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NewsletterEntry/Object ID
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March 27, 1913 [vol. 27, No 13 issue of The Mt. Airy World, the newsletter of the Pennsylvania Institution for the Deaf and Dumb. Soft covers, 20 pp, 7 x 10.5". On front cover, a print of an entrance and porte cochere to one of the Institution's buildings is shown. Inside the front cover, schedules for the Pennsylvania, and Reading railroads are published, showing train service to and from Mount Airy, to Center City Philadephia. These schedules are associated with the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority's [SEPTA's] Regional Rail lines to Chestnut Hill West and Chestnut Hill East lines, respectively.
This is followed by a series of pages of advertisements, including those of Hurst's Drug Store, and those of the Institution itself.
An image, "Women Riding on a Pillion," is then published.
Opposite this is the first article, "Glimpses of English History" by C. E. D., part 183, beginning on page 193. This work discusses the daily life during the reign of King Charles I in England, as in part captured by the paintings of Anthony Van Dyck, and how the clothing illustrated in his works help to document life at the time. It then continues with a discussion of the class system in place at the time.
Following this is an article, "Ye Olde Englysch Taverne Sygns," beginning on page 196. In it, is a discussion of the names of various taverns throughout England, and their origins and evolution to those found in the [then] present-day.
This is then followed on page 198 by "The Deaf at Home," by C. O. Dantzer [ed]. It has content about the various "goings on" in the Deaf community, in Philadelphia and beyond, and mentioned the following people: Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Buch [born Nettie Adams], Thelma Viola, James S. Reider, Mr. Harry J. Haight, Mrs. Grace [Okie] LeFevre, the Dantzers, Mrs. Crouter, Reverend F. C. Smielau; Mr. J. A. McIlvaine, Jr.; Rabbi Marvin Nathan, Miss Lillian Shepherd, Mrs. Jennie Dunner, George H. Curtin, Mrs. James S. Reider, Mr. and Mrs. Levi Cooper, Mr. and Mrs. Chandler B. Paul, Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Paul, Miss Esther Rappaport, Miss Eva Coxe, Miss Eva Rowe.
Institution board content is then discussed, beginning on page 199. It includes a discussion of a lost deaf child, who was found and taken care of by a woman, who had to learn how to communicate with him. The child's name was Gordon Seymour, and the story was used to help illustrate the importance of questioning children as students.
On page 201, the obituary of Joseph Aloysius Boyle is published. Boyle, a student at the Institute, apparently drowned after a canoe he and some friends were rowing capsized into cold waters. He died at age 17.
Two short literary pieces are then published on page 202. These include "Superficial Yet Happy" by Horace Howard Furness, and "Peace" by Edward Rowland Sill.
"News from the Halls" then follows, beginning on page 203. This article includes short articles documenting the "goings on" in the Institute's deaf community. People mentioned include Mr. McIlvaine, Miss Whittemore, Mr. Weaver, Mr. Hellerich, Martha Stamm, Harry Stamm, Henry Friemel, William Lee Smith, Daniel Lisznyay, Ethel Mock, Dorothy Wood, Ruth Nash, M. Howe, Emma Lauer, Meda Artz, Elizabeth Young, Ellen Crean, Lida McCreary, Florence Smith, Alma Brassington, Jennie Kost, Nora Spahr, Catherine Zartman, Elizabeth Williams, Agnes Binner, Nora Ney, Hannah Evans, Reba Rowe, Florence Wagner, Frances Martin, Leah Zimmerman, Mabel Seaman, Enoch Grabowski, Stephen Dominus, Tally Bains, Charles Horst, Sunter Ball, Peter Litivaitis, Clair Parr, Paul Gromis, Charles Blessing, Charles Simmons, James Scheck, Arnold Williams, Freeman and Daniel Weaver, John Caley, Elias Hornberger, Myra Holden, Anna Weigel, Anna Koons, Doris Jennelle, Dorothy Holzenger, Margaret Fisher, Mr. Rapp, Eva Wolfe, Anna Hagan, Thomas McManus, Henry Lukens, Mr. Reiter, Miss Bliss, Helen Maier, Annie Pasykowski, Clair Randolph, Reba Rowe, Mr. Hellerich, Fred Wolfe, Roy Johnson, Helen Kehl, Stella Paul, Albert Dries, Miss Miller, Bernice Hindman, Alta Binner, Stanley Newman, Mina Treese, Sylvia Straus, Mary Rega, Robert Dute, George Palmer, Harrison Litzenberger, Lillian Link, Robert Schickling, Anna McDonald, Edgar and Carl Hoshauer, Norman Ackerman, Otto Wilson, Beatrice Palmer, Pauline Smith, Mrs. Sprenkle, Margaret Stone, Alice Blackburn, Christian McElhaugh, Frank Belfus, Teresa Gannon, Sadie Berger, Pauline Roller, Gladys Rowe, Miss Peiffer, Clyde and Wayne Cherrington, Stella Breese, Eizabeth Rothemund, Freeman Weaver, Ammet Puryear, Jacob Trycoski, Charles McArthur, Mr. Eugen Hellerich, Sydney Armsfield, Cecelia Krasne, Mary Gearhart, Marion Wong, Doris Jennelle, William Mitchell, Mr. Hutchinson, Miss Mary E. Paul, Charlie Rosenmund, Helen Gulick, and Aline Van Dyke.
This is followed by "P. I. D. Basketball" on page 205, by E. J. Hines. The article includes various scores/ results of games, playing against, among others, the School of Pedagogy. This is followed by the poem "Cradle Song," by Thomas Bailey Aldrich.
A section "Intermediate Reading" then follows, beginning on page 206. It includes works including "It Is Time," "About the Birds," "William Penn," "Parts of Things," "Popping Corn," and "The Kind Boy."
A section "Primary Reading" then follows, beginning on page 208, which consists of a series of poems and riddles, including "the Bluebird," "Three Little Dolls," "What Color?," and "A Journal." It also includes the Ten Commandments.
This is followed by advertisements on page 209, including those of the Charlottesville Woolen Mills and Robert Shoemaker and Co's flavoring extracts.
The back interior page consists of a single ad, that of the Germantown Trust Company.
A series of ads is published on the inside back cover. These include those of Geikler Brother Provisioners; Joseph C. Ferguson, Jr., Manufacturing Optician; G. P. Darrow and Co. paints and glass; Wister, Heberton Co., lumber; Murta, Appleton and Co. guns, hardware and tools; David Walters, coal; Abram Engard Ice Cream; and William H. Keyser, wire goods.
On the back cover is a list of the Board of Directors and those of the Ladies Committee.Collection
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