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Newspaper
Huntingdon Journal
Location
Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1855
Page
1
A fragment lists subscription rates and policies for advance payment and arrears, plus a poem urging to spare the old homestead. It cites rules about continuance, discontinuance, and Post Master liability, and ends with a verse about memory and home.
An 1854 prospectus describes the Cosmopolitan Art Association's first annual distribution of prizes including the Greek Slave statue and other bronzes and oil paintings. Members pay 3 dollars for a year of Knickerbocker Magazine plus a distribution ticket. five memberships grant five magazines and six distribution tickets. Membership begins with a year from the chosen month and magazines ship from New York or Sandusky.
The Pennsylvania Teachers Association endorses county editorial columns to advance education. The Huntingdon County Teachers' Institute met December 21 1854 with J S Barr presiding and planned to publish a synopsis of proceedings in the county papers and the Pennsylvania School Journal.
The afternoon session focused on schoolroom order as essential to republican virtue. Mr Hall outlined methods to raise attendance and uniform books, train teachers to stay orderly, and engage pupils with purposeful activities, citing district canvassing and gradual teaching of discipline.
A St Louis Missouri meeting of prominent citizens on the 16th resolved to seek legislative approval for an Overland Mail and Transportation Company connecting Missouri with California. Committees were named to draft a charter and to contact California supporters, with local rail and business leaders backing the project despite concerns about Indian threats and potential military posts along emigrant routes.
The piece asserts that sowing one bushel per acre of ground lime like gypsum in spring after frost can prevent wheat fly damage, and notes the experiment is worth trying.
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