Districta Schools Urged to End Summer Terms and Extend School Year
A period editorial criticizes district trustees for relying on patron support to pay teachers this summer and urges contracts with trustees before school. It argues against summer schools, advocates ten month terms beginning in September, and stresses moral training, law obedience, and keeping good teachers long term. The piece cites a court week with twelve young men, linked to alcohol, and warns against overconsolidation of schools. It closes praising a Denver school and Mamie Bailey’s teaching.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Court of Session
Teacere
New York City
Taummioth
Denver
Iran
Misa Mamlo R. Bailey
Cooper-Limestone Institute
Mies Mamie Ae
Mamie
Uig
Aden
Immortal Soul and the Question of Eternal Punishment
The article defends eternal punishment against annihilation, arguing the Bible supports immortality of the soul and the gospel plan through Christ. It critiques materialist views, stresses repentance now, and insists God offers life while humans choose death, with punishment proportionate to deserts.
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Christian Inquirer
Grosa
Carlyle
Parker
Satan
Botan
Obrint
Hell
Christ
Sodom
Gomorrah
God
Siddim
Ananian
Sapphira
Satan Day
Jong
Wuhering
Mr. Spurgeon
William M. Taylor
Heaven
Jesus
Praion
Tassel Removal in Corn Increases Harvest Output
An old Home and Form note from the experiment station details tassel removal on corn to redirect pollen power to ovaries. In tests, alternate rows had tassels removed and produced over 50 percent more good ears and merchantable weight. The report urges farmers to try tassel clipping on a small patch to verify the effect.
Hall's Catarrh Cure Offers $100 Reward
Inventaeycen readers are told Hall's Catarrh Cure is the only positive cure for catarrh, a constitutional disease. The ad claims internal action on blood and mucous surfaces, building constitution, with a $100 reward for any uncured case. Testimonials promised. Toledo company F J Cheney & Co. sells for 76 cents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Inventaeycen
Hall
F. J. Cheney & CO
Toledo
Ohio
South Carolina Minerals and Phosphate Riches Revealed
The article details South Carolina mineral wealth from gold copper and iron to abundant phosphate deposits, granite and kaolin, naming locations such as Spartanburg York Abbeville Newberry and Aiken, noting royalities from rock on hand and recent mine developments, plus historic anecdotes of early mines and figures like Col. Wm. Pinckney Starke and law and Adair. It also covers low cotton prices in 1892 with market outlook from S M Inman of S M Inman & Co, predicting a large sugarcane-like surplus and depressed prices if crops remain large.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
News and Courier
South Carolina
Iag
Upper Carolina
Europédne
Adair
Auguata
Little River
Pickens
Spartanburg
Union
York
Lancaster
Abbeyille
Greenville
Chester
Lancsaler
Anderedo
Abbeville
Edgefield
Cheaterfeld
Anderson
Vanuxem
Taport
Brewer
Chesterfield
NATO
South Caroling
Florida
South Ostalina
Col.Starke
Newberry
Kertow
Lexington
Charleston
Yorkshire
Hoagland
Bigefield
Fairfield
New England
Barewell
Orangeburg
Aiken
Columbia
United States Court House
Main Street
Capitol
Aiken County
Richland County
Atayta
M. Inman
Mr. Inman
Carolinas
Georgia
Tennessee
Awkward fraud and bear rescue in a farm tale
A farmer buys a calf via a butcher and hosts a traveling organ grinder and a dancing bear. The bear muzzles the calf in the stable, the butcher plans theft, and the bear wounds him after the farmer’s guest and the owner of brain settle the dispute. The tale ends with moral notes on patent medicines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
bin Guest
Brain
Tommy
The Man Obsessed With a Box Full of Gold
A tale told a hundred miles south of here describes a nearly forty year old man who hoards money in a wooden box. He rarely spends, refuses securities, and dreams of filling the box with coins while living simply with his parents, a peculiar warning on money's power.
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Ead
Jay Gould
Avery Bond
Sian
The Duke of Brunswick Diamonds Lesson for Children
A storyteller warns children that immense wealth brings danger and isolation. He recounts the Duke of Brunswick hoarding two million dollars in diamonds, living in a fortress like a prison with iron walls, guns, and booby traps. The tale concludes that money cannot buy happiness and urges laying up treasures in heaven.
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Duke of Brunswick
Bucklen advertisement and grim superstition tale
An 19th century advertises Bucklen's Araica salve for bruises sores and skin eruptions with a money back guarantee and a price per box. The text also notes Washington's vast silver reserve and a local Indiana widow claims divine vengeance after a man named James Striebel was killed. A thunderbolt shatters his nine foot monument, fueling superstition among neighbors.
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Hill Bros
Washeingtons
James Striebel
Trownstown
Ind
Striebel
Various Notable Facts and Anecdotes From The Era
A collection of curiosities and brief items including gifts to Yale College surpassing 150 million dollars, diverse farm and business notes, a Florida farmer with many children, a Cham bersburg spring with bubbling sand and air, and a Missouri law requiring storekeepers employing women to provide rest breaks. Also included are anecdotes about debts, a pest of misprints, a Georgia veteran fence gift, a romance comedy, land gains near Macon, railway wear estimates, and odd inventions and curiosities from the period.
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Yale College
Gadaden
Fla
China
Cal
Amanata
Wooden
Bsen
Lucy Snowball
Sallie Johnalog
Coun
Bear Valley
Chambersburg
Ong Weazel
Atlantic Coant
Noma
John Clark
Pittsburg
Pennsylvaia
Entitled to the Best Family Remedy Syrup of Figs
All are entitled to the best that money will buy. Every family should have a bottle of the best family remedy Syrup of Figs to ease the system when costive or bilious. For sale by druggists at 50 cents and 1 dollar.
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Sil Lesding Droggista
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Maxwell & Son
Sullivan Hardware CO
Tyson & Jones
Eorth Carollna
Sylvester Bleckley Company
Ochotl
Jasvoria
Brooklyn
X.Y
Murray Street
Gotton
Hicher
Lao Bic
E.W. Taylor & Co
Thaghers
Jolendea
Denver School
Vila
Iteratore
Milton
Perdition
The
Eldorado of
America
Richland
Napital
L. A. Baysom
Caluwbia
Eateka
Dr. Pieres
Joe Crawford
Draneville
Bucklen
Cornie
Confederate Veterans of
Gegia
Charles B. Rouse
Stonewall
Winchester
Confeder
Aurora
Macon
East
Brown County
Nashville
Geat
Congress
United States
Palmer
Chicago
Barnesville
Joseph Gillett
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