Public libraries and the mission of public education
The article argues that libraries exist to promote public education as shown in deeds and charters. It recounts Horace Mann’s 1839 push for school libraries and the 1851 Massachusetts statute to fund public libraries. It cites early laws and constitutional aims urging cultivation of knowledge and benevolence, guiding libraries to welcome fiction that supports education.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Massachusetts
Horace Mann
Board of Education
General Court
Commonwealth
A True Friend and April Reflections in Politics
A wheezy meditation centers on friendship and weather as the senate committee examining Lorimer’s election appears split. Joseph G Cannon is renominated in the eighteenth district, with expectations of a typical re-election. The piece contrasts past and present business competition, noting a shift from price battles to dividend battles.
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Senate
Lorimer
Joseph G. Cannon
Town Boosting Efforts Miss the Core Needs
The passage argues that booster campaigns alone cannot sustain growth as towns scramble for new business. It urges focusing on fundamentals of community development rather than rivalries, boosters, or promotional trappings to remain competitive and prosperous.
Growth Driven by Local Leaders and Quality of Life
The piece argues that growth hinges on local business leaders mentoring and investing in young entrepreneurs at home in Pella. It extols board service and home undertakings, notes slow but steady returns from parks and shade trees, and links a town’s residence appeal to its development and ability to attract families and traveling salespeople.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pella
Triumph of the Wireless on Titanic Lifeboat Rescue
Survivors of the Titanic credit wireless telegraphy for saving nearly all lives aboard lifeboats. The article notes that without this discovery, many would not have been rescued and highlights the crucial role of wireless in nautical emergencies.
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H. H. Sadler
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Marion County
EpiTor
Public Library
Issold
Galilee
Morse
Susquehanna
Washington
Baltimore
London
Marconi
England
New York
Eiffel Tower
Paris
Canada
Meadowbrook Farm
Uillian Gr
Timothy
April
H. C. Payne
Citizens National Bank
S. W. Corner Square
Vander Linden
Dr. Pierce
R. Is . Pierce
Buffalo
N. Y
World’s Dispensary Medical Association
Buffalo, N. Y
Minnesota
J. Blommers & Co
Pella, Iowa
Pella Tank & Pipe Co
Pella, Ia
Cal
Henry Gezel
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