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The child of a Woman’s Rights advocate heard the Lord’s prayer in a public school. “Ma,” said she upon coming home, “I don’t want to say ‘Amen’ at the end, as the other girls do. Why can’t I say A-women?”

[1856 June 10, Hartford Daily Courant, volume XX, number 139 (whole 5567), Hartford, Conn., column 5

And may every one of them live to see a thousand Christmases after the last fool and knave is driven from the high places of the land we love, and honesty, purity, decency and prosperity reign unbroken from ocean to ocean, is the Pioneer’s prayer, now, henceforth and forevermore, world without end—Amen! A-women!

1879 December 25, “Merry Christmas!”, in Black Hills Daily Pioneer, volume 3, number 162, Deadwood, S.D., column 2

Never despair of liberty and the republic, and pay for your paper in advance—And, as surely as there is a heaven for christians, and another and altogether different place for a large proportion of our so-called statesmen, you will be healthy, wealthy, wise and happy. Pax vobiscum. A-men A-women.

1880 March 6, “A Short Pioneer Patent Sermon”, in Black Hills Weekly Pioneer, volume 4, number 35, Deadwood, S.D., column 3

And may God bless you all and give you husbands able and willing to gratify your every wish and whim! Amen! A-women!

1880 May 8, “Dress. Woman and Her Fashions, Tastes, Notions and Whims Defended. Some Rough Slashes at Various Maligners and Scoffers.”, in Black Hills Weekly Pioneer, volume 4, number 44, Deadwood, S.D., column 4

It was a big day, a big crowd and a big time. For which let us all be thankful—world without end—amen and a-women, not forgetting the children.

1885 September 18, The Courier-Journal, volume LXIX, number 6,106, Lousville, Ken., page 12, column 6