Prudence Crandall and the fight for education
Harper's Magazine recounts Prudence Crandall a Canterbury Conn school head who admitted a young black girl triggering riots legislative bans and her arrest and conviction yet she pressed abolitionism. It follows her life from burning home to renewed resolve amid Confederate era travel through piney woods and the plight of enslaved Africans and their descendants.
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Prudence Crandall
Lone
Canterbury
Conn
Issa
Miss Crandall
Alabama ‘River
Clotilde
Harper's Magazine
Deadly grass of pampas and its fatal darts to cattle
Arrows of the plant Stipa, common across the pampas and parts of South America, injure cattle and sheep by stabbing with sharp barbs as seeds cling to fur and skin. The darts cause ulcers, blindness, and hunger in trapped animals, while humans can remove them with difficulty. Translated note cites range, biology, and European rarity.
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South
South America
Europe
France
Revue Scientifique
Literary Digest
Last of the Slave Ships and the Clotilde Saga
The narrator recalls the 1850s burning of the slave ship Clotilde near Mobile Bay and its slaves cast into canebrakes. A search among Mobile’s old Black residents seeks a man who knew Africans and the swamp settlement where they lingered, spurring a dramatic quest.
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Clotilde
Mobile Bay
Mobile
Crabb's Hill Sammaritan Inquiring Stranger Seeks Minister
A young man with a car stops at Crabb's Hill farmhouse for title help and gear. The lean host, who once led a parish, reveals he was ordained but quips about seeing far, and offers hospitality including brook-trout and berries while pondering a nontraditional wedding.
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Crabb
Live
Divorcing Woman's Fortunes Highlighted in Yonkers News
A Yonkers Statesman observer quips that a provident wife saving money may help cover divorce lawyer fees, reflecting social attitudes toward marriage and separation in local reportage.
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Yonkers
Novel Radiotelephone Relay and Neon Discovery Report
The article describes Prof John Trowbridge's new telephone relay using a balanced magnetic field and a metal transmitter to avoid common amplifier noise on long lines. It also notes recent discoveries of neon argon and helium in springs and discusses electrical osmose and Birkeland Eyde fertilizer production from atmospheric nitrogen, with a Norfolk anecdote about Norwegian peasants reacting to fertilizer ideas.
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Eeee
John Trowbridge
Hhis Laboratory
Charles Moureu
French Academy
England
K. Birkenhead
Curtstraula University
Revue Scientifique
Birkeland Eyde
Notodden
Norway
Chile
Beekelatnd
Old Ideal of Women Fails Modern Product View
A letter from D C Grunow in the Portland Oregonian attacks the notion that women must be defined by kitchen roles. He claims young women photograph to attract suitors, while men pose in athletic attire to win wives. The piece argues that women's roles have broadened beyond cooking and farming.
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Cornfeld
Dumas
Spectacle of Grunow’s Eye and Works of Women in Print
The passage mockingly asserts cooking is men’s work and women should avoid cooking for crowds of hungry cowboys. It imagines a coy maid baking for loggers and a general call for women to stay away from photographed kitchens, endorsing tennis and voting instead.
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Grunow
Gabriel
Passamaquoddy
Clatskanile
Panama Lock System and Chagres River Influence
Forum discusses Panama canal lock plan favoring the Chagres River influence over a sea level scheme. It argues the lock design better controls flood waters from the Chagres and permits unrestricted navigation across a third of the isthmus, citing Soo canal experience as proof of feasible operation without major delays.
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Chagres River
Toname Canal
Chagres
Culebra
Gamboa
Isthmus
Sault Ste. Marie Canal
Lake Superior
Lake Suzon
Panama
Soo” Canal
Suez Canal
Remembered Waterlo o Scotch Boy Whitten Dies at 98
Daniel Y. Whitten, born November 22 1808 in Lanark Scotland and a lifelong Central New York resident, died in Whitesboro Oneida County. A Baptist who read the Bible many times, he recalled Wellington's Waterloo victory as a boy and lived a long, respected life in Marcy and Whitesboro.
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Fantello Whitten
Wiltesboro
Oneida County
New York
Daniel Y. Whitten
Mr. Whitten
Lanark
Scotland
Edinburg
Clyde
Wellington
Waterloo
Europe
Ameren
Canada
Lover
Ti Marcy
Utlea
Whitesboro
Perilous rescue of dog at Mealsgate colliery shaft
English colliery manager John Walker Steele lowered himself into a 340 foot disused shaft near Mealsgate Cumberland to rescue a starving collie. Inspector Blake Jones of the RSPCA oversaw the operation as Steele used beams and a pulley to reach the dog and bring it to daylight. The dog is recovering under inspector supervision, and Steele received an enthusiastic cheer on return.
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Mealsgate
Cumberland
Blake Jones
Royal Society For the Prevention of Cruelty To
All Hallows
John Walker Steele
Steele
Westminster Gazette
John Nixon Patriot of Pennsylvania 1733 to Revolution
John Nixon of Philadelphia led early Pennsylvania resistance to Britain. He signed the 1765 non-importation act, helped respond to Boston, served on committees of correspondence, defended Delaware at Fort Island, guarded Philadelphia, read the Declaration of Independence publicly on July 8, 1776, fought at Princeton, endured Valley Forge, and remained devoted to his country throughout the Revolution.
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John Nixon
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Joan Nixon
Boston
Paul Revere
Nixon
Princeton
Washington
Valley Forge
They Have a Nurse Man Rearing Three Boys
A well to do couple with three sons ages 7 to 3 hires a nurse man who guides the boys in crafts sports and stories. He returns home at 9 after tucking them in and shares lessons in boats drawing whittling riding skating and swimming. The arrangement, begun after the youngest was born, has brought pleasant and helpful effects for all.
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Ile
Mary Baker Eddy: Career and Early Life
Mary Baker Eddy born 1821 Bow New Hampshire from a prominent New England family of Scotch English descent. The G in her name stood for Glover from first husband, later Asan Eddy was her second. She had one son and contributed poems and literary work to magazines. A Congregationalist with advanced ideas, she taught Christian science after her discovery. She founded in Boston the first Christian Science church in 18? The Mother Church now has over 00 members, scientists total about one million.
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Mary Baker Eddy
Horn
Mary Baker
Bow
New England
MacNeil
Glover
Asan Eddy
Boston
Christian New Church
Mother Chare
Old Fashioned Girl and Hairbrush Lineup
In a Philadelphia Ledger item the old fashioned girl who pined away is contrasted with a bald le aded man who allegedly has many hair brushes. The short exchange hints at themes of romance and humor in a dated newspaper gag.
Rubber Tapped Panamanian Trees Aid Industrial Gain
Panama possessing 550000 cultivated rubber trees and 200000 wild trees in Veraguas, plans to expand rubber as an industry. Tapping begins at eight years with two to three shapes per tree, yielding sap processed with soda solution to isolate rubber. Exports from Colon and other ports reach roughly 40 000 pounds valued near 20 000 gold, while foreign shipments total about 170 000 pounds worth 88 000 gold.
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industria \ife
Panama
Republic
Appi
Veraguas
India
Colon
Unitedies
Saving Money and Household Habits in Daily Life
A fragment from a magazine column shows Mr Barry and Mrs Justin discussing frugality. They compare prices at local shops to big downtown stores, noting small savings add up. The piece also mentions an eye study and a social remark about needing affection.
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Tomas Sharp
London
America
Madagascar
Enele Eben
Aneles
Washington Star
Philadelphia Ledger
Huw
Philip
Dustin
Mr. Barry
Owenty
Barry
J Justin
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