History of the Seventh Grade Class of 1935
A reflective piece tracing the Seventh Grade class from 1928 29 through 1934 35. It lists teachers Miss Schooling Miss Mae Hall Miss Sallye Hamilton Miss Fulton Mr Bryant Miss Noe and staff changes, added students and a memorial for Ruth Vestal, ending with hopes for the class entering high school in 1939.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Margie Nell
Doris
Wilma Lee
Marniet Helen
Margaret
Willie
Mary
William
Miss Schooling
Miss Mae
Charles
Bill
Sallye Hamilton
Growney
Clyde
J. B
Clifton
Enterprise
Miss Hall
Mahurin
Donald
Kansas
Ruth Vestal
Faustine
Pilot Grove
Rudolph
R’s
Ruth R. A
Ray
Burma
Mr. Manning
Miss Montgomery
Mrs. Roddy
Manning
The average man and a fly catching contest winner
A joke explains the phrase the average man. Tokio held a fly catching contest with winners who bagged 198,000 and 190,000 as prizes. The note ends with a local encouragement to spend money in Whitewright.
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Tokio
Whitewright
Blind since two, English youth regains sight at 20
London reports David Williams, blind from age two, regains vision after surgery at twenty, but finds people less beautiful than he expected. J. W. Tudor Thomas notes the case and its reflections on humanity.
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London
David Williams
J. W. Tudor Thomas
Blind Williams Sees Truth Behind Darkened Life
An eye specialist helps Williams regain sight and he reflects on past distortions of faces. He says his ideal was too high and he once imagined people by odd shapes. Williams now learns to write and hopes to become a painter of faces and figures.
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Williams
Marriage customs show evolution from capture to consent
A historical overview traces marriage rituals from capture to purchase to consent. Early groomsmen aided a capture, later brides staged mock battles yet yielded to the groom. The piece notes the decline of the obedience clause and the persistence of ceremonial forms reflecting subjugation.
Traditions of Weddings Then and Now
The excerpt discusses wedding customs such as giving away the bride and throwing old shoes as age old symbols of transferring property. It notes the bridal veil as a sign of female subjugation and explains the wedding ring as indicating a binding to a husband.
Trends in sugar, radios and farms in the United States
The text notes per capita sugar intake rising sevenfold in a century, Mae West as a Kentucky colonel, livestock poison from young cockleburs, autos worldwide led by the US, only ten dry states, post office money order profits, widespread radio sets, oil costs to auto owners, and farm migration shifts with a 1932 farm population peak.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Mae West
Kentucky
Alabama
Georgia
Kansas
Mississippi
North Carolina
North Dakota
Oklahoma
South Carolina
Tennessee
Texas
Post Office Department
Texas Proposes Free Textbooks for All Schoolchildren
A joint resolution and constitutional amendments in Texas propose to fund free government text books for every scholastic age child through revised school funding and ad valorem taxes. The measure calls for state text books and shifts to a salary system for many officers, with elections set for August 1935.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State of Texas
State OF
Texas
State Board of Education
Board of Education
Gerald C. Mann
Commissioners’ Court
Justice
Gerald C
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Pig) Jones
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Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
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Massay Hall
Princeton
N.J.A
Philadelphia
New Yas
Nathaniel. Fitzrandolph
Buldings
Oxford
Rassau Mall
Continental Congress
Cwmadelophia
Nassau Hall
Wation
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