“New Library Well Under Way after First ‘Building Bee.’ Directors of Association and Other Workers Build Room at Borough Hall. More Plans for Drive” (1 – BB)
“Children’s Library Adds New Books” (1 – CE)
Inset map courtesy of Philadelphia Bulletin: “Where the Springfield Airport Is.” The accompanying caption read, “The proposed airport for the City of Philadelphia is only a few miles from Swarthmore. While some residents fear that its proximity to the Borough may be detrimental to home properites [sic], aviation experts declare that within ten years an airport will be as much of an advantage to a town as a railroad station, and many high officials of the Springfield Airport would probably come to Swarthmore to live.” (1 – PN)
“Grade Crossing Scene Of Crash. Three Narrowly Escape Death As Car Hits Electric Train. Crossing Unprotected” (1 & 6 – AD and CV)
“Fred Robinson Taken by Death. Borough Secretary for Nearly Ten Years Dies of Pneumonia. Sick Less Than Week” (1 & 6 – AD)
“Swarthmore Women Partake of Model Luncheon at Club House” (1 & 3 – WO) – The American Home Committee of the Swarthmore Woman’s Club “planned and prepared” this program called ‘A Model Luncheon in the American Home for 75 cents.’ After describing the various courses, one of which was a “pineapple and cheese salad” for which Mrs. Arthur Robinson’s recipe was featured, the article went on to describe a “nation wide movement” designed “to determine the best methods to improve conditions and solve household problems.” An “extensive survey” had been circulated “to thousands of club women of Philadelphia” toward that purpose. “Calling attention [sic] the inefficiency of employees in the home, Miss [Grace] Godfrey [director of Home Economics at Drexel Institute] said that this is due to the fact that household work entails a social handicap as to hours of work, wage are unstable, and the type of work is unsocial.”
Inset: “Pineapple and Cheese Salad as Served at Woman’s Club” (1 – WO) “School Board Studies Auditorium Acoustics” (1 – CE)
“Plans Altered for Drama Day Program” (1 – WO)
“County Welfare Council Will Hold Open Meeting” (1 – DC) “Monthly Musical Sunday at Presbyterian Church” (1 – AC and RS) “Series of Sermons at Methodist Church” (1 – AE and RS)
“Players’ Club to Show Production on Four Nights. Final Cast of Players in February Production Announced. Membership Nears 100” (1 – AC and CO)
“Benj. West B. & L. Growing Rapidly. New Organization Opened First Series on Wednesday Night. Directors Prominent” (1 – SE)
“Social and Personal” (2 – PO, SC and SN) – The first and “most important social item of the week” chronicled how “Dr. John Miller, vice president of Swarthmore College called on President-Elect of the United State Herbert Hoover, last Friday. As a result of the visit Dr. Miller was forced to admit that he had at one time instructed Mr.
Hoover in mathematics, and was well acquainted with the next president.” “Calendar” (2 – SL)
“The Sick List” (2 – SL) “Births” (2 – SL)
“Deaths” (2 – AD)
“Boy Scout News” (2 – KO)
“New Sea Food Store Replaces Starr Market” (2 – SE) – ‘Jerry’ Martel and his brother Morris, “who many Swarthmore people have met as the manager of the Bell Market in Lansdowne,” were the new managers.
“Aid Sought to Better County Social Evils” (2 – CJ and CW) – The editor introduced a letter signed by nine individuals that solicited “more extended personal work” for “men and women who have been paroled or are nearing the end of the terms in the County Prison” in Media.
“Fetter-Pollard Wedding Held Monday” (3 – AL)
“Women’s Association Studys [sic] Changing Order” (3 – RS and WO) – The two speakers were Faye Edgerton “of the Navajo Mission at Guada, Arizona,” and Mrs. John Ferguson from Brooklyn, who was International Chairman of all Woman’s Federation Christian Work. The latter “pointed out how Christian women of today must meet the changing order [resulting from the new industrial expansion].”
“Strath Haven Notes” (3 – SL) “Dr. Roxby at Assembly” (3 – AE) “Legal Notices” (3)
“Thoughts for a Week” (4 – AC, BB, CO, CV, ED and SL) – Editorial comments on the need for a traffic signal on Swarthmore Avenue; the need for a community auditorium to accommodate the Players’ Club “enlarged program”; sewer problems at Yale Avenue and Chester Road; and how the “co-operation of private citizens in building the new library indicates that almost anything can be done in Swarthmore if it is only started.”
“Business and Civic Assn. Ends 8th Year” (4 – CO) “Business Men of Boro May Organize” (4 – CO and MO)
“Another Home Started on Gillespie Tract” (4 – RE) – at the corner of Cornell and Strath Haven
“Church News” (4 – RS)
“Swarthmore. Community Life at Its Best” (5 – SL) – Continued from the previous week’s issue. This part of the series asserted that one of the borough’s bragging points was how “all teachers” in the Swarthmore public schools “are college graduates.”
“Year’s Changes at Prep School. Headmaster Coleman Shows Greater Efficiency Realized in 1928” (6 – CE)
“Mid-Winter Meeting of County Confederation” (6 -WO) “Harper Property Sold to New York Man” (6 – RE)
“Perfect Type of Show Girl Coming” (6 – AC) – about Alice White
“Plays His First Bluecoat in a Feature Film” (6 – AC) – about Charlie Murray