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Trail Blazer - Volume 19, Number 5, Morehead State University. Trail Blazer.

Morehead State Trail Blazer Archive

Morehead State Trail Blazer published on November 17, 1948.

Letter From Helen D. Witmer To Alfred L. Shoemaker, November 17, 1948, Helen D. Witmer

Alfred L. Shoemaker Folk Cultural Documents

A typed letter from Helen D. Witmer addressed to Alfred L. Shoemaker, dated November 17, 1948. Within, Witmer details her favorite "all" story about asking for directions in Columbia, Pennsylvania. She also details her family's experiences growing up with Pennsylvania Dutch expressions and suggests Shoemaker look into the use of the word "wonderful" by people in Lancaster County.

Lancaster County "Sayings", Unknown Author

Alfred L. Shoemaker Folk Cultural Documents

A typed set of Lancaster County sayings and folk beliefs by an unknown author, dated November 16, 1948. Within, beliefs pertaining to luck and folk cures for various ailments are detailed.

The Ursinus Weekly, November 15, 1948, Ray Warner, Anne Hughes, Nancy Bare, Frank Edwards, Fred Nicholls, Susanne Deitz, Elizabeth Haney, Fay Horner, Carolyn Herber, Jeanne Stewart, John Burton, Roy Todd, George Saurman, Bill Helfferich, Jean Heron, Bob Gehman

Ursinus Weekly Newspaper, 1902-1978

Seniors to feature Bud Williams' band at December ball • Philip to produce Handel's "Messiah" for eleventh year • Wallick to leave in December; Will study at Edinburgh • WSSF starts campaign with goal set at $1,000 • Wallace claims UN is success despite Russian difficulties • Pre-meds offered much for money • Juniors to sponsor tux raffle as part of money-raising drive • What do you like best about Ursinus? • Applications due for grad exam • "Y" to conduct prejudice poll • Pettit appointed assistant registrar • Editorials: Varsity letters; Passing fancies • Letters to the editor • …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 25, No. 5, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news. Regular features include:

• Alumni Flashes
• Book Marks
• Kentucky Building News
• Tidbits of Kentucky Folklore
• Society Page
• Faculty Notes
• Veterans Views
• Birds-I View
• Sports Alley

This issue contains articles:

• Homecoming Features Game, Chapel, Dances
• Toppers Battle Maroons in T Offensive Duel
• Twenty Western Seniors Selected for Who’s Who’ by Faculty and Students
• Orchestra Will Present Program
• Roy Owsley Engaged as Consultant
• Cadet Officers Named by Corps
• Seniors Choose Class Officers
• Edgar Raine Lectures on Alaskan Life
• Noted Quartette to Appear Here – Guardsmen
• Barter Players to Present Hamlet
• Garrett, Paul. …

Letter From Charles Ezra Bowman To Alfred L. Shoemaker, November 12, 1948, Charles E. Bowman

Alfred L. Shoemaker Folk Cultural Documents

A handwritten letter from Charles Ezra Bowman addressed to Alfred L. Shoemaker, dated November 12, 1948. Within, Bowman provides his contribution to Shoemaker's request about favorite Pennsylvania Dutch "all" stories.

1948-11-11 Rowan County News, Rowan County News (Morehead, Ky.)

Rowan County News Archive

Rowan County News published on November 11, 1948.

The Independent, V. 74, Thursday, November 11, 1948, [Number: 24], The Independent, Paul W. Levengood

The Independent Newspaper, 1898-1952

[6] p. Newspaper published in Collegeville, Pa. Weekly. Contains local, county, state and national news, agricultural reading matter, fiction, public sales and advertisements.

Tomahawk, November 11, 1948, College Of The Holy Cross

Student Newspapers

No abstract provided.

Letter From O. S. Sprout To Alfred L. Shoemaker, November 11, 1948, O. S. Sprout

Alfred L. Shoemaker Folk Cultural Documents

A typed letter from O. S. Sprout addressed to Alfred L. Shoemaker, dated November 11, 1948. Within, Sprout details two separate Pennsylvania Dutch "all" stories, one occurring between an Amish son and father and the other regarding an off-duty train operator. Sprout also seeks information on the value of a book printed in German.

