Public Education and Missouri Pride in Lexington
An excerpt extols public schooling as the safeguard of republican government and praises Missouri and Lexington for their strong education system. It lauds the public school network, mentions Professor A. Phillips and a board of education, and notes graduates receiving diplomas after speeches on compulsory education and educational progress.
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Jefferson
Morelog
George of
Hogland
Valley Forge
Europe
Washington
Earth
Loos
Clas
Phillips
High School Societies Host A Memorial Evening Event
Alphian and Emerson literary societies staged an entertainment at the New Grand opera house on Wednesday evening May 28. Students represented thirteen original states and other common wealths with varied vocal selections including Maryland My Maryland Green Fields of Old Virginia and My Filipino Baby. Mary Greene portrayed the Goddess of the Union as groups formed a colorful tableau.
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Alphian and
Emerson
New Grand Opera House
New England
Middle Atlantic
Maryland
Suanee River
Louisiana
Marie Keach
Misa Wilms Chansler
Georgia Camp
Alabama
Old
Virginia
Commonwealths
Union
Mary Greene
Commencement at Lexington colored school draws large crowd
The Lexington colored school held graduation exercises at the New Grand opera house on Friday night. Four graduates Ruth Johnson Maggie L Johnson Albert R Gates Addie M Collins spoke meritoriously. Diplomas and certificates were awarded, with Superintendent Phillips delivering an address. The program included songs prayers choirs and a duet. Several local marriages and notices follow including Albert Pitzer and Angeline Manning and Thad P Corder and Mary E Chambers. Local residents and visitors are noted along with a university prize for a law thesis and church officials visiting the college.
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Lexington Colored School
New Grand Opera House
Lexington
Ruth Johnson
Albert R. Gates
Maggie L. Johnson
Lifelin
Addie M. Collins
Albert Pitzer
Lone Jack
Angeline Manning
Greenton
Thad P. Corder
Mary E. Chambers
Corder
Carroll County
Grand River
T. C. Barnes
Meeker
Col
T. W. Barnes
Reid Moore
Commencement Exercises Class of 1902 at New Grand Opera House
Commencement exercises of the class of 1902 were held at the New Grand Opera House with Miss Blanche Fulkerson and Miss Gordon receiving first and second honors. The program featured a class address by Elder Fred W. Loos, musical numbers, a comedy The Mouse Trap, and a drill The States and Territories, with the audience packed and many standing for portions of the show.
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New Grand Opera House
Phillips
Given
Fred W. Loos
Liberty
Blanche Wilkerson Fulkerson
Sallie Florence Shouse
Agnes McDonald Wilson
Jessie Edna Green
Susan Porter Yates
Mary Blair Gordon
Basil Manly
Fulkerson
Gordon
Loos
Missouri
Lexington
Thames
Sallie Shouse
Willis Campbell
M. Hicklin
Bemis
Blair Gordon
Curwen
Edna Green
Miller
Blanche Fulkerson
Roberts
Agnes Wilson
Jane
Kathleen Doran
Batley
Stier
Lyons
Mary
Easy Voice
Deafness Cure Claim By Catarrh Cure Ad
Anadvertisement claims deafness from catarrh can be cured by Harris Catarrh Cure, offering one hundred dollars for a non curing case. notes mucous membrane inflammation in the ear and urges sending for circulars from J. Comyny & Go. Toledo Ohio. Pills also advertised as Hall’s Family Pills.
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Harris
Sverre Sigurdsson and the Norwegian crown saga
The seventh centennial of Sverre Sigurdsson’s death on March 8 marks the Norse king born in 1152 in the Faroe Islands. He claimed Norway’s throne in 1174 with 70 followers, crowned in Bergen 1194, defeated Bagler forces by 1202, died March 9, entombed in Christ Church at Bergenhus.
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Sverre Sigurdsson
Faroe Islands
Gr. Mand
Sverre
Norway
Magnus Erlingsson
Birkebeiner
Bergen
Bagler
Nicolaus Arnesson
Tunsberg
Christ Church
Bergenhus
Flere
Chicago Daily News
Spoiling Business
A London Tit-Bits humorous tale where a young reporter eager for a story pesters his fiancée Maud about an alleged fall by her mother. The exaggerated questions reveal male impatience and gender stereotypes as the crisis proves minor. The scene lampoons sensationalism in local reporting.
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Tom
Maud
Peddleton Gazette
London
Speed of a Cart Becomes Courtroom Comedy
In a street accident case an Irish wit ness uses a humorous analogy about cart speed. The judge and lawyers probe if the cart was fast, and the witness answers in comic rhythm that it was as fast as two men can run.
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London
Kettle Bridges Built by Cosanck Soldiers
The Cosanck soldiers construct kettle bridges from lances and cooking kettles. Seven or eight lances under kettle handles are tied with ropes to form a raft, sustaining about half a ton. Multiple rafts are joined to create a bridge in an hour, enabling safe army crossings.
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Lexington Public Schools
Commonwealth of Missouri
A. Phillips
Florence Arnold
Annie Allen
Mary Hale
Louise Chandler
Nannie Shaw
Genevieve Russell
Mary McClelland
Susie Alford
Kate Drysdale
Margie Vaughin
Mary Ridings
Maggie Spears
Mattie Bandon
B. T. Job
Geo
Alphians
C. A. Phillips
Colored School
the Opera House
Old Ferryman
Jesse Jones
Albert BR. Gates
St. Louis
Wm. F. Kroenoke
Nora Maull
James Roberts
Marshall
F. G. MacFadin
Aullville
Walter L. Chaney
Odessa
Kansas City
State University Law School
E. G. Loomis
San Francisco
Frank Babbitt
Philippines
Concordia
Minove M
Wm. B. Palmore
St. Louis Christian Advocate
Central Female College
W. F. McMurry
R. A. Cooper
Fayette
G. M. Gibson
Richmond
Marvin Haw
Fletcher Groves
Emma Hayden
Lady Flora
Bertha Williams
Jesus
NEW Grand Opera
America
Mattle Green
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