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Newspaper
Rolla Express
Location
Rolla, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1872
Page
2
The Rolla Library Association invites members to attend a reorganization meeting next Tuesday evening. Dues-behind members are urged to attend and help start a new era of progress. They have rented a building opposite the Giant Hotel and plan a separate room for chess, backgammon, and draughts.
The Jefferson City Tribune invokes immigration fears to question Missouri social order and progress. A court dispute over inflated county printing bills reveals Reform and Republican ties. Horace Greeley’s death is noted as weakness for Grant opponents. An Arkansas doctor claims a sweeping medical mandate, provoking satire in Salem.
Local notice invites residents to haul two loads of wood in exchange for a year of paper access. Donors who have promised payment in good funds are urged to deliver promptly to ensure continued supply.
The article argues that every citizen has a vital stake in politics, noting general apathy among the public and blaming press corruption and harsh campaign tactics. It urges active participation to protect liberty, security, prosperity, and the nation, warning that indifference yields a weakened government and lost blessings of free institutions.
The State Teachers Association will convene in Kirksville starting December 1 for three days. The event includes discussion on school law ahead of the General Assembly and marks the dedication of the new State Normal School building under Professor Baldwin with 482 pupils enrolled. The school will be reorganized December 30 and is expected to become a leading Western institution. Ladies stay with private families, men at hotels, and railroads offer free or nominal rates.
The Herald recalls a centennial commission address misprint while commemorating the centenary and mourning their departed chief. The editor explains extra mourning was added to compensate for the omission.
The notice advertises the Guide now published at 25 cents per year with four issues, plus options for subscriptions and extra compilations. It highlights the January Number with plans for Rural Slames and Table Decorations, 150 pages, 500 engravings, and a colored plate. Also promotes the First Edition of Two Wunpesa fowsaxp in English and German, and lists merchandise at Rolla Red Store including an all wool beaver coat for $10 and caps from 75 cents to $150.
A fragment promotes a Boston Traveller Bazar as an organ of the fashion world. It touts contributions of art and design, aiming to appeal to households children young women and parents with fashion pictures patterns and refined reading for family enjoyment.
Harper's Bazar and Harper's Magazine subscription details for 1873. One year costs and multi subscription discounts. extra copies offered with five-subscriber remittance. back numbers and bound volumes available. postage rates and address in New York. Includes price quotes for two publications and comment praising the work.
The excerpts laud the magazine for growing circulation and its role as both educator and entertainer of the public mind. They commend its variety, enterprise, artistic wealth, and literary culture, noting the publication keeps pace with times and deserves pride.
An 1873 notice from Aggress Harper and Brothers New York details Harper's Magazine one year subscriptions at $10 and combined offers for multiple Starper's Periodicals. Extras include free copies for clubs, back numbers on demand, full complete sets at $225 per volume, cloth bindings, and postage at 24 cents per year.
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