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December 15, 1921 [vol. 36, No 7] 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 one of the Institution's buildings is shown, surrounded by a frame in Colonial Revival style. 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 Staton's Galleries; Murta, Appleton and Co. sporting goods; the St. Martins Coal Company; Wister, Heberton Co. lumber; Ray B. Wissler, apothecary; and Robert Shoemaker and Co. chemists and druggists.
This is followed by the poem "Ring Out, Wild Bells!" by Tennyson.
The article "The First Christmas Celebrated in America" is then published, beginning on page 97. The article notes that the first Christmas celebrated in America was actually celebrated in the West Indies by Christopher Columbus, who had just lost his flagship, the Santa Maria, on a reef on the north coast of Haiti. It discusses the food which was available to Columbus and his crew, and states that "The main object of this article is to point out that down in the West Indies where dwell our nearest foreign neighbors, and where we have a tidy little island of our own in Porto Rico, the first Christmas anniversary in America was celebrated and the first dinner eaten with aboriginal Indians as the hosts."
This is followed by the poem, "Christmas," by Sir Walter Scott, published on page 98.
"Dat Christmas on de Ol' Plantation" by Paul Laurence Dunbar is then published, on page 99. It was apparently previously published in an issue of the Ladies' Home Journal.
This is followed by "Record of our 1921 Football Team" by Corbett T. Arnold, and begins on page 100. It documents the fairly successful team of the P.I.D. [Pennsylvania Institution for the Deaf]. Above this is a team photo, which includes Coach C. T. Arnold, Fragin, Killian, Kirby, Milligan, Simmons, H. Berger, Jacoby, Lutzkewiez, LaRocco, Captain Balasa, Wadleigh, Smith, Stanton, Dooner, Sheppard, R. Eby, Evans.
"The Deaf at Home" then follows, beginning on page 102. This article includes short articles documenting the "goings on" in the deaf community, in the Philadelphia area and beyond. These articles were submitted to the Institution's alumni association, via George T. Sanders of 7418 Boyer Street, Mount Airy. The connection of some of the people mentioned to the deaf community is unclear. People mentioned include Lyman Steed, Barton Sensenig, Dr. A. L. E. Crouter, Edwin A. Hodgson, George S. Porter, Alvin E. Pope, Louis C. Lovett, R. M. Ziegler, William H. Lipsett, Warren M. Shmaltz; John A. McIlvaine, Jr.; Arthur J. Godwin, Estaban Pons, Mrs. Sanders, Miss Edythe Dunner, Harry E. Stevens, Mr. D. Ellis Lit, Howard Elliot Arnold, Sylvester Case Benedict, Robert Bennett, Albert Clinton Buxton, Frank Christman, William Kintzel Clayton, Albert Louis Edgerton Crouter, Joseph Vincent Donohue, Arthur Fowler, Arthur John Godwin, William Ellis Grame[?], Edwin Allan Hodgson, Thomas Ellsworth Jones, William Harry Klein, Frank Joseph Kuhn, William Lee, William Henry Lipsett, David Ellis Lit, Irby Hudson Marchma, Bernard Joseph McGinley, John Addison McIlvaine, John McIntosh, Maurice William McCready, John Charles Nowacky, Daniel Dilling Paul, Charles M. Pennell, George Sidney Porter, John Aloysius Roach, Joseph Sawyer Rodgers, William Ernst Rothemund, George Thomas Sanders, Elmer Ellsworth Scott, Warren Milton Smaltz, Harry Foster Smith, Sylvan Goldsmith Stern, Harry Eugene Stevens, Erhard Daniel Strecker, Harry Samuel Suckle, Robert Carr Wall, Albert William Wolfe, Robert Middleton Ziegler, Jacob A. Goldstein, Miss Elizabeth Segal, Mrs. Nancy Moore, Mrs. Leaming, Mrs. Long, Mrs. Hagan, Mrs. McCready, Mr. Lansing, Mrs. A. S. McGhee, Mr. Barnet, Mr. Butts, Miss Downey, Laurent Clerc, Eugene Arthur Kier, Charles Parker, Mrs. Charlotte Lewis, Miss Jane P. Scott, Wilbur Gledhill, Reverend C. Orvis Dantzer, Mr. and Mrs. Charles M. Pennell, Edgar Hoshauer, Miss Gertrude Downey,
The "The Deaf at Home" article is followed by Board content beginning on page 104, and discusses the arrival of Christmas, and the December teachers' meeting.
