Twelfth annual report of education in Philippine islands
The Twelfth annual report to the Bureau of Insular Affairs covers the school year ending April 1, 1912. It highlights improved English quality across primary to secondary levels, expanded industrial instruction, new permanent buildings, and site acquistion. It notes a shift to early specialization in elementary education and detailed counts of enrollment and industrial activity, including school and home gardens, shop classes, and vocational courses.
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Director of Education For
The
Philippine Islands
Bureau of Insular Affairs
Islands
Uoon
Baguio
Philippines
United States
General Office
Philippine Normal School
Philippine School of Arts and Trades
Niagara's Mighty Strength in Hennepin's Niagara Tale
In 1678 Franciscan Hennepin voyaged from Quebec to the St Lawrence and Niagara with a portable altar. He described Niagara Falls, whose waters power modern industry as a potential future economic force, cited with then-current Great Lakes power statistics. The note cites John Finley in Scribner's.
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Hennepin
Gray Rock
Quebec
St. Lawrence
Fort Frontenac
la Salle
Wilds
Lake Michigan
la Motte
Lake Ontario
Niagara
United States
Great Lakes
Lake Frontenac
Ontario
John Finley
Scribner's
Uses of Uranium and Radium Prospects in U S Factories
The article surveys uranium in the United States noting its scarce mined amount mainly as a byproduct of carnotite for vanadium. It cites 1911 production near 21.2 tons and mentions pitchblende from a German mine used only in experiments. It highlights uses in yellow glass, pottery glazes, and as a chemical reagent, with limited steel applications abandoned due to cost.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
United States Geological Survey
Central City
Colo
Seasonal Note: The Woodsman as a Certainty
An accident insurance agent refuses to insure a woodsman guide during hunting season. The agent explains the risk is not a possibility but a certainty, highlighting a grim, ironic warning about predictable danger in that occupation.
Danish Postmaster’s Luck Penny Aids Blind Education
The Danish postmaster general devises a charity scheme using a copper luck penny minted for newborns. Nurses sell the token to parents who pay what they deem fit. The penny, valued at a halfpenny, bears the inscription about the child who sees the light and the one who will never see, funds education for the blind.
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Denmark
Royal Mint
Damp family moment blames temper on origins
Still There Robert receives a scolding from his mother who bursts in on his father while he reads the paper. She declares the child’s vile temper did not come from her, and the father agrees the temper does not come from his wife.
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Robert
Albanians challenge Turkish rule in the Balkans
The article outlines Albania's mountainous, historic society, its two main groups the Ghegs and Tosks, and the brutal changes under the Young Turks. It explains how stripped privileges, language bans, conscription, and taxes sparked Albanian resistance, including mass violence and a rebellion that has altered power in the empire and Macedonia.
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Balkan Peninsula
Europe
Balkans
Turkey
Albania
Greece
Adriatic Sea
Asia Minor
Yemen
Young Turks
Committee of Union and Progress
Macedonia
Constantinople
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Colure Education In
Aio
Cebu
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