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Title: Helen Keller Newspaper Notices
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Unknown
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Contributing Library: Samuel P. Hayes Research Library, Perkins School for the Blind
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ence mastered all. The desire to speak was the hardest of all to teach, for every vocal movement had to be learned and imitated by Miss Keller. Only after twenty years is she able to make herself heard and understood by large audiences. But she can speak and she uses her new power to spread cheer and happiness. I When Mrs. Macy explains all of these preliminary stages, an explanation that is of the profoundest interest, Helen Keller is introduced, and, by her teachers side, she delivers her message. At its close, sihe answers the questions of her audience, transmitted to her by her teacher. This is the most interesting part of the lecture for it reveals best the acuteness of her mind. This wonderful program will be given in the Winterstreet church, Thursday evening, under the auspices of the Cosmopolitan Club, at eight o'clock. The advances^e of tickets indicates that it will draw the largest lecture audience Hathy has ever had. . llteT-UcL er^ , 0 v- r y\ du^ (XY\^)r u t- I 1 „ i c^ I 3,.
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I LOKAL PRIZE FOR MISS HELEN KELLER. Miss Helen Keller, to tile right, holding the prize wiTf!!cfeig American Beauty roses at the Floral show, in New York, and her instructor, Mrs. John Macy. This marvelous young woman who has practically conquered such terrible aftictions as blindness, and the loss of hearing or speech, visited the various exhibits at the Floral show, and by tracing this petal and stems with her fingers picked out the standard flowers. She declared the chrysanthemum was her favorite flower, and marvelled at it being in bloom so early. HELEN KELLERS OPTIMiSM KEYNOTE OF LIFE. Helen Kellers optimism is but one of the many things to marvel at in this girl, who has had so many barriers between her and the pleasures of the normal being. Optimism will be the keynote of her lecture at the Franklin - streetchurch Tuesday evening, April 22, under the auspices of the Young Mens club. Optimism has been the keynote of her whole life. From a blank, a darkness, that has always surrounded

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