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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 23, 1911
Page
4
The advert touts top quality hair brushes and combs priced to suit buyers. It claims genuine perfumes made from flower pomades, not artificial extracts, available in popular scents at attractive prices.
List of ten questions prepared for county examination for teachers by the state commissioner of public schools during the last week of October. Topics cover general fitness, teacher duties, recitation and examination purposes, punctuality, compulsory education law, contracts, publication of the Handbook for Iowa schools, rural school classifications, and educational philosophers Bacon Comenius Pestalozzi and Froebel with definitions of faculties in natural order.
A set of questions and tasks about diacritics sounds possessives contractions and plurals. It includes parts on diacritical markings elementary English sounds possessive forms singular and plural for various nouns and contractions and ends with a request to write plurals for several items and names.
A compact survey of words flagged in an unspecified exam list. The collection includes common nouns verbs and adjectives such as physician dividend receipt medicine and signature, with several longer terms like reciprocity agriculture superintendent and grammatical.
Five questions ask for essentials of good reading, chief teaching difficulties with remedies, reasons a teacher must read well, need for literary knowledge to teach reading, and definitions of pitch inflection modulation emphasis and force plus how to secure correct pronunciation enunciation and when to make corrections in reading and why.
North to south, the Atlantic border states are Maine with capital Augusta, New Hampshire with Concord, Massachusetts with Boston, Rhode Island with Providence, Connecticut with Hartford, New York with Albany, New Jersey with Trenton, Pennsylvania with Harrisburg, Delaware with Dover, Maryland with Annapolis, Virginia with Richmond, North Carolina with Raleigh, South Carolina with Columbia, Georgia with Atlanta, and Florida with Tallahassee. Chief sources of the tributaries and coastal systems are not fully listed in the fragment.
The prompt lists a series of questions about wealth production across states, irrigation use and results, major rivers and harbors, and global references. It asks to define latitude and longitude, name lines reckoned on each, and provide approximate coordinates for Des Moines.
Across four wars the chosen battles shaped outcomes and naval doctrine. For example, the Battle of Salamis under the Persian Wars demonstrated the power of tactical surprise and fleet coordination. Trafalgar in the Napoleonic era secured British naval supremacy. the Battle of Midway in World War II turned the Pacific war by crippling Japan’s carrier fleet. and the Battle of Jutland in World War I influenced fleet strategy and morale despite inconclusive results.
A collection of arithmetic tasks including fraction reduction, percentage gain, rate problems, interest, prices, volume to gallons, carpet cost, bank discount, and drain fall calculations. It presents 11 numbered items requiring step by step solutions and explanations.
Defines tendon ligament cartilage gland and organ with examples, explains indigestion with two causes and two outcomes, outlines lymphatic circulation and liver pancreas functions, lists membranes around heart lungs bones joints, gives five healthy digestive habits with rationale, identifies hyoid spleen corpus periosteum and clavicle locations, locates do on treble staff in G D A F B flat keys, explains rote songs and presentation, defines scale major chromatic minor, defines interval pitch staff bar measure tempo and tempo terms, lists chromatic solfege syllables, and requests four time measures with accents.
A compact set of grammar tasks asking to illustrate pronouns and relatives in four sentences, define analysis and synthesis, describe irregular copulative intransitive redundant and auxiliary verbs with examples, draft a school application to the school board president, abridge three clauses and name the expression form, and diagram a sentence comparing admission of a great poet with denial of being a great man.
A study prompts teachers to define goals and methods for beginners and seasoned students in penmanship. It asks when to break up finger movement, requests two full lines of movement exercises with distinct gestures, and discusses daily lessons and the sufficiency of written work for advanced students. It also includes tasks to write capitals and the first ten Arabic letters.
The page poses several factorization tasks. Part 1 includes expressions (a) a b minus a h b, (b) x times x minus x minus 1, (c) x minus 64, (d) c squared minus 1 minus d squared times 2cd. Part 2 begins with (a) i.
The passage presents mixed math prompts including dividing a into two parts, a problem about five sixths and one ninth relations, a field dimension problem with rods, and square root and division tasks. It asks to find x, determine dimensions, and compute roots and quotients.
This item outlines distinctions between necessary wants and luxuries and asks definitions of land value and useful objects without value. It explains tariffs for protection versus revenue, money and its uses, and lists money’s candidate forms. It also discusses diminishing returns in agriculture and asks about possible increasing returns, plus definitions of strike lockout trust and monopoly.
Five duties of the President are to enforce laws conduct foreign policy administer programs and act as commander in chief. A new state is admitted by Congress by majority vote and presidential approval after a formal act of admission. The first three officials in the order of succession are Vice President Speaker of the House and President pro tempore. Congress meets in regular sessions once a year with a possible special session. a congress lasts two years and is numbered by Congress numbers from its start. Cabinet officers titles include Secretary of State Treasury Defense Attorney General and others with varied duties. The three processes by which a bill becomes law are passage by both houses, approval by the President, and possible override by Congress after veto.
A student prompt covering ductility malleability tenacity velocity and distance in uniform acceleration two weight and pendulum laws kinetic and potential energy mass versus size states of matter and gravity distance fall distillation and siphon diagram with working explanation.
In a November American Magazine excerpt from La Follette’s Autobiography the senator recalls a ship subsidy bill fight. He describes dragging Wisconsin Republican Myron McCord from the cloakroom to prevent a vote switch, revealing private interests backing the bill and a pressure tied to loans and steamship stock.
Legal notice announces filing of Gerrit Plette’s last will in Marion County District Court Iowa. Hearing set for December term 1911 on the 12th. interested parties may be heard. Clerk Meyer Langerak Knoxvlle Iowa dated Nov 8 1911. Also a classified ad seeking agents for the New Standard 1910 Census Atlas with earnings and commission details.
Lades announces closing of the milliner estore for the season and invites customers to take advantage of exceptional bargains between now and month end. Miss A Hasselman is associated with Vander Pols for purchasing.
Mrs Janet McKenzie Hill editor of the Boston Cooking School Magazine presents a nut cake recipe she believes is one of the best all around cake recipes. The method and reliable results should appeal to every housewife seeking a simple delicious bake.
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