Army of School Children Steps Up War Effort
Willard E. Givens, executive secretary of the National Education Association, frames 30,000,000 schoolchildren as an army in total war. The piece notes a teacher shortage, with up to 100,000 teachers absent, and explains wage-driven attrition, class-size issues, and measures like class merging and returning former teachers to ease the gap. It also discusses nursery schools and federal support as remedies amid wartime demands.
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Willard E. Givens
National Education Association of the
United States
Australia
Ulster
South Carolina
Dutch Harbor
Colorado
Midway
Ods
Man Power Commission
Man Power
United Nations
Wartime Education Push Shapes High School Curriculum
Wartime aims push students toward defense readiness with accelerated paths for able learners while educators temper pace to protect pupil welfare. Geography shifts to reflect altered world maps and trade routes, and mathematics expands toward navigation and ballistics needs driven by war.
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Commission of the
United States Office of Education
Commission
Sumatra
Malay Peninsula
Japan
United States
Tokyo
Panama Canal
Direct War Work Enlists Student Aid
The school will mobilize boys and girls to support the war effort through selling stamps and bonds gathering materials for war production sewing for the Red Cross and assisting nursing staffs. Students will study the war to boost morale and prepare for postwar peace while daily reminders reinforce citizen duties and democratic participation.
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Red Cross
Pattern No 8210 fits sizes 14 to 20 40 and 42
Pattern No 8210 is described for sizes 14 to 20 and 40 to 42. Size 16 requires 2 percent yards of 32 or 35 inch material and 5 yards trimming for riorac to trim.
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Riorac
Still Better Idea Twins Arrive Night Aftermath
In a humorous exchange a father tells Joe not to go to school because he has two new sisters. Joe plans to deceive the teacher by claiming one sister this week and the other next week. The narrator quips that there will always be a demand for cosmetics as women cannot go wan.
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Father
Little Joe
Joe
Thrifty patterns for mothers sewing school clothes
Readable patterns highlight a panel front style with a flat front secured by tying sashes in back and a second design with a raised skirt line flattering growing figures.
Quiz QandA: Common myths and historic curiosities
Questions cover silver quality whether sterling equals solid silver and the origin of the phrase genius is 2 percent inspiration 98 percent perspiration. They ask if trees die of old age and which city sits on seven hills. Also who was the English king who spoke no English and the meaning of eminent domain. Washington wearing a wig and a country with 40 000 square miles and no railroads are queried.
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England
Washington
Answers to Miscellaneous Quiz Facts From Historical Sources
The list provides concise factual answers: 1 sterling silver content 92.5 percent, 2 inventor Thomas A Edison, 3 rare events of property rights or wind or lightning, 4 Rome, 5 George I, 6 eminent domain, 7 Washington hair style, powdered hair tied in a queue, no wig, 8 Iceland.
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Thomas A. Edison
Rome
George I
Washington
Iceland
Pattern Details for Girls Garments and Ric Rac
Pattern No. 8206 size 8 uses 214 yards of 3S inch fabric and 5 yards ric rac. Pattern No. 8199 size 8 requires 2 yards and 24% yards ric rac. Send your order to the listed address.
Thelma and Virginia Banter on Brains
The exchange shows Thelma asking if she is conceited about brains and Virginia denying the notion. The dialogue reveals playful sarcasm and flirtatious banter between the two characters.
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Thelma
Virginia
Missing Dog Fido Causes Kitchen Chaos and Help Wanted
A humorous exchange reveals a lost canine named Fido who allegedly chewed a leg of something in a butcher shop and startled a customer with eggs. The dialogue ends with a request to post a lost notice in the window.
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Fido
Toast His Shins Wife Toasts Morning Amid Breadless Home
A light domestic scene unfolds at breakfast where a wife plans toast but finds no bread. The husband, distracted, defers the request with a casual remark and a suggestion to improvise.
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Husband
Public Spirited Woman Encounters a Little Boy
A grimy street scene leads a woman to ask a boy about his home and upbringing. She invites his mother to hear her talk on a mother's duty to her child at Lyceum Hall next Monday at two in the afternoon. The boy retorts that she is his mother.
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Lyceum Hall
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