Unvaccinated pupils cited in state education report
State Superintendent Nathan C. Schaeffer released an annual report for the year ending June 1, 1908, noting 50,817 unvaccinated pupils in 9,860 inspected schools amid 33,171 total schools. The document urges reforms and links vaccination to literacy and public welfare, detailing district counts, teacher and pupil totals, and daily attendance averaging 961,670.
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Nathan C. Schaeffer
Sehnester Bays
Samuel G. Dixon
Educational Commission
Eati
George Wolf
Thaddius Stevens
Georgia candidates file bills of expenditures after elections
A Georgia campaign surge reports defeated and victorious candidates filing expense bills. A defeated county candidate posted a comically exaggerated tally of costs and acts, including farm yields, personal items, and social misdeeds, noting numerous lies and public acts. The item reflects the new state law requiring disclosure of campaign expenditures.
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Georgia
Patent Office
Wheat Biscuits From Wallaburg Record Morning Meal
In Wallaburg Washington a onetime wheat field near N B Atkinson’s hillside farm produced biscuits ground at Preston Parton mill and baked in a gasoline oven. Testifiers included R H Ornsbee B W Wheeler and Platt B Morrow as timekeepers. Sixty locals tasted the flaky hot biscuits praised as almost as good as a mother’s.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dale Glory
Wallaburg
Wagh
Spokane
N. B. Atkinson
Washington State Farmers’ Educational and Co-Operative Union
Preston-Parton
Washington
R. H. Ornsbee
Walla Walla County
Waltsburg
Public Sales Set in Indiana County in October 1908
Public sale notices list the Nelson House hotel in Mechanicsburg Brushvalley township Indiana county Pa on October 29 1908 at noon with details of the property and outbuildings plus household goods and farm items. Additional auctions include Willet farm near Creekside and Shelody Armstrong township with horses hogs buggies farm machinery and grains. Ottawa Creekside Also an auction near Bratton west of Indiana and notices about musk lin sold at big ones for lay person.
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Nelson
Mechanicsburg
Brushyalley Township
Indiana County
Nannie Nolson
Gibbon
Washington Township
Willet
Israel Walker
John Walker
Shelody
Armstrong Township
J. Gal Ghorgh
Mysterious Grave Vault Found By Hunter In Hopewell Woods
Articles report a farmer and a farmhand uncovered a four foot deep wooden vault with a trap door and rough box inside. The box vanished when fetched back to the house, three men in a wagon seen nearby, and investigators plan to probe the mystery. Also notes Roosevelt to visit England and Paris after Africa trip, and a case of a newborn thrown from a train station in East St. Louis, with arrest of the mother.
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Hopewell Township
Beaver County
H. K. Reed
Reed
Reed Farm
Roosevelt
England
London
Oxford
William
The
Times
Paris
Sorbonne
the Times
Khartoum
Aliee Lewis
East St. Louis
Ill
Miss Lewis
Farmers' Bank Ad Invites Farmers Home Banking
Farm ers business notice invites farmers to use a bank with a checking account and savings department. It promotes withdrawals and interest on funds, four percent on time deposits, and roomy offices ready to serve customers. It advertises convenient banking as a farmer friendly home for financial needs.
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New York
Algeria
Constantine
Luke
Alichter
Packer
A. Beck
H. H. Edwards
DuBois
Horsea
Mangold
Tyler
Edwards
Tras
Mr. Edwards
Bruin
DuBois Xpress
M, J
BO Yor
Creekside
R. D
R. Walker
Wilbur Lydtok
Bratton
Diana
Uie
Farmers’ Business
Marion Center National Bank
White Palace
Farmers Bank
Court House
House Paints Roof Paints
McCreight's Wall Paper Store
North Sixth St
Indiana
Vogel Brothers
Ira A. Myers
Green Goods
J. C. Forsythe
Philadelphia Street
Gillie
J. B. Younkins
Philadelphia St
Patron’s Mutual Fire Insurance Co
Patron’s, Mutual Fire Insurance Co
S. M. McHenry
James Speedy
John Kinter
Home
Farmers Bank B
Reed & Oakes, Architects
Dixon
Humber
Olymha
J. le Orr
Inpuns, Pa
T.O
BELL
Indiana Electric Company
Phila, St
Indiana Dye Works
Reow Gat
Phila
Indlgng
Kewanee System
J. C. Moore Hardware & Supply Co
Saltsburg, Penna
Pittsburg
Pioneer Agency
Countty
W. S. Daugherty
Wna Conner Vehicle Co., Fennsylvanian
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