Thaghers column on education and Texas travel notes
A long column urges teachers to report school openings and closings, praises public schooling and government study, reviews a Nashville Peabody Normal examination, and extols better schoolhouses. It also recounts a Texas trip with vivid observations on climate, soil, railroads, and the Wright brothers, noting opportunities for young men to move west and succeed, and ends with health ad co options.
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A. Mattison
Eureka
Nashville Peabody Normal
Mattison
Texas
Busry
Georgia
Cartersville
Atlanta
Falkethers
J. Wright
Ft. Worth
Artesian Wella
Waes
Brownwood
Essier
St Stephensville
Lee Young
Overton Young
Stephensville
Bin
Lee
Bob Lee
Dallas
Texarkans
Georgiane
Texarkana
Tennessee
North Carolina
North Georgia
Iron Mountain
Memphis
Charleston
Atlantic
Chattanooga
Texan
Loné Star
Randall
The Ol Mane Speaks on The Woman Problem in America
Sarge Plunkett writes from Alabama about the wave of letters on women workers. He argues mothers are vital and that female desire for independence threatens family life, urging traditional roles, home training, and marriage as the proper path. He predicts social turmoil if equality advances.
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Hsa
Dr. Pierce
Alania
Brown
Ube
Anya
Weasley
Bose
Atenographers
OF Cour
The Laughing Owl in Missouri’s Osage Woods
A first person reminiscence from Kansas City Times about a night trek through eastern Missouri. The narrator recalls rough German settlements and a terrifying laughing owl episode near a river ferry, leading to a cold night shelter in a Black neighborhood shanty. He notes inability to find a formal description of the laughing owl.
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Missouri
Wurst
Tem
Reat
Ferry House
Alee
Osage
Thave
Leaver
Hall's Catarrh Cure Adverts and UK length claim
An 19th or early 20th century styled advertisement promises a $100 reward for any catarrh cure not achieved with Hall's Catarrh Cure by F J Cheney & Co Toledo. It cites business endorsements from West & Tuvas and Wannise Krewan & Manvos wholesale druggists. The ad asserts internal action on blood and mucous surfaces and offers free testimonials. It ends with a note claiming Britain’s yard is slightly shorter than America’s.
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Hall
F. J. Cheney & CO
Toledo
F. J. Ghendy
West & Tuvax
Wannise
Krewan & Manvos
Clemson farm report praises DuPre and Newman leadership
The Pickens Sentinel recounts a Fort Hill visit to Clement College where manager J F C DuPre shows extensive horticultural and agricultural progress. He tested 56 Irish potato varieties, expanded canning capacity to 800 cans daily, and achieved high fruit tree survival. Col. Newman supervises the farm’s crop and silos while DuPre oversees gardens and orchards. The piece highlights experimental yields, such as 877 bushels from 1.25 acres across 52 varieties, and notes the broader benefits to local farmers.
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Pickens Sentinel
Fort Hill
Clement College
J. F.C. DaPre
DaPre
Grant
DuPre
Hoe J
Williays
Bia
Tts
DePre
Clemson
Col. Newman
Selfetata
Co. W. 8. Newman
Gardena
J. F. C. DaPre
Owl
Newman
Mr. DuPre
Escona
Lucerne Cultivation in Cotton Belt Promises Milk Gain
A letter in Southern Cultivator shares detailed lucerne cultivation advice for cotton belt soils. It covers soil preparation, seed rates, timing from September to March, fertilization with potash and stable manure, and top-dressing in winter and spring. The writer underscores the crop's drought tolerance, root depth, and value for feeding stock, with emphasis on careful land cleaning and drainage to maximize yield and animal nutrition.
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Aod
Offorth
Lacone
Lucerne
WB. Jones
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Seperdozen, Orr & Sloan
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DUE West Female College
Due West, S.C
Abe
Taundry
S.mmer
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Anderson Steam L. Co
Anderson, & Anderson
Masonic Temple
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Pendleton
Breen Business College
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Womett
Yover
Angerson
A. B. Towers
Public Square
AirDune
MBS
Jordan
Jessen R Smith
Deoata
Thaghers
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Wardlaw
Eaionk
Trinity School
Eskew
Jarawell Institute
Anderson County
Ifford
Ginn & Go
Altos Room
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Howe
Billars
Weites
Atlanta Constitution
Frien Randall
Augusta Herald
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Maryland
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Talzite
Husbood
Tesas
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Solomon
Natrath
Wright Brothers
Roma
China
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Dripa
Cleburne
Waco
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Tasw
Allanta
Raltronda
Turae
Railronda
Alop
Sarge Plunkett
Ol Mane ‘Atke Mora
France
America
Sanger Pounkerr
the Laughing Owl
The
Clemson Porm
Cotes Drnnkaris
Tlis
Brazil
Newport Herald
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Henry
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Mra. Keedick
Adlet
Keedick
Navy Department
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