Fifty young Jews will be accepted for training in artisanship by the central administration of the Polish Jewish artisans Schools, associated with the Jewish Colonization Association.
The youths will emerge after one year of schooling as locksmiths, mechanics, carpenters, weavers, house painters and decorators.
The agricultural training school maintained by the ORT in Lithuania will accept thirty German Jewish boys as students in February for one year of training.
J. B. Freiheim was studying at the Louisiana State Military Academy when the Civil War broke out, whereupon he enlisted in the Confederate Army and as sergeant led his company in a Tennessee battle after every commissioned officer had been killed.
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