This is followed by "School Notes" published beginning on page 107, with news/ tidbits being published as it occurred in Wissinoming, Wingohocking, and Cresheim Halls. People mentioned in the article include Miss Burgin, Pauline Smith, Michael Balukas, Eddie Balukas, Charles B. Pillert, Mr. Houston, Miss Lambert, Audrey Luhrman, Rose Schenkel, Stella Digilis, Lois Cooper, Ruth Henry, Dorothy Reed, Charlotte Sprenkle, Mr. Sensenig, James Murray, Lillian Mitchell, Hannah Frame, Earl Sollenberger, Ruth Burger, Annie Palmer, Gerald Adler, Russell Hoagland, Sallie Marquart, Earl Gerhard, Grace Boyd, George Mazakas, Irvin Miller, Anson Kelly, Maxwell Cheney, Clarence Druck, Henry Snyder, Richards Sturrock, Hugh Jones, Dorothy Hirschman, Bertha Broad, Marion Messersmith, Jean Spencer, Chris Unger, Esther Hassler, Marie Palmer, Sydney Goldberg, Leroy Stiles, Dorothy Nabal, Zoe Russell, Grace Tyson, Harry Shultz, Nelson Reed, Joseph Plageman, Clarence Bergey, Pearl Flamm, Edward Plageman, Percy Richardson, Bobby Coley, Grace Rose, Katie Stein, Martha Roberts, Gilbert Stein, Robert Yiengst, Miss Dow, James McNulty, Esther Hassler, Sydney Goldberg, Richard Cole, Anna Mela, Dorothy Nabal, Annie Summerville, Bessie Jones, Anna Weidner, Kathyrn Williams, Clara Wolfe, Helen Smith, Augustina Kapsich, Susie Kutcheel, Dorothy Mountz, Eleanor Black, Myrt Litzenberger, Dina Rudnick, Emma De Frank, Leonore Heisler, Edna Rodewiig, Esther Fisher, Mamie Brondoski, Esther Pinsky, Viola Morrony, Margaret Horan, Marcella Shadle, Eva Stuck, Avis Cox, Bessie De Meo, Pauline Kauffman, Christina Peterman, Ralph Lehman, Bobby Fleming, Furman Joye, Peter Meyer, Ben Dworeski, Leon Hammond, Joseph Anders, Claire Buterbaugh, Bud Fry, Morton Reednick, Edward Crowthers, Clement Fegley, Edwin Herring, Paul Griffith, Elwood Emery, Joseph Rosinolo, Arden Eberly, Thomas Evans, Clifford Haas, Lincolne Geake, Gilbert McNulty, Joseph Riley, Albert Legg, Harvey Straub, Billy McEldowney, James Hickey, Wassil Simero, Harrison Buchmiller, Walter Ackerman, Bob Porter, Lester Cobaugh, John Heidlebaugh, Wesley Walls, Forrest Greger, Phyllis Searle, Joe Riley, Allen Clogg, Miss Whiting, Ben Dworeski, Jacob Swardloff, Leo Hammond, John Rhoads, Charles Rischini, Mary Bowman, Wassil Simero, Leon Hammond, Isabello Krushelski, Miss Crawley, Miss Rees, Miss Bockius, Charles Ricchini, Louis Marconi, John Caplis, Ben Pollack, James Murray, Edward Wadleigh, Wendell Frederick, Maurice Levin, Norman Eby, Paul Hitz, Ernest Johnson, Harry Zalesna, Edward Lingham, Louis Vita, John Capliss, Anson Kelly, Raymond Carlin, Miss Rachel E. Dawes, Myrtus Marsh, Edward Morrow, Anthony Priest, Carl Manson, Harry Shultz, Abraham Cohen.
This is followed by the poem, "The Welcome Smile," on page 110, and "Dredge Brings up Supposed Relics of Revolution" detailing the discovery of two brass helmets believed to have been worn by British grenadiers during the Revolutionary War. These were dredged from the bottom of the Delaware River and were donated to the Valley Forge Historical Society.
On page 111 is the "Reading for Younger People" section, with works "Little Lord Jesus," "Christmas in Other Lands," "Santa's Helpers," and "The Christmas Tree," and on the following page, is "Reading for Primary Pupils," with words and phrases associated with Christmas.
A page of school hours, classes, and associated information then follows on page 113, and includes ads for Geikler Brothers Provisioners, and "Glimpses of English History" [by the late Charles H. Dana].
This is followed by advertisements beginning on page 114, including those of the Germantown Trust Company, the Charlottesville Woolen Mills; Joseph C. Ferguson, Jr., Manufacturing Optician; G. P. Darrow and Co. paints and glass, Max H. Rothe Mount Airy Floral Exchange, and David Walters, coal.
On the back cover is a list of the Board of Directors and those of the Ladies and Auxiliary committees.Collection
Pamphlet Box Collection