Maryland May Again Adopt Whipping Post
Frederick Maryland residents debate reviving the whipping post after Magistrate Guy K. Motter sentences Robert Shroyer to ten lashes for alleged wife beating. Sheriff J W Albaugh administers the punishment with a regulation whip, amid public discussion on the legality and justice of such a penalty in this era. The incident rekindles a historic local controversy as Frederick sits near the mountains and major routes to Washington and Baltimore.
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Carl L. Turner
Newa Service
Statf
Frederigh
Shroyer
Frederick
Jackson
Miami and Dayton vie for Bryan boys academy
Miami and Dayton Tenn contend for the Bryan will funded boys academy. Mrs Bryan's secretary and Dayton sources place the available sum near 60009.4 with a 4 committee of Bryan friends probing Miami's claim while Dayton plans an official request to Mrs Bryan executor. A Dayton Bryan university committee meeting is set for Wednesday night with Congressman Upshaw and other prominent fundamentalists expected.
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Miami
Tug
Dayton
Tenn
William J. Bryan
Bryan
Friends of
Bryan University
Congressman Upshaw
Wise Crax Compiled Satiric Snippets
A collage of quips from the International News Service and various papers criticizing politics, society, and industry. Items poke fun at farmland wages, mule shipments to Spain, Dawes, and urban trends, reflecting a satirical, press-wide wit about public figures and manners.
Women Grow Nakeder Everywhere Warns English Vicar
London August 14 Hon Richard Fres Vicar of St Clement's Fulham laments rapid moral decline saying women grow nakeder day by day in galleries buses concerts and streets. He questions if police will be needed as in Paris after the Revolution citing ubiquity of undress in public life.
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C International News Services
London
Richard Fres
St. Clement's
Fulham
Increase Shown In Plate Glass Industry
International News Service reports from Pittsburgh on August 14 that US plate glass production in the first half of 1925 exceeded the whole of 1924 by 9,378,528 square feet. Through six months of 1926 output reached 56,561,960 square feet, with total 1926 projections between 105 and 120 million square feet, driven by auto, office, apartment and hotel uses and rising home window demand.
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International News Services
Pittsburgh
United States
Shore Finds Fraud In Florida Deals
Atlantic City reports say Florida real estate operators used pictures of local yacht clubs and island residences to promote developments as scenery. Detectives aided by the chamber of commerce found sales pitches tied to Florida lands far from habitable areas, with at least one firm closing suddenly. Grand jury indictments on fraud may follow based on collected evidence.
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Atlantic City
N. J
Florida
Chamber of Commerce
Sez View
Grand Jury
Repudiating Indian Customs At Chicago Museum Exhibit
CHICAGO Aug 14 Customs and ceremonials of Potawatomi and allied tribes will be preserved at the Field Museum of Natural History. Collector M G Chandler will visit Fox Mayetta Kickapoo Winnebago Ojibwa and Potawatomi residencies in Kansas Iowa and Nebraska seeking domestic and ceremonial artifacts, weapons, beads, quill work and medicine handles for the exhibit.
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International Nave Service
Chicago
Vicinity
Bield Museum of Natural History
Winneboro
Kansas
Iowa
Nebrasia
M. G. Chandler
John Elliott
Chandler
Tama
Cedar Rapids
Mayetta
Kan
Winnebago Reservation
Winnebago
Neb
Kickapoo
Spring Grove Cow Wins Silver Medal for Pogis Dreamy Lass
W J Glatfelter of Spring Grove Pa bred and tested Jer sey cow Pogis Dreamy Lass of O F 610828. On a 265 day official test she produced 66366 pounds of fat and 9558 pounds at .79 percent mill. She calf for 274 days and earned the American Jersey Cattle Club silver medal.
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W. J. Glatfelter
Spring Grove
Jersey
O. F
American Jersey Cattle Club
Pogis
Wood Farm
Hood Farm
Figgis Dist
Dreamy Lass
C. F
Wives Should Keep Old Husbands Busy
London dispatch reports Sir James Cantie urging wives to keep aging husbands active. He advises waking them, avoiding sleep, and promoting exercise with real fine dances, especially after middle age, at a College for Working Woman gathering.
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International News Service
London
Sir James Cantie
College For
Sir James
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