Brand new way of graduating at Piney Woods School
An historic graduation at Piney Woods Industrial School near Braxton featured an elderly mother receiving a diploma from Principal Laurente Jones and a display of industrial work. Students demonstrated broom making, concrete block production, fashion sewing, dough baking, blacksmithing, and an industrial panorama. The event showcased a working clothes procession, a new band set, and numerous onstage demonstrations of school crafts and rural education topics.
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South
Piney Woods
Braxton
Laurente Jones
Jackson
Jones
Tupelo
Tiner Woods
Asa Turner
A' Shor
Piney Woods School Commencement Shows Growing State Influence
The Piney Woods Country Life School marks a decade of growth as sixteen industries operate on site. White and colored attendees celebrate the graduation as Principal Laurence C. Jones is praised for fostering Christian manhood and industrial progress. The event underscores the school's expanding reach across the state and its role in interracial advancement.
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Lane
Jones
Hve
Piney Woods School
Laurence C. Jones
Piney Woods Country Lifeschool
Girls Claim Leap Year Right At Boss Wedding
Rosa Manufacturing production manager John W. Schaibie planned a quiet wedding. Without warning the 500 female workers moved a phonograph into his office and, claiming a leap year right to kiss the bridegroom, burst in to greet him as he arrived for work.
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Cincinnati
John W. Schaible
Rosa’ Manufacturing Company
Patchwork notes mix of chatter and world news
A garbled, fragmentary column covers superstition about sneezing and blessings, a dubious claim of a 5 million insurance before winter, a Red Roundneff incident in Constantinople, and a Buenos Aires museum dinosaur theft saga detailing Ameghino and Tapia amid missing bones and a new species skeleton discovery.
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Buenos Aires
Carlos Ameghino
Direc ‘Tor
Buenos Aires Museum
of Natural History
Patagynia
Engquen
Arthur Smith Woodward
British Museum
Ameghino
Ameg
Hino
Augusto Tapia
Tapia
Tapla
Six Whisky Hot Water Bags Sing Chester's Blues
Philadelphia police detain Chester Yuitizz a 32 year old man found with six hot water bottles filled with whisky strapped to his belt a tube leading to his vest pocket allowing sips and turning into singing before an officer intervened for disruption.
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Chester
Philadelphia
Yuitizz
Mormon temple dedicated in Hawaii outside continental US
A Mormon temple was recently dedicated in one of the Hawaiian Islands. It is described as the only Mormon temple outside the continental United States.
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Ony
Hawaiian Islands
Continental
United States
Chickering
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Brand New Way
Piney Woods Institution
J. G. Murphy
D. D
Exodaontist
First National Bank
Percy R. Wood Bye
Leavitt & Johnson Bank Bldg
Waterloo
Town House
WM. H. Ross
Leavitt and Johnson Building
Cest
E. M. Jackson
D.D
Horlick
Infante
Invalida
W. E. Debe
4Th and
Jefferson Sts
Iowa State Bank
Lowé
Bobs
Behalble
Arkansas City
Esther Unruh
Roundneff
Constantinople
Baku
Gen
Alexieff
Asatate
Adtaateh
Bosheviks
Gen. Roundness
Dr. Shannos
Reri
Waterloo Electric Supply Co
W. 4Th St
The
Bartles Shepherd Oil Company
Comer East Fifth and
Mulberry Streets
Dam
Iowa
Peerless Baking Co
Chikening
L.S. Parsons Music House
Parsons Bldg
Sycamore St
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