University Receives Rare Library Sets For Browsing Room
Washington and Lee University will designate a private browsing room in the art gallery area to house T H H Patterson's bequest. The collection, about 1500 volumes, spans 50 years of best sellers to modern works with leather bindings and owner bookplates. Notable sets include Dictionary of National Biography Cambridge History of English Literature and Dibdin's 1817 Life of a noted critic.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington and Lee Library
T. H. H. Patterson
Ofladelphia
Blanche Menn
Dictionary of National Biography
Cambridge History of English Literature
T. F. Dibdin
London
Varsi
Masson
John Milton
Marco Polo
Boswell
Doctor Johnson
George Borrow
Moore
Byron
Feilding
Burns
Ovide
Paris
World Famous Conductors Lead Radio Orchestra Series
The Atwater Kent Radio Hour announces a nation wide concert series featuring famed conductors such as Willem van Hoogstraten Fritz Reiner and Artur Rodzinski. The expanded Atwater Kent Orchestra will support guest maestros in a full symphonic unit. Also highlighted are classical editions from the Loeb Library and Crowe Cavalcaselles art volumes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Josef Pasternack
Atwater Kent
A. Atwater Kent
Atwater
Philharmonic Orchestra
Sun Bathing Vacationists Favor St. Petersburg As Ideal Mecca
Sun bathers flock to St. Petersburg Florida as a sun mecca with municipal beaches and daily sun bathing programs. Physicians and tourists study tanning while city officials keep a permissive stance as beachgoers enjoy extended hours from dawn to twilight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Petersburg
Fla
Mimsy
Bald Eagle Captured by Scout Near Treasure Island
Kenneth Jackson, 16, of Glenside captured a large American Bald Eagle with a rope lasso on the Delaware River shore while hiking to a Boy Scout camp. The bird, about four to six feet wingspan, was brought to the Philadelphia Zoo, then turned over to the gardens. Zoologist C Emerson Brown identifies it as a young bird uncommon for Treasure Island area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia Zoological Gardens
Kenneth Jackson
Glenside
Pennsylvania
Delaware River
Treasure Island
Scout Jackson
Jackson
Zoological Gardens
C. Emerson Brown
Pocono Mountains
Mr. Brown
Merchants and Miners Inaugurates Jacksonville Miami Service
Effective December 3 the Merchants and Miners Transportation Company will begin passenger service between Jacksonville and Miami Florida. Five new ships the S S Alleghany Berkshire Chatham Dorchester and Fairfax will operate the service. Sailings from Jacksonville December 3 14 20 23 27 and then every Monday and Friday from Miami to Jacksonville December 5 15 22 25 with later adjustments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Merchants and Miners Transportation Company
Jacksonville
Miami
Florida
S. S. Alleghany
Berkshire
Chatham
Dorchester
Fairfax
Atlantic
Junior Chorus to Sing at Floridan in December
Sunshine City’s 150 child chorus from St. Petersburg will appear in costume at the Hotel Floridan in Honey in the Hills at 2 p.m. on Saturday December 7 for a free concert. The hour long recital features dancing, solos and chorus pieces directed by Bernard Thomas with Opie Read greeting guests at a luncheon hosted by W. J. Howey. The group will travel by bus to Howey in the Hills under W. A. Kenmuir who organized and sponsors the chorus.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sunshine City
St. Petersburg
W. J. Howey
Howey
Thanksgiving guests and church schedule noted in Tangerine
Thanksgiving dinner guests from Tangerine and nearby towns gather in Orlando and Inverness. Residents visit Shrine activities in Orlando. Tangerine Improvement Society meets to plan winter, with annual meeting set for the first Wednesday in January.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Brown
Rae Brown
Julia Howard
Mrs. Godfrey
Orlando
Clarence. Estey
Leon Estey
Theodore Estey
Tampa
Harriet Parkhurst
Clara Bemis
the Tangerine Improvement Society
Also Mentioned on This Page
Reitz Reiner
New York Sym
Willem van Hoogetraten
Portland, Symcomcerts
New York
Fritz Reiner
Goethe
Schiller
Pepy
Nerian
Metropolitan Opera
Eugene Gorassens
Rochester Symphony Orchestra
Enrique Fernmandez Arbos
Madrid Symphony Orchestra
St. Louis Symphony Orchestra
Artur Rodzinski
Los Angeles Symphony Orchestra
Philharmonic of New York
Curtis Institute of Music
Edies
Loeb Classical
Italy
Enrique Fernandez
Arbos
Ante BaDanskky
Wilkem Mengelberg
Alexander Smallens
Willem van Hogstraten
Eugene Goossens
John Lodwick
Philadelphia
Transport Company
Frank Howard
Inverness
Charles Blow
Eugenia Terrill
Middlebury, Vt
E. W. Dahlin
Clarence’ Estey
E.W. Shaw
Mount Dora
G. W. Rawton
S. Orange Expert
Christmas Club
First National Bank
Member
Federal Reserve System
Lake County
Tavares
Geo. J. Dykes
Clerk Circuit
Sidel’s Market
Athens Business College
Athens
Georgia
U. S. Army
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!