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Newspaper
Linn County Register
Location
Marion, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1858
Page
2
The 1858 Linn County Register notes Opinions of Distinguished Business Men urging robust advertising to attract public notice and support. It emphasizes that public prosperity follows from thorough and visible promotion, attributing success to advertising rather than other causes.
A fragment describes hospitality to institute members, gratitude to teachers and contributors, and calls for teachers to publish in educational journals. It praises advertising support for the journal, urges business promotion through papers, and notes a planned lecture series by a noted divine on slavery in Marton.
Friday evening at the Methodist church drew the largest audience of the season for Priday Evening Exerciacy. President Keeler of Cornell College gave a plain yet metaphysical address praised for practical sense and scholarship. Miss Charlotte Stephens spoke on success in intellectual scientific and moral pursuits with force and clarity. Mrs Isabel Hervey delivered a refined essay on Paul and Byron, noted for its neat style and high moral tone, though crowd rear was hard to hear.
The Linn County Teachers Institute met last week with about fifty educators present. Lecturers from Cornell College Western College and the State University led sessions with addresses each evening. A series of unanimous resolutions urged reform of prize systems and praised the conduct and results of the institute.
The Cincinnati pork market on November 26 shows prices around 6.75 per 100 pounds with overall quiet demand for heavy hogs and steady to improving prices for dressed meat in Chicago. Reports note plentiful poultry supplies in Chicago and rising concern among commission men over on hand stocks and frost expectations that may push prices higher.
A wet snow day meeting of human rights and antislavery reformers gathered at the school-house near Mousra Johnson and Gibson's on Crabapple Creek. William B. Gibson presided with Zarah V. Elsberry as secretary, prayers and speeches followed, a business committee reported resolutions, and after adjournment a sermon by Mr. Stewart preceded a unanimous adoption of the resolutions at the next session scheduled for November 14.
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