Kindergarten’s century of growth frames modern education
The article traces Froebel’s 1837 founding of the birthplace of kindergarten and the 1840 term origin, noting the spread to America by 1856 58, the expansion into Sunday schools and teacher training, and the 20th century establishment of a U S Bureau of Education division. It contrasts child development via play with lifelong educational impact. It then shifts to a curio about stray cats and dogs, domestic populations, and the beneficial roles of cats in rat and pest control, including international notes on cat care.
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Friedrich Froebel
Blankenburg
Kreinkinderbeschaftungsanstalt
Froebel
America
Renes
Watertown
Wis
Cohknbus
Ohio
United States Bureau of Education
Eclipse to be observed on Canton Island by American team
American scientists prep on Canton Island for a total solar eclipse observed from 7:39 to 11:09 a.m. local time, 3.5 minutes of coverage. The expedition, after traveling 5,000 miles and three weeks of work, aims to study sun atoms, with helium and coronium notes cited as key discoveries from eclipse spectroscopy.
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Pacific
Canton Island
Earth
City Voters toChoose Candidates in Tuesday Primary
City voters will nominate ten candidates Tuesday for five city board seats. From the twenty declared candidates, five will be elected in July. Ballots will show names by district with the top two in each district advancing. Polls open 6:30 am to 6:30 pm at Wade school and Beaver high school.
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Peel
Wuolaaer
Board of Directors
Iee
M. C. McNeal
Paul W. Parks
Jimmy Rantis
Ralph W
Emanuel Chuell
R. N. Crowell
Guy C. Dunn
Wade School
Beaver High School
Wage and Hour Debate Rages as Vandenberg Opposes Quick Action
Washington and Detroit dispatches report U S Senator Vandenberg opposing immediate wage and hour legislation urging a breathing spell and interim study. Senator Black signals hearings by June 14 while Ford workers rally protest at Rouge plant with U A W A calling for action against Henry Ford and outlining a new Ford Brotherhood of America.
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Washington
Vandenberg
R-Mich
Congress
Senator Black
D-Ala
Roosevelt Begins Potomac Weekend Cruise
President Roosevelt boarded the yacht Potomac at the Navy yard for a week end cruise on the Potomac after meeting with House Democratic leaders.
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FDR
Washington
Roosevelt
Navy Yard
Potomac River
Potomac
House
German Priests Fight Back Against Immorality Charges
Berlin reports that Catholic church leaders in the Berlin diocese issued a pulpit read aloud statement to counter Propaganda Minister Goebbels who accused a wave of priest and laity immorality. It cites 25 635 priests in Germany and 58 implicated, less than one quarter of one percent.
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Berlin
Paul Joseph Goebbels
Germany
UAW Rejects Leaders' Plan to End Ford Strike
Richmond California June 5 United Automobile Workers rejected overwhelmingly a proposal by their own leaders to end the strike at the Ford Motor plant. The action came as members were asked to vote on the settlement and the union faced renewed questions about strategy and leadership.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richmond
Calif
United Automobile Workers
Ford Motor
Britain Seeks To Save Spanish War Neutrality Pact
Britain strives to restore the non intervention committee after Spain’s civil war involvement, with Eden facing German and Italian balks over consul tations among international patrol commanders before reprisals. France and Basque fronts report naval and defense actions as Madrid’s conflict rages.
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Britain
Great Britain
Italy
Anthony Eden
France
Saint de Luz
Croix de Jour
Spain
Bilboa
Mount
Lemona
London
Germany
Rome
Berlin
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Adolf Hitler
Hitler
Jer Mussolini
Ger
Eric Drummond
Galeazzo Ciano
Count Ciano
Cois
Man Who Bought Woman Jailed In Nevada County
William Ebaugh, 29, a woodsman, is jailed on charges from Mrs. Ray Delama that he kept her captive for three months after luring her from her husband. Sheriff Woods says Ebaugh admitted aiding Delama and that he broke her ribs during an embrace. Delama escaped last night and identified Ebaugh as her captor. A search for Delama has begun.
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Nevada City
Calif
William Ebaugh
Woodsman
Ray Delama
William B Woods
Ebaugh
Death of Bluefield youth leads to murder charge
Charles William Gilpin 18 of Bluefield Va died from gunshot wounds suffered Tuesday night at the Knowles home on Virginia avenue near the state line. Charles B Knowles Midway Market operator was arrested on a murder charge, bonded at 7500, with case pending. Funeral set for Sunday at 2:30 at Midway home conducted by Rev E E Wiley and Rev E W Hughes. Burial Maple Hill Cemetery.
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Bluefield
Charles William
Billy) Gilpin
Charles B
Count) Knowles
Midway Market
Gilpin
Tazewell
Squire
al Justice “Kirt
G. Peery
Mene. Vames
Knowles
Young Gilpin
Condh
Virginia Avenue
State Line
Giles
Young Gilvin
J. M. Gilpin
Virginia
Bertie Gilpin
Edgar E. Woodrow B
James Rufus Gil Ee
J. D. C. Tabor
Midway
E. E. Wiley
Trinity Methodist Church
E. W. Hughes
Maple Hill
Aleigh Shields
Pat Hench
Roy Brewster
Gene Sawyers
Bill Hench
Bob Bill Simpson
Everett Gillespie
Bob Nash
Hallett Gillespie
Woodrow Munsey
Mildred Hill
Lois Hoops
Billie Rae Crews
Anjalee Glass
Bernice Hench
Naomi Hench
Kate Munsey
Dorothy Woolridge
Leona Simpson
Pauline
Helen Webb
Christine ‘Ash
Filibuster Likely Against Court Plan Stirs Senate Fight
Washington June 5 senators vocally reject Roosevelt court bill compromises to add five justices unless past 70 retire. McCarran Burke Borah Minton warn against political control while administration hints at two or three new judges. House leaders plan action on tax measures as congress targets late summer adjournment.
