Strahan Meeting Discusses Busy Work for Pupils
Carle Warner reports on a Strahan teachers and patrons gathering addressing classroom routines. discussion centered on creating engaging busy work using scrapbooks pictures and wall mounting activities to keep young students focused while developing reading writing and arithmetic skills.
The Value of Busy Work in Early Education
An older friend notes busy work keeps children at task and out of mischief. The piece argues busy work teaches writing and counting, builds drawing skills, and stabilizes habits. It stresses that early grades deserve time and discipline to prevent idle habits that haunt successors.
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Serge Alope
Ores
Benefi
Homs
Agricultural convention notes corn premiums and timing
Des Moines December 9 to 12 outlines a corn and agriculture convention with lectures by Henry Parsons and W. Wallace, plus premiums for corn entries. The program lists topics on fertility, production, seed corn improvement and beef economics, with judging by Prof. Holden and a schedule for entries, exhibit placement, and deadlines.
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Henry Parsons
Rockwell City
Iowa
W. W.W. Morrow
Aftén
Towa
Gy Wallace
Des. Moines
WJ. Kennedy
Ames
James Atkinson
Des ‘Moines
Louisiana Purchase
Exposition
1904
J. A. Trewin
Towa’ Commission
Cedar Rapids
W.B. Barney
Hampton
P. ‘Holden
Iowas
Holden
Iowa State ‘Colleg’é
Iowa State Maly
Farm Rent Offer Brings Promises of Rich Hay Yields
Fragmentary historic note shows a seller promising superior hay and premium rents for farm land. The text hints at negotiations over two households and choice of Miss Whigh, with mention of grain rents and possible rental terms.
Mills County Fair Officers Plan a Record Next Year
Mills County Central Fair Association officers were reelected and new superintendents named for machinery dairy school exhibits and hall. Three hundred dollars added to the speed ring and plans include a county wide school exhibit with a School Children's Day and free admission for pupils. Next year’s fair is set for the first week in September with expanded facilities and earlier premium lists.
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Mills County Central Fair Association
V. A. Summers
Merrill Johnson
S. M. Norton
Corrs Foulks
Swain
Queen Mills
Des Moines News celebrates 21st birthday sale
The Des Moines News marks its 21st birthday with 88,500 readers and nearing a 40,000 population. The Daily and Sunday News features news, literature, and editorials across 265 issues annually priced at 1.60 dollars. Address The News, Des Moines, Iowa.
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Des Moines
Des Maines
Iowa
Praise for Champelgin's Cough Remedy
A Wheeling West Virginia reader credits Champelgin's Cough remedy with curing a severe cough and chest pains after taking multiple doses. The note claims the medicine saved the writer from pneumonia and expresses gratitude to the drugstore for its availability.
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Champelgin
Ralph S. Meyera
Wheeling
W.va
Forsaig
Wilson the Drugelat
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