Program of County Teachers Association in Belleville
County Teachers Association meets in Belleville Kansas on Saturday December 13 at 1 30 P M with music by the high school quartette and readings from the Art of Study chapters plus discussions led by Emma Adamson Bertha McDonald Myrta Canfield and a book review by Mable Drummer. Byron W King of King s School of Oratory Pittsburg Pennsylvania gives the address.
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Belleville
Kansas
Bessie Houdek
Rose Kent
Carrie Robb
Jas A.G. Smith
Gertrude Nutter
Emma Adamson
Myrta Canfield
Bertha McDonald
Mable Drummer
Byron W. King
King’s School of Oratory
Pittsburg
Pennsylvania
Local notes and community updates from Republic county
West and A M Johnson work through husking and threshing news from Belleville, ranch movements, school plans, church revival at Scotch Plains, and a Farmers Institute program. Revival, schooling changes, and a broad array of local family moves, visits, and agricultural activity populate the town snapshot.
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Berry
Christian Endeavor Meeting
Our Fellowship
Mattie
Kate McGlashan
Scotch Plains Presbyterian Church
C. F. Daggett
Farmers Institute
Republic County
Court House
Belleville
R. J. Burdette
Examinations Not a Correct For One Year in Philadelphia Schools
The New York Post notes teachers’ experience that many well qualified pupils fail under examination stress, suggesting a one year pause in exams for promotion in Philadelphia public schools. The item cites pupil anxiety causing unwarranted failure despite good term performance and merits reconsideration of promotion testing.
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Philadelphia
New’ York Post
Rise In New York Values And A Camel Corps Sirdar Tale
Henry Lewis Morris buys a parcel in New York for 70000, up from 15500 in 1852, on 149th Street and Third Avenue near the Harlem River where fewer than eight houses stood then now 30000. The Sirdar’s Camel Corps describes self contained desert fighting units with saddles, forage bags and water skins for seven days, Martini rifles, and 300 rounds, weighing about 400 pounds, operating across the desert with wells and support.
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New York
Henry Lewis - Morris
One Hundred and Forty-ninth Street
Third Avenue
Harlem River
Danish Exhibition in London Plans Revealed
A Danish exhibition is planned in London possibly in May next year or during the English coronation. A notable feature will be a section displaying items related to the childhood and early life of Queen Alexandra of Denmark. Levi Morton seeks retirement due to age and will resign his trustee duties on large New York estates after requesting surrogate relief from those trusts.
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Chicago
Harrison
Washington Post
London
Denmark
England
Alexandra
Levi Morton
Levi
Peanut King Mills Built a Peanut Empire on Trains
W Mills, dubbed the peanut king, began as a train vendor at age twelve and secured exclusive rights to sell peanuts on railroads. Now employing over 600 people, he heads a company that makes slot machines supplying salted peanuts. He plans 15,000 machines and a daily peanut supply of 30,000 pounds, with $300,000 to $400,000 already invested. Indianapolis News.
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Peanut King
W. Mills
Eld
Chicago
Mills
Hess
Indianapolis
News
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Henry” Nichol
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Goldie Mahaffey
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Christian Endeavor
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Temple of Fame
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Sirdar’s Camel Corps
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