Maryland Labor Day Observances Across Cities
Maryland marks the 53rd Labor Day with subdued plans as residents prepare for a long weekend. State Police note last year’s highway injuries and July deaths, while unions in several cities sponsor events and picnics. St Margarets Parish relaunches a jousting tournament in Annapolis, Frostburg hosts a Farraday Post parade and game, and Tumonium hosts the state fair kickoff.
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Red
Maryland
State Police Department
Baltimore
American Federation of Labor
Hagerstown
Annapolis
Frostburg
St Margaret's Parish
Farraday Post
American Legion
Evening events span Frostburg pageant and Peninsula stock race
In Frostburg the working man tribute features a beauty pageant where contestants must wear bathing suits as committee members announce. Meanwhile Eastern Shore residents travel to Harrington Delaware for the Peninsula’s first modified stock car race sponsored by the local fire department.
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Frostburg
Mt. Savage
Frosburg
Harrington del
Fire Department
Embezzlement Charge In Mayonnaise Factory Employee
Baltimore police charged 25 year old Irene Cochrane with embezzling about 10000 dollars from a local mayonnaise factory where she worked as a bookkeeper. A warrant was sworn out after a shortage was found in her absence and she was believed to be vacationing with friends in Newton Massachusetts. Captain Henry J. Kriss said a check at her residence showed she had stored her furniture and left town. Newton police said extradition to Maryland is possible but no hearing date was set.
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Baltimore
Newton
Mass
Henry J. Kriss
Irene Cochrane
Kriss
Miss. Cochrane
Maryland
Horsemen Suspend Some Of Members
Cumberland Aug 28 The Horsemen s Benevolent and Protective Association HBPA suspended eight or nine members who raced at Hagerstown Maryland after a boycott call two weeks earlier Secretary HB Ferguson said the action will be ratified by three fourths of the board The HBPA had pressed for higher purses at Hagerstown where most races paid 600 dollars with only a few at 1000 or 1900 The management rejected the demand and several horsemen declined mounts in the final two racing days Trainers Gordon Godnaver named as among the suspended noted the ban will not bar him from racing against suspended horses
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Gordon Godnaver
Ferguson
Maryland halff mile circuit to open with purses under plan
The HBPA reached a schedule with Maribor management for a ten day Marlboro meet opening September 13 with minimum purses of 1000 dollars, 1200 dollar race, and two 1500 dollar events. A canvass of owners and trainers suggests 600 to 700 horses will race there. Also noted is a Polar Sea ivory gull sighting at eight degrees north near the Pole.
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Ferguson
HBPA
Maribore
Marlboro
Maryland
Wholesale Prices Rise Again to New Postwar Peaks
Washington reports wholesale prices climbed 0.3 percent in the week ending August 22, lifting the index to 183.5 percent of the 1926 average. The Bureau of Labor Statistics notes prices were 19 percent higher than July and 195 percent above two years prior, with comparisons to 1937 levels provided.
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Washington
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Commodity Prices Climb As Coal and Metals Rise
The August 1929 price index shows farm products down from a month ago but up 127 percent from a year earlier. Nonfarm commodities rose 0.4 percent. coal prices advanced over 16 percent since June end due to late reports of increases and corrected data for kid leather. By products and metals also rose with pig iron steel products and silver advancing while scrap steel fell. Sodium fluoride, under medical supervision, curbs children's tooth decay.
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