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15 Mar 1871
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Newspaper
Massillon Independent
Location
Massillon, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 1871
Page
1
Partial OCR shows times and directions without clear events. The readable data includes times 4 29 am 9 55 am 12 27 pm and 9 38 pm with indicators East and GOING. No full event or route description is preserved.
The piece laments war’s ruin and calls on women to lead a global crusade for peace. It contrasts battlefield carnage with Queen Victoria’s influence, urging women to unite Christian lands to end war, care for widows and orphans, and push a sustained antiwar movement.
A critique contrasts virtue and self control with wealth and pride, urging compassionate restraint. It laments sensational juvenile fiction fueling crime, citing London as evidence of increased arrests and arguing that readers imitate robber heroes, risking lifelong crime.
A serene essay argues peace has its own armies led by Florence Nightingale figures. It portrays women shifting from admiration of warfare to compassionate action, binding wounds and urging women to curb war by moral influence, aiming to halt violence and promote humanitarian work.
A long excerpt covers eye strain remedies from Jad's Journal of EHealth and outlines the American Peace Society founded in 1823. It details eye protection tips, light guidance, and how to avoid eye fatigue, then describes the society's aims, activities, notable supporters, and membership costs. It ends with a riddle about noise.
The article surveys the rise and fall of Assyria, Babylon, and other powers, noting the fragility of vast empires built on military prowess and diverse peoples. It contrasts their declines with Rome, whose aging governance, indulgent elite, and citizenless soldiery signaled decay, yet left a lingering heritage of Greek civilization.
A writer presents a religious and common sense case against alcohol use. Reasons include that drinks contain a spirit harmful to health, drunkenness leads to sin and crime, poverty and disease, and vast wastes of time, labor, and capital. Abstinence is portrayed as safer and more virtuous.
A fragment from a public notice and Appletons' Journal discusses temperance motives urging abstinence for family and society, plus a natural history essay on an eagle's eye focusing ability, detailing the eye's structure and how it adjusts for distance. The piece links moral reform to scientific observation of sight.
A Scribner's Monthly writer condemns strong drink for wrecking families and futures. The piece cites widows, bruised spouses, and ruined homes across the land, urging women to unite against alcohol as humanity’s great foe. It also notes a political mention of Ion. Robert Folger of Massillon as a gubernatorial candidate.
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