English classes for immigrants grow nationwide under Dr Roberts
Dr Roberts, a former Welsh miner turned pastor, now teaches English to foreign born adults. In two years he opened 225 classes serving about 7000 pupils, using immersive demonstrations in churches offices and factories with volunteer teachers. Classes are mostly free and focus on practical phrases over grammar.
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Yale Divinity School
Mahanoy City
Lttle
John M. Sidall
American Magazine
Roberts
Engleesh
Congressional Probes Extend Beyond This Session
Washington reports that several congressional inquiries will push past this session or be carried into the summer and fall. The Ballinger Pinchot investigation will wrap up soon with a verdict expected, and a preliminary cost of living report will be issued for campaign use. The Alaskan probe may await summer findings, with Lorimer and the third degree committee delays signaling extended scrutiny into reconvened Congress. The current Congress is noted as highly inquisitive.
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Senate
Congress
Guggenheim
Senate Standing Committee
Burrows
House
Elkins
Ita
Big Increase Noted in Traction Mileage
Washington April 20 The census bureau reports a 41.4 percent rise in street and electric car mileage in the United States from 1902 to 1907 with passenger gains of 63.5 percent and railway gross income up 71.6 percent. Electricity powered 99 percent of motive power in 1907 up from 15.5 percent in 1890.
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Washington, D. C
United States
Census Bureau
Ohio
Indiana
Pennsylvania
California
Ninois
New York
Punch Preacher If He Calls You Liar
Chicago June 20 A municipal judge advised Michael Weiss to punch a minister who calls him a liar. Weiss had been arrested for disturbing an open air religious meeting. Rev Perry Gimn testified with a swollen nose from the confrontation.
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Chicago
Gem- 11
Michael Weiss
Perry
Gimn
Weiss
Snubbed Woman Sells Prize Horses to Rivals in Pittsburg
Pittsburg reports reveal Mrs. W. J. Limber, once a manicure girl turned wealthy through horse show success, confessed tearing up her show career after fierce social snubs. She, living at 820 Bidwell, reportedly worth 250000, sold her prize string and left the ring, citing unkindness among Pittsburg's women and noting her husband works as a shoe clerk.
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Pittsburg
Sewickley Heights
W. J. Limber
Bidwell Street
Littlejohn
Radville
Jake Sewyer
Col. Bohun
Mortimer
Sam Graham
Beech Street
Graham
Beech
Main
Sam
Legrand Gunn
Margaret Graham
Betty
Margaret
Sothern and
Lee
Times
Newporters Demand End to Coast Gun Firing
Newport Rhode Island residents protest the loud detonations from coast guns at Ft Adams and Ft Wetherill and aboard ships in nearby waters. The War Department orders silencing of the guns during the summer to avoid disturbing social events and Newport society.
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Newport
R. I
Ft. Adams
Ft. Wetherill
War Department
Amy
The Fortune Hunter Chapter V Continues in Radville
Homer Littlejohn recalls Col. Bohun’s looming resentments and Sam Graham’s feverish inventions in Radville. Sam unveils a crude petroleum gas device while Bohun presses for a promised letter response, testing trust and nerves in a town of wary neighbors.
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Littlejohn
Graham
Sam
Radville
Col. Bohan
Halingly
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Peter Roberts
Ballinger-Pinchot
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Louis Joseph Vance
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Sothern
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Roland
Dr. Pierce
wa Woon _RONG
R.V. Pierce
Address World’s Dispensary Medical Association
R. V. Pierce, M. D
Buffalo, N. Y
Sun
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