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Where the Lehigh River joins the Delaware they strap New Jersey to Pennsylvania. Then up through the cliff-hugged Lehigh Valley they climb, where trees remain. Up where Moravian missionaries once established their settlements among the Iroquois, there is smoky Bethlehem (Bethlehem Steel Corp.) and Allentown. Beyond them cement mills sit greyly beside the Lehigh railroad tracks. Local stations are one, two, three and four miles apart. From Mauch Chunk (pronounced Mok Tchunk) a network of branches spread westward from the main line up among the anthracite coal mines, whose hard, black products give the Lehigh Valley Railroad its soubriquet...
...Allentown, Pa., two women prepared to leave a railroad train as it pulled into the station. One Stefan Baletic, fisherman of Buras, La., who had ridden in the same car with the women from Pittsburgh, sprang from his seat...
...immediately to a congenial subject. In yesterday's Boston Herald it was announced that the present histrionic treat at Waldron's Casino is "real burlesque of the old school". Now there may be those who do not know what "old school" burlesque is. They have never been west of Allentown, Pennsylvania, on the Lehigh. Nor have they tried that excellent establishment, the Howard Athenaeum. Of course the best friend after a visit to burlesque of the "old school" is an old clothes merchant, for where there's smoke there's sure to be smell--as the old proverb says...
...season will receive ten new singers: Sopranos: Elda Vettori of St. Louis; Martha Attwood of Baltimore; Louise Lerch of Allentown (Pa.), pupil of Marcella Sembrich; Editha Fleischer, who came to the U. S. several seasons ago with the Wagnerian Opera Company; Tenors: Walter Kirchov, German, onetime member of the Berlin Royal Opera; Alfio Tedesco, Italian; Bassos: Joseph Macpherson, 25, son of a Nashville (Tenn.) clergyman, whose voice was discovered at a camp meeting; Pavel Ludikar, Czech; Ezio Pinza, Italian, famed in his own country and in South America, to make his debut the opening night; Baritone: George Cehanovsky, Russian...
...foreign cheap labor competition in our market." The Democrats, being the party out of office, naturally run on a reform platform and "Slush" is their war cry, even out in Indiana where the Reed Senatorial Committee has been asked to investigate their primaries. Representative Oldfield last week journeyed to Allentown, Pa., where Democracy is fighting desperately to elect to the U. S. Senatorship, William B. Wilson, onetime (1913-21) Secretary of Labor, in the contest against William S. Vare. He stated that- 1) The Republicans are certain to be "as silent as President Coolidge" on the $3,000,000 Pennsylvania...