Evolution of the Public Schools in Pennsylvania
A historic account tracing Pennsylvanias public free school system from William Penns era through its abolition by sectarian control to its revival led by Governor George Wolfe. It covers denominational schooling, neighborhood schools, Lancasterian experiments, and the 1830s drive for a universal free system.
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Pennsylvania
United States
William Penn
Penn
Philadelphia
Enoch Flower
Enoch Veel Weemeres
Friends
Council
Makin
Friends’ Monthly Meeting
Republic
Bethlehem
Henry Melchior Muhlenberg
Michael Schlatter
Germany
Hollan
Switzerland
London “Society For
America
England
Christopher Sower
Fpngland
Mifflin
McKean
Lancaster
Joseph Lancaster
Lancasterian School
Connecticut
Massachusetts
Pennsylvania Society For the Promotion of Public Schools
Commonwealth
Friends of Education
Wolfe
Senate
Samuel McKean
House
Samuel Breck
Uoder
George Wolfe
Thaddeus Stevens
Chinese peddler charms Park Row with fans and rumors
Ong Sing Lee, a Chinese street peddler, sells feather and paper fans on Park Row to shoppers, drawing Greek and Italian pushcart rivals, who fear loss of business. He earns coins, faces spectators, and gains a peddler permit amid street raids and rival speculation of a forged partnership.
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Ong Sing Lee
New York Times
Park Row
John
Martinique's Future and the Island's Wounded Economy
The Temps weighs Martinique's future after the disaster with only a tenth of St. Pierre destroyed. It cites estimated total losses around a hundred million francs, hopes for partial recovery via subscriptions, Parliament relief, and colonial subsidies. Sugar exports dominate. most plantations survive except northern cocoa and some coffee areas survive.
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Temps
Martinique
St. Pierre
Martinique Crisis Forecast: Banks Secure Amid Disaster
The Temps notes Fort de France harbor remains viable and Bank of Martinique stays solid at par with profitable burned notes. The national relief committee reports 2,043,012 francs in subscriptions and has allocated funds to Fort de France, Guadeloupe, Guiana, and Trinidad for Martinique refugees and provisions.
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Martinique
Temps
St. Vierre
Fort de France
Bank of
National Committee For the
Colonial Department
Guadeloupe
Guiana
Trinidad
London Standard
Paris Telegram
Popularity of the peanut in Southern farming culture
The article notes that South Carolina legislators and farmers alike prize pindars, a common peanut term, with Virginia goobers and Georgia go on the rise. It cites a Newberry dealer with a 240 dollar roaster and eleven acres, predicting 500 bushels harvest and prices from 90 cents to 1.25 per bushel, enough to fuel local demand of 1500 to 2000 bushels.
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South Carolina
Senate
Georgia
Virginia
Newberry Observer
Helena
Columbia State
Brothers and Enemies Reunite After War Split
In Phoebus, Virginia, ex Confederate Albert King encounters his Union veteran brother after forty one years apart. Both fought in Maryland regiments during Gettysburg and 1863 battles. Albert, now back east after losing wealth, discovers his sibling in a soldiers home, then leaves in search of a ride home.
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Newport News
Phoebus
Kings
Princess Anne
Somerset County
Albert King
Maryland
Herbert
John King
James Wallace
Gettysburg
Pacific Slope
Old Point
King
T Rs
Gourt Reinstates Architect Hutton
Commer Pleas Court No. 5 grants a mandamus against the Philadelphia Chapter of the American Institute of Architects to restore Addison Hutton to membership and grant him former chapter privileges. The Chapter expelled him for opposing bids on the Harrisburg State Capitol project. The court held the chapter exceeded its authority in adopting the prohibitory resolution and by law.
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Commer Pleas Court
No. 5
Philadelphia
American Institute of Architects
Addison Hutton
Hutton
State Capitol
Harrisburg
Capitol Building Commission
Pennsylvania
Hotton
Honesty in Wall Street and the Morgan Intervention
A Philadelphia group accused New York capitalists of a stock margin manipulation scheme. They sought help from J Pierpont Morgan when a 60 000 share block risked crashing the market. Morgan intervened, prolonging a trading outage to avert the planned collapse.
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Philadelphia
New York
Wall Street
GAVE COW TO LIBRARY GIFTS TO AMERICAN LIBRARIES
George Watson Cole reports gifts to libraries from July 1 1901 to June 1 1908 totaling 2 454 747 91 dollars for books maintenance and related items and 7 521 050 63 dollars for buildings The list notes 526 R80 books and 73 428 pamphlets Also mentioned is a gift of four Nebraska libraries to New York City with a unique benefaction pattern and questions about provisions for the beneficiary agent
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George Watson Cole
the Tribune
Cuba
British America
Porto Rico
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Philadelphia Times
Lillian Ione Rhoades
France
GEO. Miller G Son CO. Inenckers
S. 3d St
Daniel
Dengler & Son
Chestnut Street
Gourt
American Institute
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