Strange Q and A Examinations Spark Wry School Commentary
A historic piece mocks public school exams noting that writing ability skews results and that pupils misstate geography and astronomy. The column fondly lampoons compass basics, Dead Sea trivia, Nile and Orinoco geography, and local city lore with humorous missteps.
Death and achievements echo through city education scene
The article notes high marks in drawing at the High School exam and praises Mrs Van Waggoner for standardizing drawing. It reports the death of Mrs. Samuel A. Copper, lauds her teaching impact, lists top grammar-room pupils, and describes school holiday plans and programs at Grant Moorhead and other schools.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
van Waggoner
Stella Schuman
O'Hara
Samuel A. Copper
Lizzie Gardner
Bloomfield School
Roanoke
Bloomfield
Grant School
Red Riding Hood
Moorhead School
Florence Cook
Washington, D. C
M. A. Stevenson
Cincinnati
W. B. Bennet
Warren
Annie Lowry
Beaver Falls
Houston
Birmingham
McClure
Grant
Wamnum
Wallace
Allen
Ohio
Gallagher
Little Washington
Gossip of the School Rooms and Local Charity Drives
A report from Central Board rooms notes Lloyd school work by a 15 year old pupil at Forbes school. Teachers from Nos. 2 and 3 present gifts and a gold spoon. Braddock and Braddock township schools collect funds and food for Soldiers' Widows' and Daughters' Home at Hawkins.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jacamax
County
Cook
Pittsburg
Lloyd School
Forbes School
T. W. Fosnin
Washington, Twelfth Ward
Cotoret Parser
Quincy
Dork County Normal School of
Chicago
Normal School
Colonel Perker
Brundock
Braddock Township
Braddock
Hawkins
Sawtelle Suspected of Death by Own Action
Sawtelle, who murdered his brother Hiram, died in his cell at the State Prison after suffering apoplexy. He was under death sentence and the execution was due next week. Mayor Clapp urged a physician to determine if reports that he poisoned himself were true, with County Solicitor Donovan reviewing the matter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Caxconn
N. H
Itsasc Sawtelle
Hiram
Concord
Isaac B. Sawtelle
Clapp
Clark
Donovan
Isaac Disreal
Edward Beecher
E. D. Walker
William Pearsall
Goldsboro
N. C
Northumberland
England
Bay City
Mich
Fred
Geary
C. F. Johnson
Kansas City
Agustus Enkenberg
Enkenberg
Steubenville
Merers & Co Coal Ad Promotes Bituminous and Anthracite
The notice promotes Coal We handle including best Panhandle and Youghiogheny coal in all sizes and broken sizes for stoves and ranges. It promises no waste and lists locations at Fourth Avenue Try Street Liberty Avenue and Thirtieth Street with telephone numbers 226 and 1455 36.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Panhandle
Youghiogheny
Yaris
Fourth Avenue
Try Street
Liberty Avenue
Thirtieth Street
Larinnn, Merers & Co
Evolution and Reincarnation as Universal Law
The article argues reincarnation as ancient and worldwide, not just Oriental. It links evolution to spiritual life, contending the soul endures, memory fades, and karma governs cycles. Heredity aids reincarnation, with soul, body, and spirit forming a threefold being. It contrasts transmigration and notes eventual karmaless states and higher evolution.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indias
Far East
Francis Brown
Harvard University
Princeton Revie
Mr. Walker
Earth
Fooled the Secretary and the Foster Girls Practical Joke
In San Francisco Miss Annie Foster daughter of the Secretary of the Treasury is drawn as a horse loving flirt with Western manners. A humorous anecdote recalls Secretary Foster and Secretary Rusk sharing a home in Congress and their two daughters plotting a prank that used a $210 bill, with the four girls laughing as the ruse unfolded.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Annie Foster
