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60 years ago
MARQUETTE -- Marquette area residents interested in putting their skills to use in developing nations around the world are invited to take the peace corps place,ent test at 9 a.m. on Saturday, Nov. 12, at the U.S. Post Office Building. The Peace Corps uses the placement test to determine how an applicant can best be utilixed overseas. The test meaures general aptitude and the ability to learn a language, not education or achievement. (If test scores indicate a limited language-learning ability, for example, he Peace Corps tries to place the applicant in an English - speaking coutry,) The placement test requires no preparation and is non-competitive -- an applicant can neither pass nor fall. The application form, not the placement test, is the ost important factor in the selection of volunteers. Persons interested in serving in the Peace Corps must fill out an application, if they have not already done so, and present it to the tester before taking the test. Applications may be obtained at the post office or form the Peace Corps, Washington, D.C. 20525.
90 years ago
MARQUETTE -- The forty-eighth annual firemen's Thanksgiving eve ball will be held Wednesday night, Nov. 25, it was announced yesterday by the committee in charge of the event. The ball will be held at the Brookton, but the orchestra has not been selected. Members of the committee handling general arrangements for the affair are: William J. Johnston, chief of the department; John Siegel, secretary of the association, and Arthur Falstedt. Ticket sales will be started this week-end, the committee announced, and all members of the association will begin the solicitation of merchants and business men Monday, November 9. Usually the largest public dance held in the city or vicinity during the year, the annual ball has long been considered the "top" event on the year's amusement program. Officials in charge of the ball said they hope to make the 1936 edition the most successful in the organization's history.
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