Teachers Column Praises School Improvements and Teachers
A rural county teachers column extols progress in local schools lamenting messy hygiene issues and praising teachers like Mrs Elrod Miss Tallie Keown and Miss Ellen Browne. It notes plans for better schoolhouses, urges organ use for daily study, and stresses soap and wash facilities to instill cleanliness and discipline among students.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wiss Minaren Drake
St. Paul
Brasby Creek
McCormicks
Miers
Minerva
Timely Warning on Warnings and Character Lessons
An exploration of the value of timely warnings to avert disasters and guide lives toward virtue. The piece recalls a lawyer in a distant state who heeded a warning about drinking, choosing reform to become a respected elder and successful practitioner, illustrating the theme with a Presbyterian Banner anecdote about a cat changing color after separation from its kittens.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mainy
Commonwealth
Presbyterian Church
Hiv Ags
Land prep for cotton crops by A. Peterkin system
A. Peterkin describes soil preparation for cotton, arguing against continuous stalk planting and bed planting. He advocates leveling, careful furrow work, and fertilization in alleys, with emphasis on avoiding root damage, proper planter use, and staged cultivation to ensure a good stand and readiness for later cultivation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tam
Pee-Dee
Avery
Dixon
A. Peterkin
Weekly News and Courier
Birmingham's Land Boom and the Barber’s Millionaire Dream
From a Birmingham speculation era expose, the piece outlines vast land gains around Red Mountain and downtown, spotlighting Napoleon Abercrombie the barber and other investors. It details mortgage farms turning into multi hundred thousand dollar claims, wild note trades, and looming legal fights over titles amid a “Magic City” boom.
Absent-Minded Groom Inspires Humorous Wedding Tale
A farcical account from a Savannah paper recalls a gentleman from a distant city who wed the daughter of Athens while famed for absent-mindedness. During the ceremony he handed the bride a silver quarter instead of placing a ring, then bought only one train ticket for the journey, doubling his day’s expenses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Athens
Aly
Savannah New
Ting bin
Hermit’s shack hides $50,000 in cash and valuables
In Keyport New Jersey John I. Schenck the nearly eighty year old hermit lay near death at his brother’s home. A hidden iron box and a stocking under a bed contained about $10 000 in gold pieces along with large sums of gold and silver coins and papers worth ten thousand dollars. The ruined hut served as a museum of oddities with muskets and valuables scattered about and the hoard is drawing sightseers daily.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times
Bremixouan
Ana
Napoleon Abercrombie
Montgomery
Birmingham
Soother
Ala~ Dama
Tnd
New York
Aight
Iatira
Guido
Baltimore
Richardson
Alabama
Selma
Jarek
Iaw
Cincinnati
George N. Gilmer
Lownds County
Red Mountain
Purcasser
Gilmer
Gilmer Sll
Josiah Morris
Blyton Land Company
Turta
Alabama Great Southern Railroad
Wee
Slops
Horn
Alabama Club
Elyton Land Company
John
Joe
Audrey
Greenhorn
Thres
Hera
Sera
Keyport
N. J
John I. Schenck
Monmouth County
Hig Hotcis
Schenck
Ia St
The South Should Keep Cotton as Money Crop
A column urges young farmers to stay with agriculture, educating themselves in science and reading, and argues cotton remains the best global money crop. It compares farming to professions and merchants, noting cotton’s universal demand and South’s export reach while cautioning against overreliance on other paths.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nemepar Pers
Avery
South
Ecorea
Olla
England
Continent
Australia
British Columbia
Asa
Nea
Heaven as a City and Inheritance in Scripture
The article expounds heaven as a city with many mansions, a place of security, learning, and perfect will, described as the New Jerusalem and a better country. It emphasizes heavenly inheritance, incorruptible and undefiled, where God’s children dwell free from harm and sin. It likens heaven to a royal, peaceful metropolis with eternal reign alongside Christ.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Heaven
New Jerusalem
Iss
Aystin
St Ay
Egypt
France
England
America
Christ the King
Patmon
John
God
Living hard to escape debt on a frontier farm
A traveling merchant reports a Chesterfield County farmer and his wife choosing to endure severe living on plain bread and meat to avoid mortgaging their homestead. They justify “living hard” to recover finances and prevent land loss amid high credit prices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chesterfild County
8. C
Plata
Monroe
H.C) Baguirey
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J. G. Clinescales
Enron
Mira Tallie Keown
Min
Mise Ellen Browne
Orangeburg
Ellen
Anderson
Han Dong
Williamston
Neal's Creek
Harkness
Atakes
Mies Campbell
Charles Johnson
Griffin, Ga
Boye
Mr Pete
Rkin
Brill
Lota
Anna Domini
Bill Nye
South Carolina Tobacco
Senate Chamber
South Carolina
E. M. Pace
Banner Tobscou
Danville
Benjamin Allston
Planternville
Georgetown
Cuba
W.P. Baker
Hornsboro
John HF. Higblower
Lima
Alexander G
Clarkson
Wateree
Hester
J. J. Davis
Seneca City
L. C. Thompson
Liberty Hill
Harry
Grahamville
Beaufort
B. R. McTeer
Gres Pond
B. Smith
Marion
Hester and
Hyer
Burley
J.D. Fooshe
Corovace
Aix
Jas
McQuides
Church
Quba
J. A. Burns
Sumter
Rock Hill
George J. Sheppard
Leogmire
Havana
Orinoco
P. M. Roger, Jr
Florence
J.B. Counts
J. F. Bolton
Bennetteville
Bester
J. M. Muirhead
Pleasant
John J. Ingram
Crece
W. R. Davis
Chester
Calvin Price
Woodward
Thoman, Sr
Perry, Jr
Greenville
G. Smith
Blythewood
Thomas J. Hamlin
James Island
G. P. Harlsee
T.O. Foster
Lancaster
J. W. Earle
Holland’s
E.N. Chiholm
Ronestilla
Ben. S. Williams
Bronson
J. G. Griffiin
John EB. Spearman
Silver Street
Boerreauista
Samuel 8
Virginia
North Carolina
Clare
Ivis
Grifin
Lndy
Griffin
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