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Newspaper
Cambridge Jeffersonian
Location
Cambridge, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1913
Page
7
Prepared by the State School Commissioner to test the mental qualifications of those seeking positions as teachers in public schools. The questions cover reading comprehension geography spelling arithmetic grammar syntax and parts of speech with practical teaching illustrations and legal references.
Questions cover ratification of the Constitution objections by states and federal powers. It asks which federal department is growing strongest, Jefferson’s presidential achievements, causes and advisers at the start of the War of 1812, Jackson era issues and policy success, John Brown’s Harper’s Ferry raid and its effects, Democratic and Republican party principles, and Hayes’s election and service as president.
A set of economics and math brainteasers covers gain and loss in a grocer sale, ham pricing to achieve 12 percent profit, township diagramting with section references, sugar trading with loss and gain targets, government seed planting to acres, retailer margins on discount pricing, train passing time from lengths and speeds, and a six month note discount scenario. Answers require basic percentage, area, and time computations.
This item lists nine farming topics covering soil types and worm roles, legume benefits, crop rotation, tree girdling outcomes, pruning principles and timing, codling moth and curculio fruit pests, reasons for cutting corn in shocks and yields, mulch definition, chinch bug habitats and control, and identifying three birds valuable to farmers with notes on their habits.
The text discusses quotation types with a focus on how speech is rendered in life at sea. It contrasts direct speech that records exact words with indirect quotation that paraphrases. It uses nautical roles like mate and captain to illustrate shifts in sentence perspective and reporting.
The Azores lie near 38 to 40 degrees north just like Denver’s latitude ranges. Expect milder, maritime climate in the Azores with smaller temperature extremes and higher humidity, while Denver has a continental climate with greater seasonal temperature swings and lower humidity.
The reading exam is oral and conducted by the examiner. Applicants for four year provisional certificates have their reading grades sent by the examiner to the State Commissioner of Common.
A concise survey of Washington Irving's life and key works such as The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle. It includes questions about readers' familiarity with these titles and notes on other authors and poems. The prompt asks for four-line completions and opinions on Byron, Bryant, and Shakespeare, plus reading habits and an article example.
This study outlines basic English phonemes count and classification, explains diphthongs and digraphs with examples, lists common substitutes for letters y x w v t k, and defines syllable vocal sound synthesis analysis derivative. It also provides spellings for a list of challenging words including auricle vegetable penInsula etc.
A list of student prompts covering spores and tubers in crops, apple tree life history from seed to orchard, differences between well and rainwater and nitrogen cycles, optimal planting periods and yields for Ohio corn oats and wheat, bacterial and fungal plant diseases and controls, beef cattle marketing age and calf slaughter, and a field task identifying local birds and nests.
At Muskingum College New Concord the afternoon recital featured fifteen Conservatory students under Lovewell Hosmer and Gray. The weekend included Society Night and a Baccalaureate with sermons by Dr Rankin and President Montgomery. Faculty and students plan next year’s work as seniors leave with praise for the year’s training.
Investment opportunity offering two good six room, two story residences with slate roofs on separate lots. Income $18.00 a month. Selling price for both houses only $1800. Apply to W. R. Dougherty, Fifth floor Central National Bank Bldg. Both phones. 29-tf
The Hockhocking Tribe holds weekly meetings every Wednesday evening in the Taylor Block with visiting members welcome for degree work. A. Anderson, visiting with his mother Mrs Etta Anderson from the Fair Ground addition, will depart for Bakersfield California Tuesday to work at the Santa Fe freight house. Mr and Mrs E A Harding and Mrs John Love visited in Cambridge Monday.
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