Anniversaries and Birthdays in Know America Today
Today's historical notes honor figures born or died on various dates and highlight events from 1741 to 1953. It lists Samuel Chase William G. Simms John Fierpont Morgan William R. Day Edward D. Libbey Kit Carson and others with brief biographical lines and dates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Samuel Chase
Maryland
U. S. Supreme Court
Somerset Co
William G. Simms
Charleston
D.C
John Fierpont Morgan
Hartford
Conn
William R. Day
Ohio
Ravenna
Edward D. Libbey
Toledo
O. Glass
Chelsea
Mass
Benjamin
Kit Carson
Los Angeles
Washington
East
U. S. Third
Naismith Mills
N. M
von Papen
Welland Canal
Alfred H. Smith
New York
Gen. MacArthur
San Francisco
Dulles
Tan Tivy Club Opens Membership Drive
Tan Tivy club members meet at Winchester Hall and vote to launch a membership drive led by Miss Betty Moran and Mrs Betty Forle. The group includes ages 10 to 63 with voluntary dues, and will use rooms provided by the County Commissioners and Marsland Society for Crippled Children and Adults. A fund drive was voted for Easter and proceeds from an April 23 variety show at Frederick High School will benefit the club.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tan Tivy Club
Winchester Hall
Betty Moran
Lime Kiln
Betty Forle
County Commissioners
Marsland Society For Crippled Children
Aduits
Raymond C Brehaut
John “Happy Johnny” Zufal
Frederick High School
C. O. Gochnauer
Canadian Tug Links 14 Feared Lost After Sinking
In Sumner Strait near Juneau Alaska a Canadian tug and a 240 foot barge sank. Fourteen men are feared dead after the SOS from the Vancouver based Chelan reached Cape Decision Lighthouse. Coast Guard air searchers reported wreckage but no survivors sighted in heavy seas with snow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Juneau
Alaska
Sumner Strait
Vancouver
B.C
U.S. Coast Guard
Coast Guard
Annette Island
Cape Decision
Women’s clubs discuss food facts and fallacies at Woodsboro meet
April Woodsboro Homemakers program covered Food Facts and Fallacies by Mrs Melvin Anders and Mrs Elmer Measell. Plans for Embassy trip to Washington on April 24 were announced. National Home Demonstration Week events include a May 2 worship service and a May 4 meeting with 4-H guests. New members welcomed. meeting hosted by Mrs Richard Comstock. A candidate for County Commissioner, Robert W Beachley, announced May primary bid. Installation of Ladies Auxiliary officers at Veterans of Foreign Wars post Home. hospital reports, Turnabout party planned for volunteers, and Buddy Poppy drive set for May. National Geographic notes rainforest coverage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ute
Elic Health Association
Rhoderick
Church of God
Franklin Barrier
Box
Virginia All
Houck
Musso
Routzahn
Roy D. Cassell
Wastler
Mere
Melvin Anders
Elmer Measell
Woodsboro
Ar. Elmer Highhouse
Marvin Houck
Jed Broun
Mww. Sately
Mrs Highhouse
Washington
The
Reformed Church
Lutheran Church
Charles Burke
Jane Burke
Tia Caldwell, Jr
Richard Comstock
Oscar Barrick
Myre Rex Brenderman
Florence S. Rice
the Veterans of Foreign Wars
John R. Webb
Ruth Brown
Ernestine Murray
Bertha Bartzis
Florence Kanode
Helen Musso
Anna Wastler
Daisy Kennedy
Virginia Houck
Airman Dies by Own Action in Altitude Chamber
Air Force reports Airman 3.C Russell Schoonmaker of Palisades Park New Jersey died in an altitude chamber at Foster Air Force Base by deliberately simulating oxygen mask failure. Col Sonnkalb upheld the verdict. The 19 year old operator left a farewell note to his buddies and coworkers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Victoria
Tex
Air Force
Everett Brown
Foster Air Force Base
Russell T. Schoonmaker
Palisades Park
N. J
C. B. Sonnkalb
Schoonmaker
Brown
Grenade blast alarms pilgrims at Gethsemane
In Jerusalem on April 16 a hand grenade exploded near the Basilica of Gethsemane as 2690 pilgrims left a service. No injuries occurred. An Arab Legion spokesman said the device likely exploded accidentally in an empty valley, easing tensions amid war rumors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jerusalem
Jordan
Valedron
Holy Land
Basilica of
Gethsemane
Mount of Olives
Old Wall of Jerusalem
Arab Legion
Arab-Ieraeli
X Marks The Check Forgery Case In Memphis
A 34 year old illiterate Negro named John D Daniel of Port Huron Michigan forged and cashed a thirty one fifty dollar government check by stamping an X on it. He was convicted of forgery and sentenced to eleven months and twenty nine days in jail.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Memphis
Tenn
John D. Daniel
Port Huron
Mich
Daniel
Most Of Fund For Crusade Is Pledged
Baltimore April 16 The Baltimore Conference of the Methodist Church reports 786661 pledged of 800000 needed for the church extension crusade. Cash receipts total 219439.92 with 236 pledging fulfillment for 33a churches. five Baltimore churches and others have full quotas paid. Asbury Home for the Aged Gaithersburg pledged 100 and paid 105. Unionville 4 H Club met April 7 in the community hall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore
the Methodist Church Today
Trinity and Midland
Hagerstown
Providence
Lewis Memorial
Washington East
Wheaton-Hughes Memorial
Washington West
Asbury Home For
Gaithersburg
Vocabulary Lesson From W L Gordon Vociferous Focus
A compact notice on common word misuse and daily vocabulary growth. It highlights mispronunciations and homographs such as faint and feint, urges mastering one new word a day, and defines vociferous as making a loud noisy show with the example “The people are vociferous in their demands.”
