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Newspaper
Anderson Intelligencer
Location
Anderson, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 17, 1887
Page
1
A local column reports teacher placements in Cedar Grove and surrounding districts, noting new hires and vacancies. It laments teacher shortages and urges community response, with praise for Florence Tate and calls for concerted library funding and classroom improvements.
A dinner at the Axor House features Daniel Webster declaring his most important thought as the responsibility to God. The passage shifts to a long discussion on oil origins, Drake’s strike, and petroleum’s links to coal and ancient plants, then covers modern distribution, refining, and a dramatic burning well in Cherry Grove. Also notes the Cumberland Valley and Unaka Road project and regional mineral prospects.
The author argues early geography lessons should start with the earth’s shape and progress from the known to the unknown. Begin in the school yard with cardinal points and local landforms, then extend to township, county, state, and Europe. Field trips to streams help pupils grasp lakes islands peninsulas and other terms, aided by a live teacher.
The piece argues for well maintained country schools to foster good behavior and learning. It emphasizes starting correct, teacher pupil cooperation, and pleasant rooms with decor such as evergreens and leaves to inspire neat desks and walls.
A pair of men at a well known Vine Street resort recount their century old drinking habit. They calculate twenty years of ten drinks daily equaling about 72 800 drinks or 1 313 gallons and roughly 36 barrels of whiskey totaling a comical self questioning toast.
A reflection extols a son's lifelong devotion to his mother, praising how genuine love in adulthood mirrors earlier affection. It contrasts idealized romance with respect for the wife, arguing that true knightly character shows in honoring one’s mother and spouse through time.
The agriculture editor of the Philadelphia Record explains a low cost method using old barrels and boxes filled with manure and ash phosphate. Seeds are planted around the box with four plants per hill, then watered and fed through the box as plants grow. This pocketed approach concentrates nutrients and moisture to boost melons cucumbers tomatoes and squashes with minimal space.
Four centuries before Christ, the tyrant of Syracuse, Dionysius, invites Damocles to banquet. A sword hung by a hair above his head reveals royal peril. The tale shows how fear changes kingship and echoes Shakespeare’s line about the head that wears a crown.
An eyewitness recalls Confederate guerrilla actions along the Shenandoah Valley rail line. He describes preventing an ambush near Winchester, firing on an attacking party, and sustaining a facial wound from a bullet. The encounter halted further train assaults as he and the crew avoided casualties.
From the Adam era to today the mule kick is deadly as a cannonball. Forward, an employee of Fred Stevens, fell when a heavy lumber wagon teetered on a hill. A rear mule kicked him clear of the wheels, rescue soon followed, with a broken leg and hopes of recovery. Nearby reports add a humorous note about a chair factory and fashion.
A crowded Beaufain Street scene near the new recruiting station under Lieut. Hutton details the process to enlistment, including catechism, baths, and examinations. It notes few applicants yesterday, with emphasis on the effort to maintain standard Army enlistment and the potential for education and advancement after service.
Dr Hammond, a medical philosopher from New York, argues against mental limits on appetite. He contends a man could eat twenty quail in twenty days or a hundred in a hundred days if no mental barrier exists and proposes a $1,000 challenge to eat one hundred quail in four hundred days.
A Civil War tale recalls Lt. Giyant James of Eufaula losing his right arm at Petersburg, his wedding ring kept by his wife for decades. A balloon ascent in St Louis ends in a fatal fall, injuring the aeronaut after 590 feet. Also a quip on pigs and tails notes nature’s odd economy.
Washington ladies widowed or retired from military and naval spouses lead fashionable society by guiding newcomers through etiquette and gossip. These chaperons, known only to insiders, train patrons in dress, speech, hosting, and calling routines, acting as private conversationalists and purveyors of private scandal.
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