common Pleas Court
Monroe County
Committee On Claims
Kentucky
Indiana
Absalom Ketcham
Jewett
Wife Burned To Death In Moore's Hill Area
A woman about fifty years old, wife of Jonathan Huntington, living two miles south of Moore's Hill, fainted and fell into a fire in an old fashioned hearth while the family were away. She died on the hearth with life extinct. the incident occurred Tuesday evening. The report appears in the Lawrenceburg Register.
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Jonathan Huntington
Moore’s Hill
Lawrenceburg
Horrible Poisoning Tragedy at Warsaw Wedding
Reported poisoning attempt at a Warsaw wedding party led to arrest of John W Vannatta from Fort Wayne Indiana. He allegedly poisoned water for revenge. a guest died and thirty guests fell ill. He is jailed in default of bail set at five thousand dollars amid community upheaval.
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Teereee
Warsaw, Inc
John W Vannatta
Fort Wayne
Ind
Miss Horn
Bennett
Special Notices and Cure Advertisements in 19th Century Print
Special notices advertise mail order remedies for female mail recipients and male youth health cures. Messages promise free prescriptions for consumption asthma bronchitis and nervous debility with addresses in Albany New York Williamsburg and New York City. Both notices urge sufferers to write for cures at no cost.
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South America
Joseph T. Inman
Bllle Horse
New York City
Edward A. Wilson
South Second Street
Williamsburg
N. Y
John B. Ogden
Cedar Street
New York
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Greensburg Standard
Etter
State Temperance Alliancce
THE
Standard
Sth
T&s
Tur
American Artisan
Brown, Coomis & Co
Broadway
Warsaw
It Gazette
F. C. EB
Pacific
Dix
France
Connecticut
New Haven
Marshall Jewell
Francis Maynard
Grant
Bolivia
Hubbard
Maine
Hallowell
Foot & Clark
Detroit
Smith
Joan Bull
John Bull
John Smith
Louisville
Louisville, Ky
American Shuttle
Alm
ORSE
Nimi
Dr. Vespa
M. Www
Macomber
General Avent
United States
Ciricadas
Albany
N.Y
Board of Commissioners of
Decatur
Milhousen
Marion
George Neiman
Board of Commissioners
Decatur Veonty
Monfort
Greensburg
Washington Township
Becatur County
Thomas Smit
Dodd Anney
Decatur Courty
Hiram Alley
Ade Corr
Ewrss
Atty Paws
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