Prohibition and the laboring class in 1930s speakeasies
Whiting Williams, writing under an assumed name, surveys the impact of prohibition on workers in 1930. He contrasts old saloons with modern speakeasies in Homestead and details how enforcement improved as Civil Service rules reduced political influence, noting the grim, clandestine atmosphere of many speakeasies and the decline in open social drinking.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Whiting Williams
Williams
Graphic Survey
Homestead
Near
Fifth Avenue
New York
Workingman’s Club
Cleveland
Columbus
Cincinnati
Federal reforms steer loggers away from bribery
A federal district attorney in a major Ohio city notes civil service advances have boosted agent numbers and improved evidence quality. Indictments rose, with 231 of 235 resulting in guilty pleas, signaling a shift away from bribery and a move toward stricter enforcement amid ongoing economic hardship.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ohio
Fourth of July safety advice from state health chief
Dr. R H Riley warns against fireworks and toy pistols, urging safer Independence Day celebrations with picnics, pageants, concerts, sports, and good times. He stresses tetanus risk from dirty injuries and urges immediate medical care and tetanus antitoxin, noting free provision to physicians and cost for advanced treatments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. H. Riley
State Department of Health
Riley
Milking the Motorist: tax take soars on gas and license fees
The article decries rising motor vehicle taxes detailing gas, registration, personal property, and license fees as draining drivers. It notes 1921 to 1931 tax growth, with ten legislatures boosting the gas tax and forecasts total motor vehicle tax near 1.5 billion dollars this year. Milton quotes urge restraint.
Relieving Highway Congestion and Community Plans
Memorial Day traffic chaos spurred calls for wider roads and better detours. The article details Brynmawr Wales cleanup, resource surveys, and Service Civilis work to turn the town into a health and vacation center while reviving old industries and aiding unemployed residents amid global economic readjustment.
Advertiser urged as you read the ads for best buys
The piece extols newspapers for delivering business messages to every home. It argues ads show bargains, inform about services and prices, and help readers choose goods from merchants. It claims ads connect isolated communities to the wider world and help readers save money.
Law overlawed land condemns enforcement tale
A critical editorial argues the United States suffers from excessive laws and selective enforcement. It contends many restrictions strain courts and jails, cites traffic speed limits, prohibition, gun, anti smoking and spitting rules, and calls for restraint in new statutes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Freedom of Press Main Tained by U S Supreme Court
Supreme Court upholds freedom of the press amid a Minnesota gag law. Chief Justice Hughes argues the right is essential beyond earlier eras, despite aims to curb indecent publications. The decision rejects suppression of honest comment or criticism.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minnesota
United States Supreme Court
Hughes
America
Brynmawr reflects on coal town’s long decline and revival
An editorial notes Brynmawr in Wales faces industrial decline as coal wanes and petroleum and electricity rise. It cites British mine hardships, past strikes, and the Coalfields Distress Committee’s 1928 relief effort. The piece praises efforts to restore morale and foster self help as a path to readjustment and new livelihoods.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clydach
Brynmawr
Brecon
Service Civile
Ceresole
Switzerland
la Garda
France
United States
West Virginia
Pennsyyvania
Wales
Britain
Coalfields Distress Committee
London Friends
Industrial Crisis Committee
Three gates of gold guard tales before they leave
A reflection on speech urging restraint. Before sharing another’s tale, test truth, necessity, and kindness. If the tale passes these gates, it may be told. otherwise keep silence to avoid harm.
