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Newspaper
Franklin
Location
Franklin, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 17, 1909
Page
6
The article lists members and pledges of campus Greek groups including Walter Beam and Elbert Larrison with Phi Alpha Pi, Kappa Delta Rho pledges Miss Elva Bowman, and Miss Rachel Wright of Indianapolis visiting Edgar Brown. It notes club activities, theater plans with William Owen, a Y M C A convention trip, and humorous quip about missing coal blamed on squirrels.
Poet recalls a dream visiting Washington Hamilton Emerson and Lincoln. The four statues joke and poke him as they converse. Lincoln applauds, Hamilton teases, Emerson jokes, Washington grins. At end the figure from Valley Forge whispers goodbye and the speaker reflects on great men as human.
A playful quip contrasts a typewriter asking why it has many keys with pencils answering in a riddle. The snippet ends with the pencils puzzled by why rubbers are worn on heads, attributed to St Nicholas.
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