Fifty Years Ago Highlights From The News Post Files
Items from the December 28 1913 issue note Aunt Eliza Cole a centenarian nurse of the Schley family sustaining a broken arm after a fall at the Osburn home. A rabid dog scare near Frederick Junction ends with farmer Harry Fouche killing the animal. Ruth Toms suffers burns in a scalding accident near Myersville. A chimney fire at Richard S Keyser's East Fourth Street residence is controlled by a d emergency crew. Hurmont residents complain about street car traffic near West Main Street station. E Mullinix begins papering the City Registrar's office and mayoral alderman meeting room. Treasurer George S Rodock of Frederick County Agricultural Society anticipates a near 3500 net profit for the upcoming annual meeting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eliza Cole
Schley
Frederick
Winfield Scott Schley
Santiago
W.W. Osburn
Araby
Frederick Junction
Harry Fouche
Ruth Toms
George Toms
Myersville
Richard S. Keyser
East Fourth Street
Dhmier
Hurmont
F. A.R
West Main Street
E. Mullinix
City Register
George S. Rodock
Frederick County Agricultural Society
Breaking The Habit Money as Federal Handouts Cited
Edwin Neilan of the United States Chamber of Commerce voices alarm at federal grants as political bribes. Pensacola council to seek a $1/3 cost grant for a sewage plant, while urging lawmakers to curb federal aid to cities and states. The piece argues withdrawal will be painful but necessary for national survival.
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Washington
Edwin Neilan
United States Chamber of Commerce
Florida
Pensacola
Prediction Time Sees 1964 Prosperity With Cautious Farm View
Economists foresee continued prosperity in early 1964 with rising activity and employment in some sectors offset by minor losses elsewhere. Farm prospects are more guarded, with only slight improvement expected in the surplus situation. In Baltimore a 37 year old bricklayer, Arthur H Pullen, is held after drowning his 2 year old son James Oliver in the harbor. two bystanders witnessed the child’s struggle and police attempted revival.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore
Arthur Henry Pullen
James Oliver
Louis Grasmick
Raymond Moore
Annell Pullen
Pullen
Oyster production rise in Maryland, November harvest figures
Maryland oyster production improved in November though overall fish and shellfish catch for the prior month totaled 5.4 million pounds. Oystermen reported November 1 catches of 320,584 bushels, lifting the 1983-64 season's first three months to 695,450 bushels, about 12 thousand more than a year earlier. A Damascus barrel describes an old gun barrel made by welding alternating iron strips.
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Annapolis
Maryland
Twenty Years Ago Items From The News Post Files
A 1943 year in review notes Eisenhower’s bold 1944 war forecast, U S Marines landings at Cape Gloucester on New Britain, MacArthur announcing two Japan beachheads, Tojo’s diet remarks on Allied campaigns, Fifth Army gains in Italian mountains, city garbage supervision shift to Street Department, icy conditions easing, and the sinking of the German battleship Scharnhorst by the British fleet guarding a Russian convoy.
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News-Post
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Europe
Britain
United States
Cape Bloucester
New Britain
Japan
Pacific
MacArthur
Tojo
Fifth Army
Hugh V. Gittinger
George Davis
Russia
Illness and Hospital Visit In Frederick Summary
17 month old Karen Lea Kinna of Walkersville was admitted to Frederick Memorial Hospital for observation and treatment. She is expected to stay a few days. County Commissioner Lawrence A. Dorsey of Woodsboro has been confined to his home with a virus for two days.
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Karen Lea Kinna
Jack Kinna
Walkersville
Frederick Memorial Hospital
Lawrence A. Dorsey
Woodsboro
Borgnine and Merman Plan to Wed Next July
New York AP reports actor Er nest Borgnine and singer Ethel Merman plan to marry next July after Borgnine's divorce from Katy Jurado finalizes in June. Both stars expressed happiness and affection, confirming the engagement in remarks quoted by the press.
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Borgnine
Merman
New York
Ernest Borgnine
Ethel Merman
Miss Merman
Katy Jurado
Commissioner Dies in Aden Bomb Attack
George Henderson England's assistant high commissioner to Aden died Friday night from injuries from a December 10 bomb blast at Aden Air Terminal. He was part of a ministerial party leaving Aden for London when a bomb was thrown.
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Aden
George Henderson
England
Henderson
London
Anniversary Open House for Mr and Mrs Charles F Trimmer
A December 22 open house at Woodsboro Fire Hall honored Charles F Trimmer and his wife on their 40th wedding anniversary. Guests from York Maryland Baltimore and Sykesville attended. The couple wed December 24 1923.
Johnson Declines Prayer Group Honorary Chair Role
President Johnson rejected an invitation to be honorary chairman of the Constitutional Prayer Foundation based in Baltimore. Francis B. Burch, national chairman, said he invited the President in an early month letter to support amending the U S Constitution to allow school prayer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore
Johnson
U. S
Francis B. Burch
Constitutional Prayer Foundation
Hiroshima Death Toll From Atomic Bomb Diseases Rises
Hiroshima Atomic Casualties Hospital reports 41 deaths this year from atomic bomb diseases linked to the 1945 explosion, one more than in the previous year.
