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Newspaper
Swarthmore News
Location
Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1916
Page
2
Swarthmore plans a grand Fourth of July event featuring a pageant, enhanced athletic sports, music, motion pictures and fireworks. Local officials promise a standout program for all ages, aiming to be the finest celebration yet in the borough.
The piece calls for calm and careful consideration amid European conflict, the Mexican situation, and a U.S. presidential election. It warns war intoxication can erode reason, spread hatred, and disrupt humanity, urging restraint to protect human life from greed and hatred.
Mr. Robert P. Green and Miss Beulah Green traveled to Gettysburg over the weekend. Prof. and Mrs. Roy Bennett Pace entertain Pace’s sister Miss Lillian Pace of Washington. An Ideal Theatre Morton program titled A Nation’s Peril aims to stir national pride for Independence Day. Miss Margaret Hill fractured an ankle last Saturday. Dr Raimon L Alden of Leland Stanford University is visiting his cousin Mrs G L H Lutz and will teach at Columbia University this summer. Mr and Mrs Eugene McBride will spend a month in Massachusetts. What has become of Cynicus.
Six room two floors apartment with two bedrooms and den two baths private hall and stairway two private porches large lawn steam heat and hot water at all times. Possession September 1 or earlier if desired.
Tickets for Hudson Navigation Company boats to Albany and return are offered to the two readers who raise the most subscribers to The Swarthmore News. Flags for Fourth of July sold at the Utility Shop for 1.75 with pole, half proceeds to Associated Charities. Miss Letitia Eaves visits Miss Anna Hall for a Llanerch musicale. John Ball plans a High School reunion during Swarthmore stay.
Harrisburg reports preparations by Dr. Samuel G. Dixon to distribute tetanus antitoxin after Fourth of July injuries. Last year 290 Pennsylvanians were injured. 155 by powder and fireworks, 17 by firearms, 73 by firecrackers, 25 by blank cartridges, with no tetanus cases. Antitoxin, free for the indigent, should be given within 24 hours.
The speaker agrees to join if everyone promises to keep play fair. They propose a test using a firecracker to determine whether something is truly out. The exchange suggests a lighthearted, cautious group dynamic.
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