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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1938
Page
2
A printed notice from The Daily News emphasizes no byline requirement for letters or articles and states editors will correct erroneous reflections upon any person or corporation. It notes submission authority for alleged facts or opinions and lists post office registration in Frederick Maryland as second class matter on a Thursday in August 1938.
Department of Commerce plans to discontinue the Frederick airport lease as the Washington Pittsburgh air route shifts south. Hagerstown’s new 200000 dollar airport is cut as an emergency landing field for the relocated line. The Frederick field, run at a nominal rent, has lighting beacons and reporting service and has proven its value with 92 acres of land and a history of emergency landings including a recent bomber forced landing. Local citizens urge continuation, noting over 45000 dollars invested and the field’s role in regional growth and aviation service.
The article cites Jackie Coogan's suit to control his childhood earnings and critiques how his guardians used deception to extract money. It argues the boy’s awakening reveals exploitation, while noting public sentiment favors Coogan despite potential court outcomes.
A concise daily English lesson lists common misuses and mispronunciations. It defines estimable as worthy of esteem and notes that associating with estimable people elevates one’s own regard.
A book review argues for reviving American ideals and virtues to defend liberty against collectivist urges. Roosevelt favors a stronger middle class, decentralized government, state rights, lower taxes, and self-reliance, while probing the assumption that full government restraint is unnecessary.
Gloucester mass Aug 11 unity business never regained. main cause is rising utility taxes and public competition. author argues the death sentence from the 1935 Holding Company Act is mild, predicts long run benefits only with proper regulation. criticizes New Deal utility campaigns and PWA loans to fund municipal plants that compete with private systems. He asserts most power securities are widely owned by insurance firms banks hospitals libraries churches and colleges and condemns government distribution as wasteful and harmful to taxpayers and customers.
Puzzle asks which block sequences form a true statement. Items include a sampan auricle dithyramb ramekin mythological creature and other pairs like Punic Wars Boxer Rebellion Mexican War French Revolution with year choices. Several malformed entries appear. focus on identifying valid pairings.
A concise devotional note urges seeking good rather than evil to gain life with the Lord of Hosts. It quotes Amos 5 14 and adds a separate line from Rowland Hitt extolling that greater good comes from being good than by other means.
The eighth annual Stambaugh descendants reunion for John and Betsy Stambaugh will take place Saturday August 20 at Mt Tabor Park in Rocky Ridge with family gathering and activities planned.
Excerpts from The News columns dated Aug 11 1898 and Aug 11 1913 note B and O schedules for local trains at Frederick hotels a highway storm injures a horse and carriages Clarke Worthington and James H Gambrill Jr plan a hardware business move to Anniston Alabama. Thirteen public school teachers among registrars to draft eligible men for service as schools close to release teachers. Frederick city tax rate may drop from 1.10 to 90 cents due to higher assessment and repair costs. Frederick Hospital reports 106 admissions and 142 treatments last month with half payments. Adams Towne Canning Plant opens after fire with capacity 50 000 to 75 000 cases per day employing 115. Local banks prep to reopen Saturdays at 7 00 am.
The eleventh annual Ludy family reunion was held at City Park Hagers town with a bountiful dinner and a program. Charles E Koogle of Williamsport presided and officers were elected including Cora A F Koogle secretary and Henry Warrenfeltz treasurer. A memorial service honored Cyrus M Luty and Jacob Warrenfeltz.
Browningsville reports the sixty second annual session of the grand lodge of Maryland, Virginia and District of Columbia International Order of Good Templars. C H McElfresh of Monrovia named grand exalted ruler along with J Raymond Schmidt and others elected to senior roles as 35 delegates oversee 18 new initiates during abstinence push.
Warm week with limited cloudiness and high humidity, near daily showers and thunderstorms. Mean temp 3 to 6 degrees above normal. sunshine normal. Crop conditions mostly good to excellent. harvesting and threshing underway across counties. Potatoes and grains noted. late potatoes blight in Garrett. early crops ripening. Contract awarded for Catoczin Creek bridge between Middletown and Mt Hope church.
The article explains stomach acid balance, noting that normal secretions are mildly alkaline and that hyperchlorhydria indicates excess free hydrochloric acid. It discusses factors raising or lowering acid, including diet, ulcers, and reflex effects, and advises doctor consultation and bland, nonirritating foods.
In Worcester England a pottery tour shows dull chinaware becoming luminous after heat and glaze. The furnace transforms crude clay into art, and the heat of affliction reveals beauty in life, turning brown gold into shining value within people.
A collage of quotes from diverse figures and places includes Matthew Wolk on digging government, Lloyd Morrisett calling for curriculum killers, a Yonkers educator denouncing useless courses, Mrs. Cecila McConnell from Turner Kansas on crossing America by airship, and Vasilije Pavlovic from Belgrade musing on solitude and marriage after a brief courtship.
A compact record of notable anniversaries and births lists figures from John B. Bayard to Gifford Pinchot, with dates of birth and death and brief career cues. The piece mixes historical milestones like Franklin founding a circulating library, Fulton’s Clermont voyage, and public debt milestones with contemporary birthday notes for Carrie Jacobs Bond and others, concluding with a generic horoscope note.
Charles Bodmer of Poolesville, son of Detective Sergi, and Roy Bodmer of Montgomery injured after a fall from a scaffold at A Gude Sons greenhouses near Rockville. Roy taken to Georgetown University Hospital. arm broken and observed for possible internal injuries.
A Manila style visitor in Manhattan previews a Hawaiian village in New York, based on Georg Mossman’s Lalani village plan. The concept would educate visitors about 200 years of Hawaiian culture with grass huts, heiau, luau, and a flame dance, aiming to attract 6000 students so far, and eyeing a future index in New York.
An author urges pride in every vocation from printing to law teaching and preaching. He stresses skill, reliability, and best service to win admiration, noting workers who shirk harm collective effort.
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