Search Nevada County Historical Archive
Enter a name, company, place or keywords to search across this item. Then click "Search" (or hit Enter).
To search for an exact phrase, use "double quotes", but only after trying without quotes. To exclude results with a specific word, add dash before the word. Example: -Word.

Collection: Directories and Documents > Historical Clippings

Historical Clippings Book (HC-11) (314 pages)

Go to the Archive Home
Go to Thumbnail View of this Item
Go to Single Page View of this Item
Download the Page Image
Copy the Page Text to the Clipboard
Don't highlight the search terms on the Image
Show the Page Image
Show the Image Page Text
Share this Page - Copy to the Clipboard
Reset View and Center Image
Zoom Out
Zoom In
Rotate Left
Rotate Right
Toggle Full Page View
Flip Image Horizontally
More Information About this Image
Get a Citation for Page or Image - Copy to the Clipboard
Go to the Previous Page (or Left Arrow key)
Go to the Next Page (or Right Arrow key)
Page: of 314  
Go
Loading...
The 5th reader, and we believe also the Fourth, helped considerably to teach us lessons in Botany and Zoology (now called Biology). In the third reader we read this for a lesson: "Thou shalt have no other gods but me, Before no idol bend the knee3 Take not the name of God in vain, Dare not the Sabbath Day profane. Give to thy parents honor due. Take heed that thou no murder do, Abstain fra words and deeds unclean, stetl not though thou art poor and mean Tell not a wilful lie, nor love it, What is thy neizhbors do not covet." When we read the papers these days, we wonder if sane of the parents of today would not be glad if their children could have had readers like these in their early childhood, It certinly must have had an influence for good on childish minds to hear some little youngster m Friday afternoon recite the following lines: "T'11 never smoke tobacco, Mo, it is a filthy weed ITi1 never put it in a mouth, said little Rober Reed.” Or hear same of the more daring little urchins recite: "Tobacco is a filthy weed, From the devil sprang the seed; Smoke tobacco burn your clothes, Hiake a chimey of your nose.” At a later date, re think about 1870, our Readers were chanced for a series of gix beginning with the Ist and ending with the 6th, They, too, were wonderful Readers, McGuffeys. We still see them advertised and spolen of as very fine, but for molding the minds and shaping the lives of the very young we think the ¥ilson'ts were better, Tho, NcGuffey's were food, The spelling books used. First Townsend's Speller later Wilson's. Geography, Cornell's later Monterthi History Quackenbos later Swinton's Condensed History Granmar Greenes " Browns Physiology have forgotten the author 'Mental Arithmetic Written °" . " olde > an as.