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to promote her cause. Despite her peculiarities (such as hanging her laundry in the classroom) she was thought to be "an exceptionally good teacher". When she died, Bruce "left the astounding sum of $ 10,000 to be fought over by her siblings and their offspring in the United States and to be used as proof by civic officials in
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In time, she was appointed to a full-time teaching position, but she had lost her seniority and was working for less pay than before. She remained at the Albro Street school until 1901 when she took the job of teaching at the old
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