Swarthmore Local Notes and Society Listings
Community directory and notices list editors Julia Hazard Anna Hall and local organizations. Borough officials and civic groups including Boy Scouts Red Cross and Women’s clubs are named with contributors and addresses in Swarthmore Pennsylvania. The note records subscriptions advertising rates and post office designation as second class matter.
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Swarthmore
John Russell Hayes
Board of Health
The
Woman's Christian Temperance Union
Anna C. Hall
Red Cross
Margaret C. Freedley
Post Office
Newspaper Etiquette and Reader Requests for Ads
The article explains and defends inserting short reader notices in the personal columns to support advertising income for the small home paper. It asks readers to tolerate this practice as vital for business and invites suggestions for a better method.
Mobilization Camps Described as Morally Ruinous
The article condemns mobilization camps along the Mexican border, arguing they ruin the souls and bodies of young men before battle. It cites Dr. Exner’s pamphlet linking camps to spreading disease and moral decay, warning of effects on future fathers and their families.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. J. Exner
American Social Hygiene Association
Dr. Exner
Mothers of Men Rally for Camp Mothers in War Era
A public appeal urges guarding soldiers from venereal disease and calls for a camp mother program. The plan, proposed in Kansas City, would place a mother for every 250 men in army camps nationwide, with a memorial to Congress for War Department approval.
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Kansas City
Congress
War Department
Families of Recruit Letters Drag on Army Morale
W. P. Tomlinson of the Army and Navy YMCA in Newport writes that many family letters dampen troops. He urges educating letter-writing families to keep morale high and avoid spreading blues from home to the front. May 22, 1917.
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New York Times
Newport
Army
Navy
W. P. Tomlinson
Army and Navy
Flour bleaching bill may legalize nitrate pasts in flour
May 12 Harrisburg report says Rep Reininger Blair with H V White Bloomsburg miller chairs Agricultural Commission backs a bill to legalize artificial flour bleaching. It would let mixing first and third grade wheat pass as first grade, conflicting with Pennsylvania pure food laws. Senate health committee holds it.
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Harrisburg
Reininger
Blair
H. V. White
Bloomsburg
Agricultural Commission
Pennsylvania
House
Senate
Committee On Health and Sanitation
Precaution urged by Board of Health on flies
The Board of Health urges residents to remove decaying vegetable matter, screen windows, and use fly paper poison or swatters. Fly poison safe for children is sold at Shirer Drug Store. fly swatters available at hardware stores or groceries. Report any neglect of the first precaution.
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Shirer
Pennsylvania Agricultural Army Plan Outlined by Secretary Patton
Secretary Patton detailed a Pennsylvania Agricultural Army plan to maximize food production through township units. The scheme targets townships as commands with fifty privates under a captain and lieutenant, four sergeants, and ten corporals, led by a business leader as captain and a treasurer as lieutenant.
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Pennsylvania
Patton
Agricultural regiments urged to aid farms in crisis
A plan proposes forming township agricultural companies forming county regiments led by a colonel to mobilize farm labor and equipment. Reports flow to regimental HQ and experienced soldiers, including youths 14 to 19, may be enlisted or redeployed from civilian work to meet county needs. Secretary Patton urges rapid formation and notices to the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture.
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Army
Navy
Patton
Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture
Paper in wounds or big New York
Because of insufficient surgical dressings, newspapers are used on French battlefields to treat wounded soldiers. The Red Cross reports a very serious situation with risk of gangrene and infection, urging increased supplies of dressings.
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New York
France
American Red Cross
Also Mentioned on This Page
Swarthmore News
Swarthmore Publishing Company
Vassar Avenue
Julia R. Hazard
Anna Camden Hall
John W. Adams
E. A. Stockton
Treas C Percy Webster
Thomas W. Simpers
Stanley C. Howell
Woolman House
Elizabeth W. Collins
Churches Friends’ Meeting
Emilie G. Pollard
Methodist Episcopal
Helen K. Fricke
Swarthmore, Pa
Annie
Ephraim
Everybody’s Magazine
First National Bank of Media
Fki
National Bank OF Media
Bank OF Safety and Service
Agricultural Army
Penna
Swarthmore School of Music
Margaret Hill
Ruth G. Hill
Abbie R. Keely
Marguerite Lippincott
Cornell Avenue
Phila
Suburban Gas & Electric Co
Carroll Thayer
Bittle
Arthur Collins, Jr
Yocum & Powers (Co
5Th Street
Philadelphia
Bell Telephone Company of
H. Mathews
Chester, Pa
City OF Erie
City OF Buffalo
Buffalo
Cleveland
Burralo
Burraro
Cedar Point
Put-in-Bay
Toledo
Detroit
Pa U'Sest
Southwest
Clevely
C. & B. Line
SimaNoHne
Cleveland & Buffalo Transit Company
Cleveland, Ohio
Seeandee
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