Plague Threat to U S Warns Assistant Surgeon General
Washington, June 23. Dr. W C Rucker, assistant surgeon general, warns the United States faces bubonic plague risk via ships and global ports. He cites Havana and New Orleans cases, calls for maritime quarantine, rodent inspection, and permanent rat-proofing of buildings as vital defenses.
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E. F. Dorsey
United Press Staff
Washington
W. C. Rucker
U. S. Public Health Service
Hawaiian Islands
Pacific
Ecuador
Peru
South America
San Francisco
Gulf
Havana
Galveston
New Orleans
Tampa
Key West
Mexico
Gulf Ports
Atlantic Coast
Rucker
Surg
Rupert Blue
Somerset to Play Demons This Sunday
Frostburg reports the strong Somerset team is scheduled to meet Manager Spates Demons on Sunday. The Demons defeated Coney two weeks ago.
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Somerset
Demons
Frostburg
Spates
Coney
Missing Cumberland post office clerk C Frank Webster
Mrs James Webster offers a reward of 109 for information about the disappearance of Cumberland post office clerk C Frank Webster who vanished after drawing his pay in June. He is married with several children.
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C. Frank Webster
Cumberland
James Webster
Webster
Washington County Day Their Aim
Forty ministers from nearly every denomination met at St. Pauls United Brethren Church in Hagerstown to organize a campaign against liquor. They urged electors to support only dry candidates in primaries and November, and will form church pledges to vote for such candidates. Rev. Dr. Hare of Maryland Anti-Saloon League will speak at a follow up meeting in Hagerstown.
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Washington County
St. Paul's United Brethren Church
Hagerstown
Anti-Saloon League
Dr. Hare
Maryland
Vanishes on way to Pen from Baltimore Camden Station
Joseph Knowski a 22 year old Russian prisoner escaped from Garrett county officers while en route to serve 16 months for larceny. After a lunchroom stop near Camden Station he bolted through alleys and fled, described as 5 feet 10 inches tall 200 pounds with blue eyes in a blue suit.
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Camden Station
Baltimore
Joseph Knowski
Percy C., Scott
George de Witt
Garrett County
Oakland
Knowski
Commencement Echoes at Ypsilanti Normal School
Dr. George E. Vincent president of the University of Minnesota was the chief speaker at the Michigan State Normal school's commencement. The graduating class was among the largest in the school's history.
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Ypsilanti Normal
Ypsilanti, Mich
George E. Vincent
University of Minnesota
Michigan State Normal School
New Town Development Near Hancock Promises Twin Cities
Myers and Hughes lease privleges to C R Condon for Magnolia cut off on Summers farm near Hancock. A large steam shovel and about 246 workers develop the tract with Union Lumber Company building the plant. Crushed stone for highway work and limekilns planned as part of a possible Cahill fruit region twin-city development.
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Potomac
West Virginia
Cahill
Twin Cities
Destitute Whitacre family sent to county farm
A 13 member family led by mother and father with twelve children was moved from Green Spring to the county farm at Glebe by Deputy Sheriff Buckman. The group, lacking clothing and feeding on weeds, had previously lived in Green Spring after coming from Okonoko. The court ordered the placement despite their resistance.
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Green Spring
Glebe
Buckman
John Whitacre
Cumberland
Ruckman
Okonoko
Thaw Sanity Trial Sees Witness Susan Merrill Fail To Appear
In New York on June 23 the state lost a key witness as Susan Merrill did not show up for the Thaw sanity trial. The absence prompted an official inquiry by assistant attorney general Cok while the jury panel was readied. Thaw then took the stand for a 25 minute, carefully spoken testimony.
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New York
Susan Merrill
Cok
Thaw
John Stanchftield
Cook
Prominent Garrett Countian Ties Knot in Frostburg Marriage
Leonard McKenzie son of Louis McKenzie of Garrett County marries Edna Smith of Frostburg at St. Michael's parsonage in Frostburg. Attendants Ruth McKenzie and Harry Smith assist. Bride wears gray traveling suit. Couple depart by auto for Garrett County farm home.
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Frostburg
Leonard McKenzie
Louis McKenzie
Long Stretch
Garrett County
Edna Smith
Fast Main Street
St. Michael's Parsonage
Richard O'Neil
Ruth McKenzie
Harry Smith
Pleasure Beekers Advertisement For Summer Parties
A June classified notice invites Pleasure Beekers to call for details on evening boat trips aboard Landis S Floating On Boat from Park Landing at 10 cents. Dryer's Beach area hosts two hour cabaret swims with capacity 250 and Riverside mil trips, advertised with a phone contact.
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Landis
Park Landing
Seatiming
Pic Beach
Riverside
Spriggin Wins $20,000 Panama-Pacific Trot Upending Favorites
Spriggin a bay gelding wins the 2:10 trot stake worth $20,000 at the Panama-Pacific exposition race track. The upset comes as Spriggin, sold for $700 last December, defeats a field of expensive harness favorites watched by thousands.
