Character Building in Public Schools Emphasizes Daily Life
Miss Gertrude Ohlmaker outlines how modern public schooling shifts from mere fact cramming to building character. She cites reading, math, geography, history, and especially manual arts and school gardens as tools to foster self-government, cooperation, patience, and social responsibility in students preparing for everyday life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gertrude Ohlmaker
John Swaney
Consolidated School
Magnolia Grange
Record-Herald Wins Women over in Newspaper Night
A train newsboy and a married couple illustrate why women favor the Record-Herald. The paper offers daily menus, society news, book reviews, Mme Qui Vive beauty columns, cartoons, and women focused features. Sundays add Marion Harlan, Paris fashions, entertainment novelties, and a full Sunday Magazine with love stories and illustrations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Record-Herald
Reliable Society
Mme
Qui Vive
Martha
Marion Harlan
Mme, Qui Vive
Jeanette Hope
Paris
Dame Curtsey
Dean's Kidney Pills Advert By Henry Republican
An old advert touts Dean's Kidney Pills as a cure for sick kidneys with warnings of kidney signals and back pain. It includes a testimonial from Henry Camery of Edmond Street, Henry Ill, claiming relief after use and urging purchase from Foster-Milburn Co. Buffalo NY as sole US agents. Investment note mentions advertising space value in The Henry Republican.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. J. Ironmonger
Bright
Dean
Henry
E. S. Camery
Carpenter
Edmond Street
T. J. Segraves’ Drug Store
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
N. Y
United States
Dean’s— l
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Castor
Castoria
Bears
J. M. Stark
Princeton, Ill
Peru Road
Malden
Joe R. Stark
Glendale Ave
Peoria, Ill
the Burial League of the
United States Capital
Office
Charles Clifford Doran
Henry, Il
Wasatusa
Dan
Onward
Oneida
Nutwood
Saratoga
Henry Applen
Claflin
C. N. Portman's Gun Store
N.adams,&t
Pooria Ill
Phoebe Couzins
Miss Couzins
Rexall Orderlies
A. J
Henry Repubican
Bonanza
Sane
Corn Products Refining Compayy
New York
LA Salle
Decatur, Ill
Wneustadts Golden Eagle
LA Salle, Ill
Neustadt
Spaie
Henry Auto Co
Henry, Ill
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