Our Young Men and the Call for True Intellectual Culture
A speaker argues that future leaders require disciplined study and mental cultivation. He contrasts educated, purposeful living with idle pleasures like billiards and gambling, urging ambition through reading, debate, and moral restraint. He cites Civil War leaders, Bacon, Newton, and Locke to emphasize persistence and knowledge.
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America
Neriog
Bacon
Newton
Locke
Crown
Hume
Gibbons
Lena Illinois Teachers Institute Held at Lena High School
The Lena teachers institute met in the Lena high school building with about forty educators attending. Morning sessions included devotion led by S N Goddard and lessons in common fractions and geography by Goddard and K E Stamm. Afternoon featured singing, zoology by T A Smith, philosophy on light by N B Heath, a spelling exercise by R Harwood, history by the county superintendent, and an essay on the teacher’s work by Mrs N B Heath. Secretary Elias Sramm praised the day’s work.
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Lena, Iil
Lena High School
S. N. Goddard
KE. Stamm
America
T. A. Smith
N. B. Heath
R. Harwood
Potter
Elias Sramm
Parisian sketch of Bazaine's wife and fate of his life
A Parisian journal recalls the wife of Marshal Bazaine, a Mexican beauty who fell for the commander of Mexico, their marriage enduring through the empire, and four children born, three alive. his portrait later hidden under black, as France bears disgrace. The Toledo Blade reports on Waite's rise to Chief Justice, aided by Delano's support during the 1859-60 Chase contest, portraying a patriotic chain of favors and the nation’s eventual benefit.
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Marshal Bazaine
Mexico
Maximillian
Eugenie Bazaine
Achille
Alphonse
Napoleon
Isabella
France
Bazaine
Louvre
Toledo Blade
Waite
Secretary Delano
Gov. Chase
Ohio
United States
Delano
Geneva
Potatoes A Guide To Various Plain Yet Pleasing Dishes
A rural household tips piece on diverse ways to cook potatoes beyond boiling. It covers best selection by size, crisping potatoes in butter, making mashed potatoes into patties, breakfast reheats, potato slices on the griddle, and spring variations with cream or milk. It closes with a humorous aside on health fads and a long anecdote about disppepsy and farm life.
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Mrs. B
Character of the Rothschilds in Harper's Magazine
Harper's Magazine portrays the Rothschild family as cosmopolitan bankers with global reach and hereditary titles. It describes their long history of Jewish faith, philanthropy, and strategic political influence, noting avoidance of democracy and long-standing residency in elite circles. The piece also comments on intermarriage within the family and their perceived power in European finance and politics.
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Asia
Africa
North
South America
Globe
Anselm
Judengasse
Frankfort
Shylock
Antonio
Harper's Magazine
Josh Billings on Dispepshe
Dean Banker claims 27 years as a practical dyspeptic and jokes about stomach problems and prays to be inside like an ostrich. He compares colporters who eat much, noting a goose that eats until it cannot stand, then sits down.
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Mackrel
Saratoga
Dean Banker
Praktikal
Enny
The Coal Combination Advances Prices Twenty Cents
The great coal combination plans a fifteen cent rise above last year’s opening figures with a new schedule effective for shipments on the 20th inst and for grades from March 20 at the shipping points. Monthly increases total ninety cents by December, with no further rises afterward. The average anthracite price rises forty five cents per ton, and contracts with middlemen will end, leaving consumers at the mercy of monopolists. Miners will return to old prices amid floating tons at shipping points, signaling brisk trade yet an indefensible price jump under the combination’s power.
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Great Coal Combination
Mosby the Rebel Lobbyist in Washington
General Mosby once a famed Confederate officer and feared guerilla now lives in Washington as a powerful lobbyist. He uses wartime notoriety to influence appointments from the Foreign Minister to minor department hires, trading access for favors and shaping political leverage among Virginia Republicans and federal offices.
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Mosby
Virginia
Washington
Capitol
Grant
Broker in government position corrupting public trust
A clipped quotation denounces brokers in government as the lowest sort of business, aside from the practice attributed to Gen. Mosby in the last war, suggesting blame on political influence and profiteering in official roles.
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Mosby
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