Indiana County School Report Shows Progress Amid Teacher Shortage
The annual Indiana County school report for 1905 06 notes ongoing progress despite difficulty securing qualified teachers. Highlights include a successful institute in Indiana December, strong attendance by directors and citizens, extensive local institutes, and 454 applicants with 278 licensed. Also covered are new school buildings, graduation exams, and a plan for topographic surveys in several counties.
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Indiana County
Progres
Indiana
Wee
Rob’j. A. Armstrong
West Virginia University
Morgantown
W. Va
C. C. Ellis
Philadelphia
Thomas M. Hodger
Ww, Va
G. H. Vetter
Bloomsburg
Irene Cooper
Homer City
Russell H. Conwell
Frank Dixon
Dunbar Male Quartette
Bell Ringers
Beaton Orchestral Company
Lyman H. Howe
Henry Sabin
Martin Brumbaugh
Green Township
Pine Township
Burrell Township
Canoe Township
Department of Public Instruction
J.T. Stewart
Bonds for Sale by Indiana Provisions Company
At a recent meeting the Indiana Provisions Company authorized 26500 in bonds, now reduced to 15000, in 100 and 500 denoms, 6 percent interest, semiannually, tax free. Bonds ready September 1, subscriptions via Indiana Savings and Trust Co. The company is a growing supplier of meats, butter, eggs, and poultry, with electric light and power services.
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Indiana Provision Company
Indiana Savings and ‘Trust Go
Indiana Provisions Company
Lndiana
Businega Iy
Indiana Business College Declares Stability and Growth
I Murray Pierce states the Indiana Business College is not closing and has enjoyed a successful first year. With the Fall Opening approaching, business is strong, and the institute plans to double its activity this year, reassuring friends and the public of its continued operation.
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Indiana Business College
I. Murray Pierce
Weary traveler ticket notice to New York via Pennsylvania
Low Hates to New York via Pennsylvania Railroad announces a homecoming trip for J. Bryan. The round trip fare plus $2.00 is valid and sold for August 29 with return allowed from August 30 to September 2. For further ticket details contact the Ticket Agent.
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Low
New York
Pennsylvania Railroad
J. Bryan
Lickete
Optical lens advance could cut costs, size twice prior scale
A Vienna consul reports a Hungarian chemist has devised a cheap process to produce optical lenses with fluid between two hard glass faces. The design yields achromatic lenses rivaling massive glass, allowing much larger diameters at a fraction of prior prices. Smaller lenses for photography and opera glasses are likewise cheaper.
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Ynose Hla Wenses
Vienna
Six Lawyers in Suffolk Record From 1554 Statute
A Suffolk parish note cites a 1554 statute limiting lawyers to six for Norfolk and Suffolk and two for Norwich, condemning the rise to eighty plus lawyers. The entry contrasts medieval legal practice with modern population notes, stating England has twenty eight cows per hundred people and Australia two hundred eighty.
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Suffolk
Mars
Norfolk
Norwich
City of
England
Australia
A Daring Suitor in a Normandy Diligence Tale
A narrator on a Normandy holiday parks in a seaside resort with Cecile, wins her affection after rescuing a dog from danger, plans to propose on the diligence to Paris, but Cecile departs with another man as he races to confess aboard the platform.
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Dieppe
Normandy
Rouen
Fido
Cecile
Imatante
Het
Paris
Monsieur
Lnes
Thad
When Her Saint Fell on the Bleak Shore
A distant voyage tale unfolds with a man bound for a sacred mission and a woman who risks parting from him. In a northern England setting the pair grow close on a ship as he reveals a calling to danger while she clings to hope and the memory of home.
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Dorothy Trenton
Bob
Bob Trenton
America
Eng'eid
Dorothy
Mediterranean
England
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Democrat
County School Report
Stewart
Pennsylvania
United States Geological Survey
Ynniae Sion
G. W. McNewson
Richard Ro Fise
Beaver
Andrew S$. McCreath
Harrisburg
Lancaster
York
Warren
Clarion
Allegheny
Butler
Crawford
Adame
Ainestrong
Westmoreland
Jefferson
Indiania
Dauphin
Mercer
Robert K. Commin
Hig State
Mesars
W. Clubsugh
H. D. Hilton
J. H. Wetzel
M Wilson
Gettysburg
Batefield
Foxburg
Freepot
Indiana Provision CO
Krercher
Drugelsts
J. Brooke
A. Gladys Collins
Interstate Fair
Indiana, PA
Great
Indiana County Agricultural Society
Armstrong
Clearfield
Cambria
Johnstown
Myersdale
Cumberland
The
Democrat Printing Office
Church Street
Thompson’s Insurance Agency
Deposit Bank Bridge
R.W. Wehrle & CO
Penna
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