Adopting modern methods keeps business ahead in hard times
E P Chase, publisher of the Atlantic News Telegraph, argues that cities and firms embracing up to date methods attract customers and prosper. He notes that successful businesses ignore jealous rivalries, overcome hazards, and maintain intelligent advertising. Those who fail often lack adaptability and consistent, scientific promotion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. P. Chase
Atlantic
Iowa
News Telegraph
United States
First Southern Railroad Time Table of 1830 Charleston
The Souths first published railroad timetable from Charleston in 1830 noted special trips by agreement with the engineer. The line had one locomotive, the Best Friend of Charleston, weighing about four tons, arriving from New York on October 23 and in service by Christmas. The timetable listed departures at 8, 10, 1, and 3 p.m. with provisions for intermediate times by agreement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South
Charleston
America
West Point
New York City
E. L. Miller
Line Street
Paris Figaro tale of a blase boulevardier acts kindly
A Paris young man in a closed car stops at a street where a hearse proceeds with a widow and two small children walking in rain. He offers them a ride to the cemetery, then pays for a taxi for himself, and continues on, a quiet act of generosity noted by the Recording Angel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris Figaro
Paris
Spirit of Christmas charity urged for tight town
In Denton a plea urges residents to share Christmas spirit with families facing real hardship this year. The call asks locals to give at home rather than to solicitations, supporting the Red Cross, nurses, clubs, churches, and other groups to provide food clothing and toys to children in need.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denton
Red Cross
Santa Claus
Glasses by Mail Warned as Risk to Eye Health
Dr J Fred Andreae of the Maryland State Board of Optometry and the National Society for the Prevention of Blindness warn that mail order glasses are often poor in quality. They are advertised as scientifically ground lenses but use only magnifying frames that do not fit eyes, potentially harming wearers. The notice urges readers that proper fitting cannot be done by mail and advises caution to avoid eye damage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. Fred Andreae
State Board of Optometry
National
Society For the Prevention of Blindness
Puritan Records Reveal Harsh Fines in 1646 Massachusetts
A historical dig exposes a 1646 Massachusetts court docket with cases showing Puritan life included fines for drunkenness, adultery, stealing, wearing silk, and insulting spouses. Names include Henry Walton, John Studley, Thomas Gray, Phillip Cromwell, William Claus, Charles Phillips, Mrs. Griffith, Sarah Parring, and Sarah Collins among others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New England
Henry Walton
Reverend Cobbell
John Studley
Thomas Gray
Marblehead
Phillip Cromwell
William Claus
Charles Phillips
Mrs. Griffith
Sarah Parring
Sarah Collins
India in Crisis as Prisons Overfill and Transit Jails
An Institute of India faculty member warns that India resembles a vast jail with trains moving prisoners between penitentiaries. About 50,000 people are inside lockups while arrests exceed a thousand daily. Disused factories and government buildings serve as temporary jails and tents surround many existing facilities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Institute of India
India
Unrest and unemployment loom in global and Indian scenes
The passage notes widespread despair as passive resisters fuse with Gandhi’s nonviolence. It describes life in India under boycott pressures, isolation of British officials, and the choking effect on commerce. Global unemployment climbs sharply, with figures from Austria Bulgaria Canada and the United States. It also traces Japan’s universal suffrage expansion and debates over voting age and gender inclusion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Japan
Twenty Five Years Ago in Concord and Denton News
Revival meetings continue at Concord as the Maryland Horticultural Society notes trends in plums and apples. Local business openings and marriages mark the period, including John Trice’s store at Anthony’s Mill and the silver anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. T. Luther Trice in Denton. Clerks and deputies change hands in Talbot and Queen Anne's counties amid casual social updates across Seaford and Trenton.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Concord
John Trice Haas
Anthony’s Mill
J. S. Lapham
Caroline County
