President to Attend Washington College Honor Ceremony
The President and Lady will visit Chestertown Maryland for Washington College inaugural ceremonies for Dr G W Mead and receive the honorary Doctor of Laws. Roosevelt's Chesapeake crossing from Annapolis to Kent will include a photostatic copy of the degree honoris causa granted to George Washington in 1739.
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United States
Maryland
Washington College
G. W. Mead
Mt. Vernon
Philadelphia
Roosevelt
Chesapeake
Annapolis
Kent
George Washington
Chestertown
Lynching At Prin ced Anne After Armwood Arrest
In Somerset county Maryland a mob of about 1000 Eastern Shore residents stormed the Princes Anne jail last Wednesday night. They seized George Armwood a Black man accused of assaulting Mrs. Mary Denston a white woman and dragged him behind a speeding car then hung him from an oak tree. His body was then burned in public in the square as rope fragments were shared as souvenirs. This follows delays in the Euel Lee murder case. Armwood had been jailed for a preliminary hearing after being spirited to Baltimore for safety. The county faced a brutal lynching that night.
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Somerset County
Maryland
Princess Anne
George Armwood
Mary Denston
Princes Anne
Euel Lee
Armwood
Denston
Baltimore
Downes Station
George Peppen
J. N. Nichols
J. W. Kerr
Paine
Tuckahoe
Talbot
Caroline
Ron
Wm. J. Ogden
Preston
N. H. Fooks
Hannah Smith
Floyd C. Ramsdell
Denton
Franklin
Methodist Protestant Church
Edith Noble
Madton Towers
Dawson Todd
Sherman Todd
Bennett Todd
Mr. Parker
Burton W. Parker
EF. Madison Towers
Williston
Eastern Shore Volunteers
R. D. Woindsor
J. F. Roop
Richard Alburger
Edwin Gardner
B. G. Stevens
Charles Howard
B. O. Howard
Two Johns
Pennsylvania
Ralph Griffin
Red Hall
Peal Griffin
W. F. Cannon
Tuckahoe Nech
City Hospital
Harry Collison
Homer Rice
Bethlehem
Mabel Wilson
Hattie Dukes
Norfolk
Tri- State Packers
Wilmington
Messrs
Robert Jarrell
Paul Holsinger
H. B. Messenger
O. C. Garey
F. R. Owens
Daniel C. Gilman
Johns Hopkins University
Geo
Beaven
St. Paul’s Church
Hillsbero
D. V
SS. Simon and Jude’s
Adams
Christ Church
Mr. Gantt
Alfred Smith
Hurlock M. E. Church
Neat Countryside Paint and Prosperity Rise in 1930s
The piece notes farmers painting homes and barns more as highways expand, giving rural areas a revived, prosperous look. It compares rural England’s grandeur to American countryside progress, while acknowledging farm debt and relief needs amid visible improvements and pride.
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United States
England
Federal drive for credit expansion outlined
The government pursues aggressive credit expansion through reviving closed banks after the moratorium, easing restrictions on open banks, open market purchases by the Federal Reserve, and bolstering basic industries with government loans. Railroads already received support, with likely extensions to other sectors amid rising production from March to September while credit availability remains steady at about 16 billion dollars.
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Public Works
New York Times
Recovery Efforts Struggle with Rising Costs and Farm Prices
The article outlines how credit expansion aims to ease inflation while consumer prices rise about 13 percent since June and farm incomes fall. It notes the AAA’s caution on rapid price increases, potential food code impacts, farmer disorganization, and the tension between keeping farm and city prices aligned. It also highlights improving retail demand in September and strong orders in woolen mills, plus prospects for fur, silks, shoes, and jewelry.
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Aguiculture
Wallace
Aguicultural Adjustment Administration
Secretary of Agriculture
Dun & Bradstreet
Idle federal highway funds and state inaction sparks road debate
A vast sum of 400 million dollars set aside as a federal highway fund sits unused in Washington while states collect about 800 million annually in road taxes. Despite billions available from federal and emergency sources and a unspent state surplus, lawmakers show little initiative to ramp up road construction, fearing costs and political pushback as they discuss funding shifts and farm relief fuel blends.
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Washington
NRA
Back to the Farm I Nation Needs Farm Boys Home
Editor Walter P. McClure argues farm boys should stay on the farm to curb unemployment and support national recovery. He contends urban trekters are untrained for factory work, dismissed first in hard times, and that farming offers better prospects and well being for youth and country.
