Minds Should Be Classified At National Ed Convention
San Francisco July 11 Henry H. Goddard of Vineland NJ urged classification of students by inborn capacity to curb truancy and indiscipline. He cited Vineland studies showing 65 percent feeble mindedness hereditary and urged separate classes or colonies for precocious normal and feeble minded children. He warned against mixing such students in regular schools and urged careful handling to prevent intergenerational hereditary decline.
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San Francisco
Henry H. Goddard
School For
Vineland
N. J
National Educational Association
Vineland Institution
New Jersey
Goddard
New Jersey Training School
The Patched Water Mill and the Young Lovers Tale
A faded water mill scene inspires artist Edward Gillette as a farmer recounts a childhood memory. He recalls a midsummer day by the mill where a graveyard of furrows and a barn roof danger intersect with a tale of a seventeen year old boy and a fifteen year old girl named Janey and a shared moment beside a quiet wheel.
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Millon
Knights of the Brush
Janey
Brush With a Mill Wheel Inspires Painter’s Work
A Tripoli diary entry recalls a dramatic rescue on a mill wheel where a 16 year old boy and his companion Janey nearly drowned. The miller saved them, and the scene inspired the narrator to paint a vivid canvas now hanging in his studio.
Mass Meeting at Labor Hall in Waterloo Over Electric Strike
Labor men in Waterloo gathered at the new temple to discuss settling the electrical strike and improving city working conditions. About 850 attended, including nonunion locals, with speakers from the Central Labor Union and Iowa State Federation of Labor urging unity against wage cuts and alleged Chamber of Commerce backing of the strike.
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Waterloo
New Temple
Maxes
W. J. Brayton
Central Labor Union
E. J. Pullen
Iowa State Federation of Labor
Mr. Pullen
R. O. Dusk
Building Trades Council
A. L. Urink
State Federation of Labor
Urick
Fitzgerald
Des Moines
James Fitzgerald
Electrical Workers
Steel Trust
Hell Telephone Company
Wagered Bushel of New Potatoes At Waterloos Ball Result
The Waterloos watermelon king John Johnson wagered a bushel of new potatoes on a ball game with A C Wilford. After Waterloo won the game the loser delivered potatoes by moonlight from his farm east of Wateriog to Waterloo.
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John Johnson
Johnson
Mr.Johnson
Wateriog
Waterloo
Club House at Golf and Country Club Burns Down
Muscatine Iowa July 11 lightning struck the Muscatine Golf and Country Club club house burning it to the ground. The loss is estimated at fifteen thousand dollars, partially covered by insurance. Prof. Scott B. Prowell has left for Excelsior Springs Missouri for a two week rest and will tour the west visiting relatives and friends at several points.
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Tripoli
Thisse
Chicago
Irving Krueger
Palatine
Ill
Chas. Prestien
Minerva Hattendorf
Denver
H. C. Moeller
Waverly
John Moeller
Ed Burton
Fred Krueger
Minnesota
Hulda Krueger
Nellie Churches
Mrs. Bean
Fred Leege
Waterloo
Muscatine
Golf and Country Club
Scott B. Prowell
Excelsior Springs
Public Sale Abandoned After Two Weeks Effort
After two weeks of steady effort conditions force abandonment of the sale of the hotel lots and the undertaking is ended. Local officials state the initiative cannot proceed as planned.
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E. A. Convention
Ben » Poccars
Edward Gillette
American Press
C. W. Schraldt
A. R. Dickerson
Ber
Aomeon
Ahe
Labor Hall
Muscatine Club
West Waterloo
Cascaden Realty
Thomas Cascaden, JR
Cascaden Realty and Investment Company
Real Estate
Iowa
Cascaden Realty & Investment CO
Grace L. Cascaden
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