President Griffith Calls for Wider Teacher Society Cooperation
In a speech to the Northeastern Iowa Teachers Association, Supt. W. J. Griffith urged teachers to engage communities, noting teachers are the raw material of schools. He urged better medical, dental, and social oversight, tobacco controls for minors, and stronger vocational guidance, while criticizing current wages and advocating more summer training and new normal schools.
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Northeastern Iowa Teachers’ Association
W. J. Griffith
Waverly
Ford Company
Griffith
Verdun
Villa
Teachers Urged Retirement Fund and Higher Wages
A meeting, largely attended, heard proposals to raise wages and create a teacher retirement fund as a remedy for old age security. It noted Iowa teachers’ youth, with 38.1 percent aged 21 or under and 70 percent with five years or less service, praising their loyalty and Iowa’s literacy record. President Griffith spoke, with welcomes, remarks by Abbie Abbott, and musical number by West High School clubs under Flora Bliss.
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Iowa
Towa
Union
Asia Group
Plato
Griffith
Supt. Cherny
Independence
Frank W. Court
First M. 15
B. F. Swisher
Abbie Abbott
Cedar Rapids
Glen
West High School
Flora Bliss
Bride and Groom Exchange Vows in Dwarfed Elevator Scene
In St Louis a bride listed as over 18 and weighing 615 pounds wed a slender groom from Rock Island in a municipal court ceremony. An elevator ride on the second floor drew crowd attention as a clerk coaxed the bride into the small lift before the judge refused any fee due to the size contrast.
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St. Louis
March &J
Gertrude Barker
Harry West
Rock Island
Municipal Courts
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N.E.I.T.A
Grifith
Tawa
Ames
Washington
State Teachers’ College
Wfe
United States
Wares Hilla
the Union Stamp
Mo Horan Factory
BUY Union Stanp Shoes Boot and Shoe Workers’ Union
Summer Street
Boston
Mass
American Federation OF Labor
James I
Henderson
West Fourth Street
P. P. P. Basket Grocery CO
Ohio
Bae Wresh Dairy Uutter
Cawest Creamery
Moxley
Ade Friedman
Japan
Ade
Old Wing
Rasier
Servet
Macaroni CO
Northwest
Sims Cereal Company H
Minneapolis
Minn
U.S.A
Fourtix Street
Saker
Mineo
Bao
Bae Rna
J. H. Siegel
Entz Meat Markets
Sycamore Street
East Fourth Street
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