Nebraska Teachers Meet Mounts For Compulsory Education Reform
Lincoln hosts a large Nebraska teachers meeting with about twelve hundred instructors. The Educational Council report praises Nebraska's free high school attendance and free text book laws, notes districts failing to comply, and argues for a stronger compulsory attendance law with definite start age, responsible truancy officers, and English literacy goals. The session also selected officers with Maynard Spink winning the presidency plurality and Lancaster County earning the enrollment banner.
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Nebraska
Lincoln
Educational Council
Pearse
Omaha
Baer
Lancaster
Committee On
Board of Education
Boards of
Ballowing
Maynard Spink
Grand Island
J. 5
Kennedy
Association
Lear
Spink
Lancaster County
Orlean's Snow Storm Sparks Wide Eyed Wonder
A New Orleans snow event triggers street affect, window‑gazing crowds, and playful chaos. Bobby and Mandy lead children and servants in snowy mischief while shops, schools, and onlookers react with festive disbelief. References to public figures and a maimed veteran add color.
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Bobby
Mandy
Mamma
Papa
Cook
New Orleans
Chiy
St Charles Avenue
Prytania Street
Inconmatstency Debate on a Stationary Engine
A Philadelphia Tim!es letter playfully questions whether a device can be stationary if it is running. The exchange features mock dispute over logic and terminology, highlighting a humorous clash between opposing viewpoints about motion and rest.
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Philadelphia
Timoa
Wholly Unprepared Col Yerger Embarrasses Guests
A dinner party scene features Col Yerger delivering a faltering after-dinner speech about being unprepared. Mrs Yerger interrupts with a witty retort, breaking the tense silence. The scene is framed by a brief tableaux style moment from Texas Siftings. A separate note promotes Syrup of Figs as a permanent cure for habitual constipation.
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Col. Yerger
Col Yerger
Brokken
Hall's Catarrh Cure advertisement and testimonial
A dated 1886 advertisement from Toledo claims Hall's Catarrh Cure cures catarrh, with Frank J. Cheney offering a hundred dollar reward for any uncured case. The text cites internal use and direct action on blood and mucous surfaces, urging readers to send for testimonials and purchase from druggists. It includes notarized statements and references Wall's Catarrh Cure and Hall's Family Pills for sale.
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State of Ohio
Toledo
Lucas County
Frank J. Cheney
F. J. Cheney & Co
Hall
A. D
A. W. Gleason
Wall
Question From The Teacher About Months With 28 Days
Utica Observer notes a classroom moment where a teacher asks a riddle about how many months have twenty eight days. A front-seat pupil answers All of them, illustrating a clever retort and classroom humor.
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Utica
Salter Seed Co offers high prices and seeds list
The John A Salter Seed Co of La Crosse Wisconsin touts high prices paid for new crops and promises profits from early potatoes oats and corn. It praises Salzer's Earliest oats and Champion of the World corn while inviting readers to mail 14 cents for ten free seed packages and a catalog with Teosinte Spurry Giant Incarnate Clover and more.
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John A. Salter Seed Co
la Crosse
Wis
Wideawake
Salzer
John A. Salzer Seed Co
W.n
Ladies’ Aid Society of Our Church
Rio
John A Sulzer Seed Co
Hot Water Therapy For Clear Complexion
Hot water facial treatment described as best for complexion improvement. Nightly use with hot water wash and cold cream massage, morning rinse with hot then cold water. Diet cautioned for skin health. Includes miscellaneous ads for tonics, salves, and products.
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New York Journal
Coffeed Seed Offers and Oddities from 19th Century Ads
Readers encounter a mix of promotional copy promising Salzer seed catalogue offers with 15 stamp requests for free coffee seeds, plus a humorous aside about Capt. Codman’s Utah audience interruption over free wool. The passage also touts Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters as a tonic aiding digestion and bodily functions, reflecting period advertising tone and anecdotal endorsements.
Statesmanlike Qualities and Novel Prize Ideas Mentioned
A collage of quotes and notes from various papers references the Indianapolis Journal calling Dodger a statesman for avoiding tariff temperance and coinage topics. It also mentions the Omaha World-Herald’s alphabet prize contest and a Japanese beauty standard linked to noses in the Tacoma Ledger. The page includes ads for Brown's Bronchial Troches and Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for Teething.
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Dodger
Indianapolis Journal
Omaha Weekly World-Herald
Bryan
Japan
Tacoma Ledger
Wilkie Collins
Omaha
Womnp-Herato
William J. Bryan
World-Herald
Reading Family
Nebraska
Weekly
Foods That Increase Body Weight and Health Effects
The text explains that many foods including sugar starches fats and cod liver oil raise body weight. Cod liver oil especially increases weight as a fat producing food and also alters nutrition processes to restore normal functions of organs and tissues.
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Scott
Tea cultivation in Arkansas sparks hopeful experiment
A self taught yet intelligent negro planter in the St Frances Basin Arkansas hauled a wagonload of tea to Memphis for sale. Experts tested the crop and found it of good quality. He plans to expand land devoted to tea next year, after a Florida attempt failed. The New York Times notes the South needs crop diversification.
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Memphis
St. Frances Basin
Ark
Hits
Florida
Arkansas
South
New York Times
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THE
Nebraska Teachers’ Association
the Educational Council
Orleans
London
M. Carnot
Reuben
Penelope
Parker
Kline
Kiloe
Hanson
H.C. Axi
Ned
United States
Burlington
Burcington
Luton
J. Francis
G. P
T. A
Jove
de Kalb Fence Co
High Street
DE Kalb, Ill
John Codman
Utah
Capt. Codman
Boston Herald
Hostover
Brown
WissLow
Eng Adden
Connie Tly
Lane Back
Fm Ao Neck
Ang Gure
Luc
Walter Baker & CO
Dorchester
Mass
Walter Baker & Cos
LA Belle Chocolatiere
Knabe
Style
H. D. Darling
Leaver Meadow
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