Degrees for Young Men at Central High School Graduation
Eighty eight graduates of Central High School receive degrees sixty earn bachelor of arts and twenty eight bachelor of science. Ex Governor Pattison awards medals as Albert Griffith Miller leads with first honors at the ceremony chaired by President Robert Ellis Thompson at the Chestnut Street Opera House.
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Chestnut Street Opera House
Central High School
Robert Ellis Thompson
Henry Lowenberg
T. Rawlins Adams
Pattison
Samuel B. Huey
Central High School Committee
Board of Education
Harry Shelmire Hopper
Adams
James Freeborn
William Wrigley
Thomas A. Robinson
Richardson L. Wright
Harvey H. Hubbert
Alexander Adaire
Rudolph 8. Walton
Thomas W. Marchment
Thomas A. Grace
Albert Griffith Miller
Benjamin Kahn Liveright
Andrew Jackson
William Biggerstaff
Harry Lowenberg
Albert G. Miller
TimEs Eight O'Clock Club
Thompson
Conlegi Baccalaures
Philadelphia
John Morris Dredger, Jr
Louis Pasteur
John Adam Anck, Jr
Henry Isaac Berman
Herbert William Kirby
Clinton Rogers Woodruff
Edgar Allan Poe
Robert Miller Gailey
Louis J. Lautenbach
Edwin Chase Emhardt
William H. Staake
Daniel W. Howard
Graduation Day Honors at The Athenaeum
The 1890s era commencement lists many graduates and distinguished students, with speeches by Rev S D Hoover and Principal William L Sayre. Awards include First to Fourth Honor, and several medals. The program features music, essays on public lands, Chinese immigration, and duty, ending with diplomas conferred by Rudolph S Walton.
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Edmund W. Kirby
the Athenaeum
Ralph H. Pendleton
Samuel B. Williams
Jane Grey
George H. Morris
West
Europe
M. Blumenthal
William L. Sayre
Sayre
Rudolph 8. Walton
Walton
Manual Training School
Diplomas Awarded to Central Manual Training School Graduates
Seventy one students at Central Manual Training School received diplomas at a Chestnut Street Opera House ceremony. The event featured decorated surroundings and remarks on duty, independent thought, and modern American manhood. A showcase of student work followed the diplomas, with principal Sayre inviting attendance at the school exhibit.
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Central Manual Training School
Chestnut Street Opera House
Sayre
Friends' Central Class Day Confers Graduation Honors
The Friends' Central School in Philadelphia held its class day ceremonies for the class of 97. Readings covered histories and prophecies with presentations by both girls and boys. Sixty-two students are listed for graduation including Caroline Comly Lalla Kindred Mildred Clark and Frederick Kretschmar among others.
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Friends’ Central School
Fifteenth
Race Streets
Lalla Enugenia Kindred
Caroline Farren Comly
Adele Marlett Zeliner
John Lovezey MacWatters
George McCabe Shearer
Benjamin Franklin Bean
Mildred Clark
Charles Samuel Moore
Audrey Constantine Kretschman
Lalla EB. Kindred
Caroline Sawtell Piers
Helen D. Walker
Caroline L. Betts
A. Constantine Kretschmar
Charles 8. Moore
B. Franklin Bean
George N. Bedwards
J. H. Gifford
W. ©. Janney
J. L. MacWatters
Joseph C. Haines
J. K. de Armond
Mary W. Gillam
Jessie B. Kindred
Caroline F. Pliers
George McC. Shearer
Irls
Caroline F. Comly
Jessie E. Kindred
Lalla E. Kindred
Jessie M. Lukens
William McCracken
Martha W. Moore
Elsie BR. Brooks
Maude M. Conrow
Sarah B. Mynee
Marian E. Laws
Josephine Levering
Alice M. Lukens
Ruth W. Peaslee
Caroline
Piers
Adah M. Scott
Edith J. Twitaing
Carolinel. Betts
Mary
Chandler
May H. Gillam
Laura M. Gilmour
Williamsport Dickinson Seminary Commencement Attended by Governors
The Williamsport Dickinson Seminary commencement at Lycoming Opera House featured Governor Hastings plus Attorn General McCormick Auditor General Mylin Secretary Reeder Secretary Latta and State Treasurer Haywood. Hastings added a benediction to the class as prize contest winners were announced.
