Grammar School Exhibit Showcases Student Work
A Friday afternoon crowd of about one hundred visited the Grammar School exhibit. Students from the fifth to seventh grades presented bed making, home hygiene, nature study, and tapestries depicting Mexico. Highlights included Mexican maps, parrots, dressed dolls, and a small train by Kenneth Norris, John Charles Jones, and Bobby D Montgomery.
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Mexico
Kenneth Norris
John Charles Jones
Bobby D. Montgomery
John Rufus Taylor
Joe Howard Cook
Mary Alice Harrison
Seventh graders choose Spring Time for commencement song
Mary Dale King notes seventh graders settled on Spring Time for the commencement song. The piece is described as lively and well received, fitting the season of Good Old Summertime. Practice occurs several times weekly.
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Mary Dale King
First Grade Parents See Eight Month Growth Progress
Parents and patrons who visited the first grade last Friday were surprised and happy to see wonderful progress in eight short months. The room was papered with activities and a sand table showing development of units. Stop and Go signals, a child handwork, added color and practicality. The bulletin board at the entrance displayed the first and latest work of each child.
Second grade post office exhibit delights visitors
The second grade showcased practical work in a room filled with bright posters, a large post office display, and a flying field resembling Love Field. The exhibit included a farm, Dutch dolls, windmills, and various yearlong activities, with students led by Miss Fletcher.
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Fletcher
Love Field
Martha Lee Bradley
Third Grade Showcases Broad Exhibit Friday Afternoon
The third grade wrapped up a lively display Friday afternoon featuring posters, booklets, and various items. The exhibit highlighted Holland themes, two reading groups, and large scale student work with pasteboard traffic cops, bright Dutch clocks, and charts of newly learned words.
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Holland
Home Hygiene Exhibit Delights Seventh Grade Girls Troop
An exhibit by the seventh grade home hygiene class featured pink and blue crepe paper decorations and paper bows with rose centers. Tables held year’s projects including a tray of dishes for a sick person and a bath kit for a baby, with a tiny homemade baby bed drawing a crowd. Lydia Mae Arney, Mary Lee Wilson, and Margaret Coffey demonstrated bed making while Miss Druliner taught stimulant administration and hot foot bath techniques to Velma Holland, Marie Ward, and Bertha Ford.
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Lydia MaeArney
Mary Lee Wilson
Margaret Coffey
Miss Druliner
Velma Holland
Marie Ward
Bertha Ford
Fifth grade classroom exhibit with posters and books
The fifth grade room was decorated for an exhibit with posters books and scrapbooks. English books this year included Hallowe en pets famous artists Christmas bird and letter notebooks. A visitor Mary Thornhill came Thursday morning and Pattie Everheart notes the visit with hope for a return.
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Hallowe'en
Birds of
Texas
T. B
Mary Thornhill
Pattie Everheart
Sixth Grade Texas History Display Receives Praise
A blue and yellow theme dominated the sixth grade Friday as students showcased Texas history and heroes using the Texas bluebonnet. Large United States maps with social science features drew favorable comment, while percent booklets, number word books, and a clever division of fractions poster completed the display.
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Texas
United States
Language arts posters and cabin models in home unit
The display featured careful arithmetic training and two tables of notebooks on letter writing building stories and posters about communication and punctuations. A large log cabin built from broom handles snuff boxes and a cigar box stood beside a smaller twig cabin with two cave men and a poster of tools used by them.
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Texas
Social science maps and exhibits draw crowd in Whitewright
patrons praised the Whitewright social science maps last Friday likening them to professional work. The arithmetic exhibit featured a miniature farm and city home with arithmetic challenges. Language arts displays included Chinese posters about Young Fu, English posters, and a long table of attractive notebooks drawing attention.
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Whitewright
Morris Fogle Gillett
Billie Jack Harper
Child Light by Edith N. Kranebell
Poem expresses longing for a child’s gaze to spark benevolence and warmth in the speaker. Imagery centers on a bedside fairy tale and the dawn of youth, highlighting trust, wonder, and springtime through one child’s eyes.
