Rise of Sierra Leone Free Negro Settlement
The text traces the origin of a Liberia like idea with Sierra Leone’s founding after the American Revolution. It notes freed British servitors and maroon Jamaica diasporas, early 1784 schemes, a 1787 charter, and crown control in 1808, linking to U.S. free negro depopulation issues in the early nineteenth century.
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Liberia
Sierra Leone
Great Britain
Nova Scotia
Jamaica
West Africa
United States
Liberia’s rise and rough road from colonization to republic
The article outlines American efforts to found a West African colony for freed slaves, leading to Liberia’s 1847 independence. It covers settlement on the Grain Coast, later expansion, and the Edina town, plus treaties, governance modeled on the US, and the strain from interior tribes, European powers, and trade. It notes Liberia’s wealth in gold, diamonds, rubber, oil palms, and the climate’s impact on settlers.
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Sierra Leone
West Africa
United States
Sierra Leon
Liberia
National Colonization Society
America
Elijah Johnson
Cape Monte
Bassa Land
Edina
Edinburgh
The
Republic
House of Representatives
Coast
Bassa
Cape Palmas
Sinoe
Montserrado
Monrovia
Africa
Great Britain
Gold Coast
Nigeria
France
Senegambia
Dahomey
England
Britain
Moncoast
Sudan
Ivory Coast
Kru
Europe
Hiring Help In East Africa in the bungalow life
A Wide World writer notes the "servant problem" for bachelors in British East Africa. Compounds attract many cooks and helpers from diverse tribes, with testers and misrepresented testimonials. A cautionary tale shows mischief around baruas and forged documents leading to humorous, awkward misadventures.
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America
British East Africa
Nairobi
Mombasa
Muzungu
Horse Trade in Missouri Ends with Engine Award
In St. Charles last week Lester Ingraham traded A. S. Osborn a horse for a motor boat. Osborn found the horse worthless, removed the engine from the boat, and the horse died as it was hauled away. A jury in a justice court awarded Ingraham the engine and one dollar damage.
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St. Charles
Lester Ingraham
A. S. Osborn
Osborn
Justice’s Court
Ingraham
Detroit Free Press
Quotable lines and old ad copy in a collage
A fragmentary clipping presents a mix of quotes from Whitman and Emerson and an old Ball Blue laundry bluing ad. It blends motivational lines with a commercial 2 oz package offer priced at five cents, showing 19th or early 20th century ad style.
Just Like a Girl and a Gasoline Taste Test
A humorous quotation about a woman with cooking habits and a man’s complaint that she asks him to taste gasoline when the car fails. An endorsement extols Resinol Ointment as highly effective for skin eruptions, claimed by M. F. Ryan of Bedford Square, London.
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M. F. Ryan
Bedford Sq
London
Outlining Treatment From a Doctor to Assistant
A doctor tells an assistant to manage practice while away. The reply notes the assistant’s lack of experience. The doctor dismisses any concern and urges focus on patients, dietary habits, and summering locations, directing relocation of patients.
Thrift in Vermont Sparks Dinner Potatoes Tale
Robert Lincoln O'Brien, editor of the Boston Transcript, praised Vermont thrift but recalls a dinner visit where a host told the servant to move two large potatoes to the cellar and fetch three small ones. The anecdote highlights frugal Vermont hospitality observed during last summer's visit.
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Vermont
Robert Lincoln O’brien
Boston Transcript
Waggoner Sees End of Corporal Punishment
Dr. Robert L. Waggoner, president of Baldwin University, told a Berea Ohio audience that one of the most notable shifts in 30 years of teaching is the abolition of corporal punishment. He quipped that today’s boys would say instructors once lived by the motto The swish is father to the taught.
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Robert L. Waggoner
Baldwin University
Berea, O
Dr. Waggoner
Coffee's Weight on Old Age
A Southern state public school superintendent shares a testimonial about his mother’s long coffee dependency and heart trouble. After switching to Postum, the family reports improved health, fewer headaches, and better overall well being, with the mother returning to normal strength.
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Postum
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American Negro Republic
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M. B. Whitman
Emerson
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