A compendium of modern geography : with remarks on the physical peculiarities, productions, commerce, and government of the various countries; questions for examination at the end of each division and descriptive tables in which are give the pronunciation, and a concise account of every place of importance throughout the world
"Sanctioned by the Council of Public Instruction, Quebec, for the elementary and model schools, protestant and Catholic and as a general English reader in French schools"
Only weeks after they had been ordered by Agent McLaughlin (center) to arrest Sitting Bull as an attempt to calm the growing unrest from the Messiah Craze (Ghost Dance), the Sioux police pose victoriously for Barry's camera. The arrest attempt was disastrous, resulting in the deaths of six Indian police, Sitting Bull, his son Crow Foot and eight of Crow's followers. The panic which followed culminated in the infamous Wounded Knee affair two weeks later. Red Tomahawk (front center) killed Sitting Bull. (Harbaugh, P., 1982)
"For pupils preparing for promotion examinations ... entrance examinations ... public school leaving examinations ... junior and senior leaving examinations, students preparing for teachers' certificates, and all other official examinations"
Hard places in grammar made easy, with a large number of carefully selected sentences and passages for practice : for the use of teachers and students of the high schools and of the public school leaving and continuation classes
Primary exercises in arithmetic : no. 5 : fourth year, first half : exercises on the simple rules : multiplication by factors and two figures : division by factors without remainders : sight exercises on the tables of time, length, etc. : notation and numeration up to six places : abundance of sight work
Primary exercises in arithmetic : no. 6 : fourth year, second half : simple rules : multiplication by two and three figures : division by factors with remainders : long division : notation and numerotation up to nine places : sight work