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First Prize Library Celebration at Norris J Hoffman School
West Philadelphia hosts a grand evening tone to honor Norris J Hoffman School for winning The Times Library Contest. Principal and teachers convey thanks as Philadelphia Times editors present a library worth hundreds of dollars, with speeches, music, and a pledge to foster reading among 1000 students and the community.
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Hoffman School
Times City
West Philadelphia
Schuylkill
Norris J. Hoffman School
Ths Times
Board of Education
Joseph R. Rhoads
Jean Paul Richter
Mr. Rhoads
Philadelphia Trams
Darwin G. Venno
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Philadelphia Times
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Times Eight O'Clock Club
Fourth Ward
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Times Library
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Rhoads
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Lord Bacon
Dr. Jacobs
the Times
Ranken
Jacobs
Miss May Johnson
Stoddart Saylor
Lohr
Piccolomini
Seneca
Generone
Colonel McClure
George Hausman
William F. Martin
Robert Mars
Charles H. Harvey
M. D
A. T. Lister
W. Hess Pavitt
Henry O'Neill
Harold Annes
Sas
Ida E. Packer
Edith Hall
E. Y. Kauffman
Ella S. Breining
Mary James
Maude Sproule
Sophia M. Baker
Marie A. Bradley
Mary Macfarlane
Mary C. McClane
Ida Pyrah
Martha Sproule
Mariel S. Enos
Ellen L. Broomall
Anna W. Roper
Laura V. Beckley
A. M. Stringfield
Lillie G. Toole
Helen Wilkinson
Ella B. Mitchell
Appa C. McCartney
Jennie B. Suplee
J. F. Byler
Jesse George
J. H. Michener
Martha Washington
John Collins