Examination Quizzes for Jan 1917 County Teachers
Uniform examination questions for the elementary school certificate in Columbus Ohio. Questions cover metric system advantages, illegal cranberry sales by liquid measure, distance by bicycle wheel revolutions, calculating note proceeds, applying geography civics or agriculture to arithmetic, discounts, business forms for pupils, area of trapezoid and cone volume, impact of consulting answers, and five games or devices for teaching primary arithmetic.
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Columbus, O
Superintendent of Public Instruction
Grammar Study and Language Aims in School
The sentence presents a subject clause and an object clause using sit and set in a single sentence. It uses lie in both senses with a reclining meaning and a falsehood meaning to demonstrate distinct verb forms. The list of 10 irregular verbs with their principal parts is included. A quotation is marked for parsing as in examinations for teachers. The text discusses formal grammar versus language study and asks what grammar study aims to accomplish, and what methods are used to improve grammar, pronunciation, enunciation, vocabulary, and diction.
Distinctive Ohio Geographical Features and Teaching Goals
The teacher lists key Ohio features and outlines methods linking geography to pupils’ tendencies, reading, and history. It covers aims in geography education, recommended reading circles, potential paper topics for teachers, and influential books beyond textbooks. It also requests a global wish list of ten or more major geographical features to visit.
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Ohio
Preference ranked leaders and state officials across history
A compact survey asks for five preferred U S presidents in order, five preferred Ohio governors, five great American speeches with time place and circumstances, a cause and effect historical event, desired history reference books, Ohio‑centric events, and concrete methods to use period newspapers and Reading Circle work in teaching history.
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United States
Ohio
Orthography and Vocabulary Practice for Pupil Spelling
A teacher task asks for twenty troublesome spelling words with prefixes or suffixes, ten or more words derived from foreign languages, plus a short paragraph marking all words with diacritics. It also requests a hundred words on the topic The Use of the Dictionary.
Penmanship Grading and Exercises for Better Handwriting
The question asks how to grade penmanship with emphasis on movement versus legibility and which factors create a good penman. It offers several exercises that build control, rhythm, and consistency. It suggests practical drills like model tracing, steady slant, uniform letter forms, and timed copying to improve fluency and legibility.
Physiology and health questions from a educational pamphlet
The piece asks why caring for teeth is necessary and how blood circulates. It links emotions to physical state and asks why some people are afflicted with coins, plus prevention and care methods. It discusses child deformity, vision defects, teacher duties, feeding poor children, milk versus beer nutrition, and authorities or evidence for medical views on malt and alcohol.
Questions on Shakespeare Authorship and American Literature
A study prompt exploring the Shakespeare authorship debate and the value of the Canterbury Tales introduction. It asks why literature matters, requests an incident from a major American author, and seeks a Southern poet and a Black poet with works. It also covers Revolutionary era literature, six nature poems with authors, ten works of standard American fiction, and a note on why one is highly valued.
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William Shakespeare
Agricultural guidance on field prep and crop rotations
This article outlines ideal field conditions for sowing wheat, recommends three to five year crop rotations with advantages, argues for integrating live stock to boost profitability, and provides plans for caring for a domestic animal, planting methods for potatoes wheat oats turnips corn, soil moisture management, tile drainage benefits, county fair agricultural value, and corn cultivation theory and practice.
Theory and Practice in Language Education
A brief examination of language study goals and pedagogy. It asks why language work is worthy, the year’s read ing circle book, end of year language mastery, forms of expression, teaching method and memory gems, teacher training difficulties, recitation purposes, school order standards, advantages and disadvantages of centralized schools, reasons for teachers to know adjacent grade outlines, and the traits of good questions.
Reading Examination Guidelines Mentioned
The text notes that the reading examination will proceed after any plea is considered and that the examiner will conduct the exam as requested. It reflects procedural language from a legal or academic context about examination sequence and defendant pleas.
Miners Oppose Compulsory Training and Ohio Slogans
Miners oppose a compulsory military training plan labeling it blackmail and may abandon an election contest. The column notes farmers adopting the do it early slogan for spring shopping to avoid shortages, plus multiple state tax, suffrage, and public affairs items from Ohio.
Dairymen Convene At Ohio State For Milk Cost Talk
Ohio State University hosts the Ohio State Dairymen Association during farmers week January 29 to February 2. Dr. Carl Alsberg leads a panel including editors and cost experts to discuss milk production and distribution costs and harmonizing producers and consumers.
