Education vote shows nation’s shift toward productive reform
The education vote nears two million reflecting public interest in moral and intellectual prep for a future ruled by reason. Notes flaws in distribution, sectarian influence, and underwhelming examination results, urging school boards and wider teacher training reforms to improve nonsectarian education.
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Lord Sandon
Samuelson
John Lubbock
Scotland
England
Anglican Church
Loss of a Missionary and Family
London Missionary Society reports two families linked to Madagascar missions aboard the British India Steam Navigation Cashmere perished near Cape Guardafui when the vessel wrecked. Rev. T. G. Beveridge and Mrs Beveridge with children and nurse died. Mr. Rogers and two children survived. Directors await Mr. Rogers return in about ten days for full details.
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Aden
British India Steam Navigation Company
Cashmere
Cape Guardafui
London Missionary Society
Madagascar
England
T. G. Beveridge
Christmas Book by H. C. Barkley and Federal Loan Ad
Mr H C Barkley author of Between the Danube and the Black Sea writes My Boyhood A True Story to be published by Mr Murray. An advertisement notes a new four per cent funded loan of seven hundred million dollars on the English market via Rothschild firms. Also details on poor rates registration and last dates for voter lists. Arbitration updates in the Barnardo Reynolds case describe sittings and planned site inspections.
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H. C. Barkley
The
Danube
Black Sea
Murray
United States
Messrs
Rothschild
Barnardo Arbitration
Barnardo
G. Reynolds
Wontner
Reynolds
Maule
Stepney
Ilford
Bowring Life Seen Through a Complex Lens
The piece weighs Bowring's career against a single misstep in provoking the Canton bombardment and notes his varied roles as radical, linguist, traveler, and editor. It highlights his son Lewin Bowring’s biographical fragments and reflects on Bowring's Unitarian upbringing and the influence of mentors from Exeter.
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John Bowring
China
Hong Kong
Cobden
House of Commons
Quondam
Peace Society
Canton
Sir John Bowring
Lewin B. Bowring
Bowring
Exeter
James Manning
Joseph Butland
Timothy Kenrick
Lant Garpenter
Butland
Elizabeth Rowe
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