Congressional session notes and domestic bills overview
The Senate and House discuss the post office appropriation, fisheries treaty, and pension measures. Turpie pushes a directory for skilled workers, Blair seeks free public schools, and various appropriation bills advance. Domestic items cover veteran retirements, war secretary post, bond refunds, and Washington Territory suffrage challenges.
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Apy
Congressional
Sipe Bante
Gare
Sawyer
Dis- Vegas
I Vx
Stewart
Ney
Senate
Vigyike Senate
Turpie
Blair
Oyake & Jaw
Memlyn
Meg Commerce Committee
Donds
Salmi Rock Devotion Amid Sea Cliffs in Ceylon
A reporter describes Salmi Rock near Ceylon where an Hindu priest conducts a twice weekly ceremony to propitiate an evil deity. The scene includes natives in colorful attire offering flowers rice and coconuts as a brown-bronze cliff towers above the sea.
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Ceylon
Frederick
Prowl ers Silenced by Neighborly Aid in Luther Farmstead
A Canadian farmer and his son fired on prowlers near their Luther home. The fleeing men, neighbors, were later identified with a horse shoe found by the farmer and a blacksmith’s help. The neighbors paid a sum to keep quiet after the incident. A second note describes a new process to compress whitewood by steaming and upsetting fibers, claiming 75 percent strength gain for timber once considered unfit for carriage work.
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Luther
Bosion
Decoration day observed by Grand Army and locals
On national Decoration Day the Grand Army of the Republic the W A C and townspeople observed ceremonies from dawn cannons to wreaths at six cemeteries. In Whitefield Center church graves were decorated by six children. Afternoon processions from Grand Army Hall visited soldiers lots with prayers remarks and wreaths. 389 graves received garlands across Saratoga Manafield Whitefield Sugar Grove Henry cemeteries with names and unknowns honored.
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Grand Army of the Republic
Grand Army
Whitefield Center Church
Center Church
P. Warren
G.A.R
Grand Army Hall
Lookout Mt Post
Henry
J. O. Townsend
Rev . E. Morgan
F .S. Potter, Esq
Vogelsang
Indies
Anderson
Saratoga Cemetery
Manafield Church
Whitefield Center
Sugar Grove
Old Henry
New Henry
P. W. Wikoff
Neutenant
Joshua Ammon
A. E B. Wallin
Charles Ganzer
Remarkable West Virginia Mother with Thirty Three Children in War
A Pension Office case reveals Brown of West Virginia had thirty three children by one mother, six teen sons serving in the Union Army. Twenty boys, two killed, fourteen surviving. each survivor now draws a pension for disabilities from service. The mother’s death of soldier sons also yields her a pension. The piece notes the war spirit's contagion in such families. Economy in housekeeping is the housekeeper’s first duty.
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Lennie Johnson
Hiene
SF Orion
Ware
T Chadron
Amd
Vicin
Associa and Steel Workers
United States
New York
Wee Protective Tariff League
Pittaton
Christopher Saragent
Chicago
Boston
Detroit
Philadelphia
Pittsburgh
Indianapolis
Washington
Albany
Joseph Sherer
Lizzie McCarthy
Saybrook
Tax Parry
South Pittsburg
Terin
Illinois
Wisconsin
Indiana
Canton
Minnesota
Dakota
Iowa
Des Moines
A F Zellers
Frederick
Cincinnati
Titusville
Wellsville
N. Y
Baptist Church
Allentown
First National Bank
St. Paris
Emmett W Rhoades
Et Croix
Wis
Nean Beatrice
Nob
J A Allen
Council Grove
Kan
Lewis B. Rork
St. Paul Road
Milwaukee
3Th
James Q. Blaine
Augusta
Milenborg
New Orleans
James McLavann & Sox
Skoweateles Falls
Morenci
Mich
Solomon Creek
Kansas
Tuowas Wacooven
Jackson
Wth
Oue
Apvices
Corea
Olino
Yechizon
Point de Gallo
Ceyton
Queen Victoria Niagara Falls Park
Lorp
Lady Lansdowne
Quebec
England
Ireland
Heriot
Firej
Paris
Prince Henry
Emperor Frederick
Irong
Ludwig
Hesse
Berlin
Beveral
Moscow
Siberia
Bank of France
Tue
Harlan
Roumania
Russia
Montreal
Ottawa
Cloud
Egypt
Osman Digman
Tug
Samarcand
Caspian Sea
Lonnos
Pupioiy
James G. Blaine
Whitelaw Reid
Blaine
William Ement
Democrats
Maine
Frederick N. Tove
Uffington
Ont
Vincent
Fitzgerald
Goodsell
Joyce
Newman
Thoburn
Brown
Chicago News
Swedenborgian veteran reunion records liberal bequests in Galesburg
At the WSS A reunion in Galesburg RL C Bissell of Joliet died leaving large bequests to Swedenborgian causes. Gifts include 2500 to Urbana Swedenborgian University and 31500 to New Church Messenger, funds for a church and parsonage, annual stipends to Chicago publications, and endowments to New Jerusalem conventions with detailed trust provisions and distributions to publishing associations and general church work.
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WSS
Galesburg
Whic
RL. C. Bissell
Swedanborgian
Joliet
Urbana
Ohio
Swedenborgian University
New Church Messenger
New York City
Rolics
General Convention
New Jerusalem
Ain of
Publishing Association
Philadelphia
Poplin Og
Ita
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Gerry Hepubucry
Qxoagz Burt, Eorror
Uieet Kumixer
Columbus
Mth
Dai Newson
Methodist
Genseul
Tertiory
Nash
Spokane Falls
Davee Pyace
Moscow Springs
Marurmssen
Odell
Montana
Corsicana
Tex
Fox
Wen
New
Catholic University of America
Cardinal Gibbons
Mississippi
Jopex Wallace
E W. Warren
Holy Trinity Church
Methodist General Conference
Parsipext
Cleveland
Reczay Dax
Kickapoo
H Conn
Witt MiLen
Bramwick
John iMorgan
Miller
National Butchers’ Association
Charles James
St. Louis
Chantes H. Hockier
Sumberman
Muskegon
P Public Library
Joston Beauimant
Marechal
RG. Dow & Co
Galena
Relbyville
Gristone
Wittras H. Roz
Madison
E. G Durant
I. H. Dahl
Nelson la Due Collins
D. Cline Prescott
Charles E Pike
J Gould
E. W Drake
M. Bixby
Treasury Department
Nein Natwins
C H. Gibson
H. W Rusk
Isadore Raynor
Barnes Comton
H. K Douglas Tur
Prohibirttomiste
J H Moseley
Tomah
Grsenor Brentpan
Tuz Democrats
Carolina
W. H. H. Cowles
Congress
Toledo
Walter F. Payne
Board of Public Works
J. W. Pen Geld
John F. Moore
CoLonza
A. H. Markland
South
Grant
Ameridan
Baton Trouge
Samuel D. McEnery
Charles Parlange
James Jeffylesant
Dudglery Avery
W. D. Bynum
New York World
Erastus Snow
Mormon Church
Salt Lake
Salmi Rock
Tierdes
State Toms
Beneascosenbanee
Brooke Sears
Wiest
East Liberty
OGB
Fallee
Obias
Conan
Baltimore
Bate Tee
G. C. Griswold & Co
Timothy Mateeonn
BOC Hins
Henvogn
Hutchins & Lincoln
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