Item - The Dime Eloquent Speaker

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Alternate Title:	The Dime Eloquent Speaker: Choice Prose and Verse, for School, Home, and Public Declamation
Subjects / Tags:	Recitations Speeches, addresses, etc., American
Notes:	"This was copyrighted in 1874, and must have appeared late in the year, for it was announced as "New, Just Published," on January 2, 1875."--Johannsen, A. House of Beadle and Adams and its dime and nickel novels

(source: NIU Libraries)

Online Full Text:	Northern Illinois University
Series:	Beadle's Dime Speakers no. 17
Item:	The Dime Eloquent Speaker
Contents:	An Adjuration (pages 9-10) The Kings of Business (pages 10-13) Purity of Speech (page 13) Parson Caldwell (page 14) Value of Reputation (pages 15-16) The Hand That Rocks The World (page 17) Swelling Manhood (pages 18-19) Sumner (pages 19-21) Woman's Love (page 21) The Bricklayers (pages 22-23) Words of Silver (pages 23-24) Drive On!—Drive On! (pages 24-25) The Tramp (page 26) The State Immortal (page 27) The Moral Factor (page 28) Walking With the World (pages 29-31) The Only Safety (pages 31-32) Knowledge (page 32) "Be Careful What You Say" (page 33) Stand By The Constitution (pages 34-35) A True Friend (page 35) The Mocking-Bird. A Fable (pages 36-37) The Want of the Country (pages 37-39) The Value of Virtue (pages 39-40) She Would Be A Mason (pages 41-43) Evils of Ignorance (pages 43-48) The Use of Time (page 48) Come Down (page 49) Short Anatomical Lecture: The Heart (pages 50-51) Minnetunkee, an Indian Legend of the Cattawissa Mountain, Penn (pages 52-56) The Printing Press (pages 56-57) The Sabbath (page 57) Busybodies (pages 58-59) Short Anatomical Lecture: The Lungs (pages 59-61) A Blow in the Dark (page 61) The Specter Caravan (pages 62-63) The True Saviors (pages 64-65) True Fame (page 65) Something to Shun (pages 66-67) Plea for Ireland (pages 67-68) Smile Whenever You Can (page 69) Through the Wood of Stars (pages 70-73) A Thought (page 73) The House-Maid (page 74) The Goblin Cat (pages 75-76) Aristocrates (pages 77-79) The Knightly Newsboy (pages 80-82) A Call to Vote (page 82) The Modern Fraud (pages 83-84) Running for the Legislature (pages 84-85) To A Young Man (pages 86-87) "Heads" (page 87) The New Dispensation (pages 88-89) Turning the Grindstone (pages 90-91) Short Sermon (pages 91-92)
Date:	1874
Publisher:	Beadle and Adams (1872-1898) (New York (N.Y.): No. 98 William Street) -- United States
OCLC Number:	21073500
Description:	Also includes: publisher's advertisements.
Length:	92 pages