The Little Old Red Schoolhouse and Horace Mann Remembered
A nostalgic column reflects on the first day of school with 26,000,000 children heading to refurbished classrooms and the enduring symbol of the Old Red Schoolhouse. It honors Horace Mann, pioneer educator, and his push for free public schools, noting Massachusetts reforms and Mann's lasting legacy in American education.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Western Newspaper Union
United States
Mother
Red
Sis
Old McClure
Eugene Wood
Second Presbyterian
State Senate
Massachusetts Board of Education
Iris
Mann
Massachusetts Public
Commonwealth
Pachegemnen
Nex
Massachusetts
Wood
Horace Mann
Franklin
Brass
Tad Menis
Brown University
Litchfield
Conn
Frst Normal School
Congress
John Quincy Adams
Massachusetts Statehouts
Boston
New York University
America
Redstone
Sudbury
Mass
Mary
Henry Ford
Board of Directors
S. Reinhart
Harper's Weekly
Yale University Press
Whittier Poem Touched a Quiet Schoolyard Memory
Whittier wrote a childlike piece for Lucy Larcom’s Our Young Folks after a school scene. The tale ties Lydia Ayer to the poem and to Whittier, noting the girl’s grave, the manuscript sale, and the poet’s enduring fame among Americans.
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Whittier
Young Folls
Lucy Larcom
Lucr
J. G
Miss Lercom
Eve
Lydia Ayer
Lucy Scrcom
Whittier Westerdw Near Haverhill, Mes
Dia Ayer
Lydia
NOW THE PRAM CYCLE IN GENEVA HANDIE BAR RUMBLE SEAT
Emile Eberte of Geneva develops a touring handie bar rumble seat for a bicycle to carry a baby. The foldable top arrangement offers a compact airing solution for Swiss countryside rides.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Emile Eberte
Geneva
Switzerland
High Speed Flight Around the World in Four Days
A National Geographic Society bulletin notes Howard Hughes and companions completed a world circuit in under four days, breaking five sunrises while the rest of the earth saw four. Their jet and engines effectively outpaced the planet’s rotation, illustrating how speed challenges conventional time by crossing the International Date Line.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hughes
Washington
D. C
Howard Hughes
National Geographic Society
Bughes
Arctic
Arctic Circle
Antarctic Circle
Dyers
A&t
Buches
New York
Chile
Eest
Pacific Ocean
United States
Stesc
Ai Greeny
Yorktown Siege Area to Become National Park
National park plans would add the Yorktown siege site and surrounding acreage to the listing. The block includes the Hook and Williemsberg areas where French and American troops halted a British retreat in October 1781. A new James River corridor would link the sites to James Seat, preserving the Revolutionary War landscape alongside Isle Royale’s park measures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yorktown
Isné
Congress
National Historical Tech
Hook
Cornwalls
Williemsberg
James River
Jamesseet
Ile
Roosevelt
Isle Royale National Park
Michigan
Isle Royale
Lake Superior
Bee Sting Immunity Claim By Local Specialist
In San Francisco Nils Person, a bee swarm remover, says he has been stung about 10 000 times in 29 years. He asserts the stings cured his rheumatism and that repeated stings have built up immunity, making him hardly feel them now.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Nils Person
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Eemo Scoit Watson
Dees
Jock-Knife
John Greenleaf Whittier
Bald Head Club
Edward T. Page
Bald Head Club of America
Frank WV. Sermout
Winsted, Caut
Bristol
Con
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