Endowments and Prizes Strengthen Dickinson College
The Carlisle institution, long supported by James W. Bosler, advances toward completion with a growing endowment. The college offers classics, science and modern language tracks, and new cash prizes to reward scholarship. Eleven awards totaling 124 and 100 dollars aid freshmen and sophomores, with rules preventing double wins. Dickinson began under Presbyterian control, later moved to Methodists, maintaining liberal policy under Dr. B. H. Crever.
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James W. Bosler
Carlisle
Hfe
Dickenson
Nesbet
Scotland
Methodist Episcopal church
B. H. CREVER
Dickinson College Emerges Into a New Century Promise
The article praises Dickinson College in Carlisle as it enters its 102nd commencement and a revived era. It highlights the institution’s strong legacy from founders John Dickinson and Benjamin Rush, its diverse achievements, and ambitious campus expansion. Notable new buildings include the Tome Scientific building, Gymnasium, and Bosler Memorial Library Hall, with Emory Hall housing the preparatory department.
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Caroline County
John Dickinson
Benjamin Rush
Dickinson
Carlisle
Penn’s woods
new Tome Scientific
Bosler Memorial Library
Emory Hall
Europe
America
Whoop and Editor See Sioux Indians in Circus Parade
A boy reports Sioux-like figures in a circus parade to an exchange editor who recalls the rugged image of Sioux in Wyoming Territory. The editor shares brutal anecdotes of fights, whiskey thefts, and a scar from a clash with Perspiring Horseshoe, revealing a satirical, harsh view of Native Americans. The piece closes urging support for boys, praising their noble potential and urging kindness.
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exchange
red man
Wyoming Territory
Pittsburgh
Ike
Gentlemanly Wit and Social Satire From Odd Encounters
A string of light anecdotes on wit and social manners. A gentleman apologizes after stepping on a lady's foot with a witty retort about small feet. A railroad car tale features a man with a glass eye remarking that the eye can do no harm while admiring a charming woman. Other bits joke about tattlers daughters of millionaires and a swallow out on a lark, ending with a child’s New Year's callers and a discreet father hiding in the attic.
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Lace
madmin
Mamie
The Poetry of Advertising Land of bitter fears in ad prose
A satirical poem contrasts a land of advertising fear and waste with another filled by wealth and marketing gleams. It mocks witless mortals and the lure of profit, noting the gods of commerce and the easy life promised by banners and bonds. The refrain hints that advertising shapes desires and fortunes.
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Niobe
Humorous Sidelights on Duelling from Early Years
Major Truman’s Field of Honor recounts amusing duelling anecdotes from England in the eighteenth century and American tales. Mead versus Woodward ends with a quip about medicine, Ney’s refusal to withdraw, a one legged challenge, and Gen Putnam’s onion keg ruse to test a British officer's fear.
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Major Truman
England
Mead
Woodward
Ney
Putnam
Comic Inquiries and Witty Exchanges End at Newspaper Arrives
A collage of quips on language, wealth, manners, and gender lines appears in a humorous column. Jests touch on parts of speech, prosperity for fishermen, dog fleas, concealing superiority, imported cigars, poets, and a cautionary tale of a fish. Dialogue fragments close with a playful exchange about indulgent husbands as the newspaper arrives.
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WINTER GOODS
IDUNNOCK
Dunnock
Fts
WM. E. DUNNOCK
BALTIMORE, MND
WHOLEALE AND RETAIL
Girard
Victor
GHANNAHAN
HASTON, IMD
SHOREY'S
W. Balto
Baltimore
bid
THOMAS F. JONES
WITHh
FALLIN, DOWNING & CO
WHOLESALE TOBACCO AND com
MISSION HOUSE
Light Street
BalTimore, MD
BHGHAIE
NPA PER
W. MINNICK & SON
EMPORIUM
Talbot
Caroline
Queen Anne
ESTEY
EASTON, MD
GEORGE E. JONES
Secler’s
Easton
Denton
FURNITURE DEPARTMENT
Masonic Hall
H. BLACKISTON & SON
MARSHALL
MUTCHLER
DENTON, MD
enpoite
court house
Josuva W. Bayant
Anne Townsond
ATTORNEYS AT LAW
Gerona T. ALFLVIN
Eon S. Hosa
MELVIN
HOBBS, Attorneys-at-Law
counties
GEORGE VM. RUSSUS
SWENRY BR. LEWIS
RUSSUM & LEWIS
Caroline, Talbot
W. TILGHMAN
William T. KELLY
Preston
Greensborough
Eutaw St
J. J. COULIOURN
J. F. MOYER
J. I. HARRIS
COULBOURN, MOYER & CO
WHOLESALE COMMISSION
North Front St
Philadelphia
P. W. Downes
Denton National Bank
J. B. Steele
Register of Wills
L. WH. Gadd
Caroine county
Wm. G. Horsey
Richard C. Carter
Treas
Citizens’ B. & L. Associa
J. M. Wooters
Cordovan
Eli Saulsbury
Dover
Del
ichael Colbourn
Seaford
Wm. Fell
Eugie
Georgetown
a. 3d IRVING & CO
Corner Fayette and St. Paul Sts
United States
M'Daniel
Clark's Poultry
KNIGHT
CLARK & M’DANIEL, PROPRIETORS
Deaware
Thomas M. Cooper
Charles Stevens
George & Redden
Denton, MI
MOORE'S PHARMACY
LEXINGTON ST
PARK AND NOWARD BTS
Tornet
Lundberg
Davin B. STEWART
Geo. W. Bunry
D. B. STEWART & CO
GENERAL COMMISSION MERCIANTS
WEST
PRATT STREET
A . V. MILHOLLAND
LEXINGTON
THOMAS UILL
Fayette and St. Paul Streets
GASPER MILLER
DEIN TOW
SPRATT
F. C. JACOBS
W. PRATT ST
FuUROPEAN HOTEL
VAN AUSDALL & DOWDEN
Props
T. B. MERRITT
Wilmington
Delaware
Ssa
PPR DAL
J. 5. JOHNSON & CO
South St
William H. Withgott
William T. Watts
John T. Comegys
mayloy
CECILIA DENHAM
DICKINSON COLLEGE
The JOURNAL
Dante
Chicago Journal
Johnny
Mrs. Doll
George
Mrs
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