The Cranbury School Question and the Public Plea for Real High School
In 1896 Cranbury debated school facilities with advocates of advanced lines winning a new building intended to teach all grades to the 10th year. The graduates found themselves inadequately prepared for further high school work. Parents demand a genuine high school locally or a clear settlement of the situation. The Board of Education asserts progress and asks for cooperation as the new school year nears, urging thorough instruction under Principal Baker.
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Mosquitoless Day Advances in New Jersey Effort
Prof John B Smith, an entomologist in charge of eliminating mosquito breeding sites, reports progress across drained areas and urges continued local action. He notes water barrels cesspools and cisterns sustain breeding and calls for sustained municipal efforts to wipe out mosquitoes in New Jersey.
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New Jersey
John B. Smith
Edgerton's Quest from City Lights to a Rural Farm
A longtime newspaper man recounts leaving New York’s feverish city life for a quiet valley farm. He describes a mountain revelation that led him to buy a half abandoned farm and embrace a life of nature, family happiness, and renewed faith.
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New York
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Nature as medicine and freedom retreat from city life
The speaker extols nature over urban confinement, praising mountains, rivers, and fresh air as healthful cures. A colonel visiting is briefly overwhelmed by mosquitoes, but the piece argues that outdoor life brings vitality, rest, and enduring perfection beyond human-made surroundings.
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America
Vision on God's Thought Shaping Man’s Perfect Self
The speaker contrasts the imperfect worldly man with the divine idea of man. God’s thought creates the real, immortal self in perfect health joy and brotherhood, while the material image is a distorted reflection. This insight grows from the speaker’s experiences on a rocky farm.
Grasshopper stunt ends in ladder tumble on the stack
Joe Biggs on a tall wheat stack holds a water jug high for Jimmie when a large grasshopper lands on his wrist. The ladder shifts, the pile slides down, but Joe rises scratched and stunned, holding aloft the dead grasshopper. The piece closes with a moral about rising above self and valuing soul over form.
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