Rock Grove Teachers Institute Held in Rock Grove MI
Rock Grove Michigan January 20 1878 report on a Saturday teachers institute with seventeen teachers and Superintendent Kleckner. The day featured phonics spelling geography fractions and grammar using Clark's Analysis. The event concluded with a note to improve institutes and support education locally.
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Rock Grove
Friends of Education of
Kleckner
F. T. Oldt
Mgr. W. W. Preston
J. Mann
W. W. Preston
F. A. Cain
G. A. Bolender
Fretport Journal and Bulletin
Letter from Pleasant Valley 1873 on district school limits
Burron Jounnan discusses education in Pleasant Valley comparing 46 years ago with the present era and laments overloading district teachers. He notes schools now cover physiology natural philosophy botany and history alongside basics. He argues one teacher cannot adequately cover many subjects in limited hours and jokes about the old woman in the shoe.
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Burron Jounnan
Parvo
Ridott Public School Report Summary
In the month ending dan 71573 Ridott Public School reports 14 pupils enrolled and 675 average daily attendance 55.2 indicating a low turnout. The note lists attendance details by event and location with varying counts and a population figure of 78.75 per event.
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Anaiied
Dani
Vereee
Atendanes
Shalf Cayes
Glos
Tardis Mvares
Cory Ye Pomphal
Populunties
Bromus Beanthoe Andy
Freedom and Responsibility in Moral Law
The author argues against free will, citing Prof. Tyndall and experimental knowledge to claim humans are borne by divine laws. He asserts law imputes responsibility to actions regardless of freedom, and that the notion of a free moral agent is a contradic tion.
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Tyndall
Stokes
Saqe
Emil
Sage
Pierce
Bae Ve Pierce Ni
Edpfalo
N.Y
Wells
John Q. Kellogg
Platt St
New York
United States
National Publishing CO
Chicago
Cincinnati
Ohio
St Louis
Price Current Shows Farming Woes in Iowa City Diggings
The Iowa City paper catalogs hard times for farmers in the diggings with a grim Price Current. Boots priced at two loads of potatoes and lodging, oats and corn costs, a wife wearing five acres of wheat, and a four year old steer for a Sunday suit highlight mortgage burdens and taxes chewing through the farm.
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Iowa City
France records surge in personal crisis death reports
Lippincott's Magazine notes a spike in self inflicted deaths in France during the past year mirroring wartime stress. Paris shows 4177 deaths by self action in 1871 with 1877 from brain derangement, 980 from physical sufferings, 701 from love, 512 from family quarrels, 888 from destitution, 22 from fear of punishment, and 282 from delirium tremens linked to absinthe. The article cites Trelat on brandy and absinthe and links the 1871 disaster to war depression.
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Oliver Werthell Holmes
France
Paris
Trelat
Rome
Lippincott
Prayers and sermons spark odd returns in church tale
A minister in an African church invites a stranger to preach but gets no response. A voiced quip echoes as a churchgoer asks for divine permission and a janitor blocks a supposed clergyman, while a visitor jokes you can pass. Whisky lore adds a final quip about drinking costs.
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Brethren
Brother S
Stephen Girard
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