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- 1894 (Creation)
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4 pages
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A literary and debate club at the Model School from 1882 to 1917. The members (only young men) focused on improving their oratory skills, personal appearance, and general comportment, with one member serving as "Critic" to evaluate the boys' behavior during each meeting. The literary aspects of the Society led to the publication of "The Signal" in 1885--while it started as a literary magazine through the Thencanic, it quickly escaped the Society's control and became a general Normal/Model School periodical. This club ended when the Model School closed in 1917. This version of the Thencanic should not be confused with the later revival in the 1930s with college students.
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Model School student and Thencanic Society member, ca. 1890s. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/53720848/carlton-h-rickey
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Thencanic Society critic, 1893. Possibly the Rev. Milton R. Eastlack from West Virginia (the only person on FindAGrave with that name), but no definitive link is known. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/121527613/milton-r-eastlack
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Member of the Thencanic Society, ca. 1890s. Son of Joseph Ott, of the Ott & Brewer porcelain company. Unable to find specific birth/death years, but see the obituary attached on Joseph's page: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/36591613/joseph-ott
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Model School student and Thencanic Society member, ca. 1890s. Later a New Jersey State Assemblyman. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/53902420/william_hartwell_blackwell
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Thencanic Society member and Secretary ca. 1890s, later Lieutenant during the Spanish-American War. Became an engineer, and later a newspaper publisher in Minnesota and Pennsylvania. First name has various spellings; the standard one is based on his tombstone: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/78735035/cleaveland-hilson https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1948/01/19/85202020.html?pageNumber=23
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This document contains the full text of House Bill 2, which appears in the packet of dockets from 1894. It also includes the committee report proposing amendments, as well as a description of further actions on the bill. Not every name has been definitively connected with a person. Transcription included.