Miss Anna
Bill
Sweet Charity
Clever Device Prevents Jewelry Theft in New York Store
An uptown New York jeweler uses an electric alarm system to deter theft from display trays. Copper strips in the showcase and trays trigger a bell when a piece is removed or returned, with salesmen using pins to disable the alarm during transactions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Divided Supreme Court in Morris vs Bulkely Case
New Hayes Conn December 26 The Supreme Court reportedly divided in Morris versus Bulkely quo warranto with Judges Seymour Fenn and Carpenter favoring Morris and Chief Justice Andrews Torrance opposing jurisdiction. Seymour writing majority, Andrews minority.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morris
Bulkely
New Hayes
Conn
Supreme Court
Seymour
Fenn
Carpenter
Andrews
Torrance
Trade of the Week Highlights East Liberty Real Estate Activity
Oakland property market reports a week of holiday trading with large volume and no new market drivers. East End houses change hands including a Negley avenue 15 room residence sold for 19000, while plans for Greenfield Avenue development and a 95,000 dollar Vandergrift office project loom amid ongoing property deals and new bank and street-car infra.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Luster
Philadelphia Gas and
Allegheny Valley Railroad
East End
M. F. Hipple & Co
A. Stewart
Negley Avenue
Hays Street
Mr. N. Brace
Brace Bros
Captain Vandergrift
Wood
Water Streets
Greenfield Avenue
D. C. Kuhn
Penn Avenue
Collins
Guski
Fifth Avenue
John D. Bailey
East End Electric Light Company
A. J. Lawrence
Tig
A. Towand
J. B. Coleman & Co
East Liberty
Duquesne Traction Company
Howe and
Walnut Streets
Chardon
A.D. Downing
Black & Haird
Ophela Street
Fourteenth Ward
James W. Drapo & Co
Avonmore
John E. Ewing & Co
Charles Hunter
Martha A. Ingram
Ashton Street
California Avenue
Sixth Ward
Allegheny
Black & Baird
M. Jacon
Forbes Street
Craig
J. B. Larkin & Co
Blair Land Company
Blair Station
W. K. Irwin
Hope Church
John A. Cartwright
Brownsville
Andrew McGinness
Southside
Ferdinand Fleckin
Baxter, Thompson & Co
Ruch
Thirteenth Ward
Kirkpatrick Street
Fragne
Butler Plan
Eighteenth Ward
View Street
Lizgett Bros
Brad- Tynet
Burrell Improvement Company
Kensington
Henry B. Rusk
Pittsburg
William H. Whitzell
Tarentum
Robert N. Brock
John A. Painter
Baldwin P.L
Mercer County
James Goldman
Join Warner
Horatio
Jefferson County
Andrew Warner
Ruben J. Davis
Kittanning
Mary M. Rowland
McKersnort
John Paskevitch
Andrew Paskevich
Upward Money Movement Continues Strong Week Ahead of Last Year
Five day business week shows continued growth in Hank clearings exceeding the prior year by about $2,000,000. Money easy and enterprise active with no signs of disaster. New York and Boston bank statements reflect general gains in reserves, deposits, and clearings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hank
New Town
Balainees
Boston
Vancetserie
Shearer
Batimone
Ebank
Live Stock Market Report for December 26
Office of Premerence District reports Dec 26 receipts of 1177 head with 674 head shipments and no market activity. Leaf cattle shipped to New Orleans and Philadelphia buyers steady with best Yorkers and mixed bidding around 3.00 per hundredweight. Hog receipts 0 to New York, later receipts 400 head, market again quiet with no sales.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maryland
Wash
Cheeneate Gay
Louisiana
Feather
New Orleans
LaPlatte River
Orinoco
Valles
Amazon
Orineco
Poplis
Inetrear
North Poles
South Pole
China
Japan
Asia
Philadelphia
Carrie
New Olen Ete
New York
Nation and World Briefs Reflect Turbulent Times