Maryland Horticultural Society
Edward T. Tubbs
Lawrence B. Towers
J. W. Kerr
F. C. Ramsdell
Ramsdell
New York
Maryland
Circuit Court
Talbot County
Annie Lyden Meekins
L. B. Towers
Meekins
Wm. H. Deweese
Towers
Samuel Seney
Queen Anne's County
Edwin H. Brown
Seney
J. P. Horsey
Scott M. E. Parsonage
R. K. Stephensson
Trenton
N. J
Frank T. Willoughby
Hobbs
City
Finch
G. Lacey Stevens
Elmer T. Orme
McKendree
Anne Arundel County
Sisk, Roe and Wilson
Johns
Joseph Wyatt
Charles E. Wilson
Nellie
Charles Henry Whitby, Jr
Methodist Episcopal Church
Denton
Fred Fleetwood
Federals
Burg
C. H. Bullock
Istore
Airplane Tires Built Light Yet Strong for Shocks
Fisk merchants explain airplane tires use four to six plies of cotton cords with rubber surroundings and a thin sidewall to absorb shocks on landings. The tread is shallow to resist ground contact when brakes are applied, while materials mirror and contrast with new automobile tire concepts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fisk
William, Bullock
Bullock & White
Mr. Bullock
Slats Diary and Broadway Notes Mix in Ragged Entries
The fragmentary diary of Slats Farquar mixes school missteps with a dented-up social scene and a stray theater blurb. It includes lines about French class, a fresh drug store clerk, mumps at a dentist, and a mention of Ant Emmy. The latter portion shifts to Arthur Hammerstein’s Ballyhoo starring W C Fields at Ford's Theatre in Baltimore with cast and production notes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arthur Hammerstein
Hallyhoo
W. C. Fields
Ford's Theatre
Baltimore
Ford
Ballyhoo
Adeline
Arthur’ Hammerstein
Grace Hayes
Janet Reade
Don Tomkins
Jeanie Lang
Andy Rice, Jr
Floria Vestoff
Colby and Murphy
Rialto Four
Ted Black
Harry Ruskin
Leighton K. Brill
Rosa Ponselle to star in Atwater Kent Radio Hour concert
American opera star Rosa Ponselle will headline the Atwater Kent Radio Hour on Sunday December 7, presenting a program built to heighten audience emotions. The Metropolitan Opera soprano, born in Meriden to Italian parents, will be accompanied by Romano Romani and directed by Josef Pasternack, with a varied mix of arias, songs, and orchestral pieces including works by Delibes Grofe and Bizet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rosa Ponselle
Metropolitan Opera Company
Atwater Kent
Miss Ponselle
Meriden
Conn
Metropolitan Opera
Metropolitan
Caruso
Victor Herbert
Ferde Grofe
America
Bacchus
Sylvian
Delibes Orchestra
Maria Wiegenlied
Virgin
Cadiz
Delibes
Caprice Viennoig
Kreisler
Michael Rosenker
Romanza
Fedra
Bizet
the Comedians
eTie Lehmann
Eee Eckert
Ridgely Marital News and Community Notices
Ridgely reports the engagement and marriage of Virginia May Turner to William Cooper Jr. at Centreville M E Church with Rev G W Dawson officiating. The Town also shares church activities, fund drives, holiday bazaars, home mission efforts, holiday visits, and a humorous note on a Mr Briggs digestion episode from a hunting trip.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
GC. B. Turner
Church Hill
Virginia May
William Cooper, Jr
Ridgely
Centreville M. E. Church
G. W. Dawson
Woman’s Home Missionary Society
Ian
Margaret Swing
M. E. Sunday School
Lard
Harry Zeigler
Herbert Koeneman
Hoffman Brothers
Everett Terwilliger
Thomas Deyo
Wallkill
N. Y
Ord Raleigh
William Davis
Howard Wheat-ley
Wye Mills
Dorothy Holsinger
Neffsville
Adam Holsinger
Frank Taylor
Clarksville
del. Rey
Otto Sanger
Easton
E. F. Pearsaul
Upper Darby
William Rieck
Preston
Fred Flounders
Fred HI
McDonagh
Mary Laird
Rehoboth
Lawrence Lynch
Frances Griffin
Baltimore
B. H. Holsinger
Frank Kibler
Dallastown
George Leeds
Newport
Rae Wilson
Clarence Andrews
Chester
Taylor Leaves for Motor Trip Through Pennsylvania
Taylor left for a motor trip through Pennsylvania. Mr. Taylor is foreman on a rail train operating on the Southern Division of the Pennsylvania Railroad. Mrs. Taylor, a Greensboro High School graduate in 1925, will stay with her parents for the time being. The piece lists numerous local residents hosting and visiting over the holidays including families from Ward, Dean, Mullikin, Howard, Porter, Sayers, Bendler, Newlove, Deaner, Van Sant, Temple University ties, and several other relatives and friends visiting through Thanksgiving.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Taylor
Pennsylvania
Southern
Pennsylvania Railroad
Greensboro High School
James Ward
Leonard Dean
Ridgely
Blanche Mullikin
Hannah Howard
Horace Howard
Frank Porter
Joseph Sayers
Gilbert Bendler
Anne
Bill Stewart
Wilmington
Newlove
Philadelphia
Earl Deaner
Near Town
Hewitt Smith
Washington
Irwin van Sant
Nancy Smith
Temple University
