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SCHOOL OF INSTRUCTION (THE)
SCHOOL OF INSTRUCTION (THE). ST. JOHN'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH announced "The School of Instruction" on August 24, 1890. A free school of vocal musical instruction, it had been attended the previous winter by sixty males and fifty females. When a student was graduated from the preparatory school, he/she promised one year of participation in the choir. The instruction was provided by Professor B. F. Peters.
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Source:
"Free Music School," Dubuque Daily Herald, August 24, 1890, p. 4. Online: https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=_OG5zn83XeQC&dat=18900824&printsec=frontpage&hl=en
