Dickinson College stages commencement week in Carlisle
Large crowd attends the Dickinson College and Law school exercises as alumni celebrate the hundred thirty second commencement. Highlights include Shakespeare play Midsummer Night’s Dream, baccalaureate sermon by Dr James Henry Morgan, and class day events. Lawson Swartz Laverty wins top honors with the valedictory. honorary orations go to Kathryn Hodgson Heister Hornberger Elizabeth Howard. Phi Beta Kappa selections include Paul F Laubenstein and Lawson S Laverty.
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Carlisle
Dickinson College
Law School
L. J. MecAnney
New York
Roberta Rife
New Cumberland
Hermia
Margaret
Eleanor May
Harrisburg
Lillian M. Kell
Steelton
James Henry Morgan
Luther Barton Wilson
Old West
Gleen
Eugene Allen Noble
Morgan
Methodist Conference
Lawson Swartz Laverty
Sylvan Terrace
Nyack
N. Y
John Patton
Kathryn Hodgson
Felton
Del
Heister R. Hornberger
Sinking Spring
Elizabeth Howard
Mount Carmel
William W. Edel
Baltimore
Leonard R. Hagner
Wilmington
Lester R. Hecht
Lock Haven
Robert B. Kistler
Minersville
J. Luther Neff
Gordon
Thermophone promises clearer long distance phone calls
London experts report Dutch engineer Pierre de Lange has invented a thermophone that regulates sound in the receiver to cut rattling noises. Scotland Yard preliminarily accepts the device as practical and plans to adopt a system. The invention uses air waves in the receiver with a platinum wire to reduce jarring waves and improve whisper clarity. A second item notes a memorial service in Milton, Pennsylvania for Charles H. Trate, former leader of the Twelfth Regiment Band.
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London
Pierre de Lange
de Lange
England
Scotland Yard
Scoland Yard
Vair
Milton
Twelfth Regiment
National Guard of Pennsylvania
the Sons of Veterans
Charles H. Trate
Watsontown
Recent Deaths in Central Pennsylvania
Central Pennsylvania notices outline: Mrs. George E. Keller 53 died Saturday. born in Georgetown and joined Lutheran church organizers. Elizabeth Mohler 85 died Saturday at New Holland. survived by one son and three grandchildren. Dr. D. R. McCormick funeral held Saturday in Lancaster with Rev. Robert MacGowan officiating. Samuel N. Dickey 68 died in Lewistown after two days of illness. formerly with Bradstreet’s Commercial Agency in Pittsburgh for 40 years.
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George E. Keller
Georgetown
New Holland
Elizabeth Mohler
Seonces
Marietta
D. R. McCormick
Lancaster
Robert MacGowan
First Presbyterian Church
Lewistown
Samuel N. Dickey
Bradstreets Commercial Agency
Pittsburgh
Deaths of Harry C Coppenhaver and Nathan Stambaugh
Harry C Coppenhaver 40 of Hershey died in Harrisburg hospital from typhoid fever after heading the Hershey Chocolate shipping dept. He formerly served as express agent for the Philadelphia and Reading railroad and belonged to Washington Camp 705 and Hershey Volunteer Fire Co. He leaves wife, Elizabeth, and children Charles and Elizabeth. Nathan Stambaugh, about 60, of West Keller street, suffered a serious bicycle accident returning from work at Eberly and Orris Manufacturing, sustaining head and shoulder injuries with a skull exposure and facial cuts after his bike fork broke.
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Hershey
Harry C. Coppenhaver
Harrisburg Hospital
Hershey Chocolate Factory
Coppenhaver
Derry Station
Philadelphia and Reading
Washington
Patriotic Order Sons of America
Hershey Volunteer Fire Company
Elizabeth
Charles
Mechanicsburg
Nathan Stambaugh
West Keller Street
Eberly and Orris Manufacturing Company
Double Anniversary at St. Marks Lutheran Church Mechanicsburg
In Mechanicsburg Pennsylvania yesterday morning St. Mark's Lutheran Church celebrated a double anniversary. The forty third year of Pastor Rev Dr H N Fegley and the forty fourth year of the Sunday school were marked with roses peonies mock orange decorations an arch gates ajar and a program of recitations songs and a special sermon by the pastor. Committee on arrangements included Miss Edith Mumma Mrs Peter Simmons and Mrs M B Ibach.
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Mechanicsburg
St. Mark’s Lutheran Church
H. N. Fegley
Edith Mumma
Peter Simmons
M. B. Ibach
When Sleeps at Bliss A bank plot and a staged burglary
The tale centers on President Darius Brown at the Fourth National Bank facing a self inflicted death verdict amid embezzlement charges. The plot reveals his teller Joseph Drum, a staged vault burglary, and Brown’s cynical manipulation as a dramatic twist unfolds with a Pinkerton man and a camera trap in the vault.
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Darius Brown
Pinkerton
Mr. Drum
Travers
Joseph Drum
Gayety
Fourth National
Drum
Brown
Drummond
Ushers elect officers at Baughman Memorial Church
In New Cumberland Pennsylvania at a meeting of the Ushers Association R L Beckley was elected president. Elected as vice presidents were Harry Bare and F N Burns with Earl Bates as secretary and Parker Minter as treasurer.
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New Cumberland
Ushers
Baughman Memorial Methodist Church
R. L. Beckley
Harry Bare
F. N. Burns
Earl Bates
Parker Minter
Salvation Army Marks Fifty Years In Sunbury Celebration
Sunbury churches and the local Salvation Army held a fiftieth anniversary events with a parade led by Gaskin's Military Band. Mayor H T Keiser joined marchers and spoke, as Colonel Richard E Holt of Philadelphia delivered the anniversary address.
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Salvation Army
Sunbury
Gaskin
H. T. Keiser
Reform Burgess
Richard E. Holt
Philadelphia
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Digkingon College
Beecham’s
Francis Yarnall
World's Fair Co
Wildwood
Wildwood Crest
Sey
Whitesell
N. J
Atlantic City, N. J
Great Ocean
Merchants & Miners Trans. Co
Boston
Savannah
Jacksonville
W. P. Turner
Bell Phone
Locust Street
Dauphin Electrical Supplies Company
Market Street
Pennsylvania
Java
Cele Pathe Oh
Kentucky Fields
Joseph Maze
Anna Louise
Clarence Drain
Delaware
J. Helmsley
Bethel Church
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