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Carl Alsberg
U. S. Bureau of Chemistry
Union News Service
Columbus
Ohio State Dairymen’s Association
Ohio State University
Federal Bureau of Chemistry
Harvey Wiley
Alfred Vivian
College of Agriculture
L. P. Bailey
Tacoma
Association
L. J. Taber
Barnesville
Ohio State Grange
J. D. Nichols
Cleveland
National Dairy Show
E. H. Baker
The
Cleveland Plain Dealer
A. J. Glover
Hoard’s Dairyman
J. F. Cunningham
Ohio Farmer
Arthur Green
Ohio
Detroit
D. 8. White
College of Veterinary Medicine
Department of Dairying
Purdue University
T. L. Calvert
State Dairy and Food Department
W. E. Skinner
H. W. Ingersoll
Elyria
Julius Kahn
National Dairy Council
E. M. Bailey
Pittsburg
J.H. Schin
Akron woman files for divorce from publishing president
Mrs Adah L Saalfield wife of Arthur J Saalfield president of Saalfield Publishing Company filed for divorce alleging neglect and extreme cruelty. She says they married in 1885 and that his cruelty has been ongoing for eight years. She is a well known author of child life stories for youth.
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Akron, O
Adah L. Saalfield
Arthur J. Saalfield
Saalfield Publishing Company
Saalfield
Hinde & Dauch Buys Fibre Co to Secure Paper Raw Material
The Hinde and Dauch Paper Company of Sandusky Ohio bought controlling interest in the Southern Fibre Company of Portsmouth Virginia, a $500000 firm. The deal aims to secure yellow pine pulp supply cut off by the war in Europe. Output will be distributed to Hinde & Dauch plants in Sandusky Muncie and Gloucester.
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Fibre Co
Sandusky
Europe
Hinde & Dauch Paper Company
Uthern Fibre Company
Portsmouth
Hinde & Dauch Company
Muncie
Ind
Gloucester
N. J
Massillon Newman hamlet seeks Sunday school record
Massillon Newman, a hamlet of 100 residents three miles west, claims the Ohio go-to Sunday school record. The Baptist church reports last year’s Sunday school had 44 members with 80 percent attendance, fourteen members present every Sunday, and two members who have attended every Sunday for 11 years.
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Massillon
O.—Newman
Here
Saloon License Advertised After Ban in Dry District
In Toledo Ohio one of nine saloon keepers banished from a new residential dry district is advertising his saloon license for sale. The others plan to relocate in wet districts. It is the first time a bar license has been advertised for sale in the city.
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Toledo
Death of Aged Mail Agent Bailey
James J. Bailey aged 62 died at his Gallipolis Ohio home. He had served as mail agent on the Hocking Valley railroad for 31 years.
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Gallipolis
James J. Bailey
Bailey
Hocking Valley Railroad
Public apology verdict in county jail riot case
Charles Kline pleads guilty to attacking Sheriff Eley with intent to lynch a prisoner during rioting at the county jail last August. He receives a suspended ten year penitentiary sentence replaced by a full public apology to be printed in every newspaper in the riot county.
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Limna, O
Charles Kline
Eley
Kline
Ohio probate judges meet to elect leaders in Columbus
Sixty three of eighty eight Ohio probate judges attended the annual meeting. William H. Lueders of Cincinnati was reelected president for the fifth time. Harvey C. Smith Zacsville was named vice president E. A. Brown Circleville treasurer and George W Teahan Springfield secretary. The group planned to host next meeting in January 1918 in Columbus and discussed codifying probate laws and improving state institutions for the mentally challenged.
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Columbus
Ohio
Probate Judges’ Association
William H
Lueders
Cincinnati
Association
Harvey C. Smith
Zacsville
E. A. Brown
Circleville
George W. Teahan
Springfield
Chamber of Commerce
Puchta
Business Men’s Club
George Fish
Cox
General Assembly
University Girl Denies Alienation Allegations
Miss Blanche Strobel a junior Arts College student at Ohio State University filed an answer in Common Pleas Court to a $50,000 alienation suit brought by Mrs. Shirley Harris of Hiram. Strobel denies improper conduct and says the petition is filed for spite work. she asserts there are no grounds for damages.
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Ohio State University
William L. Lapp
New York
Columbus
State Tax Commission
Commission
Ohio
Harry M. Daugherty
General Assembly
Ohio Supreme Court
State Medical Board
A. K. Jewell
Medical Board
Cox
State Board of Agriculture
Frank B. Willis
Agricultural Department
Blanche Stobel
Arts College
Ohio States University
Common Pleas Court
Shirley Harris
Hiram
Robert W. Harris
Dayton firm lands Russia fuse contract worth up to 75 million
The Recording and Computing Machines Co of Dayton Ohio reportedly secured a large fuse contract with the Russian Government. Reported totals range from 60 to 75 million dollars, for timing fuses of the same type the company has produced before. The deal supplements a prior order that totaled 50 million dollars.
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Dayton, O
the Recording and Computing Machines Co
Portsmouth Runs Dry After Water Main Break
A break in a large water main forced a shutdown of Portsmouth water works. Repair took several hours causing school dismissal and factory shutdowns while shoe factories and a steel plant with private systems avoided disruption.
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Portsmouth
Striking group pools benefits for essentials in Tiffin
About 200 strikers in Tiffin pool strike benefits to buy food and fuel in bulk. They have 700 dollars monthly for purchases, aiming to ease the high cost of living. The move reflects wartime era labor action and mutual aid among workers in Ohio.
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