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Spriggin
Belgians Describing German Prison Camps as Very Bad
Three Belgian NCOs who escaped Bergenhus say German camp authorities hoodwink neutral commissions and that conditions in Bergenhus are harsher than in larger camps like Parchim. They report severe rules, brutal treatment of English and Russian prisoners, poor medical care, and minimal rations with meals that can barely sustain prisoners.
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Wilbur
S. Forrest
United Press
London
New York
Germany
Bergenhua
Copenhagen
Parchib
Bergenhus
Red Cross
Gustrow
Italy Wants Balkan Powers to Meet in Rome
Tribuna in Rome proposes Greece Bulgaria Serbia and Romania send representatives to Rome to confer with Allied representatives. The aim is to clear obstacles to their entry on the Allied side. German warships have seized five Swedish ships carrying lumber bound for England in the Baltic. Reports from Cairo claim thirteen hundred Turks were killed as Allied forces overran trenches at the Dardanelles.
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London
Tribuna
Rome
Greece
Bulgaria
Serbia
Romania
Balkan
Baltic
England
Copenhagen
Cairo
Dardanelles
Mrs Poe to Attend Garden Party Speakers Named
Mrs Samuel Johnson Poe secretary of the Equal Suffrage League of Baltimore and daughter of Dr B M Cromwell of Eckhart will speak at the Just Government League of Allegany County garden party tomorrow evening at Mrs Gerrit Smiths 138 Maryland avenue. J W Scott Cochran and Saul Praeger of the Cumberland are also announced to speak. The affair promises to be successful with entertaining features.
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Samuel Johnson Poe
Equal Suffrage League of
Baltimore
B. M. Cromwell
Eckhart
Just Government League
Allegany County
Gerrit Smith
Mary’land Avenue
J. W. Scott Cochr
Saul Praeger
Fragmented OCR leads to unclear local notice
The readable text shows garbled phrases about gold and pricing but lacks coherent names, dates, or events. No identifiable people, organizations, places, or concrete actions are present to anchor a clear news item.
Bird Men Plan Night Stop on Bedford Route
Bedford Pa June 23 Two cross country air races will start in New York and go to San Francisco with Bedford as the first night landing after departure. Lee Hoffman Lincoln Highway Association buoyed by prizes totaling up to 50 000 dollars will guide the landing site near Bedford.
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Bedford
New York
San Francisco
National Aeroplane Committee
Aero Club of America
Lincoln Highway
Lee Hoffman
Lincoln Highway Association
The
Aero Club
Hoffman
Agent Appointed In Charge Of Boys Club Work
G H Alford announces Reuben Brigham as Assistant State Agent in charge of Boys Club work. Brigham, previously with Maryland Agricultural College and Experiment Station, will focus on developing boys clubs under the Extension Service.
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College Park
G. H. Alford
Reuben Brigham
Brigham
Maryland Agricultural College and Experiment Station
Extension Service
Maryland
Lady Perfection Korndyke Milkces Carve World Crown
In Pueblo Colorado on June 23 Lady Perfection Korndyke a Holstein cow at Woodroft farm is hailed as world champion milk giver by the Holstein Friesian Association of America. In a thirty day test she yielded 3195 pounds of milk with 143.7 butter content while the New Jersey rival produced 2599 pounds and 150.32 pounds of butterfat. Lady Perfection's monthly output exceeds her own weight of 1410 pounds.
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Pueblo
Colo
Trenton Holstein
Lady Perfection
Woodroft Farm
Holstein Friesian Association of America
New Jersey
Keep Off the Diamonds Near Washington Monument
Government park officials order pedestrians off the Monument ellipse between the monument and the White House except for baseball players. Park police say paths may cross the grass but four baseball diamonds remain in constant use and off limits to general foot traffic.
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Washington
Washington’s Monument
White House
Auto Jumps Over Precipice In West Virginia
Merrill Piper of Hendricks West Virginia was seriously injured when his car plunged nearly 200 feet off an embankment near Parsons. He managed to jump free just before the machine rolled over the edge. his father and family leapt clear as the vehicle broke to pieces.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hendricks
W. Va
Merrill Piper
Parsons
Piper
Horses and Mules Going Abroad Says Texas Man
Dallas June 23 1916 veteran dealer T J Bullard of Waxahachie predicts a horse and mule famine in the south and west as European war orders deplete Texas stock. He says fifteen to twenty million dollars has been spent by fighting nations here and markets in Fort Worth have moved hundreds of animals since last August with Italy the latest buyer and Britain taking only top stock. Bullard warns the United States will lack work and draft stock in a few months as Oklahoma Missouri and Georgia are cleaned out and Texas stock dwindles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dallas
Texas
T. J. Bullard
Waxahachie
Europe
Bullard
Fort Worth
United States
Oklahoma
Missouri
Georgia
Senator Blair Lee Attacks Furst At Baltimore Club
Senator Blair Lee criticized Frank A Furst in a speech at the Democratic Club of the Eighth ward Baltimore saying Furst’s opposition was inspired by corporation influence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Blair Lee
Frank
Furst
Democratic Club
Eighth Ward
Baltimore
Berry Crop in Washington County Valued at $100000
Harvest of bumper raspberry crop in Washington County begins with at least 125 carloads expected to be shipped. Estimated value put at $100000 as pickers work through fields.
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Washington
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