New Year Reception by the Misses Taylor at East Philadelphia
A Pleasant New Year social at the Misses Taylor home on East Philadelphia Street featured elaborate decorations in Christmas colors, laurel, holly, and pink and green satin motifs. About 75 guests attended with a buffet by Kuhn of Pittsburgh. aides included Mrs. D. Blair Taylor and Miss Mary McCartney among others. The notice also mentions a mail box illustration of postal rules about un stamped mail and carrier seizures in Busyrus, Ohio.
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Taylor
Misses Taylor
East Philadelphia Street
Kuhn
Pittsburg
A. Culp
D. Blair Taylor
John §. Wisher
James Sutton Blair
Mary McCartney
Martha
Charlotte Stuchell
Bertha Brownlee
Alice Taylor
Rural Route Mail Boxes Restricted Under New Rule
Government ruling affects owners along rural free delivery routes. It bans using rural mail boxes for private packages or any written communications not bearing proper postage. Many residents nationwide were found to misuse boxes for unapproved mail.
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Busyrus
Washington
Indiana men plan 60 day tour of Europe for alumni
Prof A M Hammers and M Gordon of Indiana Normal school will lead a tourist party to Europe next summer aimed at alumni. The trip covers Holland Germany Switzerland Italy Paris and England with 60 days of sights and a total cost of 425 dollars including passage and hotels. Departure is from New York on June 28 with arrival back in Philadelphia on August 26.
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Indiana
A. M. Hammers
M. ©. Gordon
Indiana Normal School
Europe
Messrs. Hammers
Gordon
New York
Holland
Germany
Switzerland
Italy
Paris
England
Philadelphia
Gothic Architecture in Chicago University Group
The Chicago Record-Emerald notes a strong Gothic group at the University of Chicago named for Founders' Tower Huntchinson Hall Reynolds Library Mandel Hall and the law building designed by Shepley Rutan Coolidge. The law building represents the perpendicular period with a grand interior hall high arches and a carved wooden ceiling. The main entrance evokes an early English baronial style.
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Chicoago
Chicago
Isngland
University of Chicago
Shepley, Rutan & Coolidge
Huntchinson Hall
Reynolds Elith
Mandel Hall
Law
Dozen Miles Below Ground Plan Stirs Little Hope
A celebrated English engineer proposes raising 25 million dollars to sink a shaft deep into the earth to study its depths and potential knowledge. He concedes the project may take eighty five years and may not aid the current generation. The note contrasts with other global mining explorations that found little astonishing at great depths. New York Tribune reports J W Osterhout and S A Rinn of Punxsutawney visiting town last Friday.
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de Birous
New York
Uribune
Fraudulent Door-to-Door Callers Claiming Representation
An overheard public notice warns residents that anyone calling at houses claiming to represent the group is a fraud. It states no agents exist and warns against attempting house visits in Indiana. The text then shifts to an ad-like testimonial about an optician, praising services and glasses from Fassel and associates near Shelocta, Pa, with claims of eye relief and satisfaction.
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Marion Center
Sickenberger & Co’s
Homer City
H. B. Vogel
J. W. Osterhout
S. A. Rinn
Ponxsutawney
W. E. Mahaffey
Clawson House
Mr. and Men. W. OK. Munbinley
Mr. Thoms MM. Watt
Shelocta
Keeling
Mahaey
Tidiatha
Tean
Sean
J. C. Forsythe
Undertaker
L. Pattison Building
Your
Service
Jack Frost
Irving, the Jewier
Elgin and
Waltham Watch Companies
White Front
Stalin CE
John A. McCall
Ike
LOOS
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New York Insurance Dept
Great National Life Insurance Company
G Meade Marshall
BANK
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