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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 16, 1886
Page
4
Fred Smail Jr recounts an 1870s buffalo hunt led by guide Joe and companions, chasing a herd, firing at bulls, and a sweeping prairie fire. A perilous Devil's Run escape by brave mustangs ends with camp burned, buffalo gone, and a vow to return when grass returns.
The author recounts teaching trials in Middlesex and Worcester to spark interest in composition and reading aloud. He notes past heavy readers failed to engage students, recalls shifting to practical methods, and argues that performance builds confidence and wit, outweighing initial awkwardness.
Historical notes recount commissions from 1861 1864 1868 and 1873 that harshly judged public and endowed schools. They criticize science education noting its growing national importance and the need for improvement as per the Duke of Devonshire’s 1873 report.
A report notes global rivals surge ahead as Britain struggles with science teaching in public schools. Only three British schools fully teach science. Manchester Bradford Huddersfield and Birmingham are leading locally while working class instruction improves and middle class pupils face job-driven pressures. The piece cites Lyon Kayfar in Popular Science Monthly for November.
The speaker dismisses rigid classics as a relic and urges education to adapt to a scientific age. He cites Chi Hwangti’s suppression of old texts to argue for milder reform driven by public opinion rather than force. Grammar schools imitate immortality, clinging to outmoded traditions.
The excerpt outlines a debate between proponents of traditional college training and advocates for varied future-oriented education. It argues that education should adapt with human development and reject locking in a single model, while questioning who should decide the acceptable form of schooling and whether access to diverse educational paths should be limited.
A New York letter to the Philadelphia News recounts a Louisville banker who swindled $105,000 and fled to Canada. His wife sheltered their six daughters in New York, raising them amid secrecy until New York papers exposed the truth and shattered the family. One daughter died from shock, two withdrew from friends, another sank into drink and gambling, and the favorite daughter descended into a life with a faro banker.
In a heated Hoyt will dispute Senator Evarts ridiculed testimony about a supposed sickness described as a high sounding disease. He argued the illness left Jesse Hoyt unable to make a proper will and mocked the notion with reference to a famed Scotch quip about an itch in the temple of fame.
The text explains that global dialects derive from fewer languages categorized into three groups: Indo-Germanic covering classical and European languages, Sanscrit covering Indian languages, and Semitic including Hebrew, Chaldaic, Syriac, Arabic, and related tongues.
Beech er Cope land advertises Walter A. Wood Enclosed-gear Mowing Machine at 65 with an optional Reaper attachment, Walter Anson Wood Mower at 63, Meadow King Mower at 60, and a range of implements including spring-tooth harrows, Oliver Chilled Plows, Gowanda Curtis Remington Pittsburg parts, cultivators, rakes, seed drills, wagons, fencing, cement, paint, and the New Hartford sewing machine all offered at low cash prices.
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