The Peabody Fund in Healthy Condition
A report on the Peabody Fund's support of Southern schools notes encouraging progress in the postwar South.
NewsPipe summary
The Cairo Bulletin · July 18, 1873 · Page 1
1 min readNEW YORK, July 17.
The annual report of the general agent of the Peabody fund, Dr. Barnas Sears, gives an encouraging review of the general condition of the public schools in the southern states, and says the encouraging circumstances vastly predominate over the discouraging ones.
Was this worth reading?
This is how the site learns what to look for. Ratings move the weights behind the front page; notes go into the editorial brief that guides what gets pulled from the archives next.
Elsewhere in the archive
Cut With a Razor
The Cairo Bulletin · July 18, 1873 · Cincinnati, Ohio
A wage dispute at a Cincinnati hotel ends in a razor attack on the chief clerk, a small but violent episode from the city's daily life.
Arrested for Murder
The Cairo Bulletin · July 18, 1873 · St. Louis, Missouri
A Fourth of July brawl in St. Louis turns fatal days later, leading to a murder arrest.
Smuggling
The Cairo Bulletin · July 18, 1873 · New York, New York
Police seize a large cache of smuggled glassware and arrest two sailors from a transatlantic steamer.
Diamonds Stolen
The Cairo Bulletin · July 18, 1873 · New York, New York
A wealthy passenger bound for Algeria is robbed of a fortune in diamonds before her voyage.