Jokes
Soph: My stock in trade is brains.
Freshie : You've got a funny looking sample case.
The follo"wing was handed in on an examination paper
in American history:
General Braddock \vas killed in the Revolutionary
"Var. I-Ie had three horses shot...
According to John A. Skinner's story, Beaver Adz came running down the public road to town to get "whites" to go up and stop the fight. Skinner said Beaver Adz was an old coward and did not want any fighting. This was before he lost his eyesight....
Photos of David I. Frazer, founder of The Beaver Press, Wary Woolfenden Frazer, Jacob Henry White, school teacher known as "Daddy White," Beaver Tannery, later used as Beaver's first creamery
few blue-backed spelling books and McGuffey's Readers. Often there was only one book to a room, so it would be passed around from one pupil to another. Slates and slate pencils were scarce, notebooks and lead pencils were unknown. One woman who...
On March 21st she writes : "I closed my school. The pupils had made creditable improvement. The house of worship where I taught was a dread to me, so neglected and out of repair. It was, however, improved a little by the vigilance of the women of...
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Three Score and Ten in Retrospect
happy and agreeable." Naturally, one of the favorite family activities was when John and Orpha would take the children for ice cream cones. John would always get a lick at each of the cones to keep it from...
STRAIGHT IS THE GATE 71
Vietnam, you’re dead.” Although this interviewee never encountered this soldier after basic training, this abuse left an indelible mark on this man that lasted for decades and contributed to his desire to live in an...
The Human Element 47
“Generally their parents are incarcerated, or on drugs. There are a small percentage of parents going to school or away for employment. So they leave the children with the grandparents. The positive thing is that they are not...
No pirates no princesses 164
M: Indirectly.
I: And the faith that you are.
M: We‘re Jewish. But we‘re not very, we try. I think it‘s indirect. They go to Hebrew school,
you know, we turn the TV off at dinner. We talk at the table, there are...