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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1911
Page
22
A Waterloo Business College advertises a practical route to higher education affordable for youths lacking funds. It highlights how stenography and typewriting jobs support college costs, with examples of graduates funding studies at Des Moines College Northwestern University and Parsons College.
A 9722 January launch promotes the Universal Stenotype machine in Waterloo Business College and Owensboro training sites. Ireland, president of The Universal Stenotype Company, touts accuracy speed and potential cost savings. the device may replace pencil and typewriting in offices and courts.
The Waterloo Business College reports high demand for trained teachers in commercial branches. Graduates secure top positions at Rasmussen's, Northwestern, Parsons, and Centralia high schools, with alumni leading departments in shorthand, bookkeeping, and typewriting. President Almon F. Gates invites inquiries for prospective students.
The article explains that salesmanship can be taught and that business efficiency raises a worker’s value with less supervision. In Waterloo, the Sheldon school partners with the Waterloo Business College to offer a department of salesmanship and personal efficiency. The program, led by Almon F. Gates with Daniel Sloan, covers ten topics from the science of service to business knowledge, available in day and evening classes with Sheldon certificate.
The Waterloo Business College is praised as a foremost commercial school in the United States for its steady progress in instruction. It highlights past innovations such as the graphophone, visible typewriters, and touch typing and notes the expansion of office practice, salesmanship, and stenotype programs in collaboration with Chicago and Des Moines schools.
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