Punctilious Pencil Advice and School Pay Tales
A compilation of educational notes and anecdotes from various papers. It covers admonitions on handwriting from a journal of education, salary distributions for St. Louis teachers, a Nashville preacher aged eighty nine, a London teaching diploma grant, the Society for the Relief of Poor Widows in New York, and the American Home Missionary Society’s debtless year. It also includes a quip about vicissitude taught by a Boston schoolma’am, statistics on church-building during Queen Victoria’s reign, a Beecher library gift letter, and a Brooklynbred Missionary Association speech with a humorous misquote and maturing moral.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
the Journal of Education
American Board
United Presbyterian
St. Louis
Society For the Relief of Poor Widows
New York
United States
Isabella Grahan
Indianapolis Journal
American Home Missionary Society
Boston
Church of England
Henry Ward Beecher
Massachusetts Sabbath School Society
Chicago
American Missionary Association
Brooklyn
Price
Lesson on Courtesy in Ticket Lines in Boston
A Boston scene shows proper order and courtesy when lines form for James Russell Lowell lectures. A wealthy woman attempts to cut ahead, but a quick assertive woman behind him reminds all that fair treatment matters to those who have waited since seven o'clock. The encounter teaches restraint and civility in public spaces.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Que Wemse
Boston
James Russell Lowell
The Whale Attacks the Homeward at Sea in 1858
An aged New Bedford whaler recounts a famed encounter with a 100 foot whale near Juan Fernandez. The whale wrecks the ship Homeward, sinks the vessel, and forces the crew into boats before being rescued by an English bark off Valparaiso.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Bedford
Juan Fernandez
Samuel Clayton
Valparaiso
Ui Fres Press
Fruit a Farmer’s Pitch in Tennessee Style
A tourist questions fruit crops while a farmer laments a dead season. The farmer boastfully claims peaches will cover taxes and family clothes next year, listing crops like corn tobacco wheat blue grass and fruit. The dialogue frames rural commerce and hopeful prospecting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Coli
Nashville
Bulgarian Gazettes Expand Across Villages
A Bulgarian journal appears in nearly every town with a printing office, all carrying similar matter but different titles. Before the principality proclamation there were forty eight gazettes. the count rose to eighty five afterward.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bulgaria
Ae Principality Gate
Nature’s Fertility by Humus and Green Manures
The article explains how soils improve through natural processes where decaying vegetation forms humus rich in nitrogen and minerals, enabling richer crops over time. It discusses coral reefs, lava beds, and windborne seeds creating productive soils, and highlights green manuring with crops like rye, buckwheat, clover, and cow peas as a cost effective method to raise fertility, including practical sowing strategies and regional notes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago Times
Cultivation of Crops Stirs Soil For Better Growth
W. W. Rawson argues thorough soil stirring after seedling emergence boosts growth, especially after rain or drought. Deep, timely cultivation near plants in rapid growth stages helps, while overdoing it or working wet soil risks injury. Weeded rows after emergence and harrow adjustments aid early development and reduce pests and parasites.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. W. Rawson
Observer
Also Mentioned on This Page
Germantown Telegraph
Albany Journal
Troy Times
The
Gardeners’ Monthly
St Louis Republican
Gleason & Whitman
Eldridge House
Kansas
Lawrence
Massachusetts Street
National Bank Hill & Mendenhall
Chace & Sanborn
Formosa Oolong
Young Hyson
Japan
Whitcomb
Ery Tatoo
Oae
H. W. Johns Manufacturing CO
Randolph ST
Ceveland
Eldridge House Corner
Haskell Place
Callor
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