Education Plan for Filipinos With English Focus
Frederick W. Eddy outlines a comprehensive push to establish English based instruction across the Philippine islands. He notes teachers’ pay increases, new native training schools in Manila, expanded primary and secondary programs, and ambitious aims for a national system including music, manual arts, and trades. The program emphasizes local funding, centralized management, and eventual self sufficiency in English instruction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Foundation
United States
Filipino Educational Association
Eliot
Harvard
Hadley
Yale
Low
Columbia
Manila
Istands
Hawaiian Islands
Asittle
Islands
Atkinsn
Atkinson
Nautical
Department of Public Instruction
Spain
Luzon
Negros
Mindanao
Conservatory of Music
School of
Contentment and loss in a poet’s reflection
A reflective verse by Joseph Traxler on contentment and longing. The speaker recalls former riches of toys and pleasures, now replaced by scarce, broken keepsakes. He laments perpetual discontent while observing others with abundance and notes the futility of poetry to mend his grief.
Italian man tries to become US citizen in Brooklyn court
A Italian visitor in Brooklyn court pretends to be a citizen and answers questions about US governors with joking misstatements. The judge mocks his lack of knowledge and instructs him to study American history before resuming the case.
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Cleveland Plain Dealer
New York
Italy
United States
Brooklyn
Broadway
van Wyck
Conacitation in Billville Tale Narrows to Lockstep Leg
The scene features a Billville matron noting an old man drank last night but staying home after his wooden leg was locked up. A storekeeper comments as a Black person wheels a barrow nearby, hinting at ongoing activity and local color in a fragmentary dialogue.
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Atlanta
Billville
Questions and Answers from an Old Inquiry Panel
A long Q and A column covers diverse topics. Sam Jones is described as a Methodist not Baptist, while Alexandre Davy is noted as the elder who wrote The Count of Monte Cristo. The exchange includes Hood’s forces, California gold coinage, Lancashire & Yorkshire offices, bald eagle habits, relative costs of living Porto Rico versus Indiana, coin values, whaling yields, yacht classifications, Robespierre and Hannibal battles, blueing metals, accident insurance for women, aluminum sources and processing, Eddie Foy theater roles, misprinted stamps, balloon varnish, life statistics, plant physiology, and Raleigh’s death and Roanoke colony.
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Indianapolis
Lag Athe
East Washington Street
Yass
General Department
Insular Treasury
Treasury
Washington
Frederick W, Eddy
Hs Bent
Joseph Traxler
Questions and
Sam Jones
Sam W
Dumas
Count of Monte Cristo
J. G. Alexandre Davy
General Hood
California
Lancashire & Yorkshire Railroad Company
England
H. J. A. F. Aspinall
Manchester
Amelia
Porto Rico
Indiana
Scott Stamp and Coin Company
New York City
Robespierre
Hannibal
Ticino
Trebia
Trasamene
Cannae
Africa
Zama
Travelers’ Insurance Company
France
Austria
Ireland
Greenland
Eddie Foy
San Francisco
India
E. P. Moore
Indianapolis Board of Health
Hugh de Witt
Mercer and
Jackson
Chile
Peru
Mexico
Florida
Europe
New England
Walter Raleigh
Roanoke Island
Raleigh
Fairview
Palace Yard
Westminster
Oriel College
Oxford
Netherlands
Newfoundland
Earl of Deamond
Munster
Elizabeth
North America
Pimlico
Albemarle
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