Increase in Deaths from Automobile Accidents
Dr. John Collinson urges parents to safeguard children from auto deaths during vacation season after Maryland shows rising auto fatality rates. From January to June 1928 there were 156 crash deaths, 331 total in 1928, four times typhoid fever deaths, with one quarter of deaths in under fifteen. The report notes most deaths occur in the second half of the year and stresses open-road dangers to children. Also includes Orphans' Court proceedings in Caroline County with multiple estate administrations and accountings.
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John Collinson
Bureau of Vital Statistics
State Department of Health
Collinson
Maryland
Wall Street as Ownership, Not a Game of Chance
Economic Trends by A. W. Wetsel argues stocks in Wall Street are ownership stakes not gambling. He warns against thin margins and day trading, urging wisdom from company prospects and patience to ignore short term price swings while noting varied local enterprise performance and management honesty.
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A. W. Wetsel
Wall Street
Roaches Prolific Colonies Urge Action Against Vermin
Medical authorities warn seventeen diseases spread by roaches. Kill them with FLY-TOX spray, to be applied into cracks, crevices, around water pipes and faucets. The blue jacket bottle promises safe, stain free use with a perfume-like fragrance.
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Mellon Institute of Industrial Research
Rex Research
Hera tonic praised by a Denton citizen ad
A Denton neighbor recommends Hera tonic after a period of illness. The user reports relief from gas, sourness, heartburn, and constipation and says Hera made him feel years younger. The ad invites readers to try Hera for six days with a refund offered by Caroline Pharmacy.
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Denton
Hera
Caroline Pharmacy
Ady
Simmons wins opera scholarship rises to radio stardom
William Simmons, Troy N, wins Metropolitan School of Opera scholarship in New York and gains popularity as a concert baritone. He will be heard on the Atwater Kent Radio Hour tomorrow August 25, supported by the Atwater Kent Concert Orchestra, with selections from The Red Mill and English language songs for American Canadian audiences.
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William Simmons
Troy
Metropolitan School of Opera
New York
Simmons
Atwater Kent
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United States
Canada
Local Families Return From Visits And Events
Westminster families return home after visits with relatives in Maryland and Pennsylvania. Baltimore guests spent a week at Ernest Dukes home. Bridgeville visitors joined C Perry and family for a Sunday gathering. Lena Worm of Reading plans to stay the summer with her parents J and Mrs Worm. A penny dated 1837 found by Gussie Prager near his father’s barn. Residents attended St Michaels boat races and Laurel Camp on Sunday evening.
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Bridgeville
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Reading
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St. Michaels
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Hog Champion's Death Sparks Rural Chase
Dar Jackson rescues two safe thieves after driving his Poland China hog Rex IV into their car. A wreck ends with two criminals captured by Marshal Tom Jones, and Dar claims a $2,000 reward plus loot from the Beeville bank heist. Rex IV dies, but Jackson’s gambit nets prize money and pigs.
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Change of ego with advancing years in music masters
Charles Gounod spoke of growing reverence for past masters as he aged. He recalled praising Mozart at twenty five and now whispers in reverence at fifty. Mozart likewise valued elder composers, yet shifts in esteem toward one’s own era now predominate.
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Montreal
Gerald
Early Bible divisions shaped by printers and scholars
A Pathfinder Magazine article notes early Bibles lacked chapters and verse spacing. Ezra Abbot cites a 1851 Geneva edition printed by Robert Stephens with Greek text in the center and Erasmus Latin and Valeste on sides, later used by Whittingham in 1557 and in the Geneva Breeches Bible of 1560.
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Pathfinder Magazine
Ezra Abbot
Robert Stephens
Geneva
Iomo
Erasmus
William Whittingham
Shorthand History Found in 19th Century Spanish Texts
University of Texas Library holds 1811 and 1821 Spanish texts by Don Guillermo Atapnasto Xramido and Don Francisco de Paula Mart. The works describe shorthand as a modified form taught to students and note widespread public examinations. More than fifty methods existed in French and English at the time.
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University of Texas Library
Don Guillermo Atapnasto Xramido
Don Francisco de Paula Mart
Mistral Winds Trouble Southern France Coast
The mistral is described as a treacherous wind that sweeps the southern coast of France and the Mediterranean region. It appears as violent gusts in the first hours, then moderates but remains strong, hindering navigation for small craft along coasts of France Italy and Austria.
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France
Mediterranean
New International Encyclopedia
United States
Italy
Austria
Father tempts suitor with bills to wed daughter
An old friend asks how to remove a determined suitor. The father grins and reveals a trick: he sent the man all the bills Pye paid for his daughter in the last six months.
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Pye
Earliest Iron Use Traced to Ancient Civilizations
A survey of early iron artifacts notes finds in Assyrian and Egyptian ruins and a British Museum piece dating to about 4000 B CG. Maspero recovered iron in the Black Pyramid of Abusir at roughly 8000 B CG and Tepl I funerary text mentions iron around 8400 B CG, suggesting iron spread from south to north in Europe with a theory that iron first arose in Africa.
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Black Pyramid
Abusir
Gaston Maspero
Europe
Africa
Women architects rise in drafting rooms despite barriers
"Women architects are rare because schools don't favor admission," St 1g said. Yet more women are now employed in the drafting rooms of large architectural firms, signaling gradual progress in the field.
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St 1g
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