Letter From Mrs. E. H. Mull To Alfred L. Shoemaker, November 11, 1948, Mrs. E. H. Mull

Alfred L. Shoemaker Folk Cultural Documents

A typed letter from Mrs. E. H. Mull addressed to Alfred L. Shoemaker, dated November 11, 1948. Within, Mull recalls her favorite Pennsylvania Dutch "all" story, detailing the exasperated words from a neighbor towards her sons at meal time.

Letter From H. A. Shawalter To Alfred L. Shoemaker, November 9, 1948, H. A. Shawalter

Alfred L. Shoemaker Folk Cultural Documents

A typed letter from H. A. Shawalter addressed to Alfred L. Shoemaker, dated November 9, 1948. Within, Shawalter details a practice called "bull fiddling" or serenading, in which a newly married couple must offer compensation or endure raucous noise made outside the home by local community members.

The Ursinus Weekly, November 8, 1948, Ray Warner, Joanne Duncan, Roy Todd, George Saurman, Frank Edwards, Anne Hughes, Dorothy Garris, Nancy Bare, Walter Rholfs

Ursinus Weekly Newspaper, 1902-1978

Stars and starlets to present talents in vaudeville show • Coeds join sororities as rush week ends • Facts and figures of NSA presented for student study • Lantern adds five to augment staff for November issue • Fall sports dance to highlight varied week-end activities • WSSF drive begins week from today • Prof. to discuss UN at second forum • What did you think of the election results? • Cliff Naylor leaves after two years of kitchen service • College women given the air by indignant male rebuttals • Duck, lassies! Fur flies fast as "Upper-Crust" sounds off …

Hollins Columns (1948 Nov 6), Hollins College

Hollins Student Newspapers

Table of Contents:

• Dr. Pope To Give Series Of Three Addresses Here
• Miss Anderson Represents Hollins At English Conference
• Dr. H.A. Bosley To Give Sermon
• Noted Novelist Lectures on Campus
• Nov. 20 Set For Fall Play
• Work Progresses On Point System
• Roscoe Drummond To Speak on '49 Election Results
• Freshmen To Give 3 Plays Tonight
• College Board Conference Held in New York
• Painting Class Visits Washington's Galleries
• Are You a Monster?
• Stand Up and Cheer!
• Door Daze
• Confidence Plus
• World Winds
• College Boy
• College Girl
• Out On a Limb?
• Student Service Extends Drive
• Hollins Victorious In Hockey Games
• Students May …

Tomahawk, November 5, 1948, College Of The Holy Cross

Student Newspapers

No abstract provided.

The Independent, V. 74, Thursday, November 4, 1948, [Number: 23], The Independent, Paul W. Levengood

The Independent Newspaper, 1898-1952

[6] p. Newspaper published in Collegeville, Pa. Weekly. Contains local, county, state and national news, agricultural reading matter, fiction, public sales and advertisements.

1948-11-04 Rowan County News, Rowan County News (Morehead, Ky.)

Rowan County News Archive

Rowan County News published on November 4, 1948.

Trail Blazer - Volume 19, Number 4, Morehead State University. Trail Blazer.

Morehead State Trail Blazer Archive

Morehead State Trail Blazer published on November 3, 1948.

The Ursinus Weekly, November 1, 1948, Ray Warner, Roy Todd, George E. Saurman, Bob Gehman, Walter Rholfs

Ursinus Weekly Newspaper, 1902-1978

Varsity letter list includes 43 athletes • Dewey takes campus elections in landslide as 738 students vote in preview balloting • Thespians select "Uncle Harry" cast • Y members discuss bases for beliefs • Reporter uncovers campus complaints • Ranung, Klein draw capacity audience • Co-operate, mate! The infirmary calls • Sororities throw parties for big rushing campaign • Historical authority meets recent geopolitics seminar • Music department announces date of 11th Messiah presentation • 9 popular films scheduled for 1948-49 movie roster • Three students visit Gratersford prison • Ursinus coeds laud and lament traits of college male • …

The Octofoil, November 1948, Ninth Infantry Division Association

The Octofoil

The Octofoil is the offical publication of the Ninth Infantry Division Association, Inc., an organization formed by the officers and men of the 9th Infantry Division in order to perpetuate the memory of fallen comrades, preserve the esprit de corps of the Division, promote peace and serve as an information bureau about the 9th Infantry Division. The Association is made up of 9th Infantry veterans from WWII and Vietnam, spouses, widows and lineal descendants.

