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Newspaper
Troy Herald
Location
Troy, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Sep 23, 1874
Page
3
A rambling critique of modern work habits cites brutal murders and industrial mischief as a warning against lax labor ethic. It links careless talk of violence to waste, excuses, and poor morale, then salutes practical farming machinery and thrift. A short tale of a horse, a patient, and a comic servant follows, then notes a goat and a Buffalo capricorn incident.
The piece argues for Dr. T. D. Shannon as Superintendent of Public Instruction, praising Missourian allegiance and condemning postwar New England influence in teaching. It laments yankee methods, praises local teachers, and bewails outsiders who taught Missouri children, urging continued Missouri control of education. It also includes unrelated anecdotes about an English traveler, a clothing store anecdote, and a rural life moral.
Fragments mix odd anecdotes and garbled quotes about a timid boy, grasshoppers halting a train, a Wisconsin birth, and a sermonizing barber. A Church of England clergyman knocks his sister and jokes about punishment, while wordplay and misheard terms linger without clear coherence.
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