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Edith N. Kranebell
Food costs seen rising for families in coming weeks
Federal experts report retail food costs at a six year high with a 7 percent year over year rise and only eggs showing a downward trend. They warn the trend will stay slightly upward into May as drought reduced supplies.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Beware of Tramp Pedlars at Cross Plains
A slick transient vender at the Cross Plains trading grounds used a bait and switch to sell cheap items at greatly inflated prices. He handed money back to appear generous, then took about 40 dollars profit in minutes. Victims ranged from 3 to 24 dollars, with about 15 people paying 3 dollars each. The incident was reported by the Cross Plains Review.
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Cross Plains Review
Government Publishes Child Care Booklets
Government branches publish free and low cost literature on family health and home sanitation. Materials come from the Department of Agriculture Public Health Service Treasury Department and Children's Bureau. Booklets may be bought or obtained directly from the Superintendent of Documents in Washington.
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Department of Agriculture
Public Health Service
Treasury Department
Children’s Bureau
Department of Labor
United States
Superintendent of Documents
Washington, D. C
Washington
Bureau
The Luckless Book Peddler Knocks Next Door
A frazzled book peddler asks if famous authors are in the house. A grumpy woman refuses each name and notes they do not take ledgers, advising him to try the next door where ledgers are accepted.
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Charles Dickens
Robert Louis Stevenson
Walter Scott
Scuffless Heels By Dupont Chemists And Fossil Theories
The article discusses du Pont chemists creating plastic pyralin from cellulose to yield scuffless High heel material. It also quotes a German science review arguing against missing links between man and ape and noting sudden appearances of animal groups in paleontological history.
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du Pont
Nature
Review
Ontario uses quick electric thaw method in homes
R L Dobbin describes a rapid thawing system at a Toronto utilities meeting. A secondary wire attached to the basement service pipe and another to a near fire hydrant delivers 11 to 22 volts at 200 to 800 amperes through a pipe thawing transformer. Costs range from 225 to 500 dollars. Thawing to a house costs 1.78 dollars including labor and transport.
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Ontario
Association of Municipal Utilities
Toronto
R. L. Dobbin
The
Utilities Commission
Peterborough
Ont
W. E. McDonald
Ottawa
Akron firm trims desk edges to save silk stockings
Officials of the Akron Rubber Company have installed rubber edgings on desk legs, typewriter stands, and chairs to prevent runs in silk stockings worn by stenographers and secretaries. Rough edges on desks wreck thousands of stockings annually, an estimate says.
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Akron Rubber Company
German morphogeneticist ends fourteen years study on Darwin Haeckel view
Prof. Max Westenhofer, a German morphogeneticist, concludes after fourteen years of anatomical research that the Darwin Haeckel theory is challenged by his postlude findings. The scientist outlines implications for the theory’s accuracy and calls for further study.
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Max Westenhofer
Neanderthal Debate Slides Into Anthropological Dispute
In a fragmentary discussion, a commentator argues against classifying Neanderthal man as an ancestor, claiming he belongs to a distinct race and marks a descent toward a more animal-like species. The remark frames Neanderthal as a separate lineage rather than a direct precursor.
Archives Unveil Pressing Method To Save Old Documents
The Archives department of the United States Government now owns a machine that can restore brittle manuscripts by sandwiching them between two transparent sheets and applying steam and 1,500 pounds of pressure. The result preserves the document while making it visible through the covering.
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Archives Department
United States
Wise Children Tottle Reflects Night Birth Wonder
A five year old Wise Children Tottle asks why babies are born at night. His sister Lottie aged seven answers that babies need to find their mothers at home, offering a playful domestic explanation.
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Tottle
Lottie
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Dorotha Darwin Mary Dale King Marie Badgett
D. M. Roddy
Grammar School
Manning
Ricketts
Dorotha Darwin
Myrtle Taylor
Grace Harris
Lucille Star
Ann LaRoe
Betty Jane Harper
Whitewright Lumber Co
Grayson County
LaRoe’s
Sewall
Sewall’s
L. LaRoe & Co
Allis- Chalmers
J. H. Hollingsworth Whitewright
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