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 25, No. 4, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news. Regular features include:

• Alumni Flashes
• Book Marks
• Kentucky Building News
• Tidbits of Kentucky Folklore
• Society Page
• Faculty Notes
• Veterans Views
• Birds-I View
• Sports Alley

This issue contains articles:

• ‘Missouri Legend’ to be Presented November 11
• English Poetess to Speak Before Chapel Assembly – Phyllis Wood
• Edgar Raine to Speak on Alaskan Life
• Homecoming to be Celebrated
• Norman Cohen Appointed to Talisman Staff
• Lyndol Mitchell Opus Wins Honors
• Classes to Meet Next Wednesday
• Congress Debating Club Adopts New Constitution
• McClellan, Juanita. Cuban Born Student Finds Life Different at Western – …

The Independent, V. 74, Thursday, October 28, 1948, [Number: 22], The Independent, Paul W. Levengood

The Independent Newspaper, 1898-1952

[6] p. Newspaper published in Collegeville, Pa. Weekly. Contains local, county, state and national news, agricultural reading matter, fiction, public sales and advertisements.

1948-10-28 Rowan County News, Rowan County News (Morehead, Ky.)

Rowan County News Archive

Rowan County News published on October 28, 1948.

The Ursinus Weekly, October 25, 1948, Ray Warner, George E. Saurman, Roy Todd, Bob Gehman, Jeanne Stewart, Anne Hughes, Donna Weber, Frank Edwards

Ursinus Weekly Newspaper, 1902-1978

Ranung and Klein to offer musicale; program to feature folk songs, arias • Fowler, two profs give party views in opening forum • Campus election slated for Wednesday; enthusiasm runs high among students • 'Y' committees plan numerous activities • Sororities to begin sophomore rushing • Week-end cheerful despite grid loss • Luncheons attended by many ex-coeds • Curtain Club plans show for November presentation • Officers of IRC to attend conference at Penn State • Frosh bear fund reaches $28 in drive to buy new costume • Frosh hold annual banquet with Gene Glick as guest • Chem society …

Hollins Columns (1948 Oct 23), Hollins College

Hollins Student Newspapers

Table of Contents:

• Hollins Enters Hockey Meet
• National Five Arts Award Contest Open to Hollins
• Alumna Presents Music Scholarship
• Hollins Alumnae Magazine Plans New Feature Page
• Art Building Is Officially Opened
• Two Ministers Plan To Speak at Hollins
• A Better World
• Hollins To Revise Its Point System
• Survey Starts To Determine Voters' Ideas
• Hollins Representatives Attend Academic Events
• Are You in the Know?
• For You and By You
• The Radiator Serenade
• Out of the Past
• World Winds
• Roun' 'n' 'Bout With Pam
• 1952--A Shmoo Class
• Cargoes Asks Your Support
• English Duo Sings at Hollins
• Miss Illsely Tells I.R.C. Of Conference …

The Independent, V. 74, Thursday, October 21, 1948, [Number: 21], The Independent, Paul W. Levengood

The Independent Newspaper, 1898-1952

[6] p. Newspaper published in Collegeville, Pa. Weekly. Contains local, county, state and national news, agricultural reading matter, fiction, public sales and advertisements.

1948-10-21 Rowan County News, Rowan County News (Morehead, Ky.)

Rowan County News Archive

Rowan County News published on October 21, 1948.

Tomahawk, October 28, 1948, College Of The Holy Cross

Student Newspapers

No abstract provided.

Tomahawk, October 21, 1948, College Of The Holy Cross

Student Newspapers

No abstract provided.

Trail Blazer - Volume 19, Number 3, Morehead State University. Trail Blazer.

Morehead State Trail Blazer Archive

Morehead State Trail Blazer published on October 20, 1948.