Miss Pearl Slonecker lived in Kutztown, a borough of Berks County in east-central Pennsylvania. Most of this area was settled by German immigrants in the
Mrs. Alice Farrington lived in Spartansburg, a small borough in Crawford County of northwest Pennsylvania. (The population in 1920 was almost twice that of the
Mrs. John Larson lived in Manton, a city in west-central Michigan. Once a railroad town, the city is now the center of a large Amish
Mrs. George Furman lived in Great Bend, a town on the Susquehanna River in northeast Pennsylvania. Great Bend, named for a feature of the river,
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