Aid for French War Orphans Seeks Mothers and Help
In a wartime appeal from Paris dated April 30 1919 Ek MacCarthy asks readers to sponsor a child without a mother. The note mentions Simone Jouvez a nine year old girl from Moncgen srevent Monchecourt Nord and records her family’s hardships after their town was destroyed and relatives were displaced.
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Hannum
Ek. Maccarthy
Henry Hannum
Dartouth
Simone Jouvez
Moncgensrevent
Mon
American Defense of French Feeling (Continued From Last Issue)
Personal reflections compare American and British social life with Germany’s war mentality. The writer recalls French endurance from Chateau-Thierry to Ypres, noting heavy losses, long battles, and the toll on French families as air raids devastate towns while soldiers return home scarred.
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America
Engad
Germany
Four Years of War Strife Amid Local Bombardment
Amid brutal bombardment the town endures with four hundred pupils at two major high schools showing perfect attendance. Teachers double as nurses, tending wounds all day and nursing at night to relieve hospital staff, while one woman teacher stays on alone when a hospital is warned of an attack.
Junior Home Gardens in Swarthmore Grow Young Planters
Swarthmore hosts several youth gardeners including Buster McBride who tends a busy patch supplying the family table. Frances and Gilbert Janney also show strong effort with a thriving garden, their tall corn stalks and healthy potato plants signaling a promising yield.
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Swarthmore
Buster McBride
Buster
Frances
Gilbert Janney
Legislation Affects Women and Children in Focus
This chair notes one annual meeting to review both state and national bills affecting women and children. Postwar reconstruction brings issues like crippled aiding programs, education for the deaf and blind, reintegration of soldiers, and Americanization of foreign children. The article surveys labor, wages, and social reform amid Prohibition and temperance efforts.
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Henry Ford
Henry Jeinz Pickle
Muncy
Laurelton
Red Cross
Swarthmore Class of 1919 Swings Through Commencement
The Swarthmore High School twenty fifth commencement was held on Wednesday evening June eighteenth. The program featured music by Rev. Walter A. Matos and Dr. Francis Harvey Green, an essay by Ruth Updegraff, and diplomas awarded to the Class of 1919 including Julia Alexander, Elizabeth Bond, Mary Burn, John Fricke, Walter Keighton, Newton Landis, Raymond Farringer, Ruth Pownall, Ruth Updegraff, Marion Van Haagen, and others. Decorations were by the Senior Class.
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Walter Rumble
Valentine Brown
Walter Keighton
Brown
Miss Phoebe
Phoebe
Eleanor Perry
Mary Walton
John Shoemacher
Harlan Updegraff
James Lees
Mary Cookman
Chalmers Stuart
Captain Brown
Ensign Blades
Newton Landis
Spicer
Raymond Farringer
Patty
Mary Burn
Quality Street
Stuart
Swarthmore High School
Jorg
Julia Alice Alexander
Sara Elizabeth Butler
Jean Elizabeth Bond
Hannah Mary Burn
Dorothea Haines Emery
George Washington Eyre, Jr
Raymond Flint Farringer
John Emory Fricke
Frances Elizabeth Gillesme
Catherine Gray Govette
Florence Henrietta Norma Gravel
John Clarke Harper
Katharine Russell Hayes
Sarah Virginia Hipple
Robert St. Clair Holmes
Burton Wadsworth Jones
Walter Barker Keighton
William Newton Landis
Leonard Knox Ledoux
Margaret McClintock
Franklin Owen Nelson
Aldbn Pyle Ottey
Elizabeth Comly Palmer
William Hall Paxson
Ruth Elizabeth Pownall
Gladys Dickey Ramsey
Walter Means Reynolds
Walter Scott Rumble
Theodore Kremer Sawyer
Edward Kirkland Shelmerdincard
Helen Miriam Snyder
Caroline Sachse Tyson
Ruth Mary Updegraff
Marion Churchill van Haagen
Emily Antoinette Wagner
Ruth Watters
Margaret van Velthaven Worthington
Westinghouse Fishing Party At Anglesea
About fifty Westinghouse men chartered the steamer Electra at Anglesea for a Jersey Coast fishing outing. Fritz Althoff landed the prize fish before the big sea gave way to a cast of mishaps. George Colt caught a shark, MacCaully hauled fifteen fish, and Durbin claimed a skate while Hamilton netted a sea robin.
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Westinghouse
Sheck
Electra
Anglesea
Jersey
Fritz Althoff
George Colt
MacCaully
Cummings
Charlie Ling
Tof
Jim Durbin
Bill Hamilton
Bill
Stranegr Pavinski
Pavinski
Swarthmore Engagement Announcements Highlight Strath Haven Inn
At a Swarthmore College commencement luncheon in Strath Haven Inn Miss Helen Robey announced her engagement to Mr. Robert Glenn of New York. A later Strath Haven Inn dinner celebrated Miss Dorothy Thomas’s engagement to Mr. Talbot of Kansas City. A fairy child distributed engagement cards to guests amid flower garlands and festivities.
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Helen Robey
Strath Haven Inn
Miss Robey
Robert Glenn
New York
Swarthmore College
Dorothy Thomas
Talbot
Kansas City
Thomas
Strawberries and Peas for Canning
There will be strawberries and peas for canning at the Woman's Club House during the season or when available from 0.30 to 10.30 a.m. daily. Berries are sold at twenty five cents a box. Mrs. J. V. S. Bishop is in charge.
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Woman's Club
J. V. S. Bishop
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Philadelphia, Pa
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