Educator Notices and Rural School Updates in 1890s Journal
The article compiles school notes from Anderson County including new teachers Miss May Ruwnell and Miss Nettie Hall, openings in Calhoun and Shady Grove, annual education statistics, and a call for synchronized school term starts. It also features a humorous exchange about classroom discipline and a long Uncle Jake dialogue on politics, temperance, and religion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Misa May Ruwnell
Calhoun
Shady Grove
Belton
J.8
McCully
Anie Mrietson
Mary E. Anderson
Spartanburg
Anderson County
Mary
Anderson
Mintless cotton seed hopes for oil and fertilizer value
Greenville cotton seed oil mill manager Cureton experiments with lintless cotton near Woodruff in Spartanburg County. Observations show almost no lint in bolls. seeds may yield more oil and meat and the plant could produce 800 to 400 bushels per acre. Ferguson promotes junkless cotton as a future oil producer and fertilizer, claiming drought resistance and high boll counts. Additional notes cover medical ads and a catarrh cure claim.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cureton
Greenville
H. T. Pergueon
Woodruff
Spartan-burg County
Qureton
Nevis
Curston
Ferguson
Mr. Ferguson
de Nevoo
Art of Rain Maning in Texas
Col Dyrenforttfrrell and Lieut Ellis report Texas rain research, noting experiments aim to prove rain can be produced by atmospheric disturbances. They discuss costs, government funding, and the need for further testing while praising local railroad and merchant support and potential agricultural gains if rain production proves viable.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alliance
Tia
Col. Dyrenfortix
Texas
Liont. Eltis
Col. Dyrentorth
Lieut
Ellis
Midland
Websda
Wirs
Mathoces
Iron Mountain
Nelon Morris
el Povo
Corona Christi
el Paso
EE Mia
Corpus Christi
Melbourne
Baa
Goodland
Sherman County
Colorado
Niles
From Wagon to Pulpit Sam Jones Turns to Sermon
The tale follows Bofors Sam Jones once a depot drayman in Carterville. His old rickety wagon and a loyal sorrel horse carried drummers to hotels until a reckless runaway wrecked the rig. After the crash he vowed to find a new path and soon preached a sermon in Cartersville, ending his drift from the wagon to the pulpit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bofors
Sam Jones
Carterauilie
Sok Ho
Sam
Oupreme
Ament
Win
Elas
Marko
Cartersvil
Astounding Swindle Targets Spartanburg Farmers
A West Virginia report details a grand scheme where Henry Ash and George W Roze led a branch of a so called National Assembly to seize gold coins from investors inSt Albans and elsewhere. Victims paid hundreds to thousands in worthless paper certificates, funds flowed from railroad and post office channels, and lawmen halted the operation as arrests followed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
JanesTon
W. Va
Henry Ash
George W. Rozeto
Robert J. Livsly
Posen
St. Albans
National Assembly
Treasury Department
Cheepeare and Ohio Railroad
Yale
Assembly
Post Office
Odd Phrases Mark Public Discourse in Fragmented Note
A fragmented text fragment presents quirky maxims on promises debt poverty and social views. It features odd spellings and misprints such as children inherit more, cigarettes affect the brain, and women’s knowledge versus elders. The tone resembles a stray broadside or reader’s note from a past era.
New York band of girl thieves busted. Egypt crop grows strong
A nationwide alert follows reports of an organized band of young female thieves from elvet to thirteen years old busted in New York by arrest. The Egyptn cotton crop yields 3,700,000 hundredweight, largest on record, with outlook for another large season. De Witt's Little Early Risers advertised for liver and bowel relief, sold by Wilhite & Wilhite. A French nun leaves 20,000 to fund research on messages from the afterlife, while Asheville prepares a Colored Young Men's Christian Association building with Vanderbilt support.
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Atlante Constitution
Jake
Jaquita
P Havant
Qur Heavenly Father
Sodom
Abraham
Atlante
Allanty
Tay
Jem
Jake Aaid
Bob
Smith
Bownties
Huele
Temperance
Dnole
Wwe
Satan
Heelzabub
Apolyon
Moloch
Belial
Adam
Rascal
Jim Wilking
Lear Sam Jones
Spartanburg
Wolton
Bermuda
Spartanburg Spartan
Elvit
New York
de Witt
Wilhite & Wilbite
Americus
Free Methodiats
Elon
Kunans
Farmers Alliance
Wilhite
Fairmount
Mfo
Sam
Townsley
Jess
Bose
Gale
Raleigh, N.C
Rocky Mount
O. W. Harris
Mandsy
Efe
Harris
United States
Asheville
N.C
Colored Young Men's Christian Association
George Vanderbilt
DeWitt
Porsche
Wilhite & Wilhite
Herman Lincoln Wayland
D. D
Philadelphia
Freucea Mary Green
Wayland
Francis Weyland
Brown University
Brown
Mer Conserk
Bert
Wilhite& Wilehite
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TAS. F. Gossett & CO
Bay State
Palra
JAS. P. Sorrety & CO
Hamilton 4 Brown Shoe Co
Cammon
London
Aes
Hill
Main Street
Wanhay
Imao
North Main Street
Jus
W. White
Castoria
Tome
Hla. Ancmen
M.D
Tlse
Oxtond St, Brooklyn, N.Y
Murray Street, N.Y
A. G. Means
Clothing Man
E. W. Brown & Sons
Thaghers'golumn
C. Wardlaw
8. C
Sehool
Nut Country
Fearrad
Ike
Buckley
Arnica
Hill Bros
Els
Sam Small
Sam Snell T
Hasent
Tabernacle
Starr
Onto
Grey
Torino
Lunas
Frisk
D. Chewfty
FP. J. Diesex & Co
Toledo
Hart
Caranny
Frank J. Owenby
Fa Sy Pathe
Hall
Carsey
Col. Dyrenforttfrrell
Remis
H. P. Horton
Bullock's Creek
Horton
Moura
Athama
Tia Place
Ain
Mr. Horton
Yordaille
Cape
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