23 May 1912
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Newspaper
The Greenville Journal
Location
Greenville, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1912
Page
1
A mixed set of old exam prompts covers arithmetic, geometry, geography, history, grammar, and science. Items include calculating acreage from a chained field, time zone differences, diagramming townships, and word problems on wood, wine, and profit. History asks about Rhode Island, Yorktown, Burr’s Conspiracy, and Longfellow, while language tests demand syntax, phonetics, spelling rules, and diagramming.
Oliver Goldsmith, an 18th century Irish writer, studied at Trinity College Dublin and became a celebrated poet novelist and playwright. He produced The Traveller The Deserted Village and The Vicar of Wakefield a popular novels. His writings blend satire social observation and humane sentiment shaping Enlightenment prose and verse.
Taft, Ohio’s candidate, secured the Republican nomination with strong pledges. He promoted scientific tariff revision via the Tariff Board, asserted world peace, and backed conservation laws and the new labor laws. The piece notes Taft’s Ohio roots and contrasts Cleveland and Roosevelt as New York figures.
The article notes growing butternuts as a profitable venture amid concerns about adapting them to climates. It describes the butternut as hardy, fast growing, and bearing early, with larger nuts on good ground. A Vermont advertisement sought 2,000 bushels, and the kernel is praised for rich fat content and palatability compared to English walnuts.
A jumble of humorous quotes and snippets from era newspapers like Chicago Tribune and St. Louis Times. The lines mock domestic life and manners, referencing cooking, sewing, and social pretensions, ending with an ad pitch for a newspaper subscription.
Dick Mitchell, touring with a scrambled eggs banquet and harmonica backed theater, complains of poor hotel food. A breakfast joke follows about a cook losing her balance, as Mitchell jokes of leaving a worse hotel in town. Cincinnati Times-Star.
A Burlington Republican note recounts James Mark misplacing poultry powder as horse medicine after a store visit. The horse soon acted ill and the error became clear when the horse was found sitting on a straw bed with the poultry feed package involved.
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