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Williamsport
Williamsport Dickinson Seminary
Lycoming Opera House
Hastings
Attorn
McCormick
Mylin
The
Commonwealth
Reeder
Internal Affairs
Latta
Haywood
Fragmentary list of names and topics from a speech
A partial passage lists Eleanor Hoagland and Annie Schrade among speakers and topics like instrumental music oratory and mental science. Names such as Williamsport Sinnemahon Annapolis Newberry and Buffalo Run appear as fragments in the damaged OCR text.
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Gray
Eleanor Hoagland
Williamsport
Oratory
C. B. Piper
Annie Schrade
Williamseh
Golda Parlett
Annapolis
Cornelia Wilson
Newberry
Willis Hartzog
Buffalo Run
Ursinus College Grants Degrees to Eleven Graduates
Ursinus College conferred degrees on eleven graduates at the twenty seventh annual commencement in Bamberger Hall. Valedictory was given by Robert Mearnes Yerkes and salutatory by Maurice N Wehler. Degrees awarded include A B and D L degrees to a list of names with honorary degrees to four pastors. Prizes and the Duttera prize in church history were awarded, and Professor Hampton L Carson delivered the commencement oration on American biography. An evening reception honored the graduates.
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Collegeville
Ursinus College
Bamberger
John Oswald Reagie
Mt. Bethel
Herman Stoneroad Shelley
Manheim
Ralph Huston Spangler
John Potts Spatz
Boyertown
Maurice Nevin Wehler
Littlestown
Lewis Alvin Williamson
Capella
Robert Mearnes Yerkes
Grenoble
A L
Minnie Shepard Bremer
Schwenksville
D. D
Franklin F. Bahner
Trinity Reformed Church
Waynesboro
Emis Dahlman
Zion’s Reformed Church
Buffalo
N. Y
Joseph H. Hendricks
A. M
J. Stanley Burnfield
North Presbyterian Church
Phildelphia
Medico-Chirurgical College
Chamber Sets Embossed with Festooned Basin and Rose Deco
A fragmentary description notes a Dresden style chamber set featuring embossed festooned basin wild rose decorations and a handsome color palette. It mentions an oval pitcher and a jar as part of the pattern.
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Dresden
Remnants of Silks At The Bargain Table This Sale
A life like note announces a sale of long silk ends gathered rapidly at counters. An extensive assortment offers usefully long pieces priced at significant cuts, inviting quick purchases at the bargain table.
Summer Clothing and Boys Wear Sale
Advertises men s sack suits and alpaca coats with prices, plus boys and youths outfits including knee pants sailor suits wash clothes and bloomers with assorted fabrics and sizes. Highlights include serge and suitings half lined, Cheviot pieces, and wash pants in Moleskin for 13 15 year olds.
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Aig
Commencement at Dover Honors Wilmington Academy Graduates
Dover on June 17 reports the Wilmington Conference Academy commencement ended with diplomas for a four year class. Students delivered essays on topics such as The Man and Poet and Territorial Expansion amid music. Dr. W L Gooding conferred the diplomas and Hugh C. Browne was elected a trustee.
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Tur Times
Dover
Del
Wilmington Conference Academy
Tennyson
Ernest J. Hardesty
William Hargadine
Marie Antoinette
Amy Waddell
Public Schools
Delaware
John M. Betts
William H. Revelle
Edith A. Cahoon
Ha Taylor
Reuben F. Friedel
Ethelyn M. Hardeaty
The
Antilles
George Williams
John W. Prettyman
WL. Gooding
Academy
Hugh C. Browne
Browne
W Sue Sae
Pol- C8
Class Day For Girl Graduates At Girls High School
The commercial department of Girls' High School held its class day in the school building. The program featured a salutatory by class president M Adelaide Demp a class history by Helen Klein a class poem by Ellen Knoe berger and Anna Wilson a class prophecy by Aura Wilson presentations by Fannie axwell and a class gift presentation to the school by M A De Camp.
