County reform talk and printing prices stall at county line
The piece critiques reformers and a pending convention, noting delays in repealing silver fees and pledges that outpace actual rewards. It compares Sparks newspaper pricing to county charges, accusing the Sparks of overpricing printing and pointing to a long history of alleged coercion and politics in Provers County, with references to figures Brown and Gochenour.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sparks
Brown
Reorster
Gochenour
Joe
Reform critics expose county payoffs and school plan emerges
The article condemns self styled reformers for taxes and alleged favoritism, citing a December 1800 county bill item to Sparks for two dollars for copying county records. It notes a nine dollar sixty six cent envelope overcharge, and questions the editor’s oath. It then profiles county school enrollment, naming principal J C Stevens and Miss Della Marsh detailing his career across Missouri Iowa and Colorado and her teacher training.
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Sparks
the Sparks
Teachers Named for Lamar District Schools
Miss Frances Smith completes eight years teaching and served as head at Lamar. Miss Ellen Strain, born in Indiana, educated at Southern Indiana Normal School, Central College, taught in the county last year. Miss Eva Lee, born in Missouri, trained at Kirksville State Normal and Columbia University, four years in county, three as primary teacher. Miss Hinda Martin, Iowa native, Lamar school graduate two years ago, taught two years in Bent and Prowers.
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J. C. Stevens
North Missouri Normal School
Kirksville
Iowa
Mississippi University
Clinton
Miss
Brunswick
Shenandoah
Western Normal College and Commercial Institute
Denver
Stevens
Colorado
Samar
Della Marsh
Grinnel
State Normal
Cedar Falls
Lamar
Ellen Strain
Indiana
Southern Indiana Normal School
Central College
Eva Lee
Missouri
State Normal School
State University At
Columbia
Hinda Martin
Ward
Bent
Prowers
Puget Sound Fishermen Tales Of Salmon And Candle Fish
In Puget Sound rich in salmon a narrator relates vivid scenes of running fish forming a near bridge in streams and a local tale of a pet salmon guiding a woman to its cove. The piece notes candle fish dried in boxes used as a home light and describes candles made by lighting the fish tail with the backbone as wick.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Puget Sound
Old Farmer's Timely Pardon and Grateful Veto Tale
Governor Hoffman recalls an amusing incident from his term. An Mohawk Valley farmer asked for his son’s pardon from state prison to help on harvest. The governor, moved by the man’s plea and noting a rare released milestone, pardoned the son and thanked the governor for vetoing the trivial apple barrel size bill.
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Hoffman
New York
Mohawk Valley
A Queer Place in Maine Hibbert’s Gore
The Gore is a 300 acre area in Maine with six families totaling about forty people. Bounded by Waldo Knox and Lincoln counties the land was omitted in county layout and has no town or plantation status. Residents pay no taxes or vote yet build roads and send children to nearby schools. Paupers are cared for by Palermo the oldest joining town, with only three paupers in forty years.
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Maine
Hibbert
Gore
Waldo
Knox
Lincoln
Palermo
A Fiction of History and a Five Franc Tale
A reader questions a popular legend about Napoleon allegedly placing a 100 099 franc check inside a silver five franc coin. The piece recounts asbestos paper treasury notes and a claimed minting device, and wonders how many such coins might have been broken open since the tale began circulating.
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Napoleon Bonaparte
France
Treasury
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Mit
Postoffice
Provers County
Waite
Senate
Collier & Cleaveland
HappLeston & Silver
THE
Hess & Kuntzler
Colo
Laxp Orr
Lawax, Corp
Peter
Philip Sirah
C.M. Taylor
D. Foun
Register
August Johnson
J. H. Damas
F. O. Magnusson
John A. Magnusson
Granada
H. E
South
Range Sweet
Enid
H. Tope
J. M
Grae “Olorado
Yi . H. Domas
J. M. Smoltz
D. Fiquet
Cola
Gustava Peterson
Ortis
R. Eawards
J.’ Daley
J.C. Lingston
L. Patterson
W Nichols
J. Stork
G. W Huey
H. 2
Walters
G. Brohl
Geo. Bromwell
H More
J. E. Springer
R. McCormack
Kirk
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