17 Aug 1911
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Newspaper
The Greenville Journal
Location
Greenville, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1911
Page
1
Article explains the British Parliament structure with the House of Lords hereditary and conservative and the elected House of Commons often liberal. It notes recent Commons bills limiting Lords veto power, threats of creating new peers, and the eventual reduction of Lords’ legislative influence while preserving its role. Also includes local notices and ads on health remedies and events.
A miscellany of exam prompts covers presidents and wars, lawmaking in Ohio, arithmetic and geometry word problems, grammar and parsing, geography tasks, spelling lists, and a local notices excerpt about August events and parish life with health remedy advertisement.
Explains the sympathetic nervous system in detail and lists three eye diseases with basic notes. Defines boils and blackheads and common remedies. Identifies indigestion sources and provides three poisons with their antidotes. Names white plague and its treatability. Describes alcohol effects on brain and probes teacher responsibility for pupil eye injuries. Details circulation of blood and its faults.
Applicants for a four years certificate under Hawkin's law must pass written and oral exams. The written portion includes a full discussion of the present extra session of Congress, a brief description of the applicant's reading teaching method, and a three part discussion on the child's first year in reading.
Four problems test basic operations: land investment with 15 percent gain, note face value from simple interest, combined work with a man and boy, and profit loss when a bankrupt pays eighty cents on the dollar for a buggy sold at 30 percent profit.
A 19th century style questionnaire asks educators to address examinations frequency and methods, arithmetic study time, promoting high school education, Normal schools and graduate qualifications, attention cultivation, causes of absentee mindedness, handling chronic tardiness, community school spirit, definitions of judgment and personality, and the election process for local board of education members.
Abridgment is a shortened form of a larger work. An adjective describes a noun as in bright sun, while an adverb modifies a verb as in shines brightly. The indefinite inflection of a verb varies by tense and subject.
August 23 is Soldiers Day at the Great Darke County Fair. The Agricultural Society invites ex soldiers and their wives to attend as guests. Admission is free for comrades and wives who announce themselves at the gate. others receive tickets by mail if addresses are on file. The board aims for a grand county soldiers reunion with top entertainment.
A farm bulletin extols goats as highly profitable livestock noting 300 percent returns versus other animals. It claims goat milk is richer and stores better, goats eat diverse browse, and skins and chattel value yield strong income. It also discusses orchard site selection and soil fertility for fruit trees.
Governor Carroll declares he will retire from business if waste continues at fence comers and turning rows in town, signaling a vow tied to local agricultural disputes and governance.
The piece advises protecting roses by laying them down and bedding with six inches of dirt, mowing and burning asparagus tops after frost, and manuring beds and rhubarb with stable manure. It notes market demand for outs, windbreaks for trees, and that ashes with poultry droppings are a cheap grape fertilizer while over rich manure can cause rank growth.
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