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Opening of Public Schools Delayed Amid Paralysis Outbreak
Philadelphia August 30 The public school opening is postponed to October 2 to curb infantile paralysis as Dr Krusen and the elementary schools committee meet at City Hall. Five deaths including ten year old Alfred Shick of Girard College and all new cases reported since morning. Teachers to report a week early to prepare makeup work as the city amends its plan. Also in brief an embargo on perishable shipments by the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe railway begins immediately.
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Philadelphia
Krusen
Board of Education
City Hall
Alfred Shick
Girard College
Desinuel G. Dizon
Health
John P. Garber
Henry R. Edmunds
William Bowen
Johan Wanamaker
Alexander Simpson, Jr
Thomas Shallcross
Santa Fe
Topeka
Kan
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway
J. R. Koontz