Normal schools urged to supply teachers to public schools
The article argues for two changes to raise normal schools. First, elevate their standing and place normal school graduates in public schools as teachers in greater numbers. The normals should be viewed as training grounds. their courses align with high school programs, and graduates should teach all public school subjects. The Portland Cremonian questions if typewriting and stenography should be taught in normals and suggests removing branches duplicative of public schools.
Washing as a Fine Art in Society Life
A Sunday Oregonian feature mocks society women embracing washing as a fine art. It contrasts modern luxury with earlier generations, praising outdoor work and healthful routines while condemning excesses. It argues a return to nature and domestic duties could renew strength and longevity for women and families.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oregonian
Society” Laundry School of Columbus
East Oregonian
Nature
New Normal Management Unifies State Normal Schools
The new governance places a single board of regents over all normal schools, shifting business management to a state board secretary as a central manager. It aims for uniform normal school work across the state, with presidents now teaching and directing educational work for the period, replacing prior burdens.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Regenta
Busines
The
Normale
Normal
Monument to Bill Nye Billed by Press Humorists
The American press humorists plan a monument to Edgar Wilson Nye in Laramie where he rose to fame. A September Los Angeles convention will raise funds with an entertainment program featuring Robert J. Burdette and others for Nye memorial support. Contributions go to Frank Thompson Searight in Los Angeles.
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Edgar Wilson Nye
Laramie
Bill Nye
Nye
American Press
Los Angeles
Monument Fund
Robert J. Burdette
Melville D. Tangdon
Sam Davis
Strickland W. Gilliland
Edmund Vance Cooke
Thomas A. Daley
Judd M. Lewis
W. D.nesbit
San Francisco’s Future and the City’s Political Reckoning
The text argues San Francisco faces a pivotal moment after a mayoral election, with the police chief pledging loyalty to Schmitz amid accusations. It calls for a reform wave to purge grafters and elect leaders of high character and energy, warning of slow recovery if change fails and rival cities exploit the delay.
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San Francisco
Board of Supervisors
Schmitz
al Clanes
Insurance payouts total over four hundred million in 1906
Reports from standard and fraternal insurance firms show 327,576,199 paid in death claims matured endowments and benefits in 1906 in the United States. Including foreign holders the total reached 447,670,100. US distributions amounted to 207,019,972, down 20,606,077 from the previous year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Standard Insurance Companies
United States
Not enough coherent information for a headline
The readable text is fragmentary and lacks clear events or entities to summarize into a factual newspaper card. It references Roy Stinnard Baker and a controversial topic about African Americans, but no identifiable incident, date, place, or organization is provided.
Black landowners and tenants in Georgia’s Pulaski County
A fragment discusses Black landownership in Pulaski County Georgia noting several Black individuals owning hundreds of acres. It mentions Ben Gordon Coe, Charles, John Nelson, the Miller family January Lawson Hawkine ville, and others with acreage up to 1000 acres. It describes Black landlords employing Black tenants, plus a note shaver who issues and signs notes for other Black people at high commissions.
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Pulaski County
Georgia
Ben Gordon
Coe
Charles
John Nelson
Miller
January Lawson
Mr Crown
Jack Daniel
Ton Whelen
Hawkineville
Ote
Hawkinsville Alpeo
Negro Ideo
Hawkinsville
Walls That Are Not Irish in Sovereign Visitor
A Woodmen of the World official lists notual statements by membership applicants. Read entries recall mothers and grandfathers dying of cancer, heart attack, old age, gunshot, and illnesses. some lines claim sudden deaths and uncertain causes. The fragment catalogues familial deaths and health notes across generations.
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Sovereign Visitor
Official Journal of the Woodmen of the World
Applicant
The Dread of Death and Earthly Life
A reflection on mortality and the role of death fear as a force anchoring humanity to the earth. The essay compares dread of death to gravity, arguing it restrains curiosity and restlessness, preventing endless exploration beyond our bounds.
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Earth
Wendy
Bacon
St. Jame Guagette
Who Made the Inland Empire
In a hearing before the railroad commission of this state on a demand of Bellingham for joint and terminal rates Br B Miller freight agent of the O R N Co. expressed that the company had developed the inland empire country and deserved its business. The statement is harshly described as an affront to those who know the company’s history and its reliance on local farmers and traffic to build and sustain Portland through the O R N’s operations.
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Bellingham
BR. B. Miller
O. R. & N. CompMany
Inland Empire
Portland
Dayton Courier-Presa
S.S.S
S.S. S
S. S.S
THE
Swift Specific CO
Atlanta
Traveling I5 Safer Says Railroad President
President J. H. Harahan of the Illinois Central argues travel is safer than staying home. Over 36 years he logged 2,281,250 miles with 15 year daily average around 160 miles. A single minor incident in his career stands out, while at home he survived a boiler explosion that peeled off his clothes and bruised him severely.
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J. H. Harahan
Ilinois Central Railroad
Globe
Indignant Tour Guide Questions China Worker
A kindly faced woman tours an industrial home for blind men and asks perfunctory questions. Workers respond with dry humor about their own blindness and how they operate. The exchange turns to a broader mock inquiry about China and its people.
Sketch of David H. Moffat
David H. Moffat an esteemed western financier and railroad builder was born in Orange County New York on July 29 1839. He began as a bank messenger in New York City then moved to Des Moines Iowa before the overland trek to Denver when it was a frontier town. He became cashier then president of the First National Bank of Denver and led rail ventures including the Denver and Pacific with John Evans and later the Denver and Rio Grande. Under his leadership the Rio Grande extended to Aspen in 1887 and he largely funded the Florence and Cripple Creek railroad linking Cripple Creek mines to the Denver system.
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David H. Moffat
Orange County
New York
New York City
Iowa
Des Moines
Denver
Moffat
First National Bank
John
Rooms Near Depot At One Dollar And Fifty Cents
Rooms listed at one dollar for block and a half from the depot with a large electric sign advertising availability.
Hotel Portland omp Portland Oregon advert
Hotel Portland in Portland Oregon offers American plan from three dollars per day and up. Serves tourists and commercial travelers with special family and single gentleman rates. Management invites visits to view rooms and pricing. Includes a modern Turkish bath. H C Bowers, Manager.
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St. George
Northwest
Portland
Oregon
H. C. Bowers
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Bert Huffman
Roy Stinnard Baker
Aupubl American Magazine
China
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Moins Prien
Bradfield Regulator Co
Frank B. Clopton & CO
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