How Education Has Evolved From Stocks to Schools
A reflection on how education shifted from exclusive classical study to broad social utility. The piece contrasts colonial teaching near Plymouth and Salem with modern Canton High School field trips to state hospitals, jails, and farms, noting the move from elite professions to widespread practical training and hands-on learning across trades and crafts.
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Plymouth
New Amsterdam
Salem
Jonathan
Nathaniel
Peter
Archimedes
Canton High School
State Hospital
Courts of Justice
The Hebrew Technical School for Girls and Its Earnings
A New York report highlights the Hebrew Technical School for Girls at Seconday and Fifteenth streets led by Nathaniel Myers. It presents graduates earnings, showing an average about $12 per week from 1655 active reports, and lists numerous weekly wages from $4 to $38, illustrating how vocational training reduces ignorance and unemployment.
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New York
Hebrew Technichal School For Girls
Seconday and
Fifteenth-st
Nathaniel Myers
Fsq
Mr. Myers
Myers
Love Letters at Seventy Do Not Prove Mental Incompetence
Kansas City judge rules a 77 year old man’s love letters do not establish mental incapacity to make a will. In a Hoone-ro case the son claimed the testator was incompetent. letters claimed he was 65. The judge held misrepresentation irrelevant and noted the man appeared to have full faculties.
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Kansas City
Ellison
Kansas Court of Appeals
Hoone-ro
Step-Father to Lad in Sterling tale of unlikely marriage
Sterling Illinois June 7 Richard Lewis eighteen years old becomes stepfather to a son older than himself and to another boy two years younger after eloping with the forty five year old widow Mrs Havel Chapin. Lewis is the wealthy farmer son whose property adjoins the city and Mrs Chapin had two sons aged nineteen and sixteen.
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Sterling
Richard Lewis
Lewis
Havel Chapin
A Song Of Home by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
A contemplative verse extols the virtue of home as a center of love labor patience and joy. The poem urges openness generosity beauty and art within the home and invites both familiar and casual friends to share in its warmth and spirit now and here.
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Ella Wheeler Wilcox
American Journal-Examiner
Earth
Baby Fashion And Family Talk In A Hushed Wedding Prep
A narrator recalls Candy dressed in infant finery and a quiet visit by two older women Misses Raymond and Belcher who discuss weddings and love. The scene shifts to family memory of Pa and the journalist mother, reflecting on marriage, home life, and the upcoming union as they travel with a wrapped infant.
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Misses Raymond
Misses Belcher
Missus Raymond
Raymond
Wisconsin
Bie
United Staits
Missus Belcher
Summoneter
Neerer
Complaining Husband Usually Has No One to Blame But Himself
Dorothy Dix argues marriage woes stem from both partners dwelling on the other’s faults. The essay urges husbands to reflect on their own missteps, such as neglect, lack of effort, and failing to make home appealing, rather than blaming wives for bills, nagging, or infidelity.
Dog in Baby Clothes Defies Street Car Rules
Boston terrier Candy and his owner Mrs. Ada Gregory devise a scheme to bypass street car regulations against dogs on the ears by having the dog photographed in attire resembling a baby.
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Dog
Baby
ST. Paul
Candy
Ada Gregory
Porch Swing Sale Ad With English Finish and Galvanized Hardware
Early English finish porch swings offered in various sizes. Special 31 foot swing priced at $2.75 with galvanized chains and hooks complete.
Ri mond Police Discuss Treadmill Plan with Officials
Superintendent Gorman and Zimmerman propose installing a treadmill at Wayne County jail to aid inmates. The plan aims to improve rehabilitation efforts and monitoring by authorities in Richmond.
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Richmond
June
Rimond
Zimmerman
Wayne-co
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