Marines Guarding the Mails History Summary
The article recalls U S Marines guarding the mails during spikes of mail robberies in 1921 and 1928. About 2000 marines protected post offices and mail trains, halting thefts nationwide. After four months, they returned to duty, with a similar pattern repeating in autumn 1928 before the Post Office Department took over in 1927 during Nicaragua deployment.
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U. S
United States
Harding
St. Louis
Los Angeles
Atlanta
San Diego
U.S
Illlinois
Rhode Island
New Jersey
Nicaragua
Post Office Department
Economic highlights of a divided Congress
The 76th Congress debates U S role in world affairs with isolationists and internationalists split. Despite broad defense spending, foreign policy decisions lag. public opinion leans isolationist per Gallup polls, while Roosevelt avoids dictation as defense appropriations top $1.5 billion.
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Congress
United States
Newsweek
76Th Congress
Bullitt
Kennedy
France
England
Borah
Johnson
Nye
U. S
White House
Clark
Missouri
Gallup
Institute of Public Opinion
Europe
Roosevelt
Washington
Loase
Forty Plus "Goes to Town" Club Shows Job Help
An editorial on the Forty Plus Club from Rotarian Magazine highlights how men past 40 out of work use mutual aid to secure new employment. Members solicit employers for others, keep records, and write letters, proving collective effort can overcome age-related biases and lead to quick job placements.
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Boston
Massachusetts
Chicago
New York
London
England
London Rotary Club
Senate budget plan arming Navy and Army grows
The draft calls for two 45,000 ton battleships and many more ships and planes. It also adds 400,000 soldiers including National Guard and new Garland rifles. Congress aims to deter Europe and boost military readiness while industry remains sluggish but steadier as coal strike awaits settlement.
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Senate
National Guard
Garland
Congress
Europe
Between War and Peace on conscription protests in England
A look inside shows a rising peace movement in Britain opposing conscription. The Peace Pledge Union with about 150000 members displays posters asking why must you kill for a Versailles victory and stand firm against conscription. A No Conscription League forms with warnings that conscription ends civil liberties and that fighting for freedom should be in Britain, not through compulsion. The Quakers join in urging objection of conscience and condemning the state authority over individual personality.
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England
Peace Pledge
Union
Versailles
Britain
Candles in a Dark World Resist Conscription F B B
The speaker argues against conscription, noting historical opposition in Britain and Australia and Canada's stance. He sees opposition as a rise of freedom for the human spirit, a shift from war as fate to human progress, citing Europe’s hopeful light as people resist evils with good, not violence.
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Australia
Canada
England
Congress
Europe
The Cost of Transportation and Railroad Subsidies
The Lakeview Oregon Tribune argues rail subsidies distort rates and compares subsidies across transport modes. It cites waterway and highway subsidies totaling about 10 billion dollars over a decade, urging equal treatment or complete no subsidy to resolve the transportation problem.
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Lakeview
Oregon
Tribune
Get Acquainted with Fathers and Sons Bond
A Rotarian Magazine reckons many fathers miss the chance during ages eight to eighteen to shape a son’s view of him. If forethought yields a world citizen father and trusted confidant, the son remains connected, not estranged, as he grows into manhood.
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Howard Stephenson
Rotarian Magazine
Memorial Flag to Honor War Veterans in Caroline County
Notice to relatives of deceased war veterans in Caroline County. Notify American Legion Caroline Post No. 29 in Denton Maryland of burial location and we will place a Memorial Flag on the graves at no cost to families. Memorial flag ceremony date May 30 1985.
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Caroline County
American Legion of
Caroline
Denton
Maryland
Pea Field Meeting Planned at Ridgely Sub-Station
Growers cannery fieldmen seedsmen and fertilizer reps urged to attend a pea field meeting at Ridgely Sub-Station Caroline county on June 1 at 1 30 p m. Herman A Hunter University of Maryland extension service says more than 200 plots cover tests in varieties fertilizers placement pest control and farming practices for canning peas.
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Ridgely
Caroline County
Herman A. Hunter
University of Maryland Extension Service
Hunter
Gems of Thought From Psalms and Eddy
A short excerpt contrasts human effort with divine guidance. It cites Psalms about building a house and guarding a city as in vain without the Lord's blessing, and urges possessiveness of consciousness centered on God per Mary Baker Eddy.
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Mary Baker Eddy
Ridgely Social Roundup From Chester to Wilmington
Mrs Walter Wight of Chester town visits her daughter in Ridgely while Glenn Griffeth from Washington and Rev C M Griffeths circle call on friends. Numerous guests from Baltimore Philadelphia and Wilmington share meals and entertainments as church services and a musical program mark the week.
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Walter Wight
Chestertown
Walter Mitchel
Glenn Griffeth
Washington
C. M. Griffeth
G. Butts
Newman
Ingleside
Rose Moris
Joseph Lampi
Small Son
Philadelphia
Emmitt Potts
Cordova
Nettie Arnold
George Weigert
Miss Angeline
Baltimore
Mattie Ryan
Wilmington
Paul Nardee
Charles Messick
Second Avenue
Third Street
Ord Raiigh
Card of Thanks to Mrs Walton Trice and son Ross
We thank friends for kindness and sympathy in our bereavement and for the beautiful flowers from Mrs Walton Trice and son Ross.
