Teaching as a Professional Path for Teachers
The column urges teachers toward professionalism, arguing many will try teaching and quit. It outlines criteria: a professional spirit, a personal education library, and solid daily principles such as teaching from known to unknown and concrete before abstract. It warns against merely reading lessons and predicts a new, more scientific era of teaching.
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Priebel
Pestalozzi
Qvienti
Enidat
Meadhira
Diphtheria Death Toll and Public Health Alarm
Diphtheria mortality in Boston shows 470 deaths from 1,422 cases in a single year, with long-term totals of 4,825 deaths in 14,367 cases over eleven years. The piece argues for strict isolation and public notification to prevent house-to-house spread and urges municipal action, citing Glasgow as a model and urging legal authority backed by public sentiment.
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Florida
Boston
Gliegow
Scotland
Boards of Health
Ouse
Chonges
Cam
Women suffrage debates and social reform echo across Mississippi
A letter supports women voting, arguing literacy and property criteria, local schooling, and moral influence. It recalls Salem witch trials to warn against prejudice, urges tolerance, notes female teachers and a male school superintendent, and warns travelers selling lightning rods and questionable contracts.
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Missionippi
Bartow
Mississippi
South
Hersig
Brown
Bats
Tam
Arp
Abea Ens
Islem Witheret
Ingresea Mather
Cotton Mather
Samuel Sewall
Salem
Massachusetts
Cotton
Richard Baxter
Martha Carrier
Hell
Samuel Sewell
Hev
Ash
Winthrop
Mada
Hera
Isepibni¢e
Broad River planter eyes bigger corn harvest after near miss
Mr. Rafae M. Allison of Broad River township is profiting from last year’s failed American Agriculture prize bid. He built a stone dam to flood fields, enabling an anticipated 275 to 300 bushels per acre this year on two acres of corn, plus a Crawford cotton crop with expected yield of 1.5 to 2 bales per acre.
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Rafae M. Allison
Broad River Township
American Agriculture Rat
the Inquirer
Allison
Clark
Bullack
Hickory Grove
Plovea
Baain
Jez
Iles
Cholesst
Tn Cuao
Altack
Garratt
Atlanta
Crawford
Yorkville
Brain myths and quack remedies in a 19th century notice
An article alleging gender based brain weight differences and intelligence followed by promotes Dr Westmoreland's Calisaya Tonic as a cure for debility and malarial districts. It also notes a Birmingham initiative where wealthy Black men organize a colored bank with a $50,000 capital and set to hire deposits and officers.
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Birmingham
Ala
Remarkable Lost Money Tales From Rail and Railways
A Boston based paymaster misplaced thirty thousand dollars wrapped in a newspaper at a roadside eatery and recovered it after a guest spotted a paper on a chair. A second tale recounts ten thousand nine hundred dollars lost in a newspaper wrap later found at a post office after being soaked. A Paris incident recalls two soldiers finding a twenty six thousand pound bundle kicked along a station floor and recovered via municipal contact with M Pages, who paid a thousand pound reward. The piece teases the soldier’s feelings at the odd fortune.
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Tte
Boston
Dia
Los
M. Pages
Paris
Eyelet
Ezslob
Ezelot
Neuilly
Exelot
Documenta
Europe
Clea
Beelot
Letter from Johnny Sends Old Woman to Grief in Train
A little, proud old woman reads two letters on a city train. One letter brightens her mood with news from her son Johnny. The second reveals a fatal mining-camp accident, and she collapses, dying soon after in a drug store.
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Tom
Johnny
Tima
John
Claspert
Hops in the South and the value of tree planting urged
The Manufacturers' Record promotes southern hop cultivation arguing it yields profit, matures early, and requires simple curing. A Spartan editorial urges tree planting, especially black locusts, to provide posts and shelter, noting rapid growth and easy maintenance. The piece also discusses cotton bagging percentages and bale weights for Alliance members.
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Pink Collins
Jane Cooper
Eber ‘Tinsley
Eber
Bigh
Alliance
Aby Aort
Carolina Spartan
Health and strength renew with Syrup of Figa period
A fragment describes Syrup of Figs promising health benefits and easy cleansing of the system when constipated or bilious. It notes selling price in small bottles and advertises widely. A separate line quotes a frightened colored woman during a thunder storm trembling with fear.
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Druggs
Shpl
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