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Walter P. McClure
Southside
Virginia News
Petersbug
Virginia
Youth and the Football Spirit Drives Sundae Youth
Youth flock to the football fields as the bounding ball echoes the call to compete. The piece argues the drive to excel in sport fuels ambition, giving quick, visible rewards while business and industry offer slower rewards that lie ahead.
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Sundae
Quiet Faith Overcomes Economic Agony Talk
The piece argues against doom saying plans that fail to employ idle workers bring ruin. It notes many are returning to work, while millions remain unemployed. It urges calm, patience, and belief in healing forces of nature to rebuild foundations for business.
Trans Atlantic Service Hopes for New German Air Link
Dr Hugo Eichener commander of the Graf Zeppelin predicts a spring 1935 war service between Germany and the United States. He would seek use of Lakehurst Naval Air Station as a temporary terminal but would instead erect a mooring mast north of Washington. A winter terminal may be set farther south possibly in Florida. The Germans have run a duplex schedule to Brazil and aim to establish a direct Europe United States air route.
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Hugo Echener
United States
Echener Woud
Naval Air Station
Lakehurst
Washington
Florida
Brazil
Europe
ACTIVITIES REOPEN FOR COMMUNITY PROGRESS IN DENTON
The note urges local churches, business groups, and societies to resume efforts after summer inactivity. Denton residents seek leadership to organize community projects and gain support once action begins.
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Denton
Disarmament on the League’s Agenda and Henderson’s Tour
Editorial notes three global issues before the League of Nations the Disarmament Conference the economic crisis and the postwar crisis with the Disarmament Conference set for October 26 in Geneva Sir Arthur Henderson has just returned from a 3500 mile European tour presenting fourteen discussion points though he warns the plan faces strong opposition from war interests and a pessimistic public He convened a steering committee for October 5 to advance a concrete program amid Europe’s unrest and doubt.
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League of Nations
Geneva
Arthur Henderson
Henderson
London
Europe
Disarmament and recovery themes in a world tense
The article outlines six support points for disarmament emphasizing major cuts and no rearmament, plus a permanent follow‑up body. It notes delays in the Economic Conference report and mentions Japan leaving the Assembly as China remains engaged. It also covers NRA sales guidance, Peru’s peaceful government pledge, and the Haiti troop withdrawal policy as non‑force neighborliness. It mentions veterans’ groups Cimac and Fidac in Geneva and a local call to support home town progress.
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League
Japan
China
Yen
Koo
Quo Ta
Chi
Norman Davis
Hometown News Roundup From Denton Area Twenty Five Years Ago
Cholera kills hogs near Downes Station while unusual produce and large radish are shown in town. A new state house nearing completion and marriages plus regimental meetings, funerals, and church anniversaries color a crowded Denton region report with multiple local figures and events.
Slats Diary Chronicles A Teens’ Turbulent Week
A fragmentary diary from Slats, chronicling a rough week of a boy quitting his job at a grocery store, fearing crime and instability. He notes Aunt Emmy’s rescue after stones tossed at telephone wires, Etta Thorn returning home amid an estranged marriage, and a relative’s stock market windfall followed by sudden death.
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Joe Hix
Ben
Joe
Mr. Rights
Mr. Right
Emmy
Jake
David
Munday
Gillem
Etta Thorn
Jackson County
Etta
Libby Keats
Clem
Crismas Laster
Taxless Chanute Town Claims Zero Local Taxes
Ben James of The Country Home reports Chanute Kansas runs on municipal utilities profits. The city owns water gas and electricity plants started ten years ago with initial costs and now shows value and profits. Mayor H W Loy leads a city that sells utilities cheaper than neighboring bodies and could someday pay dividends to residents.
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Chanute
H. W. Loy
Ben James
Mr. James
Kansas
James
Boosting the Home City Through Active Citizens
Wide awake citizens never hesitate when home city affairs are involved and boosters must always be up and doing. They must originate new ideas and put them into effect to improve business. Right ideas at the right time boost growth, as success comes from decision and action, not hesitation.
Revival Services At Bethel Pilgrim Holiness Church
Bethel near Goldsboro hosts a two week revival beginning Sunday October 22 at 7 pm led by Rev. J. C. Bagnum of Spring Ford WV. Evening services continue weeknights at 7 30. Sunday services October 29 and November 5 include 10 am Sunday School, 1 30 pm preaching, 2 30 pm preaching, and a 7 pm song service.