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. L. Gordon
Grange Meeting to Feature Bird Slides at Hall
Carroll Manor Grange will hold a meeting at Adamstown Community Hall presided by a member of the Grange. Dr Edwards of Camp De trick will show colored slides of birds taken in Mexico. Homes of former presidents John Adams and John Quincy Adams are noted as preserved in Massachusetts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grange News
Carroll Manor Grange
I. P
Cissel Presiding
Adamstown
Edwards
Camp Detrick
Mexico
Massachusetts
John Adams
John Quincy Adams
Also Mentioned on This Page
Know
America
Glen E. Edgerton
Export-Import Bank
Parkerville
Kans
Claudius T. Murchison
Cotton Textile Institute
Hickory
N. C
Robert M. Maciver
Columbia University
Scotland
Thornton N. Wilder
Madison
Wis
Bettig A. Griswold
University of Louisville Medical School
Peru
Ind
Monrad C. Wallgren
Washington State
Federal Power Commission
Des Moines
Iown
American Society of Newspaper Editors
James Kerney
Trenton
Annapolis
Fenwick
Charles County
Emanuel 3. Dyson
Pomonkey
Joseph Baker
Bryant's Road
McCarthy
Sen.McCarthy
R-Wis
Boo der
Asnam
France
Bao Dai
Chel Ct
Viet Nam
Boo Das
Playboy Boo
Dalat
Cannes
French Riviera
Robert W. Beachles
East Fourth Street
Frederick
Board of County Commissioners
Beachley
Mary Simes
Paul . Fogle
Lawrence Purdy
Wadaluary & Officers
South America
National Geographic Society
Fund For Crusade
Unionville 4-H Club
Motorola TV
Melvin M. Englen
Carroll St
Hiltner-Roelke Appliance Center
Patrick Street
Pearre
Moruern Pharmacy
Foples Drug Stores
W. Patrick ST
N. Market
Monocacy Oil Company
Frederick, Md
Sheffield’s Liquors
Delicatessen
East Patrick Street
Measell’s
Paul Francis
Charles Davis Sheffield
Ellis
Wachter
Ston OF
Your
Life Underwriters’ Association
National Association of Life Underwriters
NALU
Life Underwriters
United States
NASA
Frederick Association OF Life Underwriters
Robert F. Barrick
Meredith Koone
Irvin C. Brant. JR
Paul W. Burns
Chesley Luther N. Cleveland
Basil
Coffman Grafton E. Colt
Newton I. Covell
Melvin H. Dear
Walter T. Dunbar Maurice J. Floyd W. Veal Forney Stanley VY. Gaver
JT. Weldon Harper John B. Hart
Clarence ©. Heffner
George W. Hull
John L. Hull
Harry T. James, Jf
Otho J. Keller, II
Preston H. Lawson
William H. Lyerly
Charles D. Medinger
Libert T. Warren Strevig
Gordon L. Townsend Wesley M. van Dercook
Francis van Fossen
George L. Virts Paul A. Watkins Watran &. White
Richard Glenn Wiles
Charles H. Woodman
Wilson Place
Universal Insulation CO
Market Street
Frederick, Maryland
Biggs Avenue
Catoctin Estates, Inc
Earl F. Hargett, Builder
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