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State Prison Night School Offers Basic Literacy Program
In Trenton on December 18 the first week of January will see a new night school for state prison inmates. Educators Rev George C Maddock and Rev Father Fish, with Edward Lanning and others, will teach core subjects five evenings a week. The program, funded at $500 each for two instructors, aims to help illiterate and foreign-born prisoners learn reading writing spelling arithmetic geography and U S history with English instruction as needed. The class will be held in the south hall with benches and tables, emphasizing practical, frill free study.
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Wy, Yrtare
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State Board of Education
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