Second Republican candidates file for county convention delegates
A second set of Republican candidates filed with the Board of Election Supervisors to contest county delegates to the state convention on May 7. The group includes Lewis F. Kefauver and four others, while a first Republican slate also exists. Democrats show no local contest, with two incumbents running for Congress and Senate unopposed in the party.
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Board of Election Supervisors
Lewis F. Kefauver
Middletown
George Marshall Wachter
Johnsville
William C. Roderick
Edward 4. Sharpe
Frederick
Joseph W. Darner
Jefferson
Albert W. Ecker
Thurmont
S. Elmer Brows
Thomas A. Chapline
Thomas H. Haller
Edwin C. Markell
A. G. Bourne
William B. Doty
Herbert Hoover
Frederick N. Zihlman
Phillips Lee Goldeborough
United States
William Cabell Bruce
Virginia Parkhurst
Montgomery County
Senate
David J. Lewis
Cumberland
Congress
Democrats Divided On Harmony
Washington April analysis of the Democratic split over Harmony and prohibition. Debates whether to nominate a wet or dry candidate or a middle choice like John W. Davis. The piece weighs Smith’s strength, regional balance, and the risk of elevating the prohibition issue in the 1928 race.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rodney Dutcher
NEA
Washington
Dan Roper
Prohibition Enforcement
Dity
al Smith
John W. Davis
Davis
Smith
Hopwood Bitten While Seizing Suffering Collie
City dog catcher William Hopwood was severely bitten on the face while removing a sick collie between Third and Fourth streets. He sought medical care and the dog is held for observation. no rabies suspicion reported, precautions planned.
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Klinehart
William Hopwood
Billy
City Hall
Hopwood
Seven Hurt When Truck Crashes Through Bridge
Seven men were injured in a crash when a Warne County Road Commission truck and trailer plummeted 25 feet from a bridge railing into the River Rouge bank at Dearborn. The two most seriously hurt were Charles BR. Soderquist of Dearborn and Pete Wolf. Wolf was covered with humming tat from the trailer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
Warne County Road Commission
River Rouge
Dearborn
Charles BR. Soderquist
General Mandater
William Ford and Company, Inc
Pete Wolf
Wolf
Eight Buildings Wrecked in Atlantic City Fire
An early morning fire of undetermined origin swept through Atlantic City destroying eight business establishments and damaging several residences. The estimated loss is about 200000 dollars. Last week officials had received threats linked to opposition to a merchants tax, with letters warning of further harm if the agitation continued. The fires were turned over to postal authorities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlantic City
Oss
Joseph G. Chamson
D. Fred Manne
Chamber of Commerce
Yale Athlete Grove Wins Princeton Club Scholarship
Manasses J Grove Yale shortstop and academic junior, son of Mr and Mrs James H Grove of West Second Street, awarded the Princeton Club scholarship for next year. The prize honors Yale Club of New York and rewards leadership, character, and service as selected by the Bureau of Appointments Students Advisory Committee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manasses J. Grove
Yale
James H. Grove
West Second Street
Princeton Club
Grove
George Augustus Adee
Arthur E. Palmer
Yale Club
New York City
Bureau of Appointments
Bureau
Princeton
ADVANCE SPECULATORS IN CONTROL OF MARKET
Speculators controlled the market with heavy buying of railroad shares. Extreme gains reached up to twelve points in active issues as over two dozen stocks hit new highs. Volume likely to exceed 3,000,000 shares for the 19th straight fall session. Easter railroad executives adjourned without consolidation news, but carrier share accumulation suggested progress. Call money rose from 5 to 5 1/4 percent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Eearrier
Explosion on Dutch tanker Chenita injures crew at St Anne's Harbor
An explosion during welding in the dry dock of St Anne's Harbor damaged the Dutch tanker Chenita. Twenty men were killed or injured among the workers, with several others wounded as debris flew from the deck during repairs.
