The Common School and the Promise of Education
An extended meditation on education from humble origins to national influence. It cites Newton Bateman and Lincoln, extols public schools as central to government, and critiques Congress funding while outlining 1880 education priorities. It includes excerpts urging better air, recess, and gym space, plus Kansas school house planning.
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Oxford
Cambridge
Ferguson
England
Miller
Harvard
Yale
Boston Tallowehandler
Europe
Kentucky
Ashland
Thyield
Lincoln
Dougat
Gealog S
Newton Bateman
Felix Oswald
Popular Science Monthly
Illinois Social Science Association
Chicago
Trinity Church
Ithe Central Church
Harriet J. Wilard
Burr Industrial School
Ith¢Ne
Do Not Speak Of Others Faults Without Self Judgement
Folkloric verse urges restraint in judging others. It warns that those with faults of their own should not cast stones. The poem promotes self examination before criticizing friends or foes and cautions about the harm a single word can cause.
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Trepstat
Avoid Alcohol Says Sir Henry Thompson Quote
The passage argues that daily fermented liquor harms health and degrades race quality. It attributes much illness to moderate drinking and cites Sir Henry Thompson M D to the Archbishop of Canterbury, urging abstention and warning of the toll on endurance and competition.
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Sir Henry Thompson
Archbishop of
Canterbury
Rescued From Death A Lung Disease Testimony
A Somerville man recounts a dramatic recovery from a severe lung disease in 1876 starting with bleeding cough and weight loss He credits Dr Alls Balsam for the Lungs with his revival after taking two bottles asserting the remedy cured consumption and restored his ability to work He appeals to readers to seek the treatment from druggists.
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Wm. J Coughtin
Somerville. Maas
DR. All
Travel by horse faces harsh delays on midwestern trip
Two young men left this city for Clinton Iowa last week on horseback. The route normally six hours stretched to three days with nearly two miles of Rock River crossing at Milan. They rode from Davenport to Clinton as the Wapsi river ran high and wide. Snow blindness added to their troubles as a guide piloted them through flooded areas.
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Clinton
Iowa
Rock River
Milan
Davenport
Genesea Republic
Dr King’s New Discovery Promises Quick Lung Relief
Severe coughs colds asthma throat and lung complaints are urged to try Dr King’s New Discovery. The ad claims immediate relief and hundreds of cures where other medicines failed, inviting readers to call at Richards & Ohrbeuk’s for proof and purchase.
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Dr King
Dr. King
Thursday nine and blew zero in Ind ane belonging to
The fragmentary text mentions a Thursday event with a numeric value and a possession tied to Ind and an unidentified entity. Readable details are sparse, but the fragment implies an incident or action involving ownership and a place referenced as Ind.
Odd Epistolary Remedies And Superstitions Recited
An inquest recalls a tragic case where a five year old died after ingesting medicine from a dog liver, amid tales of quack cures and magical powders. It cites eccentric remedies from Princess Bismarck magpie requests to tales of stones and charms used by Sir Walter Scott’s associate, all reflecting old superstition and folklore.
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Gan
Prinovia Bismarck
Eckensbeiden Sehooting Club
Princess Bismarck
Lange
Fredrichsruh
Walter Scott
John Bruce
Scott
Bruce
Duff Gordon
Canng
Chambers
Differences in Suicides Between St Louis and Detroit Highlighted
The Detroit Free Press contrasts St Louis and Detroit women who die by suicide. In St Louis young women write to newspapers and the coroner, select a juried funeral spectacle, and drown at a river wharf. Detroit women jump unseen, face no burial drama, and are quickly pulled from the river with social lectures to avoid repeating the act.
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St. Lous
Detroit
Gal
Detroit Free Press
The Hair of Prominent Men A Fashion Note
The New York correspondent notes varied hair trends among famous figures from Willis and Greeley to Irving and Emerson. He cites bald heads, long curls, and partial shaves, with mentions of Beecher Tilton Parker Chase and other public figures. The piece also traces hair fashions from ancient Greeks to Louis XIV and modern New York styles.
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New York
Rochester Democrat
N. P. Willis
Horace Greeley
Willis
Greeley
Washington Irving
William Lloyd Garrison
Wendell Phillips
Iph
Waldo Emmerson
Charles Summer
Brooklyn
Beecher
Tilton
Theodore Parker
California Horttoutiurtet Degoribes Acca A Te Trp
Nonsensical fragment obscures readable facts. No clear persons organizations places or dates emerge to summarize.
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California
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Tutt’s
Wnia
Murray St. N.Y
Tutt
Driggats
Murray St
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Parker
D Ae A Co
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America
Jevern
Colees
Tee Deere & Company
Moline
Farmer's Companion
Deere & Company
Moline, Ill
Northwest
John H. Porter
Mais
D.O. Reid
Aartiong Menbaic
Sure Ealeh
Lard Sling
Uxu-Sayeng
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