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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 22, 1885
Page
1
The speaker argues the negro's capacity for skilled labor is proven but hampered by lack of opportunity. He cites Hampton as the sole practical industrial school and questions whether whites will cede new industries to foreign capitalists and labor, urging handicraft training over metaphysical study.
The piece lists officials and appointees with names including Treasurer Ma h on Newlin County Clerk Joel White Sheriff H H Carm ean and notes the Mr Walkup case jury. It also covers publishing items a White Mountain romance serial In Wide Awake and new entries in J Lothrops Spare Minute Series with Echoes of Many Voices and Kings Garden introducing poet James Berry Bensel. Postoffice changes for Kansas weekly ending October 17 list Byers Dalton State Line and others with new postmasters appointed and established.
A discussion on race and progress cites shifting views of black advancement. It notes the Atlantic essay on the New Orleans Exposition showing educated effort yet limited skilled work. General Armstrong praises a growing class of black mechanics in the South and Hampton’s Industrial School.
Dozens of aphorisms urge grit over talent and steady self respect. The piece blends motivational maxims on effort, learning, charity, resilience, and cheerful demeanor, interwoven with casual observations on education, matrimony, home life, and personal conduct, attributed to a Chicago Ledger entry and a product plug for Bucklen's Arnica.
A writer recalls W. Reilly the blind sign painter who became a newspaper figure after posing for crowds in a northern town. The piece also notes rising snail popularity in Chicago restaurants with Escargots Bordelais becoming regular fare for European travelers and local gourmets.
The Boston Journal notes that replacing prescribed with elective studies did not diminish the classics. Dean's report shows 521 history, 457 philosophy, 324 political economy, 229 Greek, 203 Latin students across 1000, with freshmen showing 196 Latin and 163 Greek in a class of 250, proving electives attract strong interest in math and classics.
A Chicago Times column notes a shift in preachers from old style cassocks to business attire and street savvy. The modern preacher mingles with the community, speaks to common concerns, and blends earthly matters with spiritual guidance, making religious leadership more approachable and practical.
A shy young woman visits a life insurance agent to learn mortality tables. She jokes she will marry Herbert if Mr. Dawkins dies by April 21, 1896, and then vows to wed Herbert on April 22, 1897 if not. The tale blends wit with policy terms and social mores of the era.
A Washington letter mocks Congress as underpaid and overrated, arguing only a few members are worth their $5,000 yearly salaries and many gained their seats through bribes, favor, or expediency. The piece notes some genuine leaders exist, but most puff up their status, while a separate anecdote describes a wife keeping her husband home with a glove left on the sofa after a club fever incident.
Colonel Pat Donan anchors a Dakota exhibit in New Orleans praising statehood and vast riches with playful exaggerations of farmers, fruit, and science. He recalls skeptics as he extols Dakota’s growth and natural wealth while noting the exhibit’s role in the exposition.
The England published correspondence suggests the Fiji matter is not grave, though it underscores Bismarck’s readiness to irritate Britain. The record hints at Germany’s broader push to expand colonial influence and curb English rivalry, with naval policy shaping the issue.
An officer spending Christmas in Athoma Spain survives a powerful quake that lifts a room, throws his family to the floor, and collapses the kitchen. Two servants die, a wooden beam breaks a leg, and amid darkness and dust he carries his wife and later retrieves his five children. Neighbors' cries and ruined streets heighten the terror as he endures the night in an open field with his family and others injured and bereaved.
Madame Maria Roze sang for inmates at Auburn Prison New York including solitary prisoners. She performed in the chapel and eased tears with arias such as Sweet Spirit Hear My Prayer and Comin Thro the Rye. A testimonial signed by the convicts thanked her, quoting lines about returning to heaven.
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