11 Sep 1890
Page 1
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Newspaper
Anderson Intelligencer
Location
Anderson, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 11, 1890
Page
1
The column argues Andrew Carnegie’s claim that colleges fail to prepare students for business is flawed in reasoning. It asserts education pays but many colleges offer poor teaching and roosting spots for patrons’ sons, suggesting colleges should select proven teachers from high schools.
A teacher candidate offered two thousand dollars in a position quickly applies without inquiry. He proves utterly incompetent, lacking teaching knowledge, and resists normal schooling. The piece urges personal growth, training, and real qualification over dreaming of rapid advancement.
A fragmented old text recalls Alexander the Great era plans with gardens and a vast Crochona tree, then shifts to Dr Westmoreland's medicine and a dying rich man who begs the editor for a final subscription nickel to cover his eventual inheritance.
A wandering observer recalls escaping worldly politics, finding solace beside a crystal spring at a mountain camp, and chronicling remains of once busy iron works. The piece mingles nature, memory, and reflections on public life, with vivid descriptions of ruins, streams, and a past industrial town.
A bold express-case robbery occurred on a through New Orleans line near Pensacola, Florida. Gunmen forced the messenger to open the safe on the Big Escambia bridge, escaped into the woods, with suspected links to the Burrows/Bunch notoriety, and an estimated loss not exceeding $200.
California women invented a baby carriage earning $50,000 while Catherine Greene is credited with the cotton gin. A woman designed a shoe making machine, a reaper and mower by Ann Manning, Clover cleaner by Mrs. Manning, and Elizabeth Smith improved knife-changing on a mower. Maggie Knight created a complex paper bag machine, a New York street sweeper by a woman, and Dr Mary B Wallon produced sound-deadening wheels for elevated trains. Syrup of Figs advertised. Sixteen thousand Magic Lodge listed with two million members.
An article explains deafness as an inflamed Eustachian tube condition and promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure with a money back offer. It also notes the origin of the term honeymoon from Northern European marriage customs and a traditional post marriage drink.
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