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Bethel Pilgrim Holiness Church
Goldsboro
J. C. Bagnum
Spring Ford
West Virginia
Denton and Preston Men in World War I Service Lists
The article catalogs multiple Denton and Preston area men who served in World War I. It notes Benjamin Bruce Brumbaugh entering the Officers Reserve Corps in 1917 and serving in several medical units, with honorable discharge in 1919, followed by Isaac Vernon Brumbaugh’s 1917 enlistment and various unit transfers ending in 1919. Clarence Bullock’s guard and infantry service culminates with discharge in 1919. William Medford Burgess lists training, hospital stays, and overseas service through early 1919, including Meuse-Argonne. Eddie R. Butler and Elbert R. Butler show enlisting in 1918 and 1919 with engineers units and discharge in 1919. Nathaniel Butler’s 1918 service details include infantry divisions and overseas deployment. Raymond Lee Butler’s National Army service through 1919 closes the roster excerpt.
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Benjamin Bruce Brumbaugh
Denton
Officers Reserve Corps
Medical Corps
Camp Meade
24Th General Hospital
19Th General Hospital
Isaac Vernon Brumbaugh
Washington
D. C
Air Service Production
Clarence Bullock
National Guard
Maryland Infantry
115Th Infantry
Pioneer Infantry
321St Infantry
64Th Infantry
William Medford Burgess
Preston
154Th Depot Brigade
Eddie R. Butler
Regular Army
3Rd Engineers Training Regiment
Camp Humphreys
211Th Engineers
Elbert R. Butler
Col
Nathaniel Butler
Germantown
36Th Co
Camp Dix
N. J
Lorraine
Raymond Lee Butler
National Army
890Th
Ca. Motor Transport Corps
Medical Examination of School Children Continues
The deputy state health officers in counties began medical examinations for public school children after fall opening. Focus remains on younger pupils with some high grade re checks, plus widespread dental clinics. Dr. Riley ties health service to preventing disease and promoting growth, noting earlier gains in attendance and fewer preventable illnesses.
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R. H. Riley
State Department of Health
Riley
Marriage Market and Taxes Echoed in a Village View
A reflective essay argues for a pro-marriage push to boost licenses and notes taxes and public policy as tools. It compares bachelor taxation, wartime morale, and economic incentives with calls to rely on vaccines and sanitation to curb animal diseases like hog cholera, urging common sense in husbandry and public health. The author closes by pondering the phrase the world is a village in the making.
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Adam
Cupid
NRA
Benedict Army
Solomon
Maryland
Ridgely Sewing Circle Supper Nets Forties Dollars
Ridgely The Willing Workers Sewing Circle of the Reformed Church served 148 at their Wednesday night supper the season’s first turkey dinner, netting about 45 dollars. Several local families and visitors are noted in social updates from Ridgely and nearby towns.
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the Reformed Church
Ronald Lane
Barbara
Bethlehem
James Swing
Cambridge
J. P. Swing
William Harrison
Harrington
Del
L. S. Matthews
J. H. Roche
Richard
Baltimore
A. S. Thompson
C. Murray
Plainfield
N. J
Annie Turner
Wilmington
Porter
Lee Bennington
Chester
Carlisle Bennington
John Hoffman
L E. Brown
Allentown
Earl Hammond
Newport
Harry Swann
Madeline Ryan
I. T. Saulsbury
In Memoriam Ida L Towns July 1933
In loving remembrance of Ida L Towns who departed this life July 1 1933. The husband W H Towns writes of longing and absence as he recalls her memory and asks what he would give to be with her again. Sadly missed but not forgotten by her husband.
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Ida L.towns
W. H. Towns
Card of Thanks for sympathy and assistance
For the sympathy and kindly as sistance extended by many friends during the fatal illness of Thomas Luther Trice we are sincerely grate ful.
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Thomas Luther Trice
Mrs Winfield T Nichols Hosts Bridge Evening on Market Street
Mrs Winfield T Nichols entertained at bridge Saturday evening at her Market Street home. Miss Nancy Turner of Easton is visiting for the weekend with Miss Pauline Roplogle.
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Winfield T. Nichols
Bridge
Market Street
Nancy Turner
Easton
Pauline Roplogle
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EL Callao
Haiti
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Cimac
Ealmost
Greensboro
Julia Ross
Bertha Shull
Fur
Enston
Ross Farquar
Bethel
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Nisi
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Elizabeth Irwin
Circuit Court
Caroline County
T. Clayton Horsey
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