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Published by the American Chemical Society AUGUST 10, 1941
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Atlantic City by either rail or auto will take the majority of those who attend through Philadelphia. To many this will be a unique opportunity, for in t h e pages of American history this city and its environs are emblazoned in the brightest colors. In this day and generation Philadelphia is the "world's greatest workshop", the most typical of American cities, a center of a r t , education, and music, the second port of the United States. All about lies the evidence, in the form of buildings, parks, and streets, of the early history of this country, of the stirring days of the Revolutionary War, of the making of the new Republic, and of the early combating of the foes that beset the infant Nation. With tender care here have been preserved historic shrines dear to the hearts of the liberty-loving people of the world. Here, in truth, is America
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at its best. Neither printed word nor picture can adequately present this great city. You must see it and study it. Historic Philadelphia T o gain a true appreciation of what Philadelphia offers in historical interest, it is necessary to go back to its founding and trace its early history through the period when the city was the center of the stirring activities of the Revolution and through the days when Philadelphia was the scene of the founding of the Republic. From King Charles I I of England William Penn obtained a land grant to the country in and about Philadelphia. In 1681, after carefully planning the type of settlement which was to be founded on his grant, William Penn sent Captain Markham to this country as deputy-governor and followed, himself, shortly afterward. I t was Penn who selected the name of
Philadelphia, it was Penn who laid out the plan of the city (the first definite city planning in America, if not in the world), who devised the checkerboard system of streets which still is followed, and it was Penn who came on the ground and formally established the city that was to be the haven of all those in the old world who desired freedom of conscience, freedom of education, and freedom to develop. Instead of the narrow, winding, crisscross streets so common in the early settlements, there was a uniformity about the city that Penn developed, with average streets 50 feet wide and with larger streets at certain intervals. In the city also, he laid out "squares", or parks, a system that since has been widely developed. Within two years the development of Philadelphia was remarkable. In that time 200 buildings had been erected and the population numbered 2400 people. By the close of 1685, 90 ships had ar-
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adopted on September 17 of rived, bringing 7200 perthe same year. sons. This was the largest From 1790 t o 1800, Philatrans-Atlantic migration up delphia continued as Capital to that time and was not of the new Nation. There, equalled until in the 18th in Congress Hall, the work century the Scotch-Irish of Congress was carried on, and German-Palatines came the Supreme Court began to Pennsylvania. its remarkable career, the In the 18th century PhilaUnited States Mint, in the delphia was the leading city first building ever owned by of the American Continent. the National Government, This was due primarily to was established, and the the religious toleration, the new Nation obtained its welcome extended to better start in life. types of men and women Among the many historic from foreign nations, the buildings in Philadelphia, in great natural resources, addition to Independence diversified industries, and Hall, Carpenters' Hall, and agriculture which furnished William Penn's House, are material for commerce, and the Betsy Ross House, the mingling of sects and standing between rows of races which developed an modern city buildings in the i n t e l l e c t u a l type more busy section of the city, and liberal and progressive than a group of famous colonial in any other section of the churches. In the Betsy new country. Ross House, George WashIn the period preceding ington, George Ross, and t h e R e v o l u t i o n , PhilaRobert Morris, financier of delphia had developed bethe Revolution, sat with the yond all cities in education, immortal Betsy and dearts, science, industry, and signed the first American commerce. flag, the present emIn the events leading up PHILADELPHIA CONVENTION BUREAU blem, which she sewed to the Revolution, PhilaDelaware River Bridge, Philadelphia to Camden there. delphia became the storm Christ Church on Second center. I n 1773 a tea Street near Market, begun in 1727, was Germantown, on the site of Cliveden, the meeting in Philadelphia associated with the city's early history. In famous Chew Mansion. Washington lutions of protest, which served as it Washington worshipped with other drew off his troops to Valley Forge in the the model for resolutions later adopted leaders in the revolutionary days. Close hills above Philadelphia, and there spent in Boston and eventuated in the famous by, at Fifth and Arch Streets, Benjamin the darkest days of the war in the bitter Boston T e a Party. Later, on Septemwinter of 1777-78. Franklin and Robert Morris lie buried. ber 5, 1774, the First Continental ConOld Swedes Church, sometimes known gress met in Carpenters' Hall in PhilaVisitors to Philadelphia can live over as Gloria Dei, completed in 1700, Saint delphia to adopt measures to encourage again the trying days of the Revolution. Joseph's Church built in 1732, Saint Massachusetts and to threaten the EngThey can visit the buildings, carefully lish merchants with nonimportation and Peter's Church built in 1761, and Saint preserved as shrines in which the historic nonexportation agreements. In May events of the Revolution occurred. At Mary's Church erected in 1763, are other 1775, in the State House, better known Valley Forge they can inspect the enshrines of colonial history still preserved now as Independence Hall, the Second trenchments of the Continental Army, in the city. Continental Congress met. There Washmiles of which still are visible, and visit ington accepted command of the ContiWashington's headquarters. This has been The Port nental Army, there the Declaration of made a memorial ground that is worthy of Independence was debated and adopted on a visit. The days of the sailing ships and the July 4, 1776, and there Congress received pirates have passed, but there is just as Along the Delaware, in addition to the the French minister, the first foreign repremuch romance in the present-day water sites of the battles of Trenton and Princesentative t o this country. front of Philadelphia as ever existed in the ton, and Washington's Crossing, the forts past. Driving along Delaware Avenue built below Philadelphia to protect the On October 4, 1776, the first British with its cobblestone paving, one can view city from naval attack still are standing. advance t o Philadelphia, then the Capital the many piers, the N e w York ShipbuildA circle of 30 miles, drawn about PhilaCity, was stopped at the Delaware River, ing Co. on the Jersey shore, and the redelphia, encloses buildings, museums, and and later, at the close of 1776, Washingvitalized Cramp Shipyard in the Kensingcollections of more value in Revolutionary ton won his brilliant victory at Trenton, ton section of Philadelphia. history than in any other district in above Philadelphia on the Delaware. America. An available water front of 50 miles on The following year the British advanced both sides of the Delaware and Schuylan army from Chesapeake Bay, defeated When the Revolution was ended Philakill Rivers attracts the ships of the whole the continental troops at Chadd's Ford delphia was the meeting place of the world to the Port of Philadelphia. and took Philadelphia. An effort made to Constitutional Convention, which, on Philadelphia is the second port of the recapture it, which barely failed of acMay 14, 1787, began work upon the ConUnited States, and its possibilities for the complishment, resulted in the battle of stitution of the United States, which was The AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY assumes no responsibility for the statements and opinions advanced by contributors t o its publications. Published by the AMBBICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, Publication Office, 20th & Northampton Sts. t Easton, Penna. Editorial Office, 1155 16th St.. N . W., Washington, D. 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Left. This building on Philadelphia's Benjamin Franklin Parkway houses the national shrine t o America's pioneer scientist, a m u s e u m which popularizes science, and t h e Franklin Institute. Upper left corner. All-transparent model showing primary distillation, a section of a group which was presented t o the institute m u s e u m by J. Howard Pew, president of Sun Oil Co.
Center above. Visitors to t h e i n s t i t u t e m u s e u m m a y operate controls of this 350-ton locomotive. Center left. Benjamin F r a n k lin Parkway r u n n i n g toward City Hall from t h e steps of t h e Art M u s e u m . Left. Not a doodle-hug, b u t a p l a n e t a r i u m i n s t r u m e n t presented to t h e i n s t i t u t e by S a m u e l Fels. Above. T h e S u n Oil group in m u s e u m showing p r o d u c t i o n a n d refining of p e t r o l e u m .
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a b s o r p t i o n of t h e traffic of the ocean have not yet begun to be reached. Men of vision see Philadelphia returning to the proud place it held in the days of the founding of the Republic as the great American port.
The Workshop of the World Philadelphia comes rightfully by its title of the "world's greate s t w o r k s h o p " because it produces a g r e a t e r n u m b e r of vitally essential articles than any other municipality and fashi o n s m o r e of t h e world's n e c e s s i t i e s . Virtually all cities do some sort of manufacturing for local or neighborhood needs. B u t when the whole world demands and uses t h e products of one city, as in the case of Philadelphia, it may safely be said that the city has attained supremacy in that field. Yes, the Philadelphia area leads in m a n y fields, including petroleum products with such names as Atlantic, Sun, Standard; locomotives from Baldwin; street cars and busses b y Brill, as well a s the newer light-weight streamlined trains; radios b y Philco and R. C. A. Victor; storage batteries with the Exide and Philco imprint; hats by Stetson; even food, soups, and beans by Campbell, and not to miss the universal American dessert, Philadelphia ice cream by Breyers, Abbotts, Colonial, and others. Many more nationally recognized names make Philadelphia t h e world's workshop. In normal times, Philadelphia's industrial production reached a value yearly of $2,000,000,000. I t still goes well beyond $1,225,000,000 t o $1,500,000,000 yearly, and there are more t h a n 5000 industrial establishments. Another amazing fact t h a t establishes Philadelphia's industrial importance is that its factories produce a greater volume yearly than any one of 38 entire states; its industrial employment is greater than any one of 3 8 entire states; and its industrial pay rolls are greater t h a n a n y one of 3 9 entire states.
Shopping Opportunities I n Philadelphia one will find opportunities for shopping unsurpassed by other cities. It is the home of America's first nationally known department store. Such names as Wanamaker's, Strawbridge & Clothier, Gimbel Bros., Snellenburg & Co., and Lit Bros., as well a s the finest specialty shops, are well known. T h e women will
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Memorial Chapel, Valley Forge Park h a v e a real shopping opportunity. Stores are open during the day, Saturdays, and on Wednesday evenings. One m a y go t o Philadelphia during the week from Atlantic City, for Philadelphia is but a n hour's ride at m o s t reasonable rail rates.
Outdoors The formal beauty of the parks of Paris, t h e complex, tree-bowered Tiergarten in Berlin, Central Park in N e w York, the parks o f London and Vienna have been widely heralded and the praises of all have been Rung. Y e t none of these parks equals in size and beauty a single section of Philadelphia's park system—namely, Fairmount Park. N o city has so wisely laid o u t its parks, so generously given of i t s space and its money to the development o f charming and genuine open spaces for the comforts, health, and pleasure of t h e millions of its population. The city has more than 6000 acres devoted t o parks, ranging in size from those bounded by a single city block, set down a s breathing spaces in the teeming centers o f the city's population, up to Fairmount Park, with its 3838 acres of natural rolling country, river and stream, hills and valleys. This expanse of natural beauty, enhanced b y several generations of patient men o f art, extends for miles along both sides of t h e Schuylkill River, from the extreme northwestern part of t h e city down t o t h e city's center at City Hall, the last connecting link being the new Parkway. Fairmount Park rises from both banks of t h e Schuylkill River, is gridironed with wonderful driveways, rustic walks, shady bridle paths, and laid out with all kinds of recreational facilities, artistic, educational, and athletic. It i s not a park developed merely t o be admired a t a distance, but a park t o be
Vol. 19, No. 15 used. Probably n o other in the world i s so extensively used. An accurate survey has shown that more than 3,000,000 pedestrians a n d 1,600,000 vehicles have entered its gates within a single year. On t h e e x t r e m e northerly end o f the park, it. merges into the Wissahickon Drive, which skirts W i s s a h i c k o n Creek. T h e latter, winding for miles a m o n g thickly wooded hills, picturesque gorges down which cascade brooks that feed t h e Wissahickon, long has C H A M B E R O F COMMERCE boon t h e mecca for writers and artists who h a v e glorified i t in verse and on canvas. Scattered throughout Fairmount Park are many of America's historical landmarks. T h e country h o m e of Robert Morris, financier of the Revolutionary Government, stands within the park o n Lemon Hill. Here the financial gonitis of the early d a y s of the American Nation held counsel with Washington, Franklin, Jefferson, Rittenhouse, and Lafayette. A white walnut tree planted before the house by Lafayette still flourishes. T h e Zoological Gardens is the oldest institution of its kind in America, and i t s collections are, in some respects, without parallel. I t occupies "Solitude", once t h e country home of John Penn, grandson of William Penn. Near by h a s been placed the home of William Penn, a quaint twostory brick dwelling, formerly located in Letitia Street in the business district near the water front. It was t h e first brick house in America and contains many interesting relics of the days of the founder of the city. Located a s this park is o n both sides of the Schuylkill River, with the c i t y completely enveloping it, many beautiful and ornamental bridges have been spread across t h e river t o connect the t w o sides of the park. T h e Wissahickon Creek, t o o , rippling along deep in the cleft between t h e hills, has been spanned b y some wonderful structures. One of these, t h e Walnut Lane Bridge, is the largest singlespan concrete bridge in the world. Slightly separated from Fairmount Park, but now connected with it b y means of a beautiful boulevard, lies Bartram's Gardens, a 30-acre park i n southwestern Philadelphia on the Schuylkill River. In this garden, containing John Bartram's original home, w a s established in 1728 the first botanical garden in America by the m a n w h o is regarded a s the greatest "natural botanist" the world has known. I n this garden are many o f the trees and
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829 to the entrance of Fairmount Park, a distance of more than a mile and a half. To construct it the city was compelled to cut a wide path through business houses and homes, more than 1000 properties being removed. It cost $30,000,000 for the condemnation of property, acquisition of ground, and construction of the thoroughfare. This parkway has a varying boulevard width of 140 to 250 feet. It has created three great plazas, has provided for several groups of public and semipublic buildings, and has formed the groundwork for a remarkable group of art buildings. Another boulevard, linking Fairmount Park with Pennypack Park, and providing a marvelous motor car road through the northeastern section of the city towards New York, providing ingress to the city's center by Broad Street, and to the south and west through Fairmount Park, has been cut. This is the Roosevelt Boulevard, a great, wide thoroughfare, now dotted with beautiful homes and splendid structures of all kinds. Other spurs connecting the parks and arteries of travel also radiate in all directions. Art and Education
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Independence Hall, home of the Liberty Bell plants placed there by John Bartram and his son, William. The city has developed three other parks, linked with Fairmount Park. These are League Island Park in the extreme south of Philadelphia, resting between the city proper and League Island Navy Yard, which is the southernmost tip of the city; Cobb's Creek Park in the southwest; and Pennypack Park, which covers a large acreage in the rolling country to the northeast and is watered by the beautiful Pennypack Creek. Hundreds of smaller parks have been laid out. These are located along the busy thoroughfares in the center of the city, one covering a city block which contains Independence Hall on Chestnut Street, another Washington Square in the same vicinity, and another Franklin Square at a busy spot where the Delaware River Bridge terminates in this city. This bridge, which connects Philadelphia with Camden, N. J., was completed in 1926 and is the world's largest singlespan suspension bridge used for vehicular traffic in the world. Carrying Fairmount Park down into the heart of Philadelphia, the city has constructed the Benjamin Franklin Parkway which may be said to be the greatest 20th century accomplishment of any city in the world. This magnificent boulevard, starting at City Hall, the exact center of the busy city, runs in a northwesterly direction
It is but natural that the city founded by thinking people, by men and women who were believers in religious freedom and so broad-minded that no, religious,
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political, or social belief was barred from participation in the city's development, should at once have become the birthplace of American learning. And that love of education, so implanted, nourished, and developed through centuries, inevitably has given Philadelphia leadership in educational matters. The spirit animating Philadelphia's education goes back to colonial days. The great scientists of America's early years were either Philadelphians or men who came here to study and develop their minds. Benjamin Franklin, scientist, educator, inventor, statesman, lived in Philadelphia, and among his associates were David Rittenhouse, one of the world's greatest astronomers, mathematicians, and philosophers, and John Bartram, greatest natural botanist in the world. Very early Philadelphia began the establishment of the institutions which have profoundly affected the development of education and science throughout the Nation. Universal education was made compulsory by the original charter of Philadelphia and the first school was opened coincidentally with the founding of the city in 1683. Six years later the first grammar school was started. This, the first chartered public school, the William Penn Charter School, still is in existence and is one of the best known preparatory schools in the United States. Benjamin Franklin, in 1749, established the University of Pennsylvania, which has grown to tremendous proportions. Throughout the world it is known as a leader in education, especially in its professional schools. Its Department of Medicine, the first school of medicine founded in America—"The Cradle of
