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Newspaper Article on Retirement of Laura CahoonEntry/Object ID
2000.FIC.02.315Scope and Content
The Cleveland Press Home
No. 11632 Cleveland, Thursday, Sept. 9, 1915 Weather blurb One Cent
Front page:
108 VICTIMS OF ZEPPELIN / RAID ON HEART OF LONDON
At least 20 are know to be dead. Marconi cabled by wireless to the United Press confirming the bombing.
CONFESSES / MURDER OF / RICH WIDOW
Article about a servant who murdered Mrs. Elizabeth Nichols to steal her jewels.
"I'LL MISS CHILDREN'S VOICES," SAYS TEACHER / WHO RETIRES TO FARM AFTER 45 YEARS LABOR
When interviewed she was sitting on the front porch of Rose Hill. Martha had passed away. The colonial house was 97 years old. Inside the home is mahogany furniture of a past generation, portraits in oil, pier-glasses and accumulated treasures.
She taught her first graders to salute the flag and encouraged patriotism. She was in the Daughters of the American Revolution and War of 1812.
She always taught first grade except for one year when she moved to second grade and then went back as soon as possible to first grade.
Always prayed with her students:
Now before we work today / we will not forget to pray / to God who kept us through the night / and waked us with the morning light.
Teacher has to be a mother as often as she has to be a teacher.
Taught four years at a country school in Avon, then Charter Oak School and later in Union School, then in Barkwill and the last at the Detroit School.
Quote regarding how precious children are and the need to love them.
p. 15 Ad for Sargol the Flesh Builder
TO PUT ON FLESH / AND INCREASE WEIGHT
Chart showing projected weight
If a woman is 5'5" she should weigh 138# and a man 145#
If men are 6' they should weigh 182# and women 174#
p.17 Real estate adsCollection
Early Family Papers: CahoonRelationships
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Cahoon, LauraPerson or Organization
Marconi, GuglielmoPerson or Organization
Nichols, ElizabethRelated Events
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Laura Cahoon Retirement
