Local school notes and student activities update
A school week summary notes Mrs Daniel's return from Hovanaville and Miss Florence Harris visiting town. Nurse Davia exited to Atlanta. Miss Pergason hosted guests at the cottage with Miss Foster. Carrollton won a tense Friday ball game. Students and townsfolk traveled, flagpole completed, flag gifted by Judge Adamson. Ruth Foster guest of Miss Per Bason. John Turner nearing recovery from measles. Sam Hall's heroic runaway incident ends safely. Marvin Williams arrives to coach oratorical contestants. roster of competitors listed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marvin Williams
John Darden
Raymond Stevens
Alva Philips
Charles Fitts
Percy Smith
Hogan Copeland
Wilsie Wright
Ralph North
Dessie Staples
Lewis Gook
A Social Tangle at the Daily Doleful Editorial Desk
London Tit-Bits reprints a chaotic scene where staff attempt to untangle a marriage puzzle. A notice says Shore married his stepdaughter and the staff’s tangled logic leads to absurd conclusions. The editor in chief ends up declaring impossible familial relations while officers intervene. An errand boy leaps to a misread ancestor theory.
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Doleful
Shore
Society
London
He Worked In Sardou Portrait Mix Up in French Chamber
A photographer sought portraits of 363 Republican deputies in 1870s France but Rouge refused. Gambetta advised using Sardou’s likeness to stand in for Rouge, claiming the two resembled each other. The photograph thus included Sardou unknowingly among the deputies.
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Sardou
M. Sardou
Chamber of Deputies
Rouge
Gambetta
Driving a Good Bargain in a Barber Shop
A barber’s young son faithful to his father’s shop watches patrons, and when Judge Blank sits for a cut he studies the bald head and fringe. The boy asks if the judge gets a quarter for cutting that, revealing playful childlike curiosity in a small town setting.
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Judge Blank
Lippincott’s Magazine
Dogs In Harness From Canada To US Sightings
Dogs in harness are common across Canada and occasionally seen in the United States. Not only children but grown men accept being pulled by dogs like Fido or Bruno while touring. Lightweight harness cards are used, and only big dogs such as Newfoundland are put to heavy work.
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United States
Canada
Fido
Bruno
Newfoundland
Dessiler
Ateama
Ant Nest under Cottonwood Leaves Fascinates Texas Readers
A Texas riverbank sighting describes umbrella ants using a green vine as a canopy. The leaf-wrapped colony climbs the cottonwood to feed young, with the nest opening at ground level. A second feature discusses dog intelligence, breeding, and aristocracy, highlighting pointers and setters.
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Guadalupe River
Tropics
Texas
St. Nicholas
Notable Philadelphia schoolboard tale from Harper’s Weekly
A Philadelphia school board member recalls a northern Pennsylvania schoolhouse where a strict master disciplines his pupils, sometimes allowing pie nibbling during arithmetic. When one boy focuses on pie, the teacher scolds and repeats the line about listening with one ear and eating with the other.
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School Board of Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
William
Harper
Sheep as Beasts of Burden in Himalayan Trails
In northern India sheep serve as burden carriers along Himalayan foothill paths. Each sheep carries sixteen to twenty pounds on mountain routes, driven village to village with wool growing. Farmers shear wool in towns and load sheep with grain rewards.
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India
Himalayas
Also Mentioned on This Page
Daniel
Hovanaville
Florence Harris
Miss. Davia
Invalids
Atlanta
Mrs. Melson
Little
Martha
Town
Mrs. L. C. Mandeville
Mr. Kyle
Carrollton
Fred Schler
Albert Parkman
B. C. Layfield
Columbus
W. C. Adamson
Ruth Foster
New
Nac
Per | Bason
John Turner
Villa Rica
Sam Hall
Sam
Barnesvill
Pittsburg
Free Press
Journal
Suzie
Wood
Mary
Suwie
Jane
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