Letters From Rural Schools Show Student Work And Nature Study
Readers learn about Fowler School near Shoal Creek Valley with notes on grounds, a 60 yard race track, volley ball courts, a merry go round, bird houses, and local wildlife. Student reports cover orchard study, Missouri fruit varieties, grafting, and map projects, with teacher comments on reading and arithmetic progress.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Glenn Martz
John Minear
Fowler School
Shoal Creek Valley
Shoalreek
Fragmentary verse note with scattered phrases
A garbled OCR style text mixes poetical fragments and stray phrases about color, protection, winter birds, and a logo. Names, places, or clear events are not discernible, leaving a partial, incoherent record of unspecified themes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ray Firs
Martinstown School News Highlights and Activities
A compiled P K R class scrapbook shows student work across grades. Entries include posters on dental care, a witch craft tale, book history, spelling prizes, room improvements, a school constitution, dictionary lessons, Christmas plans, and a history unit on Washington and Lincoln at Gravel Ridge and West Dodson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Santa
Christos
The Way To Make Rope At Grant School
Virginia Cowan and John Taylor describe rope making with boards wires and twine. Students demonstrate threading hooks twisting strands and finishing the rope, then discuss use of ropes for marionette tasks and exercise in physical education at Grant School.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Myrtle Putnam
Father Kopfer
Marchier
Norge
Virginia Cowan
John Taylor
Marietta Clare
Grant Ivelyn Jones
Lia May Nolan
Grant School
Christmon Nong
Imogene Noland
Calvi Coolidge
Dulaie Dickson
Pribilof Islands seals study and school health habits
Notes describe Pribilof Islands seal rookeries and fur trade with St Louis, detailing how mother seals feed pups and fur sent for garments. Health lessons highlight tooth brushing, hand washing, and TB awareness with prizes. Christmas activities include letters to Santa and class projects.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Abbott Thelma Gatlin
Pribilof Islands
Pacific Ocean
St. Louis
A Clean Tooth Never Decay At Oak Grove School
Opal Shaw and Dora Hinerman present a health chart on dental hygiene. The rule urges brushing teeth twice daily and after meals to remove food particles, warning decay may start if not cleaned. Emphasis on a stiff brush used up and down.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Emma Newell
Josephine Fetters
Oak Grove
Opal Shaw
Dora Hinerman
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Serbia
Wa U
Horne
Pace
Joelike Snew
Parzie
RURAT
The
Republican
Dialn- Terted Udger
THORN
Sehiset
Gamneral
Missouri
Thornes
Virginia Ward
Carl Bo Spence
Douglas Grace Minear
Jean Bradatew
Scott
Martinstown
Jeane
Baker
Reta Crooks
Lary
John Schuster
Berdean Richardson
Martin
Opal
Crooks
Cong Hodges
Croo Spar
Chariots Husted
Lois Crooks
Baa
Ruby Leonard
Montgomery
Enore Richardson
Alvis
Sheen
Pickering Roy Cassady
Bernice Ryals
Egypt
Aristotle
Lincoln
Gravfi Ridge
Gravel Ridge
Putnam -Couneae
Ruth P. Ker
Zaarer
Nomarae
Gray Jo Rennelis
Shirley Moore
Er “Sy Hive
Gerge Washington
Abraham Tircoin
Varack Henry
George Washington
Abrahan Sircom
Patrick Henry
West Dodson
Conrad White
Lofa Triplett
Dick Herndon
Crystal Hern
Franklin
America
Thos. Southards
Sane ST Liberty Picts
Alalia Harford
Hallie Burton
Gallatin
Express
Gus Piekenbrock
Palmer School of Chiropractic
Oberlag
Oberlag Chiropractors
Alva Valentine Place
Unionville
Lemons
Christian Home Church
Wyckoff
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