Pension Bills and Soldier Rights Criticized by Veterans
Terre Haute letter from John Paddock and Joseph Kent objects to a Voorhees pension bill raising rates for arm and leg injuries. They compare officer and enlisted pensions, urge fairness, warn against pension reform efforts, and accuse claim agents of fraud while urging Congress to protect deserving soldiers.
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Uncle Sam
Voorhees
Hell On Earth
Éllo
Washington City
Dudley
Congress
Senate
Indiana and Nebraska Women Lead Suffrage Push In May
The Indiana campaign opens in Indianapolis with a grand State Mass Convention in May. Mary E Haggar t and Florence E Adkinson organize lectures and appointments while local W C T U groups back legislators who will favor submitting the amendment. Monrovia hosts a suffrage club with officers. Nebraska plans statewide bazars to fund the drive.
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Indiana
Indianapolis
State Central Committee
Florence E. Adkinson
Ind
Mary E Haggart
State Woman Suffrage Association
Nebraska
Salutatory Address at Berecu Grove School
The message greets Berecu Grove students on the last day of term. It praises the teacher, notes attendance reasons, invites all to enjoy a bountiful dinner, and reflects on lessons learned and the mutual duties of pupils and staff. It emphasizes right conduct and a fond farewell to the school community.
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Berecu Grove
Turman Township
Henry Clay
Sheet 3 Music Call at Weir's Mid Fifth
A brief notice lists Sheet 3 music for instrumental or vocal performances with a call at Weir's around the mid fifth hour. The item indicates a local callback or audition window and targets participants seeking stage time.
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Weir
Society Belles Praise Floreston Cologne Fragrance
Society belles laud Floreston Cologne for its delicate lasting fragrance. The period piece notes the product’s appeal among fashionable circles and hints at its place in society rituals of the time.
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Society
Belles
Floreston Cologne
Brown's Iron Bitters and health claims advertise cures
An 19th century ad promotes Brown's Iron Bitters as strengthening for pulmonary digestive urinary and nervous systems and claims rapid cures. It also touts Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription for feminine weaknesses and health restoration. Includes a note on Weir's Fancy Toilet Soaps and handkerchief perfumery and Teegarden selling buggies cheap for cash or good paper.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nature
Lord Byron
R. V. Pierce
Teegarden
Beech Grove Valedictory Address Honors Hardworking Teacher
Breca Grove March 21 1882 records a valedictory with farewell to classmates and praises the teacher for inspiring a renewed zeal for knowledge. Students note sickness and work kept some away and bid the audience adieu until next year while pledging to remember the teacher’s guidance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Breca Grove
Turman Township
Beech Grove
True to Her Trust Only Electric Bitters Endure
A tribute to a faithful wife and mother praising Electric Bitters as the cure for disease and malarial poison. The text urges stomach and bowel cleansing and blood purification, states Bitters are the only sure remedy, and notes the price of fifty cents sold by Growder & Reed.
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Growder & Reed
Local Grower Promises Sweet Potato Plants for County
J. L. Shields informs customers he has shipped sixty bushels of top quality sweet potatoes and will supply the entire county with plants in season. Lettuce cabbage celery and tomato plants also promised in due time. A four year old Kentucky whisky for medicinal use offered at Weir's labeled ma l5tf
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Kentucky
Weir's
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Vurisoa
The
Indianapolis Journal
Terre Haute
John Paddock
Joseph Kent
Illinois Woman Suffrage Association
Sue Rececbullakii
Alex Wage
American Woman Suffrage Association
Omaha
Woman’s Journal
Mary E. Hagegart
Henry County
Helen M. Gougar
Monrovia
Morgan County
David Wilson
G. W. Bell
Neema Painter
Treas
Abigal Scott Dunniway
New Northwest
Thomas H. Moore
Washington Street
Anna M. Knotts
Society Belles
Weir’s
Messrs
Seabury
Johnson
ManufactureWike
Benson
Beatty
Edison
Nigut
Stoul, Book, &c
Daniel F. Beatty
Washington
New Jersey
Batchelder
Chicago
J.H Batchelder
S. Water St
Luxury
Verve Haute
St. Denis
Missouri
Kansas
Texas
Colorado
California
C. UV. Pierce
A. J. Smith
D.B. Martin
Ag't
Louis
W. Ag’t
Sullivan Abstract Co
Aly
Sullivan County
India
Jolin 'T. Gunn
South Side
John T. Chanley
Maple & Holmes
Sep
Miss Mattie Lester
Curry& Curry
Sullivan
J J. Stephens
Lebanon
Ohio
New Bedford
Mass
Marchise
Verine Catholicon
Crowder and
Reed
Roberts
I. I. Roberts
East
Indiana Street
Evansville
Joseph Holt Hunter
Morton Hunter
Washington D. C
Patent Office
C. E. Foster
Seventh Street
Washington, D. C
Fred. Briggs
Howe
Singer Sewing Machine
New Davis Machine
Mason & Hamlin
J. L. Shield
W. T. Crawropp
Sol Goodman
Crowder & Reed’s
Tile Collier Company
St Louis
Wisconsin
Wisconsin Central Krth
Charles L Colby
Milwaukee
Wis
GEO
Chbl & CO
Spruce St
New York
Proposa
E. J.C. Hilderbrand
Pherton Noring
Ory and Pale
Court Street
Sullivan Cov
Bucklen
Twombly Kuttachine Co
Washington St
Parsons
7 & Johnson & CO
Boston
Lpangor
Ife
al. Kmtt
Moe
Bhompson & CQ
Hove Neves
Benham
Richmond
Tod
Warnatirs Seen & Co
George Nt
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