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National Educational Association forms an eleven member committee to study rural school conditions and teacher salaries with a $10,000 three year fund. The plan aims at funding, standardizing courses, centralized rural schools, and a legislative push for better teachers and facilities nationwide.
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National Educational Association
Organization of
United States
San Francisco
BE. T. Fairchild
Kansas
Chatran
L. A. Bailey
Ithaca
N. Y
EB. C. Elliott
Madison
Wis
T. H. Harris
Baton Rouge
la.; Miss Adelaide 8. Baylor, Indianapolis, Ind.; H. ©. Morrison
New Hampshire
A. C. Nelson
Utah
Edward Hyatt
California
L. L. Wright
Michigan
J. ¥. Joyner
North Carolina
Charles H. Keyes
New York City
Fairchild
Wrights Bay Aviation Secures 1000 Acres for Flight Tests
Orville and Wilbur Wright have closed a deal for 1000 acres at Kitty Hawk North Carolina to establish a permanent aeroplane testing ground next spring. The tract spans dunes and woods across the Blanks from the Atlantic to Croatian bey and includes three dunes headed by a peak named Thirteen rising to a height of one hundred.
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Wrights Bay
Orville
Wilbur Wright
Kitty Hawk
N.C
Blanks
Atlantic Ocean
Croatian Bey
Lord Hardinge Receives King Emperor at Delhi
Viceroy of India Lord Hardinge hosts King Edward VII at Delhi during a ceremonial reception marking a landmark imperial visit. The King-Emperor reviews troops and meets Indian officials in a display of imperial cordiality and governance.
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India
Delhi
Brilliant Delhi arrival of king emperor greeted by gun salute
The king emperor and queen empress entered Delhi from Bombay to an imperial 101 gun salute. British and Indian regiments lined the route under Sir J Willcocks and Sir E Barrow, with guards of honor shared by native troops. Officials welcomed them on a decorated platform as provincial legislators gathered nearby.
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Delhi
India
Bombay
J. Willcocks
E.G. Barrow
Durbar
Russian Troops Advance on Capital Teheran
Washington dispatches report about 2,000 Russian troops moving from Resht toward Kasvin and Teheran. If they enter Teheran they may take charge and protect American treasurer general W Morgan Shuster, with Minister Russell handling actions on Shuster’s behalf.
Sherman Out for Governor in New York Race
In Utica New York reports from Washington indicate Vice President Sherman may run for the Republican nomination for New York governor next year. Friends say he is disposed to retire from politics at the end of his current term to devote himself to business pursuits, though no decision has been made.
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Utica
N. Y
Washington
Sherman
New York State
Brown Wins Democratic Nomination for Georgia Governor
Joseph M. Brown secured the Democratic nomination for governor at the Georgia primary in Atlanta. He pledged to let voters decide liquor traffic issues directly. Pope Brown and Judge Richard Shussell were his defeated opponents. selection by primary serves as election in Georgia.
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Joseph M. Brown
Georgia
Atlanta
Dee
Joseph M Brown
Democratic Party of Georgia
Brown
Pope Brown
Richard Shussell
State Court of Appeals
Morristown Girl Victim of Jack the Snipper in Crowded Store
Miss Helen Salkind fifteen of Morristown New Jersey was attacked by a man in a New York City shopping aisle who snipped off her two blonde braids with scissors. The assailant described as middle aged with gray hair, short and heavy, is linked to earlier similar incidents affecting blonde girls including Miss Bertha Davis. Police watch on lookout across districts.
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Morristown
Jack the Snipper
New York
N. J
Jack the
Helen Salkind
New York City
David Ht. Salkind, Jr
Bertha Davis
Court as conciliator in Johnston divorce case
In Newark on December 8 Vice Chancellor Emery suggested a pause until December 26 and urged Mrs. Johnston to consider reconciliation with her husband, Thomas E. Johnston, who spoke of making her happy. She refused his extended hand and declared she would not return to him even if he were U.S. president.
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Newark
N. J
Victoria Johnston
Thomas EH. Johnston
New York
Emery
Johnston
Two Divorces for Cruelty in Media Pennsylvania
In Media Pennsylvania Judge Johnson grants a divorce to Mrs Anna Stillings from Dr Lee Chamberlain Stillings a Len in physician on cruelty grounds. His first wife Janet Reid Sheldon Stillings also divorced him for the same reason. The second Mrs Stillings testified he threatened her life used vile language drank heavily and kept late hours with other women The couple married September 20 1900 and his first wife had obtained a divorce July 10 of that year.
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Media
Johnson
Anna Stillings
Lee Chamberlain Stillings
Lenin
Janet Reid Sheldon Stillings
Stillings
Sheldon Brothers
Yale
Winthrop Scarritt Dead Prominent Sportsman and Aeronaut
East Orange New Jersey December 8 Winthrop B E Scarritt a leading American sportsman in outmobiling and aeronautics died after a brief illness of pneumonia He was fifty four born in Dorchester Massachusetts and a DePauw University graduate class of 1882 He taught at University of Colorado for two years joined J and W Seligman in New York in 1885 headed the bond department later joined E R Chapman and Co Will Stock Jersey Woods Trenton New Jersey December 8 Announcement by Ernest Napier president New Jersey Fish and Game Commission that preparations are under way to stock fields and woods with at least eighty thousand dollars worth of Hungarian partridges English pheasants deer and quail
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East Orange
N. J
Winthrop BE. Scarritt
America
Dorchester
Scarritt
de Pauw University
University of Colorado
Banke
New York
J. & W. Seligman
E. R. Chapman & Co
Jersey Woods
Trenton
Ernest Napier
New Jersey Fish and Game Commission
Camden Girl Dies in Bonfire Accident
Teresa Blood, fourteen, died at West Jersey Homoeopathic Hospital after being badly burned while playing about a bonfire in Common Dew New Jersey. The tragedy occurred during a festive gathering, with authorities noting the girl sustained severe burns before succumbing to injuries in hospital care.
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Camden
Common
N. J. Dew
Teresa Blood
Thessay
West Jersey
Homoeopathic Hospital
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National Education Association
Oregon
Lord Hardinge
State Department
Winthrop Scarritt
Long Branch Daily Record
Long Branch
Express Wagons Shop
East Front Street
Everett
Ford & Miller
Broad Street
RED Bank
E. J. Reilly
Red Bank, N. J
Dehart & Letson
Lakewood & Red Bank
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