Scherer, Ron E. (author) and Meckfessel, Yvonne Scherer (author)
Format:
Book
Publication Date:
2015
Published:
USA: Persimmon Grove Publishing, Claremont, Illinois.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 141 Document Number: D06237
Notes:
295 pages., Reports the history of 80-plus one-room schools in a southeastern Illinois county, including an examination of an education system that helped both slow and bright students. Identifies teachers at those rural schools and some of the "pupils who learned their lessons well." Traces the demographic shift from farm to city in Richland County.
USA: University Press of America, Lanham, Maryland.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D02874
Notes:
230 pages., Documents ready-print services (sometimes known as patent insides)that furnished newspapers printed on one side, or on two or more pages, to subscribing publishers. Estimated in 1912 to reach 60 million readers in the U.S. Author explores what was being written in those newspapers, and by whom.
