Dallas County eighth graders yield odd exam answers
An 8th grade exam by County Superintendent May Hills drew laughter with quirky responses. Over a hundred students tackled physiology geography history language arithmetic and music. accuracy varied as some answers showed humorous misunderstandings such as voice equals talk with and cartilage as a juice.
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Dallas County Mural Schools
May Hills
Gaits
Iowa General Assembly
United States
North America
Daniel Boone
Bunker Hill
U. S
Bills Paid by Roam etinst Town Council April 5 1926
Listing of payments approved by Roam etinst Town Council including J H Gammon Estate materials 33.02 salary 49.62 47.62 Matt Parrott Sons Co poll book ad deed etc 1.86 W C Foster draying 2.60 Wm Penn judge of election 4.50 P J McCarty judge 4.50 M Weinholzer judge 4.50 John Swat clerk 4.50 J B Lambe clerk 4.50 Otto fee work on streets 10.20 Wins attending council 14.00 P J McCarty attending meetings 0.00 John Swift attending meetings 0.00 M Weinholzer attending meetings 0.00 J A Fleming salary March 1926 0.00 John Paulsen salary July 1926 0.00 P J McCarty rent council 10.00 Vincent Kelly salary 29.57 Community Service Station Co 21.46 Gractinger Opera Falouse Co use of basement 8.00 No 1a Power Light Co 14.00
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Fragmentary facts and errors in a scrambled text
A stray OCR-like passage mixes misattributions and false place claims about Eli Whitney, Monroe Doctrine, Hawaii, Georgia, and several world geography errors. It references familiar names but intersperses incorrect locations and nonsensical statements with mentions of Argonne, Amazon, Missouri, and Boston without coherent context.
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