The Girl's Industrial Home of St Louis History
A history of St Louis charity for destitute children from 1854 to 1937 records the founding of The Industrial Home later renamed The Girl's Industrial Home. It details founders, board officers, charter, expansion, and wartime efforts, with doorway to a 60 000 building and rising annual expenditures.
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ST. Louis
Missouri
Floyd C. Shoemaker
St. George's Church
United States
Mary B. Holmes
Mary N. Ranlett
Caroline E. Kasson
Mercy B. Manny
Henry Hitchcock
Wyman Crow
Seventh
Carr Streets
Hitchcock
Fourth Street
Washington Avenue
Eighteenth
Morgan Streets
House of Refuge
Belt and
van Verson Avenues
Fragments Reflect 1920s Social Quips on Fashion and Cars
A collection of sharp lines contrasts gendered tastes in clothing with car culture. The speaker jokes that only blonds and brunettes seek pretty clothes while modern dating shifts with autos, evoking a youth lifestyle snapshot.
Valentine Day at Local High School Highlights
The report covers a Valentine party by the Sophomore class and guests at the schoolhouse, a new flag flying daily, illness absences of students, and staff travel to a superintendent meeting in Columbia. It notes a Tiger girls basketball win 21 to 16 in the Zoo League and Valentine activities across grades.
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Tiger
Annabeth Worley
Bettie Baker
Valentine Box Visitors Share Fun and Decor Highlights
Our Valentine Box event drew many visitors who exchanged valentines and enjoyed friendly activities. The room featured red crepe paper white hearts and red ruffles with a large white heart on the door window.
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Chuck
Joedy Robison
Donald Nevins
Mary Ruth Kille
Kirksville Contests Set for April Fourteen
Entries for Kirksville Contests on April 14 include Clarinet solo Patricia Gooch Trombone solo Phillip Grice Baritone solo Clayton Harris Trumpet solo undetermined Brass quartet Cornets not decided Trombones Phillip Grice Phyllis Vincent. We will list selections soon. Fertilizer Improves Yield of Oats says M F Miller Missouri College of Agriculture yields rise 6 to 12 bushels with proper fertilizer usage.
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Kirksville
Patricia Gooch
Phillip Grice
Clayton Harris
Phyllis Vincent
M. F Miller
Missouri College of Agriculture
High oats prices and farming notes prompt cautious fertilizer use
The text discusses oats profitability versus wheat, noting oats require larger bushels per acre for fertilizer profitability. It mentions advantages like clover or grass sown with oats boosting net returns from following crops, and then quips about domestic life and a metaphor comparing the human body to a violin with a joke about men fiddling.
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Frank Priebe
Mr. Sears
Jno
Ed Fuhrman
Bobbie Brown
Beverly Bauswell
Bernie Jacobs
Reva Knifong
Hazel
Nelson Grice
Mr. Dutton
Department of Superintendents
Columbia
Room
Beverly Cutsinger
Illinois
L. C. Hobbs
Jackie Haley
Elizabeth Ann Prather
Mr. Williams
Nyle Freeland
Junior Woolf
Virginia Lou Langdon
Ray Duane Peterson
Geneil Haley
Ruth Bennett
Ment
U-S-S
U.S.S
Browning Lumber Company
Browning, Missouri
Browning Lbr. CO
R.J.R
Browning and
Harris
Browning
Farmer’s Stores
Humphreys
Cora
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