Mencken Birthday Gift to Pratt Library Reveals Rich Archive
HL Mencken prepares to celebrate his seventieth birthday by donating a vast literary collection to Baltimore’s Pratt Free Library. The archive includes original 1919 edition materials from The American Language and Who’s Who in his career, with 5,000,000 words of journalism, stored behind security but open to scholars.
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Baltimore
HL L. Mencken
Méneken
Jean
Pratt Free Library
Edgar Allan Poe
Hal+lis Street
Row
Mencken
Lattimore Herald
Herod
The
Sun
New York
Hollis Street
Mencker
Public Health TB Conference Aims at Community Health
Pittsburgh September meeting on improving Pennsylvania public health continues with Philip S Brough ton of the Mellon Foundation presenting the first day topic. Wilbur S Newstetter and Elmer B Cotrell discuss community organization and school health education ahead of Friday’s TB case finding panel led by Dr Russell Taegue. John O Huston will describe a record Christmas Seal sale for 1950 as part of Western Pennsylvania tuberculosis worker meetings.
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Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania
Philip S Broughton
A. W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Foundation
Pennsylvania Tuberculosis and Health Society
Wilbur S. Newstetter
Unversity of
Elmer B. Cottrell
State Department of Public Instruction
J. Edwin Farmer
Ohio Tuberculosis and Health Association
TB Association
Russell EB. Taegue
Public Health Service
Henry Phipps Institute
Philadelphia
John O. Huston
Lawrence County Tuberculosis Society
Allegheny
Armstrong
Beaver
Butler
Cambria
Clarion
Christmas seal session to be chaired by Mrs Sutton
Mrs Sutton executive Secretary of the Indiana County Tuberculosis Society will preside at the Christmas seal session Friday afternoon. The item also notes variations in productivity per man per day across coal mining operations and cites historical figures from the U S Bureau of Mines regarding tonnage per man-day through 1900 to 1907 and current trends.
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Crawford
Bri
Payette
Forest
Greene
Indiana
Jeffernon
Lawrence
Mercer
Venango
Warren
Washington
Westmoreland
Mra
J. Blair Sutton
Indiana County Tuberculosia Society
U. S
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HL. Mencken
Bituminous Coal Institute
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Trol Tiis
Indianal DA
Mg Rey Rymeing
Torm Bray
Sve
Sinclair Gasoline
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Sinclair
Murray W. Calhoun
Fifth & Phila
Charles F. Hildebrand
Oakland Ave
Maple St
B. L
Calhoun
Plumville
Roy Fleming
Shebota
Georgia
Tatarka
R. D
Salisburg
Vitali Bros
Dick Motor Company
Homer City
Adams & Frye
Alva Atkinson
Carl Brady
R. D. Creekside
Bowser Pontiac Sales
Blairsville
Joseph Conway
Hellwood
Phillip Filhart
D. A. Green
Joseph Pavlock
Penn Run
Mike Rich
Coral, Pa
Peterson
W. C. Richards
Clymer
Lawrence Roser
Brushvalley
James Ricci
BE. Gamble
R. du Indians
Charles Sadler
Indians
Robert Schirif
Alverda
Shumaker & Muir
Silvers Brothers
William Steele Rent
George Smeltzer
Shelota
Harold Steffy
Stewart
Swan
Fifth & Elm Sts
Swigart
BR. D
Creekside
John Urban
Blacklick
Sam Varassi
Beshbon
BE. Strittmatter
Wolfe
Josephine
Evergreen
A. Conrath
Marlon Center
Err
C. W. McNaughton
13Th Street Ext
Indiana, PA
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