Break Through Walls to Neighborly Unity in Town
An editorial from Rotarian Magazine urges breaking invisible barriers between neighbors of different race or nationality. It promotes sharing cultural heritage to enrich community life, joining festivals and programs, and learning acceptance through direct contact. Civic groups can foster integration in the New World or Old World, helping newcomers adjust and find common ground.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louis Adamic
New World
Old World
Brandeis Named Supreme Court Justice in 1916
The piece recalls Woodrow Wilson appointing Louis D Brandeis to the Supreme Court in 1916. Known as The People's Lawyer he championed poor and reform causes and faced bitter attacks labeling him radical and a Jew. After 22 years on the bench he retired at 82, earning high praise as one of the era’s greatest judges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Woodrow Wilson
Louis D. Brandeis
Supreme Court
Brandeis
Washington
Labor
Frances Perkins
Harry Hopkins
Call for Church Conferences To Preserve Peace
The author urges churches and the people to demand a conference to settle conflicts and explore peaceful methods. Citing the Munich crisis as precedent, they argue that religious groups must apply Christian teachings to world affairs, exert public pressure, and act today to steer governments away from war.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Munich
New Tactics in Congress Showdown Looms in 1940 Election
The piece notes a Valentine’s Day Democratic meeting where the whip was cracked against anti New Deal conservatives. It cites splits between progressive and conservative Democrats, accusing some of avoiding roll calls to restrain the President. Roosevelt may purge factions, with blasts expected after his return.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bankhead
Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
J. EJ
Call for a world peace conference amid war fears
The piece argues that democracy should back a truly equal peace conference to prevent war. It contrasts democratic and dictatorial powers, urging a meeting among nations to solve interdependent world issues with prosperity and security for all. It warns that postwar conferences often echo victors and vanquished dynamics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
White House
State Department
Congress
Editorial notes on German colonies postwar expansion
The piece surveys the European debate over colonies after World War I, detailing how Germany claims losses unjustly and Russia, Britain, and France hold mandates across Africa. It examines territorial allocations to Britain and France, Tanganyika, Cameroon, and South West Africa, and contrasts Nazi aims for eastward and overseas expansion with the limits of colonial markets and raw materials.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Germany
Wilson
Africa
Togoland
West Africa
Britain
France
Gold Coast
Cameroons
Nigeri
French Equatorial Africa
German East Africa
Belgian Congo
Tanganyia
South-West Africa
Union of South Africa
Union
Hitler
Europe
Dr. Schacht
Rotary Institutes Promote World Peace Understanding
Rotary clubs across the United States lead institutes to explain international relations, with over 100 planned in coming months. Four speakers per session cover topics from economic issues to peace, featuring figures from Canada, France, England and Brazil to educate high school students and the public.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rotary Club
United States
Hngh
England
Raul d’Eca
Washington
West
M. E. Dead
Shreveport
Louisiana
John W Creighton
Hastings College
Hastings
Nebraska
F. Wilhelm Sollmann
Germany
Cherry trees gifted to San Diego strengthen US Japan ties
A large consignment of cherry trees symbolizing friendship between Japan and the United States has been received in San Diego. The trees will be planted at the new Civic Center, with Mayor praising the younger Japanese for sponsoring efforts to foster better friendship.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chile
Red Cross
United States
Japan
San Diego
California
Anthrax Warning Over Imported Shaving Brushes
Health officials warn against a Japanese brand shaving brush sold in the United States after anthrax bacilli were found on a brush. More than 35 000 units shipped from Japan since 1987 have circulated nationwide. Public Health Service and customs actions halt future shipments until sterilized.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. H. Riley
Maryland
Riles
Aan
Parian
U. S. Public Health Service
Japan
Ikan
Public Health Service
Maryland Guard expands Quartermaster units at Denton and Cascade
Major General Milton A. Rechord orders a full battalion expansion of the Quartermaster Regiment in the Maryland National Guard. A truck company under 1st Lieutenant James A. Wise to Denton and a maintenance company under Captain Leland T. Recherd to Cascade Md. Similar changes are planned in Virginia and DC as the 29th Division prepares for summer maneuvers in Virginia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denton
Milton A. Rechord
National Guard
Maryland National Guard
James A. Wise
Leland T Recherd
Cascade
Maryland Guard
Norwood Briscoe
Baltimore
103Rd Quartermaster Company
National Guard of
Virginia
District of Columbia
Ralph Hutchins
Quartermaster Regiment
29Th Division
Virgina
Church Notices From Denton And Surrounding Parishes
Sunday February 26 events include M P Church programs with morning sermon on social sympathy and missionary offering, youth reorganizing C E, choir practice, and prayer meetings. Nearby churches list services, Mass times, and stations of the cross, with locations in Denton Ridgely Preston and Williston.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denton M. P Church
Pogram
Hiram
King of
Tyrie
C. E
Loyal Sons Bible Class
Community Guests and Events Highlight Local Life
Henderson and Mrs A B Cohee hosted a Sunday gathering with relatives from Hayliegton Sandtown Dover Bridgeville and Willow Grove. Sewing Circle to hold Bingo Party in Eden Hall March 3 with 25 cents admission. Various residents hosted visitors and attended associations and visits across town this weekend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. B. Cohee
Clayton Brown
Hayliegton
Norman Cohee
Sandtown
Del
Walter Weiss
Willow Grove
Melvin Legates
Near Town
Edward Cehoppe
Win. Hughes
Meegie Hughes
L A. Gooden
Norma Jean Cohee
Near Sandtown
Catherine Melvin
Kent Counts
Harrington
Wallace Jones
Norman Seward
A. Montague
Charles Moore
Hath
Lewis Shelton
Sadlersville
Dora Melvin
Jamils
Pearl Jones
James
James Pratt
Wilmington
W. E. Stubbs
Winfred Gooden
Milford
Robert Dill
Hatsington
Harrington Youth Attend Wilmington Conference
Harrington Methodist Episcopal Church youths Evelyn Smith Mary Elizabeth Cooper Laure Clifton Anna Lee Derrickson and Martian Price attended the annual Youth's Conference in Wilmington on Saturday and Sunday. Other locals joined Governor's Ball guests including Senator Earl Sylvester and family, Mr and Mrs Ernest Baughley, and Janet Tharp in Wilmington last Friday night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harrington Methodist Episcopal Church
Anual
Wilmington
Evelyn Smith
Mary Elizabeth Cooper
Laure Clifton
Anna Lee Derrickson
Martian Price
Earl Sylvester
Ernest Baughley
Fred Powell
Samuel Williams
Janet Tharp
Henrys Lee Jr
University of North Carolina
J.T. Bailey
Milford
Chapel Hall
N.C
Lester Bucher
New Castle County
Harrington High School
Kent County Teachers’ Association
William Cooper
Philadelphia