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Washneton
Senate
Roosevelt Court
Supreme Court
McCarran
D-Nev
Burke
D-Neb
49 Court
High Court
Borah
Idaho
Roosevelt
Minton
D-Ind
Washington
House
Congress
Sesson
Bankhead
Rayburn
Alabama
Robinson
White House
Doughton
D-N C
Vinson
D-Ky
Mayor Bostic of Union Dies of Heart Attack
Union West Virginia reports J H Bostic elected mayor for the fourth time last May died at his home from a heart attack. He had not been ill. Funeral services will be held tomorrow.
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Harry H. Bennett
Ford
Scott
F.B.A
Brotherhood
Union
W. Va
J. H. Bostic
Bostic
Lindbergh Sees Rockets as Speed Boost for Transport
Col Charles A Lindbergh praised Clark University professor Robert H Goddards rocket work in a letter to Clark president Wallace Atwood. He argued rockets could raise speeds beyond current aviation and enable instruments and experiments above balloon reach. The letter drew praise from aeronautical figures such as Alexander Klemin and Fred W Kessler.
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Worcester
Mass
Charles A. Lindbergh
Massachusetts University
Robert H. Goddard
Clark University
Clark
Lindbergh
Goddard
Langley
Wright
Wallace W. Atwood
Annals of Experimental Aeronau
Suchemin
Alexander Klemin
Daniel Guggenheim
Spinsters Demand Pensions At Fifty-Five In London
Spinsters gathered in Hyde Park to denounce the government for unmarried women pensions and urge eligibility at age 55 instead of 64. A delegation earlier presented the demand to Sir Kingsley Wood, health minister. The meeting opened with songs to rally support, including When We’ve Worked to Fifty-Five and Fight Fight Fight for Spinsters Pensions.
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Hyderk
London
Kingsley Wood
Arene
Million Left by Rockefeller Shows Modest Estate Tail
White Plains New Jersey June 5 The relatively small Rockefeller estate may shrink from 25 million to about 10 million after taxes. Principal beneficiaries named in John D Rockefeller Sr s will filed for probate include granddaughter Margaret Strong de Cuevas and the Rockefeller Foundation. The will directs residuary estate to trust for Mrs de Cuevas and her children with trustees John D Rockefeller Jr Bertram Cutler and Thomas Debevoise. income to de Cuevas her children or the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research.
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White Plains
N. J. Jume
John D. Rockefeller
Margaret Strong de Cuevas
Rockefeller
R. Rockefe
John D. Rockefeller, Jr
Laura Spelman Rockefeller
Bids Sought for Poplar Street Bridge Approaches
State road commission called for bids to build the approaches of the Poplar street bridge on U S route 52 including grading drainage and cement paving. Bids open June 22. Also sought were 12 miles of Jaeger Bradshaw secondary road base repair and surface treatment.
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Road Commission
Jaeger-Bradshaw Road
Poplar Street Bridge
U. S. Route 52
State Road Commission
Jaeger-Bradshaw
Dolph
Bluefield
Union Leaders Warn of Impending Bloodshed on Steel Pickets
Union General Philip Murray warned of sinister and bloody events as steel strikes entered the 11th day. Pickets in Youngstown Ohio fought to prevent food from reaching Republic Steel and faced police actions while Governor Davey of Ohio sought a halt to violence. The nationwide stoppage involved about 70,000 workers across seven states with investigations by the Senate Civil Liberties committee and ongoing labor disputes in Minnesota Michigan Newberry and Michigan lumber strikes.
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S. W. O. C. Arese
Minnesota
Michigan
Upper Peninsula
Viclinece
Newberry
Fight in Court as Republic Steel Faces Strikes
In Youngstown Ohio Republic Steel seeks court orders to allow access to Warren and Niles plants and to end picket line interference. SWOC leader Philip Murray warns of sinister consequences while Chicago authorities order removals at the plant there. Police and sheriffs confront pickets as a food train is moved into the yard.
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Associated Press
Youngstown
Ohio
Republic Steel Corp
Steel Workers Organizing Committee
SWOC
Philip Murray
Republic
Warren and Niles
Chicago
Edward J. Kelly
Republic Corporation
Cleveland
Washington Post
Tom Girdler
Warren
Niles
United States
Myers Park
Murray
Youngsee Sheet and Tube Co
Rere
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Hong Kong
England
Vandenberg Aapg Ford
U.A.W.A
Detroit
Henry Ford
United Automobile Workers of America
Os Motor Company
Rouge
Ford Workers
Homer Martin
Uaw.a
Flint
Ford Brotherhood of America, Inc
Byrd W. Scott
Ford Company
Baby Creek Park
River Rouge
Reuther
Ford Motor Company
Bennett
TWO Nations
Billy Gilpin
M’carran
Mayor Bostic
Lindbergh Hunts
Ohio Steel
Rockefeller Medical Research Institute
Rckefeller, Jr
SPAN
Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company
Chcago
Ralph E. Elser
Elser
John Mayo
Martin L. Davey
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