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Newspaper
Swarthmore News
Location
Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1916
Page
4
News Notes report William Vaughn Moody's play The Great Divide filmed with Grand Canyon backdrops. Also Swarthmore town items note vacant lots needing attention, residents traveling, sermons, conventions, visits, and upcoming community events.
The United States Civil Service Commission announces an open competitive examination for clerks and city carriers to be held June 16 in Philadelphia. Remember the Ladies' Aid Society meeting at the Presbyterian Church today with luncheon served at the usual hour.
Swarthmore invites every society and organization to join the Fourth of July pageant. Parade leaders urge full uniformed Fire Association Boy Scouts and large contingents from women’s clubs and youth groups. Entries, float decorating help, and subscription gifts are requested to support the event.
The Progres sive Friends hold their annual meeting at the Meeting House on June 2, 3, and 4 with an engaging program. Speakers will address topics daily followed by open discussion. Music features Cheyney singers Saturday and L Willbank Keene with Miss Keene Sunday. Transportation from Broad Street Station, tickets to Mendenhall, then transfer to Longwood.
A compact collection of aphorisms urging health, resilience, and faith. Phrases include health walk after suffering and the idea that one becomes what one thinks, with a final note about rising to think with God. Selected lines offer guidance and encouragement.
The Swarthmore Suffrage League votes to change its name and form a new auxiliary to the Delaware County Woman Suffrage Party. Officers elected include Leader Mrs. R. C. Brooks and vice leader Mrs. Jesse H. Holmes, with several others handling finance, correspondence, enrollment, press, and study. Monthly meetings will start in September as the group transitions from a standalone league founded in 1888.
A succinct reflection asserts that true happiness, if understood, resides solely in acts of kindness and beneficence toward others.
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