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[Tom Bogar]

(02-11-2015 03:48 PM)L Verge Wrote:  Someone who is good at finding obscure articles in hometown newspapers is needed! I believe that the article appeared in the Saturday, July 13, 1907, edition of the Lower Merion News, published in Ardmore, Pennsylvania.

I have a small chunk of yellowed and brittle newsprint with the article entitled On The Stage When Lincoln Was Shot. It describes an Elks convention in Philadelphia where Harry Hawk was residing (on the Main Line in Bryn Mawr - Harry must have done well as an actor!). Harry was a prominent member of the Elks and shared his story of the Lincoln assassination in a special Elks edition of the Philadelphia Telegraph.

I would like to have the full article from either of those two papers if there is a Sherlock Holmes out there.

Laurie, I believe that that article (that begins with a sentence about Harry Hawk contentedly among his chickens in Bryn Mawr, and is titled "On the Stage When Lincoln was Shot") originally appeared in the Philadelphia Evening Telegram of July 8, 1907, and then may have been picked up by smaller regional papers. I have the article. If you quote a sentence or two from the fragment you have, I can verify it.