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Girls’ High School
M. Adelaide Demp
Helen Klein
Ellen Knoneberger
Anna Wilson
Aura Wilson
Fannie Axwell
M. A. de Camp
Electric Brevities Chronicle 19th Century Rail News
Dividends declared by Des Moines and Fort Dodge Railroad on preferred stock payable August 2. Various incidents include deaths by suicide in San Francisco and a renowned Pacific journalist's passing. Other notes cover railway sales rumors, a San Francisco inquest, Cornell University commencement, and labor union developments. A wealth of brief items reflects era rail, legal, and civic affairs.
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Des Moines and Fort Dodge Railroad
Isaac Norton
United States Internal Revenue Department
San Francisco
George Eustace Barnes
Pacific Coast
San Francisco Call
George W. Rustin
Colorado Midland Road
Colorado Midland Railway
Hoffman
Lees
Cornell University
Armory Hall
Ithaca
American Railway, Master Mechanics’ Association
Old Point Comfort
St. Johns
N. F
Newfoundland
Dean Colgan
Corning
N. Y
Typographical Union
International Pressmen’s Union
Walter C. Ong
Common Pleas Bench
Cleveland
Ohio
Dispensary
South Carolina
United States
Tried Robbery on Baltimore and Ohio Train Near St Louis
Sheriff Barnes and a six man posse pursued three Salem residents who planned to wreck and rob a B and O Southwestern passenger train on a trestle between Odin and Salem. Abe Tweed was fatally shot. Thomas Schumacher captured after a surrender. Tweed cannot live. The men planned to rob sleeping car passengers after stopping the train. the express car allegedly carried over 100000 dollars.
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St. Louis
E. P. Garner
Wabash Railway
East St. Louis
Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern
Odin
Salem
Garner
Abe Tweed
Chester
Ill
Thomas Schumacher
Indiana Penitentiary
New York Express
Barnes
Peached
Schenna
Hie
Mr. Gerner
Schumacher
Tweed
Man and boxer ingest laudanum in Philadelphia
Frank Gordon drank laudanum after buying a vial with pennies to stave off hunger. He collapsed in public and was hospitalized then placed in the City Farm. The man states he is from Macon Georgia and appears aged and worn. John Gallagher, a local boxing figure, also drank laudanum at his lodging to perhaps kill himself or someone else.
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Frank Gordon
Twelfth
Spruce Streets
Pennsylvania Hospital
Macon
Ohn Gallagher
Collapsible chafing dishes offered by Simons Bros
Twenty five collapsible chafing dishes with handle lamp dish and base sold by Simons Bros at 616 Chestnut. Ideal for camping parties and students needing compact outdoor dining gear priced at 4.75 each.
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Simons Bro & CO
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Friends
Central School
Guy William Hanley
Raymond J. Harris
A. B
Ac Hassler
Ernest W. Kelsey
A. William Albert Steel
William
William A. Aiken
John A
Aes
Jr . Berg
Henry I.berman
Ohn P. Bethel
Illiam Bretaff
G C. Bossert
Lewis W. Bremerman
David P. Brown
Howard V. D Bullinger
Alfred T. Clark
Robert Filet Ibert Frederick Giroux
Charles H. Goldsmith
Louis Goodfriend
Joseph R. Hayward
Darthy
Izel
Regnault Johnson
James F. H. Jones
Jonathan J. Jones
M. D
Benjamin K. Liveright
Alex. B. MacAllister
Harry E. McGouish
Samuel Moyer
William Patton
Ellwood C. Rutschman
Walter Spofford
William Tappen
Harold Evan Thomas
I John J. C. Watson
Webster K. Wetherill
Frank Harold Warner
William J. Fredericks
Aro
