Alter High School Cuts Math to One Year
District announces changes in graduation requirements. Students must study American history and civics for a diploma but foreign language may be omitted. Mathematics courses are reduced from two years to one, effective next September. Supt Ballou says reforms aim to better fit needs of students who may not pursue college, expanding overall curriculum.
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Frank W. Ballou
Ballou
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Curriculum shifts at city high school broaden scope
Supt Ballou says foreign language requirement ends for some pupils who will instead focus on English history science or mathematics Graduates must now complete American history and civics courses History instruction emphasizes citizenship German study restored for those pursuing German scientific literature access to German texts remains available for advanced students
Confer On Merger Today With Capitol Delegation
Commissioners Kutz and Oyster head to the Capitol to confer on traction merger problems with Senator Ball and Representative Zihiman and others. Officials seek a joint Senate and House committee meeting to press the consolidation of the two street car systems.
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Kutz
Oyster
Ball
Zihiman
Senate
House
Unclear fragmentary text on power firm plans
The text appears as damaged OCR with references to a Parete GEE panies and the Patt Power Company. It notes a failure of a plan and a discouraged party, but the readable content is too fragmentary to identify a coherent event, date, or involved entities.
Marriage notice from Chase Maryland wedding of Migs Betta
A brief wedding notice notes that Migs Betta attended with relatives in Chase Maryland. The item records an intimate ceremony attended only by immediate family and kin, marking the union in a local community notice.
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Chase
Migs Betta
Memorial Exercises at Battle Ground Cemetery Planned
The program for the memorial exercise at Battle Ground National Cemetery Brightwood is completed by a committee chaired by Col J Bingham with William V Cox as vice chairman and John Proctor as secretary. A group of public school children directed by Mrs Angus Lamond Jr will decorate the graves of soldiers.
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Brightwood
Col’y. J. Bingham
William V. ‘Cox
John €. Proctor
Gravey
Angus Lamond, Jr
White Sulphur Springs
Washington Post
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Girard Foster
New York
Orange Grove
Aiken
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H. Branch Yeaterday
William Lord -Sexton
Philadelphia
Migs Mabel | Hyde
Forest Drive
BE. B. Puttle
San Antonis
Tex
Lewisburg
Charleston
Thornton Lewis
George van Hagen
Chiscago
the Meadows
Greenbrier
Elizabeth Botts
Frank Botta
B. Knox
Boston
Harry M
Paris
More Truth Than Poetry By Tames I Montague
A verse piece by Tames I Montague about longing and distance between lovers. The speaker frets over telephonic limits and the ache of not speaking face to face, contrasting imagined oceans with a near street where Molly is close yet unreachable. The poem blends humor and longing in a coastal mood.
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Tames
I Montague
U.S
Paradise
Paradise Spring
Society Notes From White Sulphur Springs Town Guests
Continued society page details social visits and dances at White Sulphur Springs. Lists attendees including Misses Finkenstaedt Hoskinson Leckie Leech Leet Richardson Smith Smith Williams Workman and others with flower booths fortune telling candy sales and refreshments. Also notes visitors from New York Philadelphia Chicago and Washington with travel plans and polo events.
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Virginia Brown
Almeda Sykes
Queen
Eee ‘Finkenstaedt
Florence Hoskinson
Mary Virginia Leckie
Eleanor Leech
Margaret Leet
Helen Richardson
Anita Smith
Dorothy Smith
Helen Smith
Janet Willams
Beatrice Workman
Society Notes Give Engagements in New York and Troy
Society in New York reports engagements of Miss Oliva Thompson to Mr Betts, and Miss Carolyn Caldwell to Mr Graves, with details of families and residences. Miss Marie McCormick, daughter of Harold McCormick of Chicago, begins rehearsals for the Aquitaniste, as future opera plans unfold.
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New York
Bédal
Charles EK
James’ F. ‘Thompson
Baltimore
Carolyn
Tala
James Henry. Caldwell
Troy
Debra Q. Graves
Calling My Graves
Vermont
Funeral Services for Edward Gorney and Wife Shenandoah Pa
Funeral services for Edward Gorney and his wife from Shenandoah Pa were held at Pumphrey's chapel Rockville with Rev P Rowland Wagner officiating. The bodies were sent home for burial in Shenandoah. A separate suit was filed in District Court seeking 25000 dollars damages after a pedestrian injury alleged to be caused by a automobile operated by another party. Morris Wampler appeared for the plaintiff.
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P. Rowland Wagner
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Baptist Church
Shenandoah
Sarah L. Mares
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District and Peme
Andrew G
Atta
Morris “Wampler
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