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Hiroshima
Japan
New Year Reflections Urge Safe Driving and Community Honor
Joe Eisenhauer's Notebook urges restraint and self discipline as the year begins. It condemns split morality on the roads and calls for defensive driving to reduce the 41000 annual highway deaths. The piece notes a January 6 United Fire Company event honoring W Bartgis Storm and Maryland service.
Dying in 1960s obituary notes scattered deaths near Lovettsville
Charlies E. Cooper 65 near Lovettsville died Thursday at Charlestown General Hospital. Surviving three sons, two daughters, 14 grandchildren, and two brothers. Funeral tomorrow 3:30 p.m. at Brown Funeral Home Lovettsville, Rev. Clarence Lloyd. Interment Union Cemetery. Emerson Lee Gorman 57 died Thursday in Morgantown General Hospital after illness. Surviving wife Mary Pearle and multiple children. Services Sunday 1:30 p.m. Hastings Funeral Home Morgantown. Interment Lawnwood Cemetery Morgan. Florence Ida Lightbown 71 of Feagaville died early today at Frederick Memorial Hospital. Surviving husband Bennett L. Lightbown, sister, niece, nephew. Funeral home North Market Street. Interment private. Eugene M. Warner 53 of near Mount Airy died Thursday. Surviving brothers and sisters listed. Funeral tomorrow 12:30 at Simpson Methodist Church Poplar Springs. Interment church cemetery. Viola Wright 77 of Lovettsville died Thursday. Surviving sister Mary Wenner and four brothers. Funeral tomorrow 2 p.m. New Jerusalem Lutheran Church Lovettsville. Interment Union Cemetery. Dr William A. Kelly 63, psychologist and Fordham University education director, died Friday. Robert Hall McCormick 85, philanthropist, died Friday in Chicago. Note references to University of Wisconsin radiation therapy ore meter development.
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Charlies E. Cooper
Charles Edward Cooper
Lovettsville
Charlestown Genera Hospital
Frank
George
Charles
Harper's Ferry
Helen Weadon
Emma Loy
Vienna
Roy
Indianapolis
Indiana
Marshall
Brown Funeral Home
Clarence Lloyd
Union Cemetery
Emerson Lee Gorman
Morgantown
W. Va
General Hospital
Titusville
Blanche Wood Gorman
Sewickley
A.A. Gorman
Mary Pearle Gorman
William Gorman
Buffalo
N.Y
James Gorman
Rio de Janeiro
Brazil
Bennett L. Lightbown
Florence Ida Lightbown
Feagaville
Frederick Memorial Hospital
Frederick County
David and
Edith Larson Grams
George Rhinebold
Brentwood
North Market Street
Arthur B. Rice
Robert E. Dailey and Son
Eugene M. Warner
Eugene Matthew Warner
Mount Airy
Howard County
Laura Matthews Warner
Simpson Methodist Church
Poplar Springs
James M. Gaither
Victoria Gray
Washington, D.C
Frances Barbour
Philadelphia
Howard Warner
Catonsville
Charles Warner
Damascus
Emma
Irvin Wright
Viola Wright
George Henry
Catherine Stone Frye
New Jerusalem Lutheran Church
Mary Wenner
Alexandria
Wilmer
Fred
Carl Frye
Oliver Frye
Middleburg
M.W. Kretsinger
Frederick Cotillion Club Dance Draws 200 Guests
More than two hundred attendees filled the Francis Scott Key Hotel ballroom for the Frederick Cotillion Club annual Christmas dance with Sidney's Orchestra from Washington and the Mayflower Hotel providing music from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m. A pre-dance cocktail party and post-dance breakfast accompanied guests listed as hosts' companions including John F. Byerly Jr., J. Carlisle Smith Jr., Richard F. Kline Jr., William Thrasher, G. Hunter Bowers Jr., Col. Harry Gibert, Wil liam Wenner, Otho J. Keller 3rd, and many others from Baltimore, Washington, Philadelphia, and beyond.
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Frederick Cotillion Club
Francis Scott Key Hotel
Sidney
Washington
Mayflower Hotel
John F. Byerly Jr
Charles Byerly
J. Carlisle Smith Jr
Sunnymeade
H. Thomas Summers
Joseph M. Strite
Philadelphia
Richard F. Kline Jr
B. Michael Philips
William Thrasher
Robert Hooper
Gettysburg
Charles S. V. Sanner
Edward Stockbridge
Dover
Del
G. Hunter Bowers Jr
Albert W. Dawkins Jr
Easton
Joseph Turner
Robert Riddlemoser
Lovettsville
Harry George Jr
Jay Butler
New York
N. Y
James Wweee Jr
Ralph Martin
Pittsburgh
Howard W. Ash Fagee E. Zimmerman Jