Frederick County Schools Expenditures for 1924 25
The Frederick county auditors report shows total expenditures for the fiscal year July 21 1924 to July 31 1925 at 454 827 98 dollars with receipts totaling 473 254 76. The report lists major costs including salaries for male and female teachers and operation of school plants. A Christmas entertainment for the general school fund will be staged December 18 at Frederick High School featuring Glee Clubs and classes.
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Frederick County
State Free School
Hopkins
Hood
Walkersville
Colored School
Plane No. 4
Sand Hill
Harmony
Frederick High School
General School Fund
Glee Clubs
Elizabeth McFadden
Raymond MacDonald Allen
Glee Club
Ring of the Chimes
Holger
Elizabeth Cramer
Steen
Ray York
Rerkel
James Etchison
Loretta Haines
the Angel
Blanche Rice
Tragic tale of Gordon Pirie in Baby Bohemia
New York December report describes Gordon Pirie a 19 year old known as a good boy who fatally killed his friend George Nye for about 5 dollars and 40 cents. He strangled and axed Nye wrapped the corpse under his sister’s bed before a wild night with friends.
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NEA Service
New York
Bohemia
Gordon Pirie
George Nye
Nye
Pirie
Baby Bohemia
Jie
Gordon Pirle
Policy
Gunghe
Chicago
Leopold and Loeb
San Francisco
Violet Schmidt
Edna Johnson
Violet
Gordon
Allgman
Hfow
Mailing Christmas Cards and Parcels for Holiday Delivery
Public notices from the Post Office Department outline optimal mailing dates to ensure delivery before Christmas. Guidelines cover domestic mail to various travel distances, local parcels, special delivery, and insured valuables. Foreign parcels should be mailed from main offices with careful packing for long sea travel.
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Postoffice Department
Irving S. Biser
Arabia
Spanish Guinea
Tristan da Cunha
Cuba
Mutiny in Burma Prison Leaves Nine Dead and Wounded
AP reports nine killed and 24 wounded in a jail mutiny at Pratun lower Burma led by a death sentenced inmate. Prisoners seized arms after overpowering guards, five inmates and four guards died in a later clash before surrender. The mutiny leader was among the dead. Separately, the steamer West Crown sends wireless from 2300 miles west of the Columbia River asking for help after engine trouble.
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Rangoon
India
Pratun
Lower
Burma
Kipling in Burwash Suffering from Bronchitis
Anxiety grows over writer Rudyard Kipling in Burwash England as his condition worsens with bronchitis reported for December 2 by AP.
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Kipling
Burwash
England
Rudyard Kipling
House panel rescinds retroactive tax reduction proposal
Washington December 2 AP report states the House and Means Committee today rescinded its plan to permit a retroactive reduction in the importance taxes.
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Washington
House and Means Committee
Christmas Treat Planned for 300 Frederick Children
A community effort to provide a Christmas treat for about 300 needy children aged five to eleven was approved in Frederick. The event on December 22 at Winchester Hall includes a program with Rev. Chalmers W. Walek, community singing, and a school skit, followed by stocking gifts. Committees were named, and lists will close a week before Christmas with dolls on display at Hendrickson's Dry Goods.
Community Christmas Tree Plan Attracting Interest
The Childrens Aid Society of Frederick plans a large community Christmas tree erected by the city with help from three service clubs. No party will be held in the Armory. instead, a list of local children will receive stockings at the Empty Stocking Club event on December 22 in Winchester Hall. County children will be given a fit and a box of candy by the society.
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Childrens’ Aid Society of
Frederick
Chamber of Commerce
Armory
Aid Society
Winchester Hall
Childrens’ Aid Society
Christmas Boxes Aid City Poor Collected by Police
Under Mayor Culler, officers placed boxes in stores and on Church Street corners to collect money and provisions for the city at Christmas. Last year donations secured 40 or 30 bushels of provisions for those in need. The public is urged to contribute to these Christmas boxes, sending gifts to Mayor Caller.
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Maryor Culler
Winter Ice Platform Installed at Courthouse Steps
The stone stairway in front of the courthouse is covered with the usual wooden platform each winter to prevent ice and snow buildup and reduce danger to pedestrians.
President of Mitchell Court Warns on Witness Treatment
Washington December 2 AP Major General Howze president of the Mitchell court martial warns that prosecution and defense must safeguard witnesses from insulting questions and mistreatment. He cited the court martial manual and ordered compliance amid ongoing wrangles including a defense bid to disqualify Major General Graves over cross examination issues.
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Washington
Howze
Graves
Pinchot Studies Pennsylvania Coal Situation
Governor Pinchot continued a state tour focusing on Pennsylvania coal, aiming to settle the anthracite suspension and bridging opposing sides. He warned that extended low freight rates for outside bituminous districts worsen Pennsylvania coal’s competitive position.
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Clarion
Pennsylvania
Pinchot
Americans Warned to Keep Off Damascus Streets
Damascus Syria December 2 AP The American consul warned residents to stay off the streets after six p m amid rising fanatical feeling following the October sanguinary uprising. Maryland crop conditions report notes cold wet weather hampering outdoor work with corn mostly husked and late potatoes remaining in extreme west. Gerald Chapman testified at Wethersfield Conn stating he had no warning of his transfer or of the commutation of his federal sentence for mail robbery. In East Africa a proposed 26 6 Ny has receded as cattle losses due to the fever die.
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Damascus
Syria
Maryland
Washington
Chapman
State
Wethersfield
Conn
Pec
Gerald Chapman
Connecticut
Wiapels
Atlanta
Coolidge
White House guard found badly mutilated in hospital
Washington December 2 Paul A McDuffie 33 a White House police guard was found badly mutilated after being assaulted while off duty he wandered into a hospital in a dazed state police pursue suspects and seek details of the attack and motive
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Iwhite
Paul A. McDuffie
Washington Hospital
Washington
Cal
White House
McDunffe
Hospital Inc
Lly
Elks Memorial Service Planned at City Opera House
Frederick Lodge No. 681 B P O Elks will hold an annual memorial service Sunday at 3 16 p m in the City Opera House. Alfred W Gaver Exalted Ruler will preside with a detailed program including obert Wagner pieces and lodge services. Members meet at the West Second Street Home at 2 30 p m and march to the opera house for the 3 15 p m service.
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Frederick Lodge No. 681
B. B. OS Elks
City Opera House
Alfred W. Gaver
West Second Street
Opera House
Elks Memorial
Tannhouser
Wagner
Oda
Isaac N. Shiptey
Wilson
Charles M. Cassell
Hagerstown
Lodge
Austin James
Frederick Lodge
God
Marguerite Null
Charles WN. Hahn
James M. Mitchell
Samuel M. Birely
McClintock Young
Charles H. Baughman
Charles T. K. Young
John C. Motter
John Francis Smith
Charles C. C. Hagan
Lewis A. Burcke
William H. Turner
George C. Huffer
Luther F. Derr
C. Francis
Baugh
Man
Henry Williams
Harry W.bowers
James W. Long
Howard H. Hopkins
Keefer
Toms
No Need For Strike Settlement Spared by Washington Board
The Washington Coal Merchants Board of Trade telegram says there was no necessity for a premature settlement of the anthracite controversy. Warriner, chairman of the anthracite operators conference, expressed the opinion in a telegram from FLO L.
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Washington
Dee 2
Washington Cor] Merchants Board of True
Warriner
Anthracite Operators Conference
Ferguson defends acts of his wife amid Texas road dispute
In Austin on December 2 Ferguson defended his wife Governor Miriam A Ferguson over highway matters that spurred calls for a special legislative session. He claimed the American Road Company settlement was not a public defeat and accused Attorney General Dan Moody of a private deal with the firm. Moody rejected Ferguson's charges saying court findings prove no basis for them.
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Austin
Texas
Damex Jr
Ferguson
Miriam A. Figuson
American Road Company
Don Moody
Fergussons
Moody
Jamena FH
Publc
Dan Moody
Florida Storm Turmoil Eases After Coastal Destruction
Jacksonville reports regaining equilibrium after a 24 hour storm ordeal. The hurricane driven seas damaged pilings, bulwarks, piers, causeways and homes along the Atlantic coast. tides were the highest in years. Ten dead and about twenty injured, all black, with four killed near Tampa as buildings collapsed and six drowned off Daytona when a schooner wrecked.
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Jacksonville
Fla
Ap.j
Florida
Atlantic
Tampa
West
Daytona Beach
Daytona
Race question put to Rhinelander case
Isaac N. Mills chief counsel for Leonard Kip Rhinelander attacked racial grounds as he began summation for the plaintiff in the Rhinelander divorce suit. He urged the white jury consider the public interest and noted subterfuge in obtaining Leonard's separation consent while color facts were explored. He said Leonard once stood by his wife and loved her.
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White Plains
N.Y
Isaac N. Mills
Leonard Kip Rhinelander
Alice Beatrice Jones
Mills
Leonard
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Children's Aid Society
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Chalmers W. Walek
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Hendrickson
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Grayson E. Bowers
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William Schmidt
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Roderick County
Board of Education
Palmer
Federation of Clubs
Francis Scott Key
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Buckeystown
William GC. Johnson
A. LeRoy McCardell
William Gross
Brunswick
A. W. Nicodemus
G. Lloyd Palmer
E C. Kefauver
Mitchell Court
East Africa
Elks Memorial Service
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Grayson B. Haller
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Sherman P. Bowers
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