Whipple's Home School Journal, Vol. I, No. 12 (December, 1875)

Mystic River [Groton], Ct, 1875. Modest-sized newspaper (33cm.). Four pages. Later horizontal fold. This school was established in 1869 by Jonathan Whipple and claimed to have good success utilizing their method of "oralism" which utilized "Whipple's Natural Alphabet as part of a system of "articulation and lip-reading" while rejecting the use of sign language. We don't know how many issues of this promotional newspaper were published. OCLC lists one holding -- Galludet University which has 3 issues: Vol. 1, Nos. 6 & 7 (March & April, 1874) and Vol. 2, No. 1 (April, 1876). The residential school was reorganized in 1896 as Mystic Oral School for (truncated) the Deaf with heavy reliance on state aid; operation of the school was taken over by the State of Connecticut in 1921. The school continued to operate until 1980. (Inventory #: 88991)