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Newspaper
Coshocton Age
Location
Coshocton, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1885
Page
5
A collection of curiosities and anecdotes spans topics from Salvation Army protests in Boston to Pacific island archaeology, with notes on law, industry, and social quirks. The items touch on civic reform, imperial reach, and personal tales across cities like Portland, Cincinnati, and London, weaving a mosaic of late 19th century concerns.
Broadbrim reports a booming stock mood on Wall Street with a sharp operator predicting a large rise. Monopolies like New York Central, Pennsylvania, and Western Union tighten control, while labor unrest and Navy Yard politics fuel anxiety. Yachting and urban crime notes finish the lively column with vivid details.
A drunkenness arrest in Brooklyn leads to a family being sent to the penitentiary. The father gets one year, the mother and two sons and two daughters six months each, with the others awaiting sentencing and questions raised by a local examiner.
A set of arithmetic word problems asks about profitability of cash sales versus instalment terms, investment and commission on flour and coffee, real estate investments after commission, note interest calculations, room dimensions for a pole, area of trapezoids, regular octagon area from perimeter, ball production from a sphere, printer’s page quantities, and converting units among quarts and temperature scales.
A concise set of grammar review prompts covering purpose and parts of speech, noun cases, verb forms and infinitives, possessive plurals, noun absolute usage, analysis in grammar, and sentence corrections. Includes tasks on identifying finite versus infinitive forms and constructing infinitives in given sentences with several correction items.
A fragment lists prompts about colonial settlement dates and leaders, battles, and party principles, followed by questions on reading aloud and elocution practice. It cites terms like protective tariff and nullification, and mentions Grant’s military career and Whig statesmen.
A columns piece presents a set of instructional questions on Ohio school law pedagogy and reading methods, followed by a satirical tale about a battered Vera Cruz stone image said to promise a husband to a marriageable woman who strikes it. It also recounts Elmira Reformatory rules and grading for release based on conduct and marks over months.
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