Rose Garden
J. Lo Harmstead
Rehoboth
Lillian Hatfield
Robert Schur
Albert Schur
Mary Short
Helen Parker
Stanley Cahall
H. E. Quillen
Miami, Florida
William Sharp
Philadlephia
Spanish Dancer Senorita Goya Perfo at Capitol Dover
The Dove cooperative concert presents Senorita Carola Goya at the Capitol Theatre in Dover on Friday night March 3 at 8 15. Goya known for castanets heel work and a varied program of traditional dances and Spanish idiom. Shared by Miss Beatrice Burford harpist and Emilio Osta pianist who accompanied the Embassy recital in Buenos Aires.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Dove: Cooperative Concert Association
Senorita Carola Goya
Capitol Theatre
Dover
Carola Goya
Seville
Madrid
Senorita Goya
South America
United States
Justa
Beatrice Burford
Buenos Aires
Emilio Osta
Social notes from Greensboro and surrounding towns
Charles Wheatman of Smyrna spent the week end with Mr and Mrs W Thomas Thornton. Ella Brumbaugh visited Denton with Mr and Mrs Norman Raleigh. L Edward Nichols and Henry Beardsley were in Cambridge on Sunday. Alvah Dobson of Washington spent the weekend with his family. Rev and Mrs Paul Burke visited Pocamoke City. Mrs J R Lake entertained 1t bridge Friday afternoon. Mrs Raymond Bennett is a patient at Easton Emergency Hospital. Little Joyce Anne Nichols is improving after illness. Mr and Mrs C B Jarman recently visited Baltimore.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Wheatman
Smyrna
W. Thomas Thornton
Ella Brumbaugh
Norman Raleigh
Denton
L. Edward Nichols
Henry Beardsley
Cambridge
Alvah Dobson
Washington
Paul Burke
Pocamoke City
J. R. Lake
Bridge
Raymond Bennett
Easton
Joyce Anne Nichols
C. B. Jarman
Baltimore
Caroline County appoints Peter VandeVisser road foreman
Peter VandeVisser was appointed Road Foreman in charge of maintenance for County Roads in Caroline County districts four five and the lower eighth. He succeeds Earl B Jester who died at his home in Choptank. VandeVisser is a native of the county and will base at the Preston County Shop. Reports about road conditions should go to VandeVisser in Preston or County Engineer Waldorf in Denton. Mrs Mary Stevens wife of Tilghman Stevens died near Preston February 9 after a parasitic stroke on January 12. Funeral Thursday at her home with interment in Jr O U A M cemetery. Pallbearers listed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peter VandeVisser
Caroline County
Earl B. Jester
Choptank
Mr. VandeVisser
State Roads Commission
Carolne County
Tilghman Stevens
Preston
Political Realism and US Debt Realities
Time argues that entrenched realists believe public expenditures cannot be cut and the U.S. economy will support a growing debt. The piece notes deficits are tolerated for political and social reasons, with debt approaching 40 billion dollars and interest consuming large portions of the budget, urging restraint and public education on fiscal health.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S
MORE AND MORE WOMEN IN NATIONAL LIFE
Women increasingly hold Federal bench top police and executive posts in Washington and across Congress. The piece notes a long trend of women winning spurs and gaining equality, predicting expanding influence and power in government journalism and national affairs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Congress
In Memoriam Fleming In Loving Memory of Charles Fleming
Memorial note for Charles Reese Fleming who died February 26 1938 at Mount Alto Hospital Washington DC after a lingering illness. Poem and dedication from Grace written as a lasting tribute remarking that love endures beyond death.
In Loving Memory of My Dear Mother
