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Some teachers are grateful for the freebies. Sandra Hopkins, who has only $500 a year to spend on supplies for her second-graders in Slatington, Pennsylvania, says information sent to her by such groups as the National Dairy Council is often more up to date than that in many textbooks. "I feel I have the knowledge to filter out and use only material focused toward my curriculum," Hopkins says...
...Count's. The life of Samuel Henry Kress could have been written by Horatio Alger, except for the fact that Kress never married the boss's daughter. Born in Cherryville. Pa., in 1863, he grew up a bookish boy who at 17 landed a teaching job in Slatington, six miles away. Kress's salary was only $25 a month, but he managed to save up enough money to open a novelty store in Nanticoke. Before long, he had a wholesale house in Wilkes Barre. By the time he died in 1955, there were 264 Kress stores from...
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