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Newspaper
Bellevue Gazette
Location
Bellevue, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1858
Page
1
The article recalls frontier life and pioneer ethics, celebrating community toil, Sabbath gatherings, and the rough early days. It contrasts country and town women, urging cultivation of refined minds, health, and practical virtue. It includes a railway conductor story of aid for a working girl and notes on ventilation advances and scientific thought.
The piece argues that rural girls can be the nation’s pride through earnest self improvement. It critiques those who devalue their condition and urges home schooling, reading, and a refined education as achievable with determination. It emphasizes intelligent women as desirable wives and highlights the value of knowledge.
The piece contrasts the joy of scientific progress with the pity for violent suppression of new truths. It traces ignorance as a past era where truth traded with religion, notes science’ ascent over error, and recalls ancient geocentric views giving way to a vast universe. It highlights lightning, electricity, and natural phenomena as evidence of discovery.
The text describes a Chicago trial where six hundred people were sealed in a hotel ball to test life support oxygen needs. After repeated half hour intervals, many collapsed or fell asleep, proving life would end within about ninety five minutes under such conditions.
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