03 Nov 1916
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Newspaper
Corona Independent
Location
Corona, California, United States of America
Date
Nov 03, 1916
Page
1
A brief note describes a junior English class led by Miss Oakey with editors guiding the lesson. The item highlights the educator’s role and classroom activity in a school setting.
Editorial urges better English across schools noting repeated errors in speech and writing. The Junior English Class edits this page to encourage practical composition and broader audience reach for student work.
An eleventh century page Ethelred in the Earl of Bath’s service thwarts an assassin sent by a rival lord on a Hallowe'en night. The feast, stones in embers predicting life, and a chase end with Ethelred rescuing the Earl and later being knighted. The tale blends superstition with daring action from a Saxon era.
Corona High School reports a robust start to debates with twelve students signing up for tryouts and fifty pledging support. The feature outlines old debaters urging commitment, and details the manual training program adding veneering and new tools to boost practical shop skills across grades.
The Seniors hosted a Halloween gathering for Juniors at Murle and Reba Colbern’s South Main Street home on Friday October 27. Décor featured black orange paper with cats and pumpkins. games included My Ship Sails I Packed My Trunk for Boston and Balancing the Apples. A spark coil demo intrigued the boys before pumpkin pie chocolate and doughnuts, then songs on the piano.
In inter class play the Seniors forfeited to Freshmen. Juniors defeated Freshmen 27 to 9 securing the Sophomores the school basketball championship. The High School team travels to Perris Saturday for their first league game with Coach Stlang predicting a victory if players are fit. probable lineup lists Freeman Daniels Wood Coplen Stewart Stombauga now in Vaudalia Illinois.
About forty five students attended the October 27 event. The Sophomore president was made the goat and wore a whistle hidden on his coat while guests tried to find it. Shadow Pictures and lawn games entertained attendees before departures.
The Daily Palo Alto Stanford The Trojan USC The Chronicle Pomona High School and Pomona College Student Life are among the papers sent out. D. T. and J. W. H. 18.
A historical note explains Halloween origins from Halloween Eve beliefs to All Saints Day Pomona feast. It recounts Druids fires in honor of the sun, household fire rituals, nuts apples and parsnips games in Scotland, and the shift to a carnival night used for folly.
Mrs. Frank Dunleavy spoke to Domestic Science students on primitive methods of spinning and weaving. The lecture linked early textile arts to modern machinery, outlining fibers, bleaching, dyeing, hygiene, design, color, labor conditions, and the crafts movement to broaden students’ textile understanding.
Local items describe a faculty picnic at Cold Water Canyon and a Freshmen-Sophomore party in Riverside. Attendees include Marion Genereux in Los Angeles, plus several students and Mrs. Huckins in Los Angeles. The Oral English class studies augmentation in debate while the High School library lists major periodicals.
Notice of foreclosure sale issued by Riverside Superior Court in California against S P Foster and Mary Foster and others. Property described as the N1/2 of the NW quarter of Section 10, Township 6S, Range 8E. Sale to be held November 4, 1916 at 12:15 PM at the Riverside Court House front door for the judgment of $2793.93 plus costs. Commissioner Lowentroit and attorneys Leonard Surr & Hiellyer shown.
Notice states a stockholder meeting will be held December 19 1916 at 10 a m at Corona California to consider increasing capital stock from 300 000 to 500 000 dollars. Publication in Corona Independent for sixty days ordered by the board.
An advertisement promotes Wyeth’s Sage and Sulphur Compound as a ready to use hair darkening product. It claims gray hair disappears by morning with a few applications and notes the compound is a cosmetic toiletry, not a medicine. It suggests purchasing for 50 cents at a drug store and using a sponge or brush to apply strand by strand.
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