Two K Boys Learn Art Park Experiment in Blind Gardening
Children at Clinton Park's farm project teach blind gardening to 13 year olds Peter and Carl. Mrs Parson guides bean beet radish lettuce crops with tactile tools, fingers and furrows, allowing the boys to feel seeds, plots, and plants as they grow.
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Carl
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Parsons
American Countess Honored by Queen Alexandra Visit
The Countess of Strafford and her husband Mr. Kennard entertained at Houghton Hall Norfolk after a visit from Queen Alexandra. The article notes gardening with the blind boys, praising beets and carrots planting and seed separation by touch, and describes Peter and Carl’s progress in distinguishing seeds and petals.
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Alexandra
Bishop of Hereford criticizes boarding schools for children
London church leader urges upper and middle class parents to avoid barrack life of boarding schools. He argues day students are hurt by home support, while boarders gain self reliance, claiming reforms in moral education and parental influence are needed.
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London
Hereford
Tommy Jones
Tommy
Motor cars lure Kansas chickens to the depot in surprising horde
Across about twenty Kansas towns hundreds of chickens race toward motorcar depots at every station when the whistle sounds. Chickens gather grasshoppers trapped on fenders as cars travel six to seven miles between stops, a sight new with the advent of motor cars this season.
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Kansas
New York Dances Captivate Public at Hotels and Theaters
The piece surveys a dancing craze gripping New York from vaudeville to tea rooms and hotel supper spaces. It notes Isadora Duncan Ruth St Denis and others shaping modern dance while hobble skirt dances become a fashionable spectacle in social venues.
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York
New York
Carmencita
Isadora Duncan
Maud Allen
Miss Duncan
Ruth St. Denis
Mistinguett
Max Dearly
Paris
America
Polaire
Abou Ben Adam
Oshkosh
Frisco Child Linguist Prodigy Draws Stanford Interest
Eight year old Winifred Sackville Stoner known as Cherie may join Stanford University as a child prodigy. Prolific in Esperanto since infancy and fluent in several languages she printed a 52 page book at age five and contributed to St Nicholas while mastering multiple tongues under her mother and Col J B Stoner.
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AN Francisco
Leland Stanford University
Harvard
William James Sidie
Winifred Sackville Stoner
Ae Cherie
Col. J. B. Stoner
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Marine Hospital Service
Puck
St. Nicholas
Fragmentary Record From Lodge Meeting In Vincennes
An incomplete OCR passage recounts a high rank lodge official, the chancellor commander, officiating at a meeting when a courier summoned him to the stork. Two sons remained at his home while the leader was called away. An over time request to be excused from a lodge drew no clear outcome.
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Benny Wanna Wa
Vincennes
Wren
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