College Manners and Moral Standards in Women’s Colleges
A Jasper News column discusses dean level admonitions on female student manners over morals, stressing that refined behavior aids learning. It cites a mother who sent her daughter abroad to avoid campus “screaming, strumming, slouching” crowds and warns that gentility is essential for higher education’s acceptance. The piece also notes buffalo conservation in Oklahoma and a cheeky Egyptology theory about Pharaoh’s teeth affecting Moses’ mission.
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Jawa
Europe
Mary
Pharoh
Israel
Moses
Pharaoh
Woodpecker's Message on Saving Key House
A warning that the former home of Francis Scott Key faces demolition to make way for a business building unless funds are raised to buy the property. The Francis Key Association appeals for subscriptions to prevent loss and suggests honoring the Unknown Indian with a statue.
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Francis Scott Key
Francis Beott Key Association
Reminiscences of a Nature Fakir and the Bird Telegrapher
A Maine tale features a postmaster and Si Wotherspoon debating whether a trol ley company killed game by live wires The captain insists birds communicate with deer via telegraph taps leading to a humorous clash over who is smarter The story recounts a 1892 crow episode and a hunt with Silthers and Slithers in port towns and farms noting political references and a Spaniard scare during the Spanish American era
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Si Wotherspoon
Maine
Gold Company
Horace
China
New York
Tom Reed
Congress
Feller
Jim
Tikin
Suthers
Benson
Portamouth
Spuolards
Florida
Canada
Stithers
Sige
Kennebunk
Silthers
Brgan
Watson
Jaya
Cap
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Jasper News
Roland B. Griffith
Jasper
Missouri
Oklahoma
United States
West
Columbus
America
Behring Straits
Woodpecker
John Kendrick Bangs
Pie
Roosevelt
Faust
Verry Embarraaal
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