William R. Hellyer
Rotengaited
William W. Morris
Fies Lowden
John Adam Anck
de Witt Dukes Barlow
Herbert
Langfeld
Robert A
Garrick Mallory
Howard V. Bullinger
Arthur Stanley Cox
Paul Rosenwey
Aaron Leinbach Deeter
Oscar Clifton Staley
Rees Jones Fresconi
William H. Welsh
Carl Henry Hirzel
Jabez C. Beckett
Jacob Lowenstein
Charles W. Buvinger
Joseph L. Mack
Henry C. Christopher
Edward J. Nathan
George Copeland
Frank M. Ramsey
Elmer E. Craig
Albert G. Rowland
Howard
Cox
George A. Snook
Armand J. Gerson
Alfred A. Townsend
John H. Graham
Edgar ©. van Dyke
George N. Haasz
Thomas H. Walnut
Jacob Hoffman
James L. Wehn
Walter
Robert E. Berry, Jr
D. Brewer
Theo
Louis Chod Rarl F. Christy
Ee LP
Ae Ee Paaner
Ralf Copeland Henry . Coxey
Henry I. Curtis
Oliver T. Dill
George Hart
James A. Hayes
Edmund H. Hopper
Orange N. Jones
Erwin E. Krause
Taeers Kremer, Jr
William Linker
R. T. McCracken
Joees B. Morris
Edward Ost
Pollitt
Clarence H. Reed
Pennants Dintenfass
Ardrey W. Downs
Charles J. Drexler
Joseph B. Englander
Robert M. Falkehan
Harry D. Fisher
Charles Edwin Fox
James J. Gaffney
Elias Goodstein
Samuel J. Gottesfeld
Robert Gray
Pes G. Weed
L. J. Ha
Inda Cheater
Henry Roberts
Francis P. Sinn
Frank G. Snowden
Stankowitch
Alfred T. Steinmetz
Harry Bell Thaw
William N. Trinkle
William E. Walton
Harry L. Weinberger
Augustus M. Wessels
George H. West
Carl Hervey Williams
William M. Wilson
Rees Jones Frescolm
Robert Alexander Beggs, Jr
Herbert Sydney Langfeld
Paul Rosenwey, Jr
Abgeeees
Albert Grifith Miller
Eobert Miller
Emhartt
E. D. Beale
D. Hoover
D. D. Clyde W. Broomell
Ur Harvey
Roland G. Martin
Wallace Nelson Mayhew
James McAlister
William F. McCully
Albert H. Miller
Charles H. Moore
Lea Moore
George Holstein Morris
Alonzo Dom Fred . Myers
Charles T. Patton
Alfred Paulus
B. Frank Peddrick
Alvin C. Pflueger
John P. Ramage
George B. Reisse
William H. Rhoads
William H. Roper
B. Vallette Savin
Clarence W. Sinn
Thomas W. Ski
Thomas R. Adams
DeWitt_D. Barlow
B. William Harry Ke Bellows
Dillwyn P. Blakely
Charles Blum
Benjamin A. Brooks
Ralph B. Dale
Enry T. Eastwick
Franz Ehrlich
Robert M. Galley
Edward Johnson
Howard T. Karsner
Herbert W. Kirby
John J. Bell
William Mack
Ramsay Edwin E. Bisbert
Eugene Lam
William Blum
Rank V. Slack
Edward T. Butterworth
Frederick W Smith
Har A. Domincovich
William J. Smith
Jose, Faltermayer
B. Stallman
Coyner Fenner
John
Fowler
Getthew
Rapling
Charles Grossman Williams
Charle W. Lom
Cee O. Wile Igzios
Percy Phillips
Royden
Kev. Pierce
Harvey H. Dunn
Walter C. Barker
Everett W. Belahley
George A. Monace
M. L. Blumenthal
Clyde W. Bromell
Edward Carroll
Harry
Clifton
Philip A. Crosland
Bs Percy Dalbey
Louis EB. Donnelly
William 8
Walter © Evans
James PD. Fairies
Robert O. Graham
Jesse G. Haydock
A. Don Heys
Howard T. Himes
William M. Hoover
Warren R. “Verte
Friends’ Central
Harry Lowenburg
Wiliamsport
Dickinson Seminary
the TimEs
Timms
India
Rob BO Sa
Wae
Western Passenger Association
Chicago
Eugene Moore
John L. Williams
Striker
Kansas
Executive Council
Lewelling
State Board of Railroad Commissioners
F. Malcolm
Broadway
New York
Central Passenger Association
Market Street
Eighth Street
Filbert Street
Posse
Georgia
Palace Steamer
Republic
Joe Cape
Race
Alnut St
Thomas Clyde
Woodland Beach
Arch St
Pennsgrove
Woodland
New Castle
Delaware City
James E, Otis
Arch Street
Washington Park
Boston
Arch
South Street
Clayton
Mepta
Alfred Benton
Edith MacBrine
Llewellyn
Benton
Red Bank
Opera House
Rachel Grover
Logene W. Worthly
C. D. Warner
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