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Newspaper
Scarsdale Inquirer
Location
Scarsdale, New York, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1925
Page
4
The notice lists entering class matter date November 18 1919 for Scarsdale Inquirer and Scarsdale Woman's Club Publications Inc. President Mrs James H Purdy Jr Secretary Treasurer Martha Coman Editor. It notes annual subscription three dollars and single copy ten cents.
Public schools nationwide establish regular courses on proper mail preparation and disposition. The Post Office Department backs the effort and offers to supply teachers and pupils with information to aid in such studies, stressing postal service as the life blood of business.
Under Major General John F. O'Ryan Westchester citizens begin a week long drive to fund the Public Safety Bureau of the Westchester County Chamber of Commerce. The goal is 50000 to cover last year’s deficit and sustain educational work through May 1 1926. The bureau is credited with reducing county automobile fatalities from 93 to 58 in the year.
Report says captains of rum fleet vessels asked revenue officers for water. Officials refused, noting cargoes likely watered already.
Regional Plan of New York and Its Environs forecasts 1965 traffic on 23 arterial highways into New York City will be three to three and a half times current capacity. The 125 page monograph by Harold M. Lewis argues for grade separation of busy cross currents and elevated through routes, plus improved parking and traffic segregation.
Caleb Hyatt of Scarsdale writes to the Inquirer to amend the May 23 report on the Scout Rally for the Jerome Coombs Trophy. He states Jerome Coombs is the first Eagle Scout developed entirely in Scarsdale.
An Italian move granting women equal military call up is analyzed as a strategic bid to boost manpower for future wars. The reflection weighs the paradox of peaceful aims versus compelled service, arguing that mobilizing women could reveal war's brutality and spur global antiwar shifts. The prose shifts to a family anecdote about cuckoo season, ending with a hurried escape to the bank.
The master compliments a pupil on solving 3x minus y minus y minus 23x, noting 15x equals the correct result. The exchange is framed around a humorous classroom moment. A separate line mentions a cow kicking a stool used by a cow.
The Board of Education backs purchasing eighteen Davis avenue lots next to Edgewood School to ease crowding as pupil enrollment rises from 351 to about 500. The plan would add a summer playground for Scarsdale’s growing area, seen as a health measure for current and future generations. Randy Ryan, M D, Medical Inspector of Schools, urges timely action.
Mr. Edward E. Sturgis of Walworth avenue joins Jesse Sweetser once a national golf champion and H. C. Bu in a three way tie. The report notes a golf competition result with prominent players and local details.
Pupils of Mrs Garcia in Hartsdale performed a Sunday recital at White Plains Community Church. Rain kept some students away but an enthusiastic audience enjoyed the fine tone quality. Margaret Bough and Bertha Zableszky won prizes for conscientious work.
Chicago plans to install 2,250,000 miles of wire for telephone service, enough to circle the earth about ninety times, outlining vast network expansion and infrastructure investment.
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