Local notes and civic updates from town
Local notes report moving pictures at the opera house tomorrow night and Edwin G. Deans Pictorial Entertainment set for Brimfield on March 27. A skating season finale is planned for Saturday night and tax work continues in Peoria with Frei Archer visiting to settle with the county treasurer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Opera House
Wesley Andrews
Peoria
H. B. Johnson
Edwin G. Dean
Brimfield
Frei Archer
Radbeck
Education of Blind Opens Correspondence Courses at Jacksonville
Illinois School for the Blind in Jacksonville launches correspondence courses for adults and former students. The program, enabled by a 1904 Congress act, aims to teach embossing reading via a seeing helper, with free instruction for eligible blind residents and a future offering in American literature and other subjects.
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Springfield
Illinois School For the Blind
Jacksonville
Nlimols School
United States
Ilinois
Toach
Charlotte White Hunt
Californias
Perkins Institution
Longfellow
Miles Standish
Evangeline
Hiawatha
Timinota
Illinois School for the Blind Embraces Braille Library Growth
The article notes a $2,000 appropriation by the last Legislature for a free circulating Braille library at the Illinois School for the Blind, replacing line print. It highlights Braille prevalence, book distribution, and postage relief, plus the school’s music printing venture and the new superintendent W W Jones appointed in 1907, with a long background in education and public service.
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Ermnor Dpeneen
New York Point Sys
Illinois School
Bliad
J. H. Freeman
W.W. Jones
Oregon
Jones
Cook
Civil Service
Public Schools of
University of Oregon
Canada
United States
Anti Saloon Meetings Schedule in Brimfield Township
March 24 Radley School with Rev J W Smith and H B Johnson. March 25 Oak Grove School with Rev C D Shoemaker and Dr C G Faroum. March 27 Paradise Chapel with Rev M P Lackland and H Cady.
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Brimfield Township
Cowley School
C. D Shoemaker
C. B. Moore
Radley School
J W Smith
H B. Johnson
Oak Grove School
C G Faroum
Paradise Chapel
M P Lackland
H. © Cady
Reed School
G .F. Cady
BR M. Shiailer
Whitterm School
M. P Lackland
BR M. Maher
Maple Grove School
C. T. Cady
C. B Moore
Words of Young Men and Famous Quotes on Liberty and War
A fragmentary historical column cites ages and sayings of Jefferson Paine Hamilton Jones Lawrence Perry Decatur Grant and others. It notes youths spoke of liberty and duty and records notable lines like We have not yet begun to fight and Don't give up the ship.
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Ginia
Ybhen
Ameriga
Thomas Jefferson
Larquin
Brutus
Charles the I
Cromwell
George the Third
Thomas Paine
Alexander Hamilton
Nathan Hate
John Paul Jones
Boo Ea
Twee Ee
James Lawrence
Oliver Haxard Perry
Staphee Decatur
Ulyses
Grant
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Cady Bros
Jobo Church
Joe Dungan
Ed Littlefield
Knoxville Avenue
Robinson & Co
A.T. Babcock
Tre ‘O
Union Depot
Illinois
Congress
Peresn
Wis
Giate
Bae
Selz
Tosares
Meke Ghoea
Memler Bros
Europe
Australia
Frank H. Hall
Aurora
Jewell
Burt School
I. O. McCullough
Brimfeld
Reab
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