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NewsletterEntry/Object ID
2017.9.295.4Description
November 8, 1917 [vol. 32, No 4] issue of The Mt. Airy World, the newsletter of the Pennsylvania Institution for the Deaf and Dumb. Soft covers, 24 pp, 7 x 11". On front cover is the name of the publication, with "Golden Jubilee Number" in mustard yellow letters. This, and the date and journal volume/ number information, is set against mustard yellow pinstripes . 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.
A two-page supplement to the Mount Airy World is inserted into the front of this newsletter, published in celebration of Dr. A. L. E. Crouter's 50th anniversary at the school, with a poem written by Gertrude M. Downey, of the class of 1880. Inside is a photograph of Dr. Crouter, glued into the publication.
This is followed by a series of pages of advertisements, including those of Staton Brothers Stationery and Art Shop, Murta, Appleton and Co. hardware, H. E. Friebely's Rexall Store, the New Staton Store, and Robert Shoemaker and Co. chemists and druggists.
A photograph of Morris Industrial Hall- the same photograph published in the Institution's annual reports- is then published.
On page 49 is a tribute to Albert Louis Edgerton Crouter, by F. W. Booth, reprinted from the Mt. Airy World, November 7, 1907.
This is followed by a second article, "Dr. A. L. E. Crouter's Fifty Years of Service," which begins on page 52. The article consists of a series of messages written by various individuals and organizations in celebration of Dr. Crouter's 50 years of service, including those from Gallaudet College, Frank Booth of the Nebraska School for the Deaf, James S. Reider; the Reverend B. R. Allabough, missionary to the deaf of the midwest; and R. Middeton Ziegler.
"The Deaf at Home" [C. O. Dantzer, ed] then follows, beginning on page 55. This article includes short articles documenting the "goings on" in the deaf community, in the Philadelphia area and beyond. The connection of some of the people mentioned to the deaf community is unclear. People mentioned include Ellis D. Lit, Louis Lovett, Joseph Rubin, H. Zaresky, Sylvan Stern, M. Levinson, Joseph Atcheson, William McKinney, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Partington, Harold Partington, the Misses Gertrude, Hilda and Ethel Partington, Mr. and Mrs. R. Ziegler, Miss Sue McKinney, Miss Alice Donohue, Mrs. Syle, Dr. Crouter, Abraham Richman, Francis Holliday.
The "The Deaf at Home" article is followed by Board content beginning on page 56, also apparently excerpted from the November 7, 1907, issue of Mt. Airy World, with additional tributes to Dr. Crouter. A poem, "The Best School of All," by Henry Newbolt, then follows.
This is followed by "Greetings to Dr. Crouter from Former Editors," which begins on page 60 and includes contributions from S. G. Davidson, Elizabeth R. Taylor, E. A. Gruver, Harris Taylor, and Edwin Stanley Thompson.
This is followed by "School Notes" published beginning on page 63, with news/ tidbits being published as it occurred in Wissinoming, Wingohocking, and Cresheim Halls. People mentioned in the article include Frederick Wolfe, Carl Wolfe, Harold Snyder, Albin Turoski, Orvis D. Dantzer, Adele O'Dea, John O'Dea, Lerov [Leroy?] Johnson, Thomas Lauritzen, Dana Libby, Sunter Ball, Mr. Boner, Helen Miller, Helen Leary, Michael Balukas, William Potter, Melva Phillips, Cornella Danielowitz, Carl Orberg, Harold Reynolds, William Simmons, Michael Watler, Audrey Lurhman, Miguel Figueroa, Tom Smith, Florence Seachrist, Margaret Wolfe, Joseph Probst, Annie and Isaac Zeidelman, Fannie Holleger, Harry Gerwitz, Menetta Offerle, Helen Zaleski, Harold Berger, Philip Spare, Lloyd Armor, Wendall Frederick, Lena Schechter, Esther Heller, Joseph Krauss, Evelyn Lever, Pearl Swartz, Fannie Weiss, Charles Wingenroth, Clara Leister, Minnie Miles, Charlotte Sprenkle, Anna and Helen Wawryznak, Bion Firth, Marion Wildermuth, Robert Dute, Samuel Nonnenmacher, Edna Grannis, Gustave Ehrle, David Weir, Dorothy Buch, Harvey Kurtz, William Potter, Miss Bliss, Ruth Sherman, Mason Summerill, Ida Chatham, Miss Hood, William De Witt Himrod, Miss Annie Youmans, James K. Forbes, Gilbert Singerman, Mr. H. P. Hansen, Ross V. Mohr, Stanley Mastbaum, James A. Weaver, Mr. E. S. Thompson, Louis Rebstock, Willard Aldrich, James Megonigal, Paul Gromis, Mr. and Mrs. George T. Sanders, Dorothy Bell, Thomas E. Kriebel, Miss Gertrude Fritsche, John Metzger, Eva Mileski, Jacob Lupolt.
This is followed by advertisements beginning on page 65, including those of the Wister, Heberton Co., lumber; Geikler Brothers Provisioners; "Glimpses of English History" [by the late Charles H. Dana], Germantown Trust Company, the Charlottesville Woolen Mills; Joseph C. Ferguson, Jr., Manufacturing Optician; G. P. Darrow and Co. paints and glass, and David Walters, coal.
On the back cover is a list of the Board of Directors and those of the Ladies Committee.Collection
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