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Alton Observer

Location

Alton, Illinois, United States of America

Date

Jan 18, 1838

Page

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Education Department Proclaimed in Alton Observer

The Alton Observer launches a new Education Department on its first page urging Western states Ohio Kentucky Indiana Illinois Missouri to join efforts. It seeks support from figures like Prof Stowe and Presidents Aydelott and McGuffy, promising wide readership and urging donations to fund articles advancing education.

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Internal arrangements of Prussian schools and reformers

A extended preview of Prussia and German education systems notes strict order and frugality in boarding schools, student self care, moral instruction, Bible study, singing, and disciplined labor. It highlights reform schools, detention centers, and orphan houses, then argues for broader public school expansion and a comprehensive, well-supported curriculum based on European models.

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Ten Thousand Dollars Sought for Foreign Christian Press Efforts

The report details a vast missionary print program across Asia Africa and Europe. It cites hundreds of publishers presses and stations in India China Siam Greece Persia Russia Sweden Denmark and Belgium. The committee seeks forty thousand dollars in annual grants to sustain tracts scriptures and schoolbooks with emphasis on temperance and evangelism while urging broad Christian giving at home.

Mapvura India Jaffna Madras Dindegal Rhenius Nagercoil Deyion American Bible and Tract Societies Ceylon Tranquebar Mahratta Saxonica Islands U. States Richards American Board of Commissioners Africa South African Female Tract Society Philip Mediterranean Beyroor Jerusalem Cyprus Persia Antioch Smyrna Asia Minor Europe Broosa Trebizong Constantinople Greece Protestant Episcopal Church Athens Syra Crete Argos Mani Scio American Baptist Board Patras King Abbott Protestant Episcopal Mission School Jin Russia St. Peterburgh Sweden Finland Siberia Black Sea Robert Baird St. Petersburgh China United States Britain Evangelical Tract Society Scott Stocholm Denmark Poland London Jews’ Society Germany Berlin Hungary Paterson Barmen Calw Wurtemberg Church of Christ Hamburgh Lower Saxony Tract Society American Artist Mission Spain Gibraltar Rule Bogue Nevin American Tract Society Boston Singapore Java Indian Archipelago American Board of Commissioners For Foreign Missions Protestant Episcopal Mission Siam Orissa Tebogues American Baptist Mission Madura Mahrattas Sandwich Islands Southern Africa Syria American Board of Commissioners For Prussian House of God Society Cause of the Redeemer

Alton Observer Subscription Rates and Publication Note

The Alton Observer offers subscriptions at 3.00 per year payable in six months or 3.00 every six months, and 2.50 if paid in advance. No discount for less than a year, unless fully paid. Discontinuations require full settlement of all arrears. The paper is published as a Cincinnati Journal with Rev. T. B. Hurlbut serving as editor and agent.

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Ohio Lunatic Asylum Proposal and Costs in Ohio

A Cincinnati Chronicle report outlines plans for a rear and parallel set of buildings to serve idiotic violent and incurable patients at the Ohio Lunatic Asylum with total costs around 29 000 more after 26 566 11 spent. It notes 1835 state insanity figures exceed a thousand and urges state funding, sustained staff, and a resident superintendent to improve cures and care.

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