Boys Debating Society

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The Indian Helper (Vol. 1, No. 27)
February 12, 1886

The first page opened with a poem titled "Content," followed by "He Suffered Because He Could Not Speak English," an article about a Kiowa boy who was accused of a crime and could not defend himself. The next article was a treatise on the importance of buying insurance. Page two began with a memorial about General Hancock titled "The Dead Hero…

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Newspapers
Repository:
Cumberland County Historical Society
The Indian Helper (Vol. 4, No. 11)
October 26, 1888

The first page opens with an untitled poem. The next article titled “Peter Powlass,” contains a letter with news about events at the Oneida, Wisconsin Reservation written by former student, Peter Powlass. It is followed by “U.S. Congress,” that reported the schedule of the Fiftieth Congress. Page two contains news from the YMCA, the boys’…

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Newspapers
Repository:
Cumberland County Historical Society
The Indian Helper (Vol. 4, No. 12)
November 2, 1888

The first page opened with the poem, “Little Helpers,” reprinted from the Sunday School Times. Next came a piece titled “Environment,” the answer to the previously posted word story, followed by “No Time to Read?” about the importance of reading which continued on the fourth page. Page two reported a talk by Rev. Mr. Wilson about the…

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Newspapers
Repository:
Cumberland County Historical Society
Male students at a debating society meeting, c.1885

Male students, one standing in front behind a desk, several others in the front seated, with rows of chairs with seated students facing them, posed at a meeting of one of the debating societies. 

Format:
Glass Plate Negative
Repository:
National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution