Bloomington (Monroe County, Indiana) Weekly Star, August 30, 1919, p. 1. THREW PEPPER IN EYES Fat Amazons Offensive, Say Home Guards Back from Hammond. Tired and considerably worn by their experience, Bloomington's home militia company, commanded by Capt. Nat U. Hill, returned from Hammond Thursday evening, after a week on guard duty at the mills of the Standard Steel Car Company. All eleven companies of State Militia were ordered home the same day. Company F was nicely quartered in a machine shop building at the car works, with a fine mess hall and shower baths adjoining. Militiamen say that women were chief among the strike agitators, some of the fat amazons resorting to a favorite performance of holding sticks with nails in them before the faces of strikebreakers and throwing pepper in their eyes. Constance T. Shotts, Ed.D., CG(SM) CG and Certified Genealogist are Service Marks of the Board for Certification of Genealogists, used under license by board certificants after periodic evaluations by the Board and the board name is a trademark registered in the US Patent and Trademark Office.