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Newspaper
Forest City Courier
Location
Forest City, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1926
Page
4
A Oakland woman reports rapid recovery from a night of acute pain after applying Sloan's Liniment. She credits the remedy with delivering healing blood to the hurt area, reducing swelling and stiffness without rubbing, and plans to stock up due to its effectiveness.
The essay recalls rural education and community life around springs and branches in the 1860s to prewar era. It describes one room log schoolhouses with a single teacher named Squire Flaxen, crude chinked walls, and no glass windows, heated by large end chimneys. It details the Bull Pen game, Town Ball, cat and ball, and daily routine from dawn lessons to recess, ending with graduation and paths to the wider world.
A nostalgic account recalls one room schoolhouses with plank desks and slanted writing benches. Pupils used ink made from oak ink balls and pens fashioned from goose quills, trimmed by the teacher during recess. The slate and pencil replaced by shared ink and quills, with mishaps and punishments shaping daily life.
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