12 Oct 1892
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Newspaper
Anderson Intelligencer
Location
Anderson, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 12, 1892
Page
1
The column calls for proper school communications to Wardlaw and notes changes to the teachers examination date. It highlights Mr W P Holland teaching next year and urges better schoolhouse comfort, Columbia Day observance, and promoting reading among youth with good paper choices. It also praises Mr Eddie Vandiver and discusses classroom guidance and student reading.
A speaker outlines Hercules on choosing virtue over ease, contrasting the paths of vice and virtue. He denounces idleness, praises labor, and cites Garfield, scholars, and poets to argue that easy gains lead to poverty while hard work yields honor and progress.
The writer notes plans to visit Texas from Texarkana to San Antonio, praising the state’s moral progress, churches, schools, and polite society. He recalls earlier Texas views, warns about vigilantism, compares Third Party politics, and laments farmers' optimism and hardship while praising democracy and family virtue. He reflects on trains, robberies, heroism, and the contrast of public virtue vs. crime.
The Bayview farm of John Boyd Ion on the Charleston edge is a model 150 acre operation proving drainage and proper fertilizer use make farming profitable. It shows a practical approach with subsoil drains, hay for on farm use, and hog pens supplying manure for continuous soil fertility. The piece argues farming can pay with brains and modern methods rather than mere labor.
An advertisement claims deafness stems from an inflamed Eustachian tube mucous lining and asserts constitutional treatment can restore hearing. It promises $100 for any deafness due to catarrh that Hall's Ear Cure cannot cure and urges sending for free circulars from F J Cheney & Co Toledo Ohio.
An Abilene Kansas newspaper recounts a tale from Mr Dunstan a traveler who studied Central American flora about a deadly vine near Nicaragua Lake called the devil’s anara described as a vegetable octopus that drains blood. The dog victim and Dunstan suffer wounds as the vine clamps and feeds, its sap foul smelling and the plant evasively dangerous.
The text argues that diligence secures success and warns neglect leads to failure. It emphasizes applying effort to one’s tasks, citing the Cumberland Presbyterian view of Mount Ararat as two peaks separated by a valley. The higher peak reaches 17,210 feet and the lower 13,000 feet above sea level.
A jumble of stray notes and obscure facts spans medicine, fashion, and curiosity. It mentions Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup, explanations of hair care, and a potpourri of odd statistics about agriculture, shipping, and world events. Notable items include references to Ayers Hair Vigor, a large greenback confusion, and an anecdote about Vanderbilt and Evarts in a probate moment.
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