Traghers Column on School Support and Teaching
A Marked report details local teachers Nettie Hall and Julia Dean, praising renewed funding and improvements at Cross Ronda, Rhody Grove, Smiths Chapel, and nearby schools. Mentions % Pays for desks, eight month term, community support, and a thriving multi-racial education effort with Miss McLain and Mr Fant guiding students.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nettie Hall
Cross Ronda
Nettie
Winthrop Training School
Smith's Chapel
Julia Dean
Marriage Narratives and Moral Reflections From Billarp
A Billarp reminiscence recounts wedding fever in town churches with bridal robes and bells. It blends anecdotes of couples, clergy, and neighbors, interwoven with verses from Moore Hood and Houston, contrasting joy and danger of mismating, and ends with social hope and a note on divorces and freedom.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elpaina
Sposin
Jim
Sally
Tom Moore
Texas
Byron West
Pope
Why They Were Poor And The Rich Man's Duty
A reflective piece contrasts poverty and wealth, arguing wealth earned by honest toil commands responsibility to aid the needy. It cites George Peabody, Levis Packer, Stephen Girard, John Hopkins, and Seth Williamson as examples of wealth used for humanity, and warns poverty’s stigma harms virtue. It stresses virtue in all, warns against wealth worship, and urges charity and honesty over laziness or vice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tom Hood
Mobuv
Bareon
White
Lazarus
Abrabani
Golcondas
Parrot Dialogue Sparks Office Exchange and Bottle Factory Note
A quirky scene unfolds in a city office as a woman questions safe travel for a parrot and a clerk responds with a receipt for Poll’s shipro eat. A parrot interrupts, demanding novelty while a reporter from the New York Sun observes. A New Jersey glass factory reportedly concentrates on producing bottles for Dr Bull’s Cough Syrup priced at 25.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fale
New York Sun
New Jersey
Dr. Bull
Land law of the Bible to shape modern land values
In a thoughtful Atlanta Constitution piece W. G. Corsa argues that land value derives from both natural endowment and human labor, contrasting ancient Jubilee redistribution with modern urban wealth. He cites Atlanta’s land value, improvements, and unearned increments, noting factors like housing, streets, and privileges that raise city property.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canaan
Citiva
Itucanitary Corps
Atlante
Middle Georgia
Houes
Atlanta
Henry George
New Zealand
Dame Grundy
Thertn
Jundgrabbera
W. G. Coorsa
Spanish peanut crop yields and old fashioned girl tale
A farmer argues diversified crops, praising Spanish peanuts as the best paying option with yields of 50 to 100 dollars per acre and notes about curing land, while a Fitchburg Sentinel piece mocks an old fashioned girl who clings to traditional duties and homely virtues, contrasting modern fashion with practical virtue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Candy Ridge
Acre
Fitchburg (Mass
Noah and the Devil Vineyard Exchange with Fables and Folly
A mash of parable style banter features Noah discussing planting a vineyard with the devil who tests him with animal forms to illustrate temperance and vanity. A village exchange ponders dignity laziness and compatibility through humorous dialogue and domestic economics.
Curious Excerpts Mix Folklore Wit and Odd Facts
A jumble of dated lines covers fortunes, marriages, weather, and transportation in American life. Notable items include population estimates, a misfired joke about doctors, a proposed Chicago World's Fair site, railroad ties, a郵 stamp load, a romance with a telephone girl, and a Wabash robbery.
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Sullivan Manufacturing CO
RSA Our
Jesse M. Smith
Wobayer
Todd Bros
Anderson Music House
Rera
Maine
John
Antom
Rhea
Deter
Sid
Eine
Reed
Athree
Chesapeake
Baltimore, MD
Fauntaine
J. B. Douthit
the Alliance
Co-Operative Store
Alf
Dressinghams
R. S. Hill
Traghers
D. H
Sanderson
Bubloesa Ag
Misa
J. McLain
Rhody Grove
Mina McLain
John C. Gantt
Townvilla
James A. Quolt
W. A. Dickson
W. G. Craig
J. Monroe Fant
Patrick Military Institute
Anderson
Andi
N. W. Macauly
Clas
Sauma
Billarp
Albania
Oolonel Stansoll
Sam Houston
Tennessee
Andrew Jackson
Houston
Miss Lee
Alabama
Illinois
Putin
Loyd
Landlaw OF the Bible
Atlanta Constitution
New England
Old England
Germany
Edward Bellamy
Jobo
England
Guenan
Sears
Ongs
Sam
Noah
Nosh
Atranger
Votice
Hiram
United States
Uole
Evergreen
Dobbin
Chicago
Bredal
Australis
P. T. Barnum
Barnum
Baroum
Cincinnati
Steis
Culpeper
Ohio Teglalaware
Wabash
Ind
Augusta
Sai
J. W. Wofford
Spartansburg
Wofford
Seggin
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