Rand, McNally & Co.'s Handy Guide to Philadelphia and Environs: Including Atlantic City and Cape MayRand, McNally, 1901 - 127 páginas |
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$25 per week $3 per day American Arch Street Atlantic City battle of Germantown beach beautiful Branch building built Camden Cape cars cents Chestnut Hill Chestnut Street Church City Hall Club corner County & Philadelphia day and upward Delaware delphia Depot east edifice Eighth or Thirteenth Eighth Street electric erected European plan Fairmount Avenue Fairmount Park Fairmount Water feet floor Germantown Girard Avenue Girard College handsome Hotel Independence Hall institutions interest Jersey large number League Island Locust streets Market Street miles Mount Penn North Broad Street occupied offices Pennsylvania Railroad Phila Philadelphia & Reading reached resort restaurant Ridge Avenue Rittenhouse river rooms Schuylkill Schuylkill Navy Schuylkill River side Society South Spring Garden Spruce Square station structure theaters tion town trees Vine Street visitor Walnut Street Walnut-Chester Traction Company Walnut-Delaware County Washington West William Penn Wissahickon Wissahickon Creek York
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Página 96 - As many poor white male orphans' between the ages of six and ten years, as the said income shall be adequate to maintain, shall be introduced into the college as soon as possible ; and from time to time as there may be vacancies, or as increased ability from income may warrant, others shall be introduced.
Página 55 - A great portent appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars.
Página 74 - After passing through about two miles of broken water, we ran some wild-looking rapids, which are called the Lower Rapids, being the last on the river, which below is tranquil and smooth — a broad, magnificent stream. On a low broad point on the right bank of the river, at the lower end of these rapids, were pitched many tents of the emigrants, who were waiting here for their friends from above, or for boats and provisions which were expected from Vancouver. In our passage down the rapids, I had...
Página 73 - ... go purposely to Gloucester to witness the hauling in of the huge seine, the largest of the kind in the United States. During the month of May and the first two weeks in June, the United States Fish Commissioner's steamer, "Fish Hawk," usually anchors at Gloucester, for the purpose of hatching shad eggs to be deposited in the river.
Página 92 - Association, which provides a great number of free breakfasts for the poor on Sunday morning, amid Christian surroundings. The Women's Directory, 238 South Tenth Street, offers "sisterly sympathy and practical assistance" to women in distress; and another society prosecutes gratuitously the claims of working-girls against employers, and legally protects them in other respects. An important society exists for the prevention of the spread of tuberculosis; and other "prevention" societies are those...
Página 67 - ... and hollow eyes, indicated its antiquity. It was harnessed in the most simple manner, with a pair of branks, a hair tether, or halter, and a sunk, or cushion of straw, instead of bridle and saddle. A canvas pouch hung around the neck of the animal, — for the purpose, probably, of containing...
Página 20 - Mortgages. Receives Wills for safe keeping without charge, FRANK K. HIPPLE. President. SAMUEL F. HOUSTON, Vice-President. WILLIAM F. NORTH, Treasurer. WILLIAM R. PHILLER, Secretary. THOMAS B. PROSSER, Real Estate Officer. ROBERT D. GHRISKEY, Cashier. MS COLLINGWOOD, Asst. Treasurer. ROLAND L. TAYLOR, Asst. Secretary. DIRECTORS FIANK K. Hirru, EDWARD P. BOEDER, Jo«