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When Karen Fisher's mother passed??away 11 years ago, her father, then 72, began to spend nearly all his time traveling or staying at a second home in Brownsville, Texas. "He wasn't the kind of guy you worried about being alone at Christmas," says Fisher, 49, who lives in Grand Rapids, Mich. But in January, her father fell seriously ill. Eighty-three and infirm, he has returned to Michigan, where Fisher, after cutting her work hours and income, helps care for him. Her husband, she says, "has been supportive. But you sort of ask, 'How many years...
...Committee of the Whole referred the bill to the House for a formal vote. Nearly all jumped on the band wagon. Only 25 negative votes were passed???by two Socialists, three Farmer-Laborites, ten Republicans (mostly from Wisconsin) and ten Democrats?among them Rainey?bloody but unbowed...
What the Insurgents Want. In the ordinary course of events a "regular" would move that the rules of procedure of the previous Congress be readopted, and immediately move the "previous question." By that means the question would be voted on?and probably passed???without discussion. The insurgents want to debate and vote on new rules...
...political cartoons?stings drawn by time? bringing only a philosophic wonder to the mind. The editorials in the weeklies?"the country will be ruined should B be elected, should the X law pass." B was elected?did he die in 1900 or was it 1901? The X law passed???and is as forgotten as the names of Secretaries of Agriculture. "Vanity?all is Vanity," say the yellow leaves of the bound volumes...
...first "Woman's Rights Convention " assembled, and James Mott, husband of Lucretia, was asked to preside. Several women spoke, or rather read their speeches. A " Decclaration of Sentiments " was passed???an imitation of the Declaration of Independence?beginning: "That, being invested by the Creator with the same capabilities, and the same consciousness of responsibility for their exercise, it is demonstrably the right and duty of woman, equally with man, to promote every righteous cause...
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