Education, Religion and Modern Life in 19th Century Debates
A digest of various opinions on schooling and religion from the era. Includes remarks on Texas educational land use, women’s access to degrees, alcohol ethics in pharmacy, the clash of business and faith, schooling for five year olds in math topics, Quaker growth in England, church vigilance committees, and the Jerusalem Chapel discussions on Dr Hatch's manuscript as a unifying influence.
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Texas
Indy
Chicago Tribune
Mexico
University of Ox
Philadelphia College of Pharmacy
Philadelphia Press
Parson Newman
Rochester Democrat
Department of Education
Society of Quakers
England
Chicago
Beal
Jerusalem Chapel
Westminster Abbey
Esten
Hatch
Money and luck in Bill Arp's philosophy on work and home life
The piece extols earning through labor as security for domestic tranquility and warns against trusting luck or lotteries. It contrasts honest toil with fortunes won by chance, recounting anecdotes of missed gains and the value of savings, family care, and small comforts in everyday life.
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Solomon
Uncle Jubal
General Beauregard
Hunt
Atlanta
John
Eek
Seney
Eric
Keene
Wes
Papa
Quirky Snippets Mirror Old Timey Hearses and Hearts
A collage of humorous quotes and social witticisms from various papers. Jests on eating dried apples, prize for perseverance, fashion notes on collars, and bemused reactions to belles at picnics. A parade of clipped lines from multiple sources reflecting idle gossip and culture.
Remarkable Young Lady Leads French Academic Rise
A vivid note on three French sisters, Mile. Gabrielle Benoit and Mile. Victorine, with Gabrielle achieving a bacheliere in lettres et sciences and Victorine earning a medical degree. The piece praises female courage and ambition, highlighting the youngest sister Jessous's perseverance and role model status.
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Cay Anil
Laily
Benoit
Sorbonne
Diaecadanrestez Lettres
Mile
Gabrielle
Bacheliere Us Lettres
Victorine
Sarmdog
Aoe
Jessous
Ion
The Bab and the rise of Babism in Persia
An excerpted narrative from Tehran correspondent Brook Yu Eagle recounts Ali Mohammed known as the Bab, his proclamation as the Twelfth Imam and God incarnate, his arrest, miraculous escape, and execution. It notes Babism as a growing force amid Persian fanaticism and predicts its uncertain future.
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East
Ali Mohammed
Gate
Shiraz
Mohammed
Kerbela
Bushire
Aed
Gistes
Usly
Zingaz
Tom Tabriz
Teheran
Persia
Tiherau
Cor
Brook‘yu Eagle
Soap Capers And A Maryland Treasurer Tale
A two part item explains the soap caper swindle where street peddlers mix perfumed soap with fake show of selling. It also recounts a Maryland county treasurer pressured by dubious New York banking firms and confessions of temptations to defraud, highlighting weak safeguards and persistent schemes.
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Boston Courier
Maryland
New York
Market Reports from St Louis and Kansas City June Markets
Market summaries show mixed, weak conditions across commodities. Livestock and pork demand steady to lower with cash prices for lard and shoulders down. wheat and corn offerings subdued amid light trading. butter eggs and cheese quiet with modest shifts. cattle prices steady to higher in some reports. Kansas City notes weak grain and fat cattle activity, with prices drifting and futures uncertain amid light cash sales.
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Ener
Petty
Pangenige
Aliec
Eh Howe
Sheet Riba
Sana Clear
Ak Rer
Sasa Abscore Be Ao
Suerr
Market
Tate
Fowen
Duill
Raudel
Ucoer
Sty Park
Kansas City
Wit and Wisdom Humor Bits from City Papers
A collage of wry maxims and humorous clippings from papers like Oil City Derrick and Chicago News. It includes aphorisms on discretion and virtue, misheard phrases about hair, a playful exchange with a bootblack, and light verses about babies and the Big Dipper.
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Oil City
Derrick
Binke
Ht End Palace
Norristown Herald
Chicago News
An indiscreet wife portraits a violent shot in a shop
An Austin Israelite runs a small combined dwelling and store. With seven customers present, his wife calls for dinner and he strikes her in a sudden outburst. The scene unfolds amid tense domestic friction captured by the Siftings column.
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Schon
Teaas
The Art of Orator Gesture and Speech
A discussion on how gesturing and expression aid oratory. True orators appear natural yet powerfully convey emotion, while cold speakers lack heart. Hamilton Aids notes passionate speakers engage audience beyond mere words.
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Talms
Hamilion
Commercial Travelers and Advertisers in 19th Century Notices
A mosaic of 19th century commerce and culture, describing commercial travelers as a lively, well dressed, ever-curious class who chase trade across towns like Dead Eye Texas and Prairie Dee Nebraska. The item threads in notices about Waltham watches, Allcock's Porous Plaisters and Pills, and a collage of letters praising medical remedies, with snippets of humorous quips from Philadelphia and Boston papers, plus tangential trade chatter and catalog-style endorsements.
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Hese
Phipps
Dead Eye
Tex
Prairie Dee
Neb
Chicago
Misery to Hope Through Hop Bitters Advertising
An old ad fragment extols Hop Bitters as a cure for chronic ailments cited by grieving families. It claims a daughter’s kidney liver rheumatic and nervous illnesses were healed after years of doctors' care. The text mentions grateful fathers improving after long incurable-sounding disease and references generic patent medicine branding.
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Bill Arp
Iris
Waeckington Post
Edward Simms
St. Pecan Es Serpe Eagan
Offi Ofdiate
Fungent Paragrapus
Arkansaar Traveller
Yale
Boston
Fes
Ambera
Gilbooly
Austin Avenue
Bob
Miss Fasmalba
The
Partheon
Loudon Pusch
Meyer
Sam
Sousta
Garotte
Losion Post
Market Reports
St. Louis
WIT and Wisdom
Marguerita
Suthoucht
Marguerite
Margaret
Jack
Aggie
Meg
Detroit Free Press
Bootblack
Baltimore
Orator
Sprctat
Waltham
Textayerox
AuLcuck
B. Better
M.D
Twenty-second Sr
New Yous City
Autcock
A.W. Lessen
A. M
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Brooklyn
Allcock
Annoance
M. D
Ste Lacie
Boston Globe
Trers
Philatelphia
Philadelphia
Ee Ae
Wits
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Philadelphia Call
Tre Curtisse Indian School
Wells, Richardson
Whiis Bray
Ram A. H. Sabin
University of Vermont
Virginis
Antwaukes
Glenn
Ee Tre
Levelt
Mn Brooks
Albany
WW. H. Gilbert
Albany, Ga
Boston Commercial
Lydia Effinkham
Pittsburgh
N. Y
V. U. Picayune
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Charles
Wodeler CO
Cincinnati
Pend. Zuenikcier
Vine Street
Ender
Uhave
Louis Grateraays
C. Haseafets
Bethlehem Auburt
Mims C
Relshark
McMicken Avenue
Adu Kileter
Srdaod Martin
Wileb
Mr. Reale
Stevena
South
Dearborn Street
Tomas
E. E. Menges & CO
Lip
Blaine
Peaeaet
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Bassas Citt. MO
Logan
P. W. Ziegler
Gettung
N.Y. Hopson
Price
Stella
Cure Ali
Dean Snewen
Minden
Rusk County
Atlanta Ga
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Loomis & Nyman, Tiffis
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F. L. Pond
Aurora
Kane Co
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Meena ‘Wester En “Uitznan & Tasier Co
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Jefferson
Wisconsie
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Pub’r
Miners College
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Boor
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Dyale Law Law School
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