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Willemstad
Curacan
St Anne's Harbor
Action Urged On New School For Frederick
Frederick County Board of Education met in the Court House to hear two delegations seeking a new western elementary school and an auditorium at Walkersville High School. The board discussed underwriting insurance for county schools, site purchases for four room New Midway and Woodsboro schools, sales of Chestnut Grove and Petersville schools, and upgrades at Myersville Middleton and Thurmont High Schools. Easter closings set, and visits by North Carolina superintendents planned for April 17.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frederick County
Robert L. Warfield
G. Lloyd Palmer
New Midway
Woodsboro
Chestnut Grove
Petersville
Myersville
Middletown
Edwin Devilbiss
Helena Stauffer
John D. Nicodemus
Walkersville
Walkersville High School
Sam W.maples
William B. Bennett
A. B. Collinus
College Parkway
Baker Park
Thurmont High School
E. C. Kefauver
Dalmer
Foxville
Leslie M. Cobrentz
Mr. Palmer
Wolfsville
Frederick
North Carolina
Thos. L. Gibson
Mrr. Palmer
Brunswick
Frederick Art Club Meeting Promotes Duncan Phyfe Study
The Frederick Art Club met March 29 with Mrs. Sibelle Etchison chairing and Mrs. Jane Abbott reading the minutes. Lectures highlighted Duncan Phyfe furniture and monastic craft, while Lorado Taft’s Hood College visit was announced for August 24.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frederick
Duncan Phyfe
Situation in Hankow: Critically tense as refugees dispute
Foreign reports cite a critical Hankow situation after French authorities refuse to hand over alleged communists now refugees in the French concession. The Chinese garrison accuses the French consul of accepting a bribe to harbor communists and seize the concession, while the French legation denies the bribery charge and vows vigorous resistance to any seizure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peking
Hankow
Good Friday Partial Holiday Seen In City
Good Friday will be only a partial city holiday with several industrial plants closing this evening and resuming Monday morning. Banks observe the day as a legal holiday but many stores stay open. churches plan services and Maundy Thursday observances mark the Lenten lead up to Easter. The day brings warm spring weather with a high near 78 and a low around 52, amid expectations of possible showers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frederick
Work Among Blind Is Told At Frederick Lions Meeting
Miss Ida Hirst Gifford of New York spoke to the Frederick Lions Club on the American Foundation for the Blind and Lions International Braille project. The talk covered Braille history, the Foundation’s standardization, library placements, and the need for circulation of the Lions Braille Magazine.
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American Foundation For the Blind
Lions Clubs
Lions International
Frederick Lions Club
Tolay
Francis Scott Key Hotel
Ida Hirst Gifford
New York
Jocal Club
Gifford
Connecticut
America
Europe
Lions Organization
Lions
Foundation
Washington
Baltimore
Civic Memhbers
Winchester Club
Miss Gifford
T. E. Russell
Maxwell
This City
C. E. Hobart
Winchester
Last-Minute Senate Candidacy Declarations Loom
Last day for Senate candidates to file declarations falls on a Friday before Easter as Good Friday holiday affects state deadlines. Attorney General Willis R. Jones warns entrants that filings must occur 30 days before the primary with April 14 for Congressional filings and April 21 for presidential hopefuls. Elizabeth Fredges of Bard College travels home for Easter.
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Baltimore
Aps
United States Senate
Willis R. Jones
Sedar
Senate
Congres Canal
Clarrs
Comeutone
Farm Representative Assails Hoover Record
Washington April 5 AP. George N Peek, a Hoover critic and head of a northern central farmers conference, attacked Hoover's farm record in a Senate record. The pamphlet attack followed distribution in Ohio.
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Hoover
Washington
Herbert Hoover
Commerce
George N. Peek
Senate
Norbeck
South Dakota
Peek
North Central States
Willis
Ohio
Buckeye
Fifty Nine Club Women Enter Yard Improvement Contest
Fifty nine members of the Feder ation of Rural Women s Clubs of Frederick county enroll in a yard improvement contest spanning Maryland to Virginia. Twenty three Frederick clubs are represented with entries signed by April 1 under county civic chairmen and Miss Helen Pearson. The statewide contest ends in October 1929 with a $50 prize for the state winner.
