May Meeting of Educational Board at Columbus Indiana
The Educational Board of Bartholomew County met May 1 1877 at 10 am in the county superintendent's office. Trustees and the superintendent filed reports, adopted a rule for district teachers to submit school condition notes, and formed a committee to revise the 1874 course of study. Afternoon sessions reviewed school operations, teacher pay, and discipline, with praise for towns showing success and emphasis on supervision of play and attendance.
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Educational Board of
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Columbus
Indiana
Hawcreck
W. Stewart
Flatrock
Lucas
German
F. Reisner
Nineveh
W. Nichols
Union
A. Louden
Clifty
D. McClintic
Clay
P. Blessing
Harrison
B. Whittington
Rockcreek
A.G. Buchanan
Sandcreek
J. Morris
Wayne
T. J. Kobbe
Ohio
J. Sims
Jackson
H. Meyers
City of Columbus
Hope
J. T. Schaub
Hartsville
L. Mobiley
Elizabethtown
I. E. Pearson
Wallace
State Superintendent of Public Instruction
Mobley
A. G. Buchanan
Reisner
Kobbe
Coup
Mobrey
J. M. Wallace
The Stony Girdle of the Earth Centered Here
The passage claims the central clasp of the vast belt stretching from Mount Ararat to Europe crosses through this region calling it the girdle’s heart. The text emphasizes the area as the zone’s pivotal point and historic hinge.
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Mount
Ararat
Armenia
Europe
Turkey
Greece
Alps
Pyrenees
Senator Seays Noose Turns To Gold In Mine School Row
In a Senate clash over the School for Mines funding, Senator Seay pushed for a $10,000 increase. Senators Young Mayor Parish Wilson and others schemed to vote against his amendment. Seay spoke bravely, but the chamber voted no. The chair declared the ayes had it, then revealed Seay had inadvertently voted aye, causing the amendment to pass amid a chorus of laughter and relief.
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Seay
Young
Mayor
Parish
Wilson
Onelp
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Phelan
Phelps
Sean
St. Louis Republican
Little Things and Big Consequences
A Native sermon on small causes and large effects. The text links tiny items to vast outcomes from a serpent’s fang to life and death, noting how a single word or minute can shape destinies. It blends moral reflection with vivid images of daily life and fate.
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Black Bear
Louisiana Returning Board secrets threaten national shock
A Baltimore Sun dispatch reports that the Louisiana Returning Board proceedings may soon be fully exposed. Anderson and Wells faced demotions as they allegedly offered to sell out to the Tilden side, with Packard more embittered. Key disclosures involve top Republicans who traveled to Louisiana to defeat the people’s will, signaling a country shocked by Republican corruption in Louisiana politics.
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Himalaya Mountains
Field
Asia
Himalayas
Mont Blanc
Chamouii
Cordilleras
Mexico
Sewalie Range
India
Dehra Doon
Himalayae
Globe
Enewy
Heavenly City
High Asia
Yonder Pass
Thibet
Malayan Peninsula
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Caucasus
Baltimore Sun
New Orleans
Bayes
Louisiana Returning Board
Anderson
Wells
General Grant
Packard
Tilden
Louisiana
Grant
The Sacred Ganges Legend of Sagara and Ganga
The river Ganges is revered as heavenly, descending from above. In Ayodhya king Sagara seeks sons, loses them, and his grandson Anjumat learns earthly water cannot redeem the ashes of sixty thousand princes. Brahma allows Ganga to flow to earth after Shiva agrees, washing the princes and lifting their souls to heaven.
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Earth
Himavat
Heaven
Ayodhya
Oude
Sagara
Vishnuv
Anjumat
Brahma
Siva
Lord Elcho amendment on Gladstone resolution in Commons
In Lonpos May 3 the Lord Elcho proposed an amendment to Gladstone's resolution. It condemns foreign armed interference in the Ottoman empire's internal affairs and states the government will remain neutral while protecting British interests if the war between Russia and Turkey affects them.
War maps in morning papers and scientific quirks amuse readers
The piece notes that war maps in newspapers serve a learned look though they omit terrain. It recalls Hayden on Keate’s self-doubt and dissipation, mentioning Cayenne pepper for a throat, and cites a Journal of Science and Arts item on exotic chemical compounds of barium and strontium with humorous regional references.
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Hayden
Keate
American Journal of Science and Arts
Piwrian
Advice to Travelers From a Philadelphia Paper Man
A Philadelphia newspaper man who saved money during the flash times recently traveled and, on returning home, penned advice to travelers. He counseled carrying a crowbar to open car windows a Spencer or Henry Martin rifle for protection against hackmen and hotel clerks a good supply of equable temper and a large suitcase to hold greenbacks.
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Philadelphia
Henry Martin
Paris 1878 Exhibition Aims To Wow The World
London News predicts Paris will host a grand exhibition in 1878 within a vast new landmarked complex. The guide praises the Hotel de Ville revival, Louvre ruins, improved boulevards, a future underground railway, and electric illumination making nights as bright as day.
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Hotel de Ville
Seine
Tuileries
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Prefecture of Police
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Hotel Dieu
Louvre
Avenue de l’Opera
London News
Beecher on marriage roles and women's social value
Beecher states that before marriage women are figures and ciphers. A wife gains importance only when she remains beside her husband, increasing his value tenfold. If she loses that position, he rises and she diminishes to her original insignificance.
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