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A m e r i c a n Medicine"—is recognized throughout the world as the leader in its field in America, while its other professional branches, such as law, chemistry, dentistry, veterinary, economics, and engineering, are in the first rank. Shortly after the establishment of this medical school the first hospital connected with a university, the University Hospital, was opened, with also the first woman's medical college in the country, still existent, following. In 1762 William Shippen started the first school of anatomy. One of the most complete laboratories for anatomy and physiological chemistry in America is now under construction at the University
of Pennsylvania, and will be the first item to be completed in the Medical School's imposing program of expansion and development. The Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science, founded in 1821, the oldest college of its kind in the Western Hemisphere, was the first collegiate institution to offer a course of study in pharmacy. For many years curricula in bacteriology, biology, and chemistry, as well as in pharmacy,havebeen offered. Under its charter, this college is authorized to grant the degrees of bachelor of science, master of science, and doctor of science. Founded for and dedicated to the advancement of the sciences supporting public health, this institution with its modern buildings and equipment,, internationally recognized faculty, and unexcelled spirit of progressive activity is carrying on an extensive and well-rounded program of education and research. Jefferson Medical College, founded in 1825, is one of the most famous medical schools in the world. Since its origin over 100 years ago, it has graduated more than 15,000 students with doctors' degrees. Hahnemann Medical College has completed a new building at Broad and Race Streets for the education of homeopathic physicians and nurses. It is the oldest and largest Class A homeopathic college in the world. S t . Charles Seminary has completed a new group of buildings at a cost of approximately $5,000,000, which greatly increases its facilities for training young men for the Catholic priesthood. The Philadelphia College of Osteopathy and the hospital, both in their new buildings at 48th and Spruce Streets, are outstanding in their field. Hospitals, medical c o l l e g e s , and other institutions of collegiate or professional training, including Haverford, Villanova, Swarthmore, St. Joseph's, LaSalle, Drexel, and Bryn Mawr, have
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East River Drive, Fairmount Park It is possible, for example, to stand upon a replica of the bridge of an ocean liner and operate the navigating instruments as one peers at the flashing range lights and buoys of a typical harbor scene. A radio-controlled boat fascinates everybody. A pilot trainer in which the visitor tests his flying ability vies in interest with push-button wind tunnel experiments which show aerodynamic principles. There are telescopes to look through.
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anemometers to test how fast one can blow, and a pendulum weighing 1800 pounds which proves that the earth is turning. Paper is made before the eyes of the visitor, and the smallest operating steam engine in the world, on which a man might close his hand, spins at a rate of 3000 revolutions per minute. A voice mirror makes it possible to listen to yourself talking, and the correct time may be read from a clock which announces the hour by the wing-flapping and crowing of a rooster, the parade of the 12 disciples before the Saviour, while furnishing much astronomical detail. One of the most active departments is that devoted to chemistry. Fundamental chemical reactions are demonstrated by push-button experiments. The story of salt is told in an action exhibit from the Pennsylvania Salt Co. What is believed to be one of the most spectacular museum exhibits anywhere in the world is the Sun Oil Co.'s recent gift to the institute, a mammoth action model, showing the individual steps in the production and refining of petroleum. The attitude of the average visitor to the museum is such that dozens of firms have found this an ideal method of presenting their story. It is effective because of its dual appeal as dramatic entertainment as well as visual education. The institute also houses the Fels Planetarium, where man-made skies bring the sun, moon, planets, and stars to visitors as actors in a drama of the heavens, whether it is day or night, clear or cloudy outside. In the same building may be found the national shrine to Benjamin Franklin, where a great marble statue in a huge domed chamber forms the focal point of interest for visitors to the city. The Franklin Institute's activities in the promotion of science date back to the
