Warren Public Library annual report highlights growth and outreach
The Warren Public Library reports for the year ending 1927 show a service population of about 15 000 with four agencies and 307 open days. Total volumes reach 49 639, with 86 740 volumes lent, 10 volumes per card holder on average, and 8 559 card holders. School partnership strong with every high school student holding a library card and freshmen instructed in catalog use.
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Warren Liberary Association
Totel
Library annual report highlights growth in circulation and readers
The Children's Department circulation reached 28 410 with Saturday story hours and bi monthly movie showings. The overall year totals show circulation at 86 740 and readers at 8 559, with community support from newspapers gifts, rental income funding new fiction, and thanks to staff donors and the board.
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Chidren
Li Beery
Chilren
Board of Control
Mary C. Weiss
Children’s Department Uses Pictures and Stories to Draw Readers
On alternate Saturdays in 1926 27 the Children’s Department showed moving pictures and told stories. Attendance averaged 126 to 150 children for pictures and the highest story hour turnout was 82. In August and September 1926 stories were hosted at playgrounds and schools to attract children, with elementary principals assured of departmental cooperation.
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Children’s Department
Reading Club planned to sustain children’s interest this vacation
Irregular school reading program details show annual circulation and visit counts across Jefferson Avenue South Street and West End Schools for 1925-26 and 1926-27. Notes include librarian Harriet Donaldson’s repairs and cataloging work, and Warren Library Association balance with cash on hand of 1806.48 dollars.
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Jefferson Avenue
South Street
Wekly
West End
Harriet Donaldson
Airplanes Collide 2000 Feet In Air Over Duncan Field
A U P report from San Antonio says two airplanes collided 2000 feet above Duncan field. Second Lieutenant William N. Howarth of Kelly Field was killed. Lieutenant Frank G. Irvin, piloting the other plane, landed safely with a fragment of Howarth’s craft in his wing. Howarth’s home is listed as Havey.
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San Antonio
Texas
U. P
Duncan Field
William N. Howarth
Kelly Field
Frank G. Irvin
Howarth
Howart
Hehe
Havey
Mellon Enjoys Trip About City of Naples
Naples July 11 An drew Mellon secretary of the United States treasury arrived yesterday and toured the jetty then embarked for Genoa to start a motor journey through Italy with plans to visit major sites and cities along the route.
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Mellon
City OF
Naples
U. P
Andrew Mellon
United States Treasury
Genoa
Italy
Birthday Surprise at Torpedo Honoring Mrs Dey
At Torpedo, July 11, a birthday party for Mrs. L. L. Dey drew about forty-five neighbors and friends to the Dey home. The event featured lawn games, a late luncheon, and well wishes for many more such celebrations.
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Cole Hill
L. L. Dey
Torpedo
Dey
E. L. Martin
G. N. Eastman
Walter Goyell
Ross Vni
C. L. Southwick
Oil City
M. L. Barber
Constable Wesley
Youngsville
Ed. Seton
Ralph Burt
Robert McFarland
Sharpsville
Frank Camp
Leona Burt
Nellie Wentworth
Warren
Myra Cole
Stoneham
G. N. Wentworth
Toledo
Martin
George Martin
Russell
Emma Benedict
B. C. Camp
Obedience to Lawyering Cited in Old Question Exchange
In a short exchange, Watson-Hello comments on using crutches as Jones jokes that his doctor says he can walk without them while his lawyer says he cannot. The quip appears in the Philadelphia Bulletin.
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Watson
Jones
Philadelphia Bulletin
Russians Capture Haler and Press Toward Carpathian Passes
Russians seize Haler and advance toward strategic Carpathian passes as World War I reports note German Reichstag refusing to approve further war credits.
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Haler
Carpathian
Reichstag
Abyssinian Prince Dies in Springfield Labors Grave
A man possibly the last Abyssinian king was buried among laborers in Springfield Illinois. Prince Theodore Menelik grandson of King Menelik II once King of Abyssinians, known here as Thomas Theodore Newman, aged 59. Political foes sent him to the United States at fourteen. his sister now rules Abyssinia.
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Springfield
Iul
Abyssinia
Prince Theodore Menelik
King Menelik
Thomas Theodore Newman
Theodore
United States
Soldiers clash with citizens at Bagdad
London report says thirty people killed and many wounded in a clash between irate soldiers and civilians near Bagdad. The fight grew from religious zealotry and was described in a Daily Express dispatch.
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Bagdad
London
U. P
Daily Express
Truck Driver Held for Fatal Collision in New Castle
Sam Love, a truck driver, faces involuntary manslaughter charges over a crash that killed Lorraine Marcella. Police say he was intoxicated when his truck collided with a car driven by the girl's father, C. H. Marcello, and a piece of glass penetrated her brain, causing death.
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New Castle
U. P
Sam Love
Lorraine Marcella
Henry Du«sart
Love
C. H. Marcello
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