Heavy rain delays wheat harvest and local news
The county posts delayed harvests due to heavy rains affecting farms. Denton stores will close at 8 p m starting next Monday. A July holiness camp near Preston runs July 28 to August 6. Local obituaries report the deaths of William M Brown aged 79 and Peter Jester aged 74 with funeral arrangements noted. A spring wedding unites Lacey Norman Stevens and Lilian Roberta Parker in Denton. The paper covers school graduations, local visits, and a major court lynching incident in Princess Anne with a Norfolk to Baltimore transfer pending. Canal survey plans discuss Chesapeake and Delaware routes with a $10,000 appropriation. Market quotes for wheat, corn, poultry, eggs, veal calves, lambs, sheep, and blackberries are listed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denton
Caroline
Messrs
W. E. Lord
W. Liden
Preston
William M. Brown
Charles R. Neal
Caroline County
Delaware
Peter Jester
Slickman
Fannie Shane
Wilmer Parker
Washinton College
Chestertown
Norman W. Voss
Henry Wilson
Dawson George
Washington College
James Huntly Sinclair
Ridgely
St. John's College
Charles H. Willis
Belmont
John Hitch
Wilmington
Laura Fisher
Greenwood
T. Pliny Fisher
Jonathan L. Hughes
West Chester Normal School
Charles G. Dukes
Kansas City
William Lee
G. Robert Barnes
Frances Powell
Congress
Chesapeake and
Delaware Bays
Sassafras
Queenstown
Centreville
Wye River
Commission
Chesapeake Bays
Madison
Chesapeake and Delaware Canal
R. J. Bowen
Sunderland & Co
South Charles St
Mrs Barton Returns Home From Virginia Visit
Mrs. O. W. Barton has returned home after spending some time in Virginia. Miss Mary Moore is on a tour to California.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
O. W. Barton
Virginia
Mary Moore
California
Friday to Sunday diary entries reveal small-town worries
A diary recounts daily quirks and events from Friday to Thursday. Emmy questions faith, a new baby arrives, a man injures his head and contemplates the afterlife, a teacher warns about studying, Rose West visits with a toddler, a neighbor contemplates a dress, and a girl accuses another of losing her mind while the writer is called an egotist.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Emmy
Rose West
Ant Emmy
Rose
Jane
Conscience stricken fugitive becomes Florida prisoner
Benjamin Franklin a former Marydel leader and church worker, fugitive 17 years, surrendered to Florida officials after a church revival conversion. Once a Blountsville druggist and city council president, he killed a suspected attacker while aiding in an arrest, was convicted, escaped, wandered the country, and then returned to Marydel. Now his town seeks a pardon so he can resume running the town’s largest filling station and recover his $15,000 savings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maryland-Delaware
Florida
Carlton
Flordia
Benjamin Franklin
Marydel
Blountsville
Fla
Buck
Franklin
Birthday Party For Mrs W C Andrew In American Corner
A surprise 58th birthday gathering for Mrs. W C Andrew was held Monday evening with many relatives and friends attending and presenting gifts. It notes subsequent church guests, ongoing illness of Louis Andrew, and a list of communicable disease cases in Carolina county from June 17 to 22, including measles and diphtheria. The entry closes with a biblical quotation about justice and evil.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. C. Andrew
Walter Willey
Jacob Zierl
Roland Reid
John Howard
John Andrew
Will Andrew
Andrew Towers
George Howard
Olaf Smith
Oscar Willey
Lacy Murphy
Elwood Statum
Hannah Howard
Laura Towers
Ida Towers
Emma Snowden
Sarah Murphy
Catherine Towers
Genevieve Emerson
Lelia Andrew
Dorothy Howard
Erma Willey
Eunice Smith
Ruth
Louise
Dorthy
Ollie
Howard
Owen Howard
Earl Towers
Fannie
Carlton
Rosser
Lawrence Andrew
Grover
Robert
Lawrence Towers
William
Edward Howard
Burton Willey
Edward Smith
Paul Zierl
John Howard, Jr
Robert Emerson
Franklin Statum
Irven Snowden
Andrew
Ambrose Griffith
Electa
George Griffith
Olas Smith
Edward
Eunice
G. L. Griffith
Ernest Griffith
Chestertown
Louis Andrew
Carolina County
Federalsburg
Denton
Greensboro
Hillsboro
First Maryland light plane and glider exhibit set for June 28