A homemaker passed away February 27, 1938 after a long illness. She bid no one a last farewell and her loving heart ceased to beat before her family knew she was gone. She is sadly missed by her daughter Mrs. Lloyd Jenkins.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lloyd Jenkins
Ridgely Social Roundup and Local News
RIDGELY Mr and Mrs Harry Rutter of Queen Anne were Sunday guests at the home of her brother Mr Leonard Dean. Miss May Catherine Sparks of Swarthmore visited her mother Mrs W E Sparks. Mr and Mrs Calvin Lynch leave today for New York to sail for two weeks in Cuba. Mr Wesley Thawley of Denton addressed the Bible class at the Methodist Sunday School last Sunday. Miss Nettie Arnold entertained the sewing circle of the Brethren Church Friday evening last week. Ladies Aid has been invited to visit Annapolis as guests of Senator and Mrs Davis. Mr Wesley Bowers is suffering from a cracked rib from a fall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry Rutter
Queen Anne
Leonard Dean
May Catherine Sparks
Swarthmore
W. E. Sparks
Calvin Lynch
New York
Cuba
Wesley Thawley
Denton
Methodist Sunday School
Nettie Arnold
the Brethren Church
Ladies Aid
Annapolis
Davis
Wesley Bowers
Five Local Notables Appointed and Noted Farm Expands
Mr Robert E Smith was appointed postmaster of Ridgely succeeding Alfred W Thompson. D K Crouse and C F Smith bought a thousand acre pine and oak tract in St Marys county with Phares G Crouse to operate a mill. A A Christian near Greensboro heads Caroline county's largest poultry farm with about three thousand laying hens shipping eggs weekly. The Farmers and Merchants line property in Queen Annes Caroline and Talbot is under telephone inventory as the line merges with Chesapeake and Potomac, management remains by H M Thompson, with G Raleigh D K Crouse and D P Holsinger on the board. Amelia Ireland wed Frederick Quimbly at Ruthsburg parsonage. Harvey Porter celebrated his birthday at Tuckahoe Neck. Weather: cold spell disrupts navigation on Choptank and bay traffic, resembling a harsher storm fifteen years before.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert E. Smith
Ridgely
Alfred W Thompson
D. K. Crouse
C. F. Smith
St. Mary’s County
Phares G. Crouse
Crouse
Caroline County
A. A. Christian
Greensboro
Mr. Christian
Queen Anne’s
Caroline
Talbot
Chesapeake and Potomac
H. M. Thompson
Messrs
Ruthsburg Methodist Protestant Church
Wright
Harvey C. Porter
Tuckahoe Neck
Porter
Carols Moore
Charles Moore
Alonzo T. Fearins
E. H. Derrickson
Methodist Episcopal Parsonage
Church Hill
Henderson
Ruth Cole
Isabell Reynolds
Elsie Bickling
Louise Cohee
Margaret Rohmann
Bertha Meredith
John Toth
James Johnson
Anabel Clark
Ruda Spinks
Delena Reynolds
Wallace Stockley
Irene Hudson
Pauline Cole
Mabel Hicker
Bee Tree
Ella Thorpe
Mary Conley
Elizabeth Thorn
Edna Elliott
Edinburgh
Ethel Faulkner
Margaret Gsell
Lola Seward
Jane Faulkner
William Swift
Grace Seward
Jessie Hunt
Lowe’s
Margaret Kibler
Mary Dill
Paul Draper
Katherine Kibler
Mabel Dill
Francis Kibler
Martin Adams
Winfield Cake
Ethel Eveland
Annie Rose
Mildred Mitchell
Louise Sickman
Mabel Wheeler
Norman Baynard
Marick Houchin
Edna Bearman
Garey’s
Sadie Harris
Edna Spicher
Francis Garlock
Bates Lister
Camp Grove
Rutie Lister
Anna Dietrick
Dorothy Singer
Ruth Singer
Bradie Fountain
Margaret Draper
Charles Ellwanger
Brown Thewley
Addison Lister
George Gregg
Paul Gregg
Burrsville
Earl Webber
Mildred Breeding
Nellie Ireland
Lela Williams
Anna Boughley
Sadie Garrett
John Collison
Elizabeth Slaughter
George Breeding
Liden
Grace Fountain
Eva Devore
Albert Luth
Pauline Fountain
Ina Patton
Helen Melvin
Harvey Scott
Helen Fountain
Mary Noble
Carl Fountain
Herman Wild
Mildred Scott
Norwood Melvin
Central
Gertrude Henning
Willifred Henning
Charles Blough
Uriah Gordon
Ruby Huey
Aretha Geisel
Harold Scott
Denton
Esther Dunham
Elizabeth Evans
Grace Rutter
Rebeccca Swartz
Martha Griffith
Bateman Draper
Layman Redden
