Cost of Living to Be Discussed at Swarthmore Meeting
The Home and School Association to hold a January 8 meeting at 8 pm in the High School auditorium. Guest speaker Peter Hamilton of New York City will present about 20 slides on how to meet rising living costs with practical solutions. All are invited, and timely attendance is urged for full discussion.
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Home and School Association
Dscuss
Shon
Peter Hamilton
New York City
Hamilton
Swarthmore
Association
Dr Peter Roberts To Speak At Swarthmore Woman's Club
The Swarthmore Woman's Club schedules an educational afternoon on Tuesday January 9 featuring Dr Peter Roberts of New York author immigration expert and secretary of the International YMCA He advised President Roosevelt during the threatened anthracite coal strike and wrote an authoritative book on the coal situation.
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Swarthmore Woman's Club
Peter Roberts
New York
International Young Men’s Christian Association
Roberts
Roosevelt
Professor Pearson Completes Tour of United States
Professor Paul M. Pearson head of Swarthmore College public speaking finishes a lecture tour covering all states except Maine. He plans to perform in Old Town Maine marking his forty eighth state engagement as the trip ends this week.
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Paul M. Pearson
Swarthmore
Eary State
Union
Pearson
Maine
Old Town
Main
Swarthmore group plans wartime medical aid drive
S. P. M. Th S. P.M. held its regular meeting at Mrs. John Dolman home on December 13. The oldest Swarthmore sociability group, named for Sociability Philanthropy and Music, plans a busy winter making surgical dressings and pillows for hospital trains to be distributed through the Emergency Aid Committee to war hospitals abroad.
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S. P.M
John Dolman
Swarthmore
Noel in Winter Verse Passes on Christmas Spirit
The poem speaks of snow soft on winter grass and waxen mistletoe as nature’s mass while a winter wind breathes gently, carrying the Christmas spirit.
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Ature
Brown Sellers wed in Friends ceremony at North Chester Road
Miss Margaret Sellers and Mr. J Morton Brown were married last Monday at the bride’s North Chester Road home. Sixty guests attended the Friends ceremony with Betty Sellers as maid of honor and overseers Charles Paxson and Edward Jenkins. A late supper followed and the couple departed for a trip to Washington D C.
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Margaret Sellers
J. Morton Brown
North Chester Road
Mrs. Brown
Betty Sellers
Charles Paxson
Edward Jenkins
Children’s Day at the Woman’s Club
The Mothers’ Section of the Woman’s Club held a Christmas program on December 19 at the Club House. A “Snow White” play was performed by Constance and Carolyn Hearne and Eleanor and Florance Foote while Mrs Thomas A Simpers presided in Chairman Downs's absence.
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Woman’s Club
Downs
Thomas A. Simpers
Snow White
Constance
Carolyn Hearne
Eleanor
Florance Foote
Grace
Petition to Legislature for Feeble-Minded Relief in Pennsylvania
Civic groups join Public Charities Association of Pennsylvania to urge the 1917 General Assembly to fund facilities for feeble minded women of child bearing age at Laurelton Union County and to provide for development and maintenance of state institutions at Polk and Spring City.
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Public Charities Association of Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania
General Assembly of
Laurelton
Union County
Polk
Spring City
Surgeon Dr W Wayne Babcock Operated Upon
Dr W Wayne Babcock of 2033 Walnut Street underwent an operation for abscess of the appendix at Samaritan Hospital about a week ago. He is a noted surgeon and Swarthmore residents expect he will leave the hospital in about two weeks. He is professor of surgery at Temple University and a visiting surgeon at Samaritan and Charrettson Hospitals.
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Samaritan Hospital
W. Wayne Babcock
Walnut Street
Babcock
Swarthmore
Temple University
Samaritan
Charrettson Hospitals
War Relief Committee mobilizes aid for wounded soldiers
The War Relief Committee of the Woman's Club met four times at the Club House to sew bandages and surgical dressings. L S Clark donated a bandage winder. a sewing machine is used for foot powered winding. About twenty five dollars was raised for gauze and muslin.
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The
Woman's Club
L. S. Clark
Bryn Mawr
France
D. S. Ludlum
Swarthmore News Seeks 1916 Bill Payments Before New Year
The Swarthmore News announces a new bookkeeping system and requests cooperation to pay all 1916 bills before January 1 to start the year with a clean sheet.
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Swarthmore News
Christmas Week Church Services and Movie Listings
News notes outline December 22 to 27 events at local venues. Motion pictures at the Ideal Mor on December 22. Church services and Christmas program nights scheduled at Trinity, Moravian and Swarthmore churches and Friends Meeting.
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the Ideal, Mor
Trinity Church
Methodist Episcopal Church
Swarthmore Presbyterian Church
Friends’ Meeting
Presbyterian Church
Methodist
Presbyterian Churches
Christmas Events Blend Cheer With Family Gatherings
A Swarthmore community roundup notes J. V. S. Bishop and D. S. Ludlum hosting family reunions over Christmas with relatives from lbion Michigan Brooklyn and New York. The Ideal Theatre in Morton offers Little Mary Sunshine on December 27 for holiday crowds. Swarthmore residents greet winter in Philadelphia with guests and plan gifts at the Swarthmore Tea Room. Mrs Price announces Parliamentary Law classes for the Woman's Club of the Ethical Culture Society starting January 1.
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D. S. Ludlum
H. D. Pugh
Lbion, Mich
Mary and
Jane Pugh
Brooklyn
Beth Thompson
Morris K. Parker
New York
Ideal Theatre
Morton
Little Mary Sunshine
Swarthmore Tea Room
Ferris Walton Price
Albert Thatcher
Price
Woman’s Club
The
Ethical Culture Society
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Noel
By Jeannette Everett Laws
St. Nick
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Tos
Trinity
Presbyterian
J. V. S. Bishop
Swarthmoreans
Philadelphia
Robert Erskine
Mrs. L. A. Wirt
Percy Hodson
Dickinson Avenue
Rossman Fowler
Rae Parke
Hodson
Swarthmore Assembly
Neva Symes
Judge Symes
Mount Vernon
Grace Stockton
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