Mass Influence and Education Across Nations
The article argues public journalism should fear not amoral motives but the community's record. It highlights how nations differ by character, contrasts Europe and America, and stresses that American education and widespread access to colleges signal progress and superiority. It concludes character is shaped by subtle, pervasive influences more than rigid effort.
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Berlin
Paris
Europe
America
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Oddities in Politics and Klansmen in the South
The writer condemns Ku Klux Klan outrages in the South and criticizes political corruption in New York. He laments lawmakers who fail to serve the people, noting disdainful detachment in Congress. He contrasts France, England, and American plans to suppress Mormonism with persistent unrest.
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Congress
France
England
Sam
Elopement Rumor Rocks Cedar Swamp Village
The Cape Cod Gazette reports a sensational elopement in Cedar Swamp Plymouth involving Captain George Swift's wife and his brother, a one armed soldier. They absconded with their eight month old daughter and $126 from Plymouth Savages Bank. The husband left his vessel to secure a home for his two minor children and says no need for worry as he will not pursue her.
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Cape Cod Gazette
Cedar Swamp
Plymouth
George Swift
Plymouth Savages Bank
Comet Reported By Cortland Observer Lewis Swift
Cortland county resident Lewis Swift reports to the Syracuse Journal the discovery of a comet in Perseus near Alpha. He notes its nine forty local time position about right ascension three hours ten minutes and declination north forty nine thirty five. The tail spans ten minutes and the comet moves about thirty five minutes per day toward Capella.
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Loox
Lewis Swift
Cortland County
Syracuse Journal
Perseus
Alpha
Capella
Gloucester loses four fishing schooners in Banks tragedy
Three mourn Gloucester as four schooners vanish at the banks with all hands. The missing A F Lindbern with eleven crew, Seamen's Pride ten, William Murray nine, and B H Hough ten. Two fishermen dead since February, six vessels lost this season, many Gloucester residents affected and leaving families.
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Gloucester
A. F. Lindbern
Seamen's Pride
Willian Murray
B. ‘H. Hough
Robbery and arson assault on elderly man in Bedford area
Three men entered the house of Warren near Bedford Pennsylvania on Saturday night. They held him down pressed his head with one, threw coal to his legs demanding the location of money. They obtained 75 dollars then tied him to his bed and set the house on fire. The old man freed himself and put out the flames. No arrests have been made.
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Warren
Bedford
Brightwell
Iensburg
Oldest US printer in Tennessee noted by Nashville papers
Fragments recount various oddities and news blurbs from old papers including the oldest printer in the United States living in Tennessee, plant sulphur irrigation, a deep Manistee well, and a July 8 anniversary suggestion for Edgartown and Tisbury. Additional notes mention almond and olive crops, mosquito concerns in New Jersey, a folk remedy for fever, and an adjourned town meeting with tax proposals.
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United States
Tennessee
Nashville
Manistee
Michigan
Edgartown
Tisbury
Town Meeting Minutes On School House Committee Dissolution
A transcription fragment shows He Reynolds Theodore Boe B Stanton and Vear Fare naming a committee at the annual town meet. The text indicates the committee appointed to oversee the school house is discharged from further duties and the adjournment of the meeting.
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Chinéch
Benjamin M
Simmons
General ‘Assembly
Bristol
Irs
General Assembly
Benjamin Ssimmons
James
M. Gooding
Joseph Mohr
Charlotte Coomer
Solomon T
Davis
William Maxfield
Joseph Ball
Andrew‘ Cwilmaith
Loring
Coggess
Shubael B. Goss
Samuel ‘Smith
Benjamin E. Smith
Richard Smith
Daniel H. Collins
Joseph M
Colina
Leonard ‘Munroe
George
A. C. Swett
Tadao
Abby B. Simmons
Sally Munroe
William i Peck
Henry Coomer
Gideon Gray
Geo Geo
W. Peckham
Henry F. "Monroe
Hira
Munroe
Marcus Sreene Pall
F.N. Ana
Go ‘Samuel
White
Thombs ‘Keating
E. Hathaway
Abby. Diwell
Josiah
McCaughey
George Ft. Greene
Thomas Wilson
Peat
James Shiplyzit
Mary'Co Co
James E. “Bowen
S.martha
M.cole
Elizabeth B. Cole
Daniel Winslow Jr
van. Luther
Samuel ‘Spaks
Nasthaniel
Greene
Philip
BS Bourne
Nathaniel
Fales
William
Monro
He Reynolds
Theodore P. Bo
B. Stanton Bo
Vear Fare
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