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early 19th century. Leading scientists and technical men of the world from 1824 to t h e present time give testimony t o the consistent cooperation of the institute with industries which utilize the advances of technical knowledge. D a y s could be spent here, but hours arc enjoyable. The planetarium demonstrations are held every day a t 3 : 0 0 and 8:30 p. M . T h e museum is open from 1:00 to 6:00 P . M. Tuesday through Friday, and on Sunday; Saturday, from 10:00 to 6:00 P . M. T h e first library in the United States was established in Philadelphia in 1731 by Benjamin Franklin, and it has been the foundation for a library system the most complete anywhere—a system that has been a vital factor in the educational development of Philadelphians. The culmination of this is seen in the Public Library building on the Parkway, north of Logan Circle, where one of the largest and most ornate library buildings in the world, with more than 1,000,000 volumes, is being used daily b y thousands. T h e Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, more than a century old and established in a beautiful home on North Broad Street, is the center of art training. The School of Industrial Art, the School of Design for Women, a n d t h e now famous Graphic Sketch Club are drawing students from all quarters of t h e world. Philadelphia leadership in the teaching of art, appreciation of art, and possession of art collections is visualized in the great Art Gallery, which crowns Fairmount Hill where the Parkway ends a t t h e entrance to Fairmount Park and looks directly down upon the center of Philadelphia. T h e Art Gallery, one of the
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largest in the world, houses a number of famous collections of paintings and sculpture b y the new and old masters given to the city for exhibition purposes by noted Philadelphians who spent their lives in art collection. T h e Art Museum is 555 feet long and about 320 feet deep, and faces toward City Hall, looking down upon a broad plaza 900 feet long and 400 feet wide. This splendid plaza will b e developed in another form of art into landscape gardening effects unsurpassed anywhere. Also it will be flanked by new structures t o house the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and the n e w Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art, thus clustering together an art center that will attract art lovers from all over t h e world. T h e Rodin Museum is another building which enhances the beauty of the Parkway. It is part of a gift to t h e city b y the late Jules E . Mastbaum and houses the sculpture of the great Frenchman, Rodin. This collection includes 150 pieces of statuary, drawings, sketches, books, and letters—all of importance in the work and life of Rodin. The museum itself is a replica of the Rodin Musee a t Meudon, France. Memorial Hall, in Fairmount Park, houses a notable art collection, including splendid examples of Rosa Bonheur, Van D y c k , Gainsborough, Corot, Daubigny, Messonier, Munkacsy, Murillo, Rubens, Jan Steen, Tintoretto, Velasquez, and Whistler. Horticultural Hall, with its wonderful sunken gardens and surrounding lakes and streams, lies t o the north of Memorial Hall. I t contains one of the most complete and wonderful collections of horticulture in the world. American appreciation of good music really had its beginning i n Philadelphia. Six years before the Civil War raged through America, the cornerstone was laid for t h e Academy of Music, which in i t s day was the largest structure for orchestra and other widely known musical organizations. Philadelphians saw the first presentation of many of the great operas in this country, and a s long ago a s 1860 Adelina Patti, in singing "Barber of Seville" in the Academy of Music, began t h e great stream of visits of foreign artists t o this city. T h e city always h a s had t h e best of opera, and for years its own company a s well a s visiting companies. This city has been the home of pageantry in music, and has the finest orchestra i n America, t h e Philadelphia Orchestra, which is sought for performances in this country and abroad, and scores of other musical groups, many generations old. T h e Curtis Institute of Music in this city has a curriculum embracing every phase of music and a faculty composed of t h e most eminent musicians, singers, and teachers. This is but a sketchy outline of t h e great American city—Philadelphia—the city whose past is the most glowing in
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Maps Available .HISTORICAL outlines and maps of Philadelphia, Penna., and N e w Jersey are obtainable from Jos. W . E . Harrisson, La Wall and Harrisson, 214 South 12th St., Philadelphia, Penna. These will be forwarded immediately t o those who request them.
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Wooster Section Elects Officers NEWLY elected officers of t h e Wooster (Ohio) Section of t h e AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY are Chairman,
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