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Newspaper
Cambridge Tribune
Location
Cambridge, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1942
Page
5
Bailey Goss is a full time sports news collector and commentator for WBAL presenting local and national sports twice daily. He covers Baseball Basketball Football Track Archery Boxing Swimming Wrestling Golf Tennis Bowling and more and invites tips from readers.
Efforts to recruit Baltimore Negroes to work on Maryland Eastern Shore truck crops ended last week with the abandonment of plans to transport 750 volunteers by ferry. The U S Employment Service and Willard Allen cite financial doubts and personal reluctance as factors. The pay cited ranged from 4 5 cents a basket for tomatoes to 25 30 cents for beans, with concerns about food, housing, and summer timing. The midshipman nickname Galloping Goose refers to the Naval Academy train that carries a midshipman’s date from Baltimore.
A nostalgic sales pitch for S. H. Jones in Church Creek Maryland promoting Jones Best Flour and assorted goods. It touts flour for bread, beef, cakes, shoes, shirts, pants and feeds with prices and a memorable crow-themed refrain.
Walter H. Campbell of Easton attended the inauguration meeting of the Maryland Association of Small Loan Companies at the Lord Baltimore Hotel in Baltimore. Otto Lorenz and Charles H. Watts will be principal speakers with Rukeyser, Holmes and Tawney arranging events and officers to be elected. Navy Chaplains called padres noted. Congress established a Marine Corps on July 11 1798.
The Senate Agriculture Committee urged the government to set floor prices on key farm commodities well above current averages due to price declines. Aviation rations for Navy pilots include mixed pancake flour. The U.S. Marine Corps is the oldest U.S. military branch, with the Navy Department library organized in 1882 and the first librarian appointed then. White work uniforms were used for finals at the U.S. Naval Academy in May 1941.
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