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Newspaper
Iowa Index
Location
Hull, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 25, 1892
Page
3
In a schoolroom, a Grammar, Lexicons, and a French Reader lead a mock convention. A history tome proclaims students ignore its lessons, while numbers and figures insist they are essential, though the books fear being rendered obsolete by student disinterest.
In Roaring Run miners halt their saloon meeting to fund a schoolteacher to educate the town’s children. A stage arrival brings a female teacher, who earns respect and affection, later aided by a preacher who helps wed Rube Rollins to the teacher in a rural frontier tale.
Washington anecdotes reveal Senator Paddock of Nebraska neglected pocket money while engrossed in policy. Assistant Sergeant at Arms Reade recalls millionaires like Palmer and Stanford borrowing moments of aid, with salaries or small sums highlighted. White House visits and a costly funeral bill probe add a broader portrait of Capitol life and financial quirks.
An editorial voice urges a vibrant era of progress where practical work defines worth. It extols industrious achievement, warns against mere theory, and stresses social responsibility, with reflections on vanity, reform, and the moral measure of individuals.
The piece recounts Jamaica’s pirate era centered on Port Royal and the Maroons. It describes how English occupation and piracy intertwined with wealth and vice, the 1865 black uprising, and Henry Morgan’s rise from slave to knight and Jamaica’s lieutenant governor.
In the sacred city of Durga the Mongolian Buddhist center, numerous prayer wheels are inscribed with prayers to Buddhas and turning them increases piety. Devout individuals spin small wheels with the left hand while turning a large wheel with the right. Prayer flags flutter above the town’s palisades, each flag believed to carry a prayer.
The popular bodice is a fitted wide belt underarm friendly. It should use heavier material than the gown and may feature a round or hidden line. A Paris model shows jacket fronts in dull blue cloth over a straight Oriental brocade bodice, lined with brocade and edged with crotched yellow ornaments.
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