Thornton Township High School Agricultural Course
Thornton Township High School announces an agriculture program starting December 3 1917 and ending March 1 1918. The plan includes new instructors and guest lectures from University of Illinois faculty to teach soil, crop judging, livestock, dairy, farm machinery, marketing, and government materials. Community cooperation urged.
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Thornton Township High School
Tho Ship High School
Agriculure
University of
Ilinois
Agricultural courses in Thornton Townhip education program
The program outlines two courses: horticulture and farm arithmetic. The horticulture course covers seed planting, pest control, season crops, intensive cropping, harvesting and marketing with emphasis on onions, to run twelve weeks. The farm arithmetic course lasts twelve weeks, teaching arithmetic through farm practices, with topics in farming, dairy, crops, animals, banking, and Rural Credits Law.
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Cook County
Thornton Townshp
Patriot or Traitor in Springfield War Meeting
Senator Sherman praised wartime resolve and warned against treason while recounting why the United States entered World War I. He cited Germany’s failed colonization plans and the need to defend the nation on French soil before American shores.
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Springfield
Ill
Navy
Y. M. C. A. War Fund
United States
James Hamilton Lewis
America
Sherman
Germany
South American
Europe
Prussia
France
Atlantic
Belgium
American
Potatoes Available From Riverdale Suppliers
Winter potato stock from Minnesota and Idaho offered for family use by Riverdale suppliers. Contact Riverdale 7 or Conrad Isern at 860 L Indiana Ave for orders.
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Minnesota
Idaho
Riverdale 7
Conrad Isern
Indiana Ave
Riverdale
Laziest of Poets James Thomson and His Works
The article profiles James Thomson born 1700 in Ednam Roxburghshire Scotland. It notes his two major works The Seasons and The Castle of Indolence and says he spent much of his writing life in bed often not rising till noon.
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James Thomson
Teig
England
Ednam
Roxburghshire
Scotland
Samuel Johnson
London
Tie
Thomson
Illinois and U S crop production estimates 1917
Government crop report from Washington transmits preliminary estimates for Illinois and the United States. Corn wheat oats barley and other grains are listed with state and national production figures for the current year and the prior December estimates.
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Washington, D. C
Illinois
United States
Bureau of Crop Estimates
Weather Bureau
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Oats
McAdoo Announces Second Liberty Loan Subscriptions
Secretary McAdoo reports total subscriptions for the second Liberty Loan reached 4 617 532 300 with an over subscription of 54 percent. The loan saw 9 506 000 purchasers and the Seventh Federal Reserve District including Illinois and nearby states subscribed 585 853 850 or 39 percent over the minimum quota.
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Secretary of the Treasury
McAdoo
Federal Reserve District
Illinois
Central States
Kitty Call Clears Barn Mice Myth
In a humorous Chicago Tribune snippet, Alice and Helen play in a barn. Alice declares mice will flee if they hear her call kitty, a playful exchange about a supposed cat scare.
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Alice
Helen
Kitty
Chicago Tribune
Arithmetic in Colonial Education
In early America during the 1600s arithmetic was not essential for most boys. It was taught sparingly in writing or reckoning schools and when included in grammar schools it was rudimentary. Among the educated nobility arithmetic was viewed as common and unworthy of heraldic status, reserved for those entering trades.
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America
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P.b.good
Neidow and
Good Telephone Dolton No. 1
Washington Ave
Dolton
Henry Mohr
Martin Newald
Twin City
Lincoln Ave
Service
Northern Ill
Hurd
Ore
Reliable State Dentists
S. If. Cor
State
van Bares Streets
Chicago
Patrance & v
van Buren
Storm Sash
Chicago&Riverdale Lumber Co
J. A.kollar
Indiana Avenue
Illinois St
Dolton Bakery
Henry M. Propper
Olton
G. Jacobsma
WM. C. Zesch
Riv
Midway
Leyden Avenue
Wain Office
Chauncy Ave
Grand Crossin
Henry W. Schnoor
Chicago Street
Walter Magay
Riverdale 524
W. P
Rggert Hanschmann
Dulton
West 137Th St
Frank C. Ott
Edward F. Dillner
Summer Garden
Chicago St. Dolton, Ill
Frank Seestadt
Sheffield Boathouse
Phil Schmit
Bobby
Ind
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