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Federation of Rural Women's Clubs
Frederick County
Maryland
North Carolina
South Carolina
Kentucky
Tennessee
West Virginia
Virginia
Civic Department
County Federation
Grayson F. Bowers
Helen Pearson
University of Maryland
Katherine Baker
Pleasant Grove
Starry Davis
Aubrey Davis
Edgar Davis
Gabe Lawson
Robert Windsor
Monrovia
Merryland Tract
McDue
Staley
Mary Sulcer
Knoxville
W. B. Werner
Burkittsville
Middletown
Harry Gross
Mary Routzalen
Albert Cobientz
Adamstown
Gary Lakin
Genevieve Thomas
L. E Ogle
Bernice Spring
Clark Gibson
Urbana
A. T. Griffith
G. O. Hendrickson
Frederick Junction
New Market
Murmar Etzer
N. H. Albaugh
EL P. Roop
Jessie Shawbaker
Clarence Stevens
Mary Cash
New Travet
Jug Bridge
Richard Harrett
John Staley
Elmer Dixon
Bess Fahr
Murray Stanfer
Frank Mohler
Arnest Michael Frederick
HL OB. Robbins
North Market Street
Marion Houck
Thomas Hinz
E. C Sanner
Frederick
RE Kling
Wamsville
Point of Rocks
M Irs
John Colbert
Kathryn Hutchinson
Liberty
Charles Smith
Ella Riordan
Wm. Benner
Big Rain Flood Leaves Shawnee Homeless
Shawnee Oklahoma April 6 AP Upwards of 1 000 persons were homeless after a cloudburst flood. One body recovered seven missing as volunteers search debris. Fifty plus houses swept from foundations over 200 damaged flood rose to five feet. Estimated damage up to half a million dollars as refugees are rescued from trees and rooftops.
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Shawnee
Okla
Four Year Old Boy Kidnapped Near Home in Philadelphia
Police search for four year old George Edward Miller who was seized by two women yesterday near his Ninth and Jefferson streets home. Witnesses say he was grabbed while playing under a Reading Railroad bridge and placed in a taxi, with clues limited to statements from four nearby children.
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Philadelphia
George Edward Miller
Ninth and
Jefferson Streets
Hiram Miller
George
Reading RR
Jefferson Street
Civil War Vet Reports Hearing While Flying
Washington dispatch reports Col Anhn K P Scott of Gettysburg Pennsylvania a Civil War veteran regains hearing in flight at Hoover Field He plans to go to Hampton Virginia for surgery and jokes about his hearing while aboard the plane.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Anhn K. P. Scott
Gettysburg
Hoover Field
Soldiers Home Hospital
Hampton
Joseph H. Himes
Pneumonia Fatal Ends Chauncey Depew at 93 in April
Chauncey Mitchell Depew, longtime New York Central figure and famed after dinner speaker, died of bronchial pneumonia at his home in New York. He was 93, three weeks shy of his 94th birthday, and had attended Republican conventions from 1888 through 1924. He served two Senate terms and 14 years as NY Central president, with a noted wit that earned him the nickname the peach.
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New York
Chauncay M. Depay
Lincoln
Tie
New York Central R. A
Kansas City
Cleveland
Benjamin Harrison
Depew
United States
Chauncey M. Depew Jr
Anne Depew Paulding
Chauncey Mitchell Depew
White House
Harding
United States Senate
New York Central Railroad
Lake Shore
Michigan Central
Chicago
St Louis
Mr Depew
Peekskill
America
Rory Sieeman
Sir Deve
Elize Hegeman
Chauncey
Marr Palmer
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Tajen Theological Seminary
Liss Barhara Bronke Dennis
St. Holdabs
Rhariis Town
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Mercury Sears
Elizabeth Fredges
Barpard College
Saac J. Young
Monkey Hollow
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Calvin Coolidge
Miriam Curtis
Dickinson Hospital
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Jane Kills Child
Belfast
Northern Ireland
Danmurry Village
Hile
Carl Petterson
Huntington, IW
Val
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Dave Vir
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Charles Scientrls
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Bleame Huntres
Darlett H. Wilson
Shawnee, Okla
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NEW York Central
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