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The Cairo Daily Bulletin
Cairo, Alexander County, Illinois
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Report on the Normal School session held on Monday, August 19, detailing lessons in oral sounds, physiology (food stuffs), botany (plant parts), natural philosophy (motive power and motion), and zoology (birds). Lists attending teachers from Union, Pulaski, Alexander, Massac counties, Goose Island, and Cairo, including Ida M. Williams, M. F. Kelsey, and others.
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The Normal school continued its sessions this morning. The first subject of instruction was in oral sounds of letters and syllables, etc.
In physiology, food stuff's were treated of: their qualities and effects on the human organization
In Botany the different parts of plants and their various offices in the economy of nature.
In Natural Philosophy the lessons of instruction were on motive power. resistance, illustration of motion, etc.
In Zoology, birds, their construction. habits and modes of flight.
We give below the names of all the teachers, with the exception of one or two who have been in regular attendance since the opening of the school :
Ida M. Williams, Union county : M. F Kelsey, Pulaski county; Mark McKee, Nannie McKee, Martha J. Gordon, Elias M. Glasgow, Alexander county : Wm. J. Finch, P. E. Brown, Goose Island.
Belonging to Cairo : Mrs. P. H. Taylor, Fannie E. Lyon, Helena Pyatt, Bibbee Crowley, Landonia Williams, (colored, first time.) Ella Purcell, Miss Yocum, Maggie Aubrey, Alice M. Lana, Sarah Hawkins, and Sidney Miller. Anna E. Hanston, Massac county.
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Cairo
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Monday, Aug. 19.
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The Normal school continued its sessions this morning with instruction in oral sounds of letters and syllables; physiology on food stuffs' qualities and effects; botany on plant parts and their roles; natural philosophy on motive power, resistance, and motion; zoology on birds' construction, habits, and flight. Names of attending teachers listed from various counties and Cairo.