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Mrs. Walton Trice
Ross
Center of World Poultry Congress to Be in Cleveland
From July 28 to August 7, 1939 Cleveland's Public Auditorium will be the Hall of Meetings for the Seventh World's Poultry Congress and Exposition. The space will host scientific and sectional meetings of the World's Poultry Science Association in English French Spanish and German with delegates from at least sixty overseas nations. The program covers every phase of the poultry industry from raising to marketing to processing and consumer use with demonstrations of economical prep methods. A $1.00 membership ticket allows eleven days of attendance with no extra charge.
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Cleveland
Manmoth
Poultry Science Association
Ohio
U.S
Henry Wallace
Congress
Youth Activities Highlight Seventh World Poultry Congress
Youth will share in the Seventh World Poultry Congress and Exposition in Cleveland Ohio from July 28 to August 7 1939. The Hall of Youth is set aside for young people with educational meetings entertainment poultry judging demonstrations recreational periods and supervised visits to the exposition. Plans are underway for attendance by 4 H Clubs Future Farmers of America Boy Scouts Girl Scouts and other youth groups nationwide and likely delegations from overseas.
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Cleveland
Ohio
Atu
Future Farmers of America
Boy Scouts
Girl Scouts
Twenty Five Years Ago Events in Denton and County
Twenty five years ago in Denton and Caroline county the article notes new Page autos for J R Chaffinch and J R Ricards, a candidate for local assessor Charles F Andrews, and Den ton Volunteer Fire Company officers S P Cole president Marc Bryant secretary and F Raynuard treasurer. It recalls a baseball win over Hickman, various social visits, a Greensboro waterworks election with bonds, a Smithville debating society, the tri county WCT U convention on Tilghman Island, and a sermon by Judge Henry C. Conrad at Bloomery Church.
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J. R. Chaffinch
J. R. Ricards
Charles F. Andrews
Choptank
Tax Commission
Denton Volunteer Fire Company
S. PF. Cole
Marc Bryant
F. Raynuard
Denton
Hickman
Wine
Lucas
C. Fountain
Stokes
Ridgely
Centreville
Florence
Roberta Harper
Federalsburg
Wilmington
West Chester
Philadelphia
Fimence
Pennsylvania
Caroline
Mary Jones Fisher
Westlake School
Los Angeles
Western Maryland College
Jerome Rockhold Cox
Preston
On. D. Richards
Charles
Washington
Maggie Wilson
Baltimore
P. Roland Fisher
O. T. Baynard
Dover
F. Baynard
S. P. Shipman
Virginia
Greensboro
Mer
Clinton B. Jarman
Smithville
W. R. Keele
Lewis St. James
John Rathell
Oscar Alford
Claude D. Liden
Maude Cannon
Talbot
Dorchester
Tilghman’s Island
St. Michaels
Oxford
Borman
Haslup
Don Blain
Ray
Young People’s Branch
Tilghman
Marianne Hardcastle
A. Wilson
Anna Nevius Merrick
Mary S. Jump
Henry C. Conrad
Peninsula
Bloomery M. E
Caroline County
Maryland
Slats diary recounts church, bath scales and Hitler gag
Oliver N Warren notes Sundays sermons and youths in church, questions about B. and etc. He references rich people with bathroom scales, mentions Hitler and Jews in Germany and hopeful denture business growth, then a miracle about a daughter’s marriage report in the paper.
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Jake
Mister Hitler & Co
Germeney
Local School Week Reflections and Picnics
Thursday a teacher told of a man who never has hair cuts. Jake says he has none. Friday Mr and Mrs Gillem visited, discussing marriages, causing a quick laugh. Saturday the class picnic ended with sunburnt tongues and noisy chatter. the writer hopes lessons are learned.
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Jake
Pedestrians Urged to Face Traffic for Safety
The Keystone Automobile Club urges pedestrians to face oncoming traffic to reduce night hazards. Matthew P. Hanley, manager of the Eastern Shore Division, notes spring and summer bring higher pedestrian and vehicle use, making walkers more vulnerable at night. Walking with traffic increases risk as headlights can blind drivers, while facing traffic lets pedestrians step off the roadway to stay safe.
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Keystone Automobile Club
Matthew P. Hanley
Eastern Shore Division
Club
Refrigerator Cookies by Ethel M Hunter
Household Hints presents a refrigerator cookie recipe by Ethel M Hunter. It lists ingredients including butter brown sugar eggs vanilla cake flour cream of tartar baking soda and optional walnuts or coconut with directions to cream butter add sugar eggs and flavor then fold in dry ingredients roll chill slice bake at 400 for 10 to 15 minutes. A note suggests adding melted chocolate and ends with a quote from Elbert Hubbard.
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Ethel M. Hunter
Eastern Shore Public Service Co
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