Joseph Swartz
Elizabeth Flowers
Samuel King
Clarence Pentz
Esther Helsby
Rachel Colona
Allie Dennis
Aaron Willoughby
Marine Welsh
Conover Crouse
Harvey Pentz
Rebecca Cohee
Nettie Layton
Philip Nuttle
Charles Walls
Mildred Collison
Addie Nuttle
Mary Redden
Williamson
Alice Roe
William Entwistle
Cora Roe
Izora Stutzman
Ruth Trice
Allan Sennett
Florence Stutzman
Alfred Gelletly
Bessie Bowens
Ruth Roe
Oaks
John Slaughter
Alice Butler
David Waterson
Edith Robinson
Lillian Starkey
Dorothy Gost
Grace
Jopp
Williston
Lewis Wieland
Reba Hurst
Edward Schaffert
Elsie Frampton
Della Nichols
Aliston Frampton
Bertha Henry
Dora Wright
Fiona Willoughby
Andersontown
Virginia Davis
Dorothy Todd
Catherine Cohce
Theodore Orme
Nellie Thawley
Ralph Collins
William Orme
Harmony
Louise Hurlock
Lillian Deen
Ida May Baker
Norris Chambers
Smithson
Isabella Carroll
Viole Carmine
Lena Ivins
Mamie Ivins
Harvey Patrick
Irene Carroll
Oliver Carmine
Emilie Berger
Anton Worm
Local Names List Reflects Area Families and Homes
A long OCR fragment lists residents by place names such as Poplar Neck Hubbard's Hickory Hill Houston's Branch and Ridgely Primary. The names include Cox Arthur Perry Julia Jones Bert Waldron Mildred Booth Dorsey Jester Louise Wright Kathryn Young Florine Rumbold Clark Dillon Nelson Wright Karl Werner and many others, indicating a social or directory-like community roll. The text resembles a local notice or staggered household index from a historical newspaper page.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Linwood Marshall
Federalsburg
Verda Graham
Ruth Wright
Victor Wright
Carl Collins
Iva Griffith
Alderson Mowbray
Ruth Brown
Mildred Davis
Gladys Fisher
Edna Liden
Douglass Galloway
Roland Handy
Emma Motz
Nellie Hackett
Mildred Wright
Albert Jones
Robert Davis
Everett Nuttle
John Holt
Walter Holt
Helen Wright
Mary Kemp
Wilmer Davis
Rachel Jefferson
Clandell Galloway
Mildred
Margaret Butler
Agnes Christopher
Hickory Hill
Grace Harper
Alice Harper
Agnes White
Ruth White
George Collison
Martha White
Houston
Corinthia Reed
John Downes
Nichols
Hilda Covey
Roland Cohee
Emil Bull
Peter Nagel
Hillsboro
Irvin Sparklin
Stewart Gale
Margaret Brown
Francis Beaven
Edith Worth
Margaret Hammes
Kathryn Jarrell
William Sherwood
Saulsbury
Wilbur Carroll
Mary Petrie
Mabel Woodward
Pauline Wills
Slats Diary a boyish view of a hard week
Oliver N Warren presents Slats diary through a boy narrator recounting a week of small town life. Entries cover a preacher, mystery about a Rosenfelt family, alum in bread, a deaf aunt, a speeding churchgoer, cold weather and skating plans with humorous mispellings and naïve reflections.
Freedom and Dominion Quote by Mary Baker Eddy
A brief quoted line asserts that enslavement is illegitimate and will end when humanity embraces freedom and God given dominion over the material senses as taught by Mary Baker Eddy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Baker Eddy
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Italy
Mussolini
San Francisco
Peace Projects Inc
Peace Projects
Evers
Ren
Paul Tahi
Hawkins Laboratory
New Yor
British Guiana
Lima
Pan- American Union
Thawley’s
M. P
Williston Community
Church of the New Jerusalem
Denton and
St. Eizabeth’s
St. Benedict’s Church
St. Elizabeth's Church
Memoriam
Gertrude Lawson
Grace Walls
Beatrice Butler
Kennard Pinder
Iris Leager
Donald Davis
Fred Flounders
Rebecca Swing
Clarence Lurry
Russell Swann
Viola Meredith
Roy Mitchell
Glennie Downes
Annie Wise
Rosalind Saulsbury
Elaine Saulsbury
Dorothy Davis
Mary Robinson
Fairlee Habbart
Dorothy Lane
Lucy Lynch
Mary Cooper
Mary Detwiler
Sadie Murray
Malcolm Skinner
Marvin Morris
Nellie Blanche
Virgie Willis
Maud
Oliver N. Warren
Noosepaper
Peopul
N. Y
Rosenfelt
God
Robbyson Krusaw
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