Reading as a Family Mission Encouraging Farm Youth and Women
A rural essay urges parents to fund intellectual growth for farm children with travel and naturalist books, and to provide women with wide reading. It advocates household literacy, steady access to newspapers and periodicals, a good library, and shared reading aloud to build knowledge, morals, and civic vigor. It notes Oklahoma’s boom and schooling, stressing education over sensationalism.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Burroughs
Agassiz
Edward Cope
Uiversity
North Carolina
A Call for a Civilized Newspaper Voice in America
A writer laments fake stories and personal revenge in some papers and urges a rising demand for a civilized newspaper. He argues editors can wield influence by appealing to reason, truth, and American propriety, guiding public judgment without fear or bias.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Peck
Post Office Bank Bill Faces Passage Debate
The upcoming office savings bank measure may pass or fail in Congress. It would designate post offices as banks of deposit with low minimums and modest interest, drawing comparisons to successful postal banks in Britain and Canada. The piece also touches on Indian Territory settlement, divorce law quirks, and U.S. government budgeting ideas, noting Europe’s courting of the United States as a power.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Demsie
Margaret Ogilvy
Earth
Office Savings Bank
Post Office Bank
Postal Bank
Ge Bank
Great Britain
Canada
Postal
Indian Territory
United States
Heaven
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Carthage
Klondike
Oklahoma
Union
Wilburs Food
Wilbur
Magkey
Eureka
East Mill Street
Charles S. Hill
Weingart
Charles 5
Hill
Postoffice Savings
Congressional Committees
Berlin
Europe
Aenley
Isaac N. Harris
Newsome's Block
Carthage, Ind
Diant
FE. O. McCormick
Cincinnati
United States Benevolent Society
Edgar J. Bundy
Ind
Scientific American Agency For
ANN & CO
Broadway
New York
America
Scientific American
VIA
Cheasapeake and
Ohio
E. O. McCormick
Warren J. Lynch
Ass. G. P
T. A. Cincinnati
Mwcarty Bros
Cash Grocers
Henley
McCarty Bros
Henry C. Phelps
W. S. King
West Mill Steet
King’s
West Mill Street
J. B. Shook
Stor
Hill’s Restaurant
South Main Street
W.A Aill
Goar’s Meat Market
Bacon
Joseph N. .Goar
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