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Newspaper
Scarsdale Inquirer
Location
Scarsdale, New York, United States of America
Date
Oct 03, 1925
Page
7
Communications must reach the Scarsdale Inquirer office in Scarsdale New York by Wednesday afternoon to ensure insertion. Direct all submissions to the newspaper office.
Mr and Mrs John W Dickinson contribute a library to Scarsdale with a trust fund yielding six hundred dollars annually for maintenance and access. The Board of Education will manage the collection and publish a catalogue while keeping rooms open year round. Space will be tight until high school expansion. O H Cheney president Board of Education.
The article traces the Community Service Committee of the Scarsdale Woman's Club from its 1920 formation, detailing night school for foreigners, a summer playground, girls crafts, and a visiting nurse. It notes earlier Neighborhood House work, milk drives during a 1921 strike, and the thrift shop’s growth through partnerships with White Plains groups and the Hitchcock Church.
A column previews a limerick contest for Scarsdale readers with a prize for the best original limerick about Scarsdale or Secarsdalians. It also reports Chicago experts James D. Gibson and son revealing a radio reception method using sixty feet of lead-sheathed wire to create a sub-antenna, buried sections, and ground pick ups, noting widespread curiosity and old aerial challenges.
Reader laments roadside signs labeled The Tourist along Bronx Park Way Drive dubbing them Californiaitis. He cites Earth Heaven in the Hereafter and My Choice Westchester, warning the trend could erode community humor and spread. He asks for action to curb what he calls an incipient epidemic. September 20.
Adele P Blauvelt warns at Dyckman Hall that Westchester County Charter modeled on the Old Second Class Cities Law concentrates power in a single dictator, risks patronage abuses, and undermines representative government. She urges voters to consider American ideals over partisan rhetoric in the November 3 vote.
A reader defends a man who has used the same safety razor blade for twenty years claiming daily shaving for seven thousand three hundred shaves. The correspondent challenges Phyllis and her sisters to prove any family contribution to the blade.
Yale and Princeton alumni held their annual Field Day at Scarsdale Golf Club on September 30 featuring golf tennis and baseball plus a dinner. Jesse Sweetser captained Yale and C N Peacock led Princeton with Thomas Fisher of Walworth Avenue managing the baseball team.
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