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...September, Roseann Pinto, 14, and two parochial school classmates in West Philadelphia came home to their families with an exciting story. The Virgin Mary, the girls said, had appeared to them in a vision while they were sitting on a bench in Philadelphia's Fairmount Park. They added that the Virgin was wearing a white gown and a bluish veil, and "vanished'.' almost instantly. Rumor spread that she had promised to return on the last Sunday in October...
...Philadelphia, an eight-point buck wandered out of Fairmount Park into a bakery's loading yard. When four men tried to lasso it, the buck headed for an eight-foot fence, cleared it on the third try. With 16 police cars in hot pursuit, it darted 15 blocks to the Erie Avenue station of the Broad Street subway and slid down the stairs. Patrolman Thomas Gleason stopped it with a revolver shot as it was heading toward a turnstile for a northbound train...
...when he landed in the U.S. as leader of a company of about 40 men who came in 1694 to wait for the millennium they thought was imminent. Cultured, sensitive "Magister" Kelpius settled his little commune in the wilderness which is now a part of Philadelphia's Fairmount Park. For more than 14 years they lived together in huts and caves, praying, composing hymns and drawing inspiration from Kelpius' single-minded effort to pierce the mystery of reality...
Here is one woman she DOES NOT speak for, and you can tell that to James B. CONANT) yours VERY sincerely, Mrs. C. R. Hildebrand 727 Fairmount Ave. N.E. Warren, Ohio...
John L. Hannigan, 2nd of 222 Fairmount St., Lowell; Lowell High. John B. Hansen of 27 Havana St., Boston; Roslindale High, Boston. Jolyon Hitchen of 17 Somerset Rd., West Newton; Deerfield Academy. Russell E. Johnson of 27 Windham St., Worcester; South High, Worcester, Thomas L. King, Jr., of 195 Cypress St., Newton Center; Berkeley Preparatory School, Boston. Jeremy H. Knowles of 7 Pierce St., Marble-head; Marblehead High...