Reports span accidents and crimes from across the globe and nation. A fatal locomotive collision kills Samuel Parker near Altoons. Colonel Pearsall’s family perishes in North Carolina fire. a Wichita divorce case headlines social shifts. Brazil faces insurgent clashes. yellow fever deaths rise in Rio hospitals. a German diet backs Berlin exhibition. Oil fields in McDonald area show mixed results with several wells producing and others failing as gas supplies ebb under shifting sands.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McDonald
McDonald Borough
Koerner, Westhead & Co
Kennett
No.1
Matthews
Gordon
Greenlee & Forst
Scholaret
Noblestown
Willow Grove Station
Reed
A Necessary Improbability in Stage Comedy
A brief comic vignette from Frank Leslie's Weekly features a theatergoer asking if she should remove her hat. Gimsey replies as a professional contortionist, saying it is not necessary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Leslie
Gimsey
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Dead Sea
el Ware
Rom
Arctic Circle
F Jen
Arieas
Torrid
Dering Sea
Iit
America
Bering Sea
Great Salt Lake
Salt Lake
Middle States
Egypt
Nile
Lowell
Yale College
Mark Twain
New England
Thad Stevens
Lizzie Foley
Mamie Tossey
Wickersham
Jessie Sankey
Colfax
Will W. Kable
Dunesne
John Heineman
South
Sulurburgh
Highland
Jeanor Reid
Minersville
Harry Saling
Hancock
Alice MeAndree
Lawrence
Lizzie Kenngett
Humboldt
Gertie Reineman
Riverside
Jonnie Hobbs
Forbes
Alice Tyler
Moorhead
Stanley McCasker
Homewood
Lois
Whitmarsh
Lincoln
Emma Stocks
Sterret
Charles Lipphart
Howard
Rose Pickering
Bedford
Macgie Shade
Walter Eiehleau
Mt. Washington
Nellie Is
St. Clair
Nellie Berg
Maree
Bessie Avis
Wickersham Memorial
Harrisburg
Sawtelle
New York City
Trade OF the
Eastend Realty
Oakland
Heart of the Valley
Highland Avenue
Station Street
Railroad
Liberty Valley
Harrison
Liberty National Bank
Wilson Block
Penn and
Frankstown Avenues
Endteenth Ward
Stanton Avenue
Wregley Secler
Joseph Loughrey
W. S. Casey
Schenley
Bellefield
W. A. Herron
Second Avenue
Perrynville Electric Road
Virginia Avenue
Sheridan Avenue
Office of
Prrrenere Disraton
Satronpat
London
Canada
Samuel Parker
Altoons
St. Joseph, Mo
Chloride of Gold Institute
Rio Janeiro
Rio Grande Do Sul
Berlin
Salt Lake City
Patriotic Sons of America
Flazaretto
Flore Island
Uruguvay
Fiora L. Dye
Salamanca
N. Y
Sioux Falls
D. D
Paul C. Coffin
Chambers Street
William J. Livingston
Farmers’ National Bank
Keystone Standard Waters Company of
Lancaster
Charles B. Throckma
Duluth, South Shore and Atlantic Railroad
John Harlacher
Emil Usnopen
John Kenny
Jones
Albert Kennedy
Chicaco
Brazil Black Coal Company
Indianapolis and St. Louis
Car- Lon
Ind
Robert Moore
Annie Kelly
Albany
A. J. Mercer & Co
Sam and George Reed
Sanders
Gordon Wells
Southwest Pennsylvania Pipe Line Company
Venture Oil Company
Frank Woods
Rend
Sturgresen
Mercy
Tomlinson & Co
Dr. Miller
Sam Jones
Midway
Gordon Gand
Greenlee £ Forest
Gladden Farm
Gordon Sands
Willow Grove
Mevey
Galey Bros
Walker Farm
Guffey & Quean
Wetmore
Mrs. Bell
A. C. Phillips & Co
Colsins
Oukdale
Shaffer, Mechlin & Co
McKee
Oakdale
Guffey, Murphy & Galey
Sturgeon Farm
Learn & Gurson
Mec-Kinney
Mathews
Guffey, Jennings & Co
Herron
Guffey, Jennings& Co
Baldwin
Oakdale Oil Co
Mathews Heirs
Beli
Guffey
Jennings
Elliot
Guifer Galfey & Murphy
Morgan Heirs
Sturgeon
Gamble No
Boyca Nosaries
Sevenonian
M. Robb
Royal Gas Co
Elliott
Defense
Shaffer No
Forest
Carter
Cyrer
DONS
Istampa
Fond Lily Company
Fisher Bock
Derolt
Pittspurg
Market Etreet
Del
Mya
Ross
Canal Sc
Pennsylvania
Financial Chronicle
A. J. Lawrence & CO
Fourth Ave
Seis
T. Fletcher
Telsehees Il
OWL Well Supply CO
Water Street
Pittsburg, PA
Brobeers—Financial
Wartimey
John M. Oakley & Co
Bankers and Brokers
Whittier
Eae
Nieadie
Aunday
Tohn
Lis
Peon Avenue
Pits Burg
Payasa
Andruss Medical CO
Buffalo
N. T
Wrehew
Aiuldress
G. M. Co
Gus Tatway
Bowler
Athent
Athens
Peru Chemical CO
Milwauale
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