Joseph Bernard
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore
Hyland van Sant
University of Law
Thos. Horsey
Tome Institute
Port Deposit
C. H. Meeds
Marion Bickling
Louise Hynson
Marcus Hook
Samuel Bickling
Medford Price
Sophia Howard
Hannah
Greensboro
Irene Dill
Felton
Wm. Morgan
Newark
Del
Smith Edwards
Alfred Blackburn
Charles Walls
William Wroten
Clayton
Richard Bullock
Ruth Cooper
Rita Danby
Dover
M. B. Cooper
Lewis Jones
Oscar Nichols
Edith Greenlee
O. P. Simmons
Snow Hill
John Greenlee
James E. Curry
W. B. Massey
R. H. Dill
Burrsville
Nolan Edwards
Mr. Dill
Jessie Wyatt
Cora Wyatt
William Roe
Emma Roe
J. Harvey Coursey and
Maryland Faces Western Maryland In State Title Clash
The University of Maryland seeks an upset in Baltimore Stadium as Western Maryland, unbeaten in the East, carries a stronger defense. Maryland posts seven wins and four losses in the Southern Conference and hopes to challenge the Westminster juggernaut with tricks and speed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
University of Maryland
Baltimore
Western Maryland
Maryland
Westminster
Death of Sara Eloise Gooden in Henderson
Sara Eloise Gooden daughter of Mr and Mrs Lloyd Gooden died at her home in Henderson on Thursday. Funeral services will be held at the home tomorrow afternoon at one o clock and burial will be in Greensboro cemetery. She had been ill more than a year and had spent time in the Highlands of Western Maryland returning home last June. She was twenty two years old.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sara Eloise Gooden
Lloyd Gooden
Henderson
Greensboro
Miss Gooden
Maryland
Quotations on Self Control and Duty from Various Sources
A collage of aphorisms notes self mastery through passion control and contentment with what one has. It cites a Jewish saying, Flavel on credit and life, and Christian Science Monitor on daily thoughts lifting to God and recognizing divine creation and order.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Christian Science Monitor
Steamboat Days on the Eastern Shore Book Review
The Norman Publishing Company introduces Steamboat n Days by Marylander John H. K. Shannahan, plus The Hammond Lot. The Eastern Shore romance evokes old steamboats, captains, wharves, and a vivid Colonial spirit with handsome binding and a color frontispiece.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore
Norman Publishing Company
Maryland
John H. K. Shannahan
Shannahan
Garden of Eden
Golden Land
Chesapeake
The First Mrs Fraser Arrives at Maryland Theatre for Week
The First Mrs Fraser brings Grace George and her intact New York company to Baltimore December 8. St John Ervine’s witty comedy blends humor tenderness and irony with delightful performances by Miss George A E Matthews Lawrence Grossmith and Phyllis Elgar. The production showcases deft direction by Miss George and a handsome set by Livingston Platt making it a standout season theater card.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mrs. Fraser
Maryland Theatre
Baltimore
London
New York
St. John Ervine
Grace George
Miss George
Playhouse
A. E. Matthews
James Fraser
Lawrence Grossmith
Philip Logan
James
Mr. Ervine
Janet Fraser
Mr. Matthews
Mr. Grossmith
Phyllis Elgar
Booze begins fifteen year term for manslaughter
Gorman Booze of Cambridge is sent to the Maryland Penitentiary to serve fifteen years for manslaughter in the August 25 killings of his wife Nettie Booze and Mrs. Leon Wilson. He pleaded guilty after a prior jury conviction. ten years for Mrs. Wilson killing and five years for the other manslaughter count. The assault charge in the infant’s wounding was not pursued.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gorman Booze
Cambridge
Carpenter
Maryland
Nettie Booze
Leon Wilson
Booze
Robert F. Duer
Dove of Peace Quietly Guides Prosperity Industry Growth
A reflective line notes the dove of peace speaks softly yet steadies the voice of industry. It asserts peace supports the nest where industries lay golden eggs of prosperity, emphasizing calm authority over rapid disruption.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dove of Peace
Also Mentioned on This Page
Editorial
Gandhi
Geneva
International Labour Office
Austria
Bulgaria
Canada
Czecho-Slovakia
Germany
France
Russia
Ross Farquar
Sum Girl
Jenny Sapan
Sum
Enny Buddy
Jake
Heven
Teasday
Ant Emmy
Wensday
Mrs. Blunt
Martha Rice Carrow
S. D. Carrow
Lewis Robert Taylor
Lewis Taylor
Smyrna
Methodist Episcopal, Parsonage
A. B. Frye
Atwater Kent Radio Hour
Verdi
Annie Laurie
Romano Romani
Mother Briggs
Mrs. Briges
Father
Ralston’s
Righ
Flavel
Orde
Denton and
Cc. R. HI
Hillsboro
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