The first light plane and glider exhibition in Maryland is planned for Sunday afternoon June 28 at Curtiss-Wright Airport in Northwest Baltimore Greenspring and Smith Avenues. Twelve events run four hours, including a Balloon catching contest with ten balloons per contestant, and a glider school demonstration by Dr Glenn Elliott near Washington. Multiple stunts feature gliders to 1000 feet, parachute jumps, and a triple refueling display. Parking for 6000 cars, a large refreshment stand, and Meadowbrook Pool swimming afterward.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maryland
Baltimore
Greenspring
Smith Avenues
Glenn Elliott
Congressional
Washington
Ralph Barnaby
Willard’ Warner
MD. National Guard Air Unit
Avon Foreman
Curtiss-Wright
W. D. Tipton
Meadowbrook Pool
Local notes from Hobbs and surrounding areas
Hobbs residents travel to the Monumental City with Mrs Caleste Clark and her mother Mrs Hahneman returning home after hospital stays. A group from Greenwood visits Bowers Beach. prayers and services are led by Mrs M Merriken and J H Dandy. The Dagsboro move of Rev W T Archer prompts well wishes. Marietta Butler visits Howard county with family. Socials include Concord church homemakers and sprees with the Smiths and Hopkins Thomas, while Mrs Sam Price remains ill.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Caleste Clark
Monumental City
Hahneman
L. H. Thomas
Hopkins
J. R. Starkey
Francis Smith
J. H. Edgell
Neil
Greenwood
Bowers’ Beach
Dagsboro
Del
Marietta Butler
Howard County
Louis Butler
W. T. Archer
F. N. Smith
Andersontown-Hobbs
Church House
Concord
L. Hopkins Thomas
L. N. Thomas
Sam Price
Williston Community Club to Meet at President's Home
Williston Community Club plans a Wednesday evening meeting at the home of president Mrs Harriett Pringle with a July 1 date. Mrs A G Gelletty and Mrs James Thawley will report on their Short Course experiences at College Park and share back to the group.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Williston
Denton
A. G. Gellelly
O. M. Hignatt
Sophia Ringe Coyle
Philadelphia
Mary Ringe
Miss Mae
Henry Cook
Baltimore
Henrietta Frey
Our Gang Kids Come to Milford in All In Fun Vaudeville
Children and adults will thrill to Hal Roach’s Our Gang on stage at the New Plaza Theatre next Friday and Saturday July 3 and 4. The act features Scoot er Lowry Peggy Eames Jam Wager under Starry Weber, plus an Our Gang comedy short and Buck Jones in The Texas Ranger. Four shows planned Fri 7 and 9, Sat 2:30 onward to accommodate a likely record crowd.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Trader Horn
Reese Theatre
Skeets Gallagher
Stuart Erwin
Carol Lombard
Norman Foster
Picture of Pictures
Africa
Harry Carey
Duncan Renaldo
Edwina Booth
Lawyer's Secret
Reese-Rialto-Keith Co
Charles
Buddy) Rogers
Clive Brook
Richard Arlen
Fay Wray
Jean Arthur
Ramon Novarro
New Plaza Theatre
Hal Roach
Scooter” Lowry
Tough Guy
Peggy Eames
Jam “Rube” Wager
Starry Weber
Milford J
America
Moving Picture
Buck Jones
Plaza Theatre
Social notes of local visitors and residents
Goldsboro and nearby towns host a flow of visitors and guests. Cape Charles and Wilmington figures travel to and from town. Columbia and New York residents are listed among recent guests. Local families entertain relatives and friends from Delmar, Felton, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washington with various weekend and holiday visits. Many names and small-town movements appear in this dense social column.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maurice Bartlett
Cape Charles
Pauline Wilson
Walter Reed
Wilmington
W. C. Cheffins
Gene Crawford
Columbia University
New York
John Crawford
Noble Shively
Roy, Harold and
Travers
Jennie Griffin
Oscar Hutchinson
Delmar
Del
Dallas Cartwright
Pittsville
James Cartwright
Virgie Cartwright
Cooper Gruwell
Felton
Robert Smith
Brooklyn
N. Y
W. J. Murphy
Abram Crawford
West Virginia
Kathryn Buckholz
Betty Lou
Philadelphia
Bertie Schaube
Freda Axt
Minnie Dennison
Alfred
Washington, D. C
Irene
Dorothy Gottwalls
Erwin’s Chapel
Howard Thomas
O. M. Macomber
Haze Macomber
Eloise Doody
Salisbury
W. L. Allen
Jane Allen
Ida Mae Roche
Baltimore
Joseph Roche
Bill Ross
Mary Johnson
Howard Shockley
Tolchester
H. M. Waters
Preachers Training School
Front Royal
R. L. Milligan
Staunton
Janet Sylvester
B. H. Bennett
Alda Hudson
Sallie Johnson
Emma Johnson
Pauline Melvin
Dover
Harvey Shively
Dorothy Balderson
Rehoboth
Emma Wharton
Elbert Saunders
Mollie Shockley
Joseph Roche, Sr
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Speakeasy
HRORD
Milton
Leity
San Francisco
Mel
Carl Schurz
Geneva
Europe
Ross Farquar
Sir P. Sidney
Hobbs
A. G. Gelletly
Allie R. Neal
John T. Carter & Son
J. Raylat Rehobothmond Charles
Goldsboro
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