11 Feb 1886
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Newspaper
Moulton Advertiser
Location
Moulton, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Feb 11, 1886
Page
1
The Moulton Advertiser is a Thursday publication by dD. Co. White. Annual subscription costs $2.00 in advance. Advertising rates: one square eight lines at $1.00. 50 cents for each further insertion. Political notices: district offices $10, county offices $5. Job work cash. Special notices 20 cents per line.
Poem contrasts grim future woes with resilience and hope. It urges brave faith, cheerful songs, and steadfast steps despite thorny paths. The speaker imagines sadness, yet chooses present sunshine and communal song to heal hearts and keep courage alive.
The Brooklyn tabernacle sermon on The Marriage Ring advises seeking a husband with strong character rather than wealth. It rejects perfect-alone myths, shares a bridal scene illustrating testing love, and extols fidelity amid changing fortunes. It also highlights Mr Hart a famed New Orleans music publisher and exhibitor with Chickering assets.
The Tullidegi Watchman endorses John M. McKleroy as Alabama’s suitable governor, stating the candidate should be progressive, strong, and free from bourbonism to propel the state toward the New South.
Wm Cooper of Tuscumbia Alabama, eighty four, attends the Supreme Court this week in fine health and spirits. He is described as a foeman worthy of steel and ever ready in court, greeting lawyers warmly.
Frazer a conductor for the International and Great Northern Railroad was shot by a tramp in Tyler Texas. He urged attendants to hold on until his wife could arrive on a special train. Despite a doctor’s prognosis of only a few hours he endured with courage. A telegram brought relief as his wife raced to the hospital and he died shortly after telling the crew to run the schedule himself.
In a Mississippi Senate moment Mr. Jones of Wilkinson lauds the press as the marvelous product of modern progress. He calls it the hand maiden of Christianity and the champion of liberty, saying it has advanced art science and literature and shaped mankind in the image of the Creator.
A collection of aphorisms on virtue honesty and self control urging thorough truth obedience and calm living. It contrasts early and later city life and notes Omaha's saloon decline under local option from 200 to 148 as populations grew from 30000 to 60000.
The Birmingham Daily Age questions state papers on endorsing the presidents tariff plan. Only a few respond. the Moulton Advertiser delays. The message urges revenue reduction, opposes free trade debate, protects American labor, and shifts duties on imported essentials.
A selected lecture argues indolence harms both individuals and communities. It contrasts an industrious town with clean streets, orderly schools, good laws, and honest labor against a lazy town with dilapidated houses, vermin, ragged children, empty schools, and rampant crime. The piece warns public morals fall, elections degrade, and taverns dominate civic life.
A Courtland correspondent reports to the Huntsville Gazette that the Lawson county superintendent pays white teachers monthly and colored teachers quarterly without legal sanction. The editorial calls for removal and punishment of the official and rebuke for the teachers who submit to the alleged wage scheme.
A reader argues over Prohibition and urges a national free public school system funded by liquor revenues. He proposes 100,000 female teachers, $1 daily wages, and free school books mailed to children, overseen by a Secretary of Education. He cites revenues from alcohol as the funding source and outlines broad implementation ideas.
Readers critique a distinguished figure's stance on Prohibition and Education. The letter argues against funding schooling from whiskey money and warns that placing education under government control risks centralization and eroding democratic institutions.
A reported encounter in Birmingham between a likely colored man and a young colored woman ends with an impromptu marriage proposal. He asks to marry, she agrees, and they plan to become acquainted at Mr Grumley’s kitchen as they proceed.
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