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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 25, 1932
Page
3
Corinne Martin and Elaine Shaw lead a Washington themed week with flags pictures and caps while students study Washington's truthfulness kindness and politeness. Grades share stories of his boyhood and manhood as others discuss Mt Vernon Betsy Ross and the first flag.
Miss Corinne Martin reports a week of hyacinth planting and a Washington birthday program with poems and readings by second and fifth graders. Absences rose due to flu and chicken pox while fifth graders excelled in spelling and geography and the class prepared valentines and new comic books for room decorations.
Centennial School reports Mrs Levis and Miss Woodburn with new nurse Miss Einspahr noting absences from colds. Students discuss George Washington with bulletin board displays and a new framed portrait. Grades study decimals and Washington topics while fifth graders voyage Russia and nearby countries in geography. Second graders craft Washington booklets amid flu absences. first primary adds new pupil Jean Marie Schenck.
An editor laments a copy mixup discovered at 3 PM after the wrong copy was hung on the wrong hook. The columnist vows a sweeping investigation, though noting little to examine, and urges calm as readers fear errors and disruption.
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