Women's rights topics fill Illinois and national pages
The paper reports on national WCTU efforts to create a commission on social vice and its wide effects, plus state and city actions. It notes Mary Whiteside Emery’s school superintendent success in Peoria, Swedish author Lofving’s London visit, Julia Ward Howe lectures, and Mary Burt and Ellen Mitchell aiding Chicago schools. It mentions the World’s Fair board expansion, Mary Livermore’s lecture circuit, Maine prohibition stance, and Kansas efforts for a G A R memorial college.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congress
United States
District of Columbia
Bloomington
Peoria County
Mary W Whiteside Emery
Enoch Emery
Normal School of the State University At
Reno, Neb
Concordia Lofving
London
Paris
Samphitheatre
Sorbonne
Society For the Promotion of Good
Sweden
Milas Lofying
Minister of Public Instruction
France
Mary G. Walsh
Brewer, Me
Mount Desert Herald
Bob
Household Department
Detroit Free Press
Julia Ward Howe
Chicago
Cregier
Mary E. Burt
Ellen M. Mitchell
Mayer Roche
Unclear OCR fragment on mail, door, and pipe
Fragmentary text describes a door and pipe arrangement with unclear references to mail and access. The passage is incomprehensible and lacks identifiable people, organizations, or events to summarize.
Farming excerpts and agricultural notes from old issue
A jumble of farm advice and quotes on livestock care water use and humane treatment. It includes a brief note that Andrew Renfrew was fined for refusing to answer census questions and a collection of observations on oats bone and muscle in animals, clover crop factors and bee pollination, plus fertilizer tips from Farm Field and Stockman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Andrew Renfrew
Springfeld
Ill
Indiana
Maurice Thompson
Australia
The Gift of Speech Damned by Brash Truth Tellers
A column decries blunt talkers who always say what they think. It argues speech masks thoughts and civilized tact suffers when people reveal every notion aloud. The piece laments unkind judgments and labels outspoken speakers as pests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edadel
Home
What One Cent Did to Square Small Debts
A historical anecdote shows a boy, a clerk, and a cashier each owing small sums. The boy uses a single cent to start a chain of one cent payments, gradually settling three cents of debt among the three, ending with all accounts settled.
Acknowledging the corn origin tale in congress
The 1882 debate over corn and haystacks ends with Wickliffe declaring I acknowledge the corn. Alexander Stewart prompts the joke by equating hay to fuel for market animals, and the crowd laughs as the remark is remembered in The Millstone account.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alexander Stewart
Congress
Ohio
Kentucky
Indiana
New York
Philadelphia
Wickliffe
Stewart
Wicklife
Sewart
Speaker
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