Passing Events and Local Industry Whispers
Hon John Sherman invests 40000 in Findlay real estate. Cridersville in Auglaize county becomes oil field center. Eight inch gas pipes cost 7000 per mile. Another oil well planned on Marks farm near Venedocia. Ohio State Teacher’s Association meeting at Akron June 28 29 30. Year 1887 may be remembered for ghastly wrecks. St Nicholas April features Badeau war stories for boys and girls. Fort Wayne Gazette reports Portland Indiana oil boom and gas wells. Michael’s Pen Art School ad in Delaware Ohio. Central and northwest Ohio form groups to promote manufacturing. Great Lake Chautauqua fire destroys cottages. Butter yield queries from Jersey cows. Spring clean up urged to combat health hazards. Ohio oil field praised by Prof Orton as vast and profitable. Century April opens with English Cathedrals series by Van Rensselaer and Pennell. Marietta Holly Samantha at Saratoga sold to Hubbard Bros for spring release.
Washington Letter reports national drill and education debates
Washington letters describe the May national drill with 36 states, the Riceacee carnival postponed to October, and a national convention of pedagogues discussing industrial education, university and normal school needs, and President Cleveland’s pending Inter-State Commerce Commission appointments. It cites concerns over education funding, legislation clarity, and party leadership blame, plus advertisements for Elixir and art goods from Syracuse.
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Beginning lessons and Golden Texts for International 8s
A Sunday lesson outline dated March 17, 1887 lists Golden Texts from Psalms and Genesis and the call to study with teacher hints. It emphasizes Bible study value, teaching aims, and distributing Genesis early as a child’s first Bible experience.
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Abraham
Isaac
Jacob
Bethel
Examination Questions From 1887 Teachers' Exam
A list of questions used at the teachers' examination held last Saturday, March 12, 1887, covering Arithmetic, Geography, Grammar, Spelling, Reading, and Theory and Practice. Includes aging problems, ratios, percent, geography tasks, and prose. A Virginia delegate joke about Dr Bull's Cough Syrup closes the piece.
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Dover school ends six months of progress in Ridge township
Letters from the people praise C M Deniston Middlepoint as an excellent public teacher. About 135 attendees enjoyed a noon dinner, then recitations, declamations, and prizes for spellers A B C. Some 250 joined an evening program with salutation by Joseph Walters and a valedictory by Clara Spridgeon. The writer thanks the teacher for guiding the students.
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C. M. Deniston
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Rich Guide to Fancy Work and Low Rate Florida Excursions
A 300 illustration handbook promises hundreds of affordable fancy work projects to decorate homes or gift friends with items like lace, embroidery, rag rugs, and purses. Also promotes cheap excursions to Florida via Pennsylvania Lines with stopovers south of the Ohio river, plus ads for Dr Marchisi’s Catholicon and Gilmore's Aromatic Wine with local druggists selling.
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Bargain catalog offers wide range of cheap goods and watches
A sales pitch touts final prices on handbags, purses, knives, pipes, and novelty items from bankrupt firms. It promises risks are avoided with returns allowed and free with trial orders, then shifts to health ads for Green's August Flower a cure for dyspepsia and nervous ailments, plus claims of a two day cure for rheumatism and neuralgia and a Florida excursion notice.
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Tax Empre News Co
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