Senior High School Notes and Winter Activities
The Senior Class hosts a Wednesday to Friday school play Huckleberry Finn with 35 cent tickets and 50 cent reserved seats. Latin Club meets December 2 with Laurette Lecours leading a quiz program. Dora Kaplan wins first prize. Examinations run December 12 to 19 across seven periods. Basketball candidates, track preparations, and a December 6 football banquet at Hotel Manger with co champions trophies and Bruins Hawks game follow updates.
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William King
Kathleen Cronin
Laurette Lecours
Harold Bargar
Daniel Boylan
Edith Antunes
Dora Kaplan
Manger
Bob Remer
Mystic Valley
Boston Garden
Printing Talk Delights Senior High Class
Mr. Sheehan head of the Printing Department gave an engaging talk to the Office Practice and Appliance classes discussing the history and methods of printing. He covered Gutenberg movable type, lithography, intaglio, letter press processes, type divisions, fonts, envelope printing, and machine details including linotype and monotype.
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Gutenberg
John Gutenberg
Germany
Italy
France
England
America
British North America
Harvard College
Boston
How the Kangaroo Fights in the Wild
The kangaroo, usually peaceful, resists hunters by using forelegs to grip, then powerful hind legs to injure. It may back to a tree or rock while a dog lunges, ripping the animal's hide. In water, it can seize and hold a dog underwater. Kangaroos vary from inches to eight or nine feet tall.
Noted Song Writer Francis Scott Key Native of Maryland
Francis Scott Key born August 1, 1779, on Terra Rubra estate in Frederick area now Carroll County Maryland. Educated at St Johns Annapolis practiced law in Frederick, later district attorney in DC. Wrote many poems and the Star Spangled Banner idea arose aboard a British ship during Fort McHenry bombardment. Married Mary Tayloe Lloyd January 19, 1802. had six sons and five daughters. Died January 11, 1843, pleurisy, in Baltimore. buried first in St Pauls vault, later moved to Mount Olivet, Frederick, where a flag is kept over the grave.
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Carroll County
Philip Key
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St. John’s College
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Washington
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Cleveland Plain Dealer
Fort McHenry
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New York
Francis Scott Key
Mary Tayloe Lloyd
Col
Edward Lloyd
Charles Howard
Mount Vernon Place
Howard
St. Paul's Cemetery
Mount Olivet Cemetery
United States
Butternut the Native Tree Prized by Pioneers
A Rural New-Yorker writer notes butternuts as a valuable native tree with ash colored bark and large compound leaves, 11 to 19 leaflets, leaves that shed early, late spring opening, and large winter buds. Sap is sweet for syrup but not sugar. Nuts have thick shells. oil rich kernels used medicinally by early settlers learning from Indians.
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New- Yorker
Pansy, Ancient Garden Flower
The pansy is an old garden flower with unclear origin. Botanists believe it descended from a small perennial violet found in cooler parts of Europe.
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Europe
Planned by League annual legislative dinner in Boston
The Boston League of Women Voters will hold an annual legislative dinner next Tuesday December 13 at 6 30 PM at the Men's City Club Boston. Four speakers will outline the coming year legislative program including Civil Service Taxation Juvenile issues and proportional representation.
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Boston League of Women Voters
Boston
Donald J. Hurley
Department of Economic Welfare
Fritz M. Marx
Department of Government
Alan Morse
Boston League Board
Boston League
Robert L. de Normandie
League
Carroll R. Staples
Pleasant Park Yacht Club Log Sees Bowling Plans
The Pleasant Park Yacht Club notes a forthcoming bowling team after a Beach Alleys exhibition. Mentions a potential return match with Eric's team, the Stromer moved from the channel, and a new breakwater in front of the Wall. Timbers under the annex reinforced by Art Soper. Italian supper served by Johnnie Tringale, the Zeito brothers, their wives, and two servers. Commodore Wisely and Capt Atkinson attended. Free dues won by Jack Foster and Frank Perrault due to Atkinson's fairness. A motion to fund completion of the new Ladies Room downstairs. Welfare Committee reports another sick member, Dinny Napier, at home with the grippe. Signed MIKE.
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Art Soper
Johnnie Tringale
Zeito Brothers
David Wisely
Winthrop Yacht Club
Capt. Atkinson
Jack Foster
Frank Perrault
Dinny Napier
Mike
Edmunds Named and Noted Figures Across History
A mnemonic list traces notable Edmunds from St Edmund and Edmund Burke to Cartwright and Spenser. It mentions Edmund Teutonic with titles Protector and Defender, and notes origins of the name meaning rich protector or defender. References English and American figures across centuries.
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Edmund Teutonic
Edmund
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Florence A. Cowles
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Gypsies Of Privlaka Build New Church After Old Cheese Tale
Folklore from Privlaka, Yugoslavia claims gypsies traded a marble church to Romans for a white cheese church. The cheese was eaten, leaving them without a church for centuries. A wealthy gypsy fiddler later funded a new church in modern times.
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Privlaka
Jugoslavia
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