Boy prodigy William Bradford astonishes UC psychologists
Seven year old William Elliott Bradford of Woodcrest School in Los Angeles wowed researchers at the University of California southern branch with top marks on the revised Binet Simon tests. He solved puzzles at age two, memorized Whittier poetry at six, and correctly wrote the word voluptuous on a board without hesitation.
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Los Angeles
Wiliam Elliot Bradford
Woodcrest
University of California, Southern Branch
Stanford University
William
United States
Edith Wdldy Bradford
Barbara Fridchie
Whittier
Jessamine Crapser
Woodcrest School
William Bradford
Plymouth Colony
Right Hand Man to Weeks
John W. Martyn, private secretary to Secretary of War Weeks, has served with Weeks for nearly a decade. He is described as the war secretary’s right hand and deeply familiar with Weeks’s policies and routine duties.
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John W. Martyn
Weeks
Record of Moro marriages ordered by Governor Wood
Governor Wood instructed the department of justice to keep a record of all marriages performed by Moro priests and other non Christian tribes in the Philippines. The move follows the Philippine Supreme Court ruling that such marriages are legal, stating Mohammedanism is a religious denomination under the law. The governor general proposed adopting a system used by England in its colonies.
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Philippines
Wood
Department of Justice
Philippine Supreme Court
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Eotonies
Progress Club offers reduced rates on newspapers in rural delivery
The Indiana Progress offers rural delivery subscribers a clubbing list with reduced prices on daily newspapers and weekly farm papers. Subscriptions are $2.00 yearly, strictly in advance with cash due with orders. The complete list includes Progress with Pittsburg papers, Post, Philadelphia Daily North American, National Stockman and Farmer weekly, Ohio Farmer Weekly, Toledo Weekly Blade, Woman's World Monthly, McCall's Monthly, and New York World Three Times a Week, among others. Address orders to THE INDIANA PROGRESS, Indiana, Pa.
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Philadelphia Daily North American
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National Stockman & Farmer
Ohio Farmer
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Blade
Woman's World Monthly
McCall's Magazine
New York World
Indiana Progress
Indiana
Four Year Old Maine Girl Speaks Three Languages
Mabel Edith Greenlaw a four year old from Windham Maine is hailed as a child prodigy by local observers. She speaks Irrench Spanish and English and can name Maine states cities and towns and answer geographic questions. She began walking at seven months and pays strict attention to grammar, correcting speech around her.
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Windham
Maine
Mabel Edith Greenlaw
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