American Decades
The Chautauqua Movement
"Miami Valley Chautauqua Opens Friday, July 16th"; "Chautauqua"
Newspaper articles
By: Miamisburg News
Date: July 1909; July 22, 1909
Source: "Miami Valley Chautauqua Opens Friday, July 16th"; "Chautauqua." Miamisburg News, July 1909; July 22, 1909.
About the Publication: The Miamisburg News issued its first paper on April 1, 1880. One of four early newspapers reporting on the small town of Miamisburg in southwest Ohio, the News covered all significant local events. Its publisher, Charles Kinder, was a descendant of one of the city's oldest families, and he followed in the footsteps of his uncle, also a newspaper publisher in Ottawa, Ohio. Though currently owned by a different publisher, the Miamisburg News continues to report the local events for the citizens of Miamisburg.
Introduction
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1900's Lifestyles and Social Trends Primary Sources
- Theodore Roosevelt and Booker T. Washington
- "The Road Problem"
- "What Is a Lynching?"
- "The Niagara Movement"
- Emporia and New York
- The Courtesies
- "The Corner Stone Laid"
- The Chautauqua Movement
- The Anti-Saloon League Year Book
- Ohio Electric Railway "The Way to Go"
- Sears, Roebuck Home Builder's Catalog
- "Seven Years of Child Labor Reform"
- The House on Henry Street
- "Bring Playgrounds to Detroit"
- Connecticut Clockmaker
- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgments
