Weekly Review and Demoralizing Influences Debate
The Galesburg Register rebuts a Monmouth critique of alleged demoralizing influences in collegiate towns. It cites Abingdon clergy testimony, mentions Beer Clubs in Galesburg, Polisce Court contrasts, and notes political leanings in Knox and Warren counties. It also references Vice President Henry Wilson, debates over a third term, and remarks on public morals and local affairs.
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Galesburg
Monmouth
Abingdon
Graves
Knox County
Warren
Henry Wilson
Massachusetts
North
Potomac
John C. Breckenridge
Guy. Porter
Tennessee
Grant
Wilson
Letter from Arkansas outlines vast farming and mineral wealth influence
A South Arkansas letter to the editor dated April 27 1875 extols Arkansas as a premier agricultural country with diverse land types climates and rising crops like wheat and corn. It contrasts old cotton reliance with freedmen farming challenges and praises new settlers for soil deeper plowing and better land while promising further notes on coal iron silver zinc gypsum kaolin petroleum and other resources.
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United States
Chicago
St Paul
Illinois
Wisconsin
Indiana
Ohio
Arkansas
Acre
Congress
Michigan
Arkansians
Arkansian
Rocky Mountains
Roll on the Ball Temperance Song Rally
A 1875 Temperance rally exhortation calls for a united statewide effort to roll up a Monumental Ball in Illinois. Leaders seek reinforcements from families and communities to form a statewide Temperance Army advancing love, truth, and right. The piece invites all to join in the chorus Roll on the Ball.
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Prairie State
Illinois
Onorus
Temperance Army
Honor Roll By Ward Lists Students And Tardiness
South Ward honors Isaac Todd Fred Smith Elmer Frew Hattie Stevens. North West East and Rast wards list multiple No 1 No 2 No 3 No 4 No 5 No 6 students with names and tardiness figures. Mamie Thompson and Mamie McCullough were omitted from East Ward last month due to an error by principal J. K. Gowpy.
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South Ward
Isaac Todd
Fred. Smith
Elmer Frew
Hattie Stevens
Minnie Smith
Ernest Coates
Clicie Fredicks
Julia Cummins
Melissa Grew
Evie Reed
Anne Oleson
Hugh Floyd
Betsy Peterson
George Cannon
Jessie Williams
James Page
Adda Grew
Charlie Zink
Robert
Zink
Sadie Humphreys
Rast Ward
Eddie Foster
Fannie Gilbert
Alice Robinson
Ella Reed
Louie Campbell
Cora Buzan
Emma Porter
George Foster
Clara Gordon
Lizzie McDowell
Ellie Wilson
Allie Wilson
Kate Castello
Belle Earp
Kate Swinney
Nannie Thompson
Mamie McCullough
Mary Farquar
Retta Swinney
Mattie Arms
Hellen Young
Jessie Cummings
Flora Smiley
Grace Clippenger
James Foster
Charles Montgomery
Frank Shellenberger
Luna Gilbert
Hattie Butler
Mamie Cummings
Fannie Cummings
Irene Lewis
Ida Shellenberger
Willie Ford
John Costello
Robbie Glendening
Robbie Orr
Eddie Porter
Willie Shellenberger
Henry Strickler
Mamie Thompson
East Ward
J. K. Gowpy
Bowen built the house in Graphic’s verse sequence
The Graphic presents a multi part poem cycle with titled vignettes like Plymouth Church and Bowens house, tracing characters such as Grace Mercy and Peace and the cat and mouse imagery, ending with a public gathering remark on speech and truth from Guesses at Truth.
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Bowen
Vicky
Marmaduke
Elizabeth
H. W
von Moltke
The Unwritten Side of Great Men by Max Adler
A humorous essay argues that history’s heroes also contend with ordinary annoyances. It imagines Moses with a cold, Caesar irritated by a missing slipper, and George Washington’s chores, showing even famed figures endure small daily frictions.
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Cesar
Calphurnia
Solomon
George Washington
Martha
St. Auustine
Joan of Arc
Gian Nan Polcon
Maria Tou
Alexander the Great
Thomas Ji
Duke of Wellington
Daniel Webster
Benjamin
Lmn
Jillian Edwards
Noah
Martin Butcher
Fences in the United States Worth More Than All Domestic Animals
A historical note details vast fence costs in the United States with figures for land fenced rods and total expenditure. New York Pennsylvania Ohio Illinois Kentucky Indiana and others are cited with specific fence values and repairs. The text concludes that farmers seek ways to reduce fence usage amid high ongoing costs.
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United States
New York
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Illinois
Kentucky
Indiana
California Emigration and East Coast Developments
Dispatches from Omaha in yesterday’s Times report seven hundred California emigrants arriving amid a return rush. Real estate for California land drops to forty to one hundred dollars an acre far from San Francisco, with distant trips and poor peasants forced into labor. The column notes speculation by capitalists draining small holders and hints at broader industrial and social tensions across the era.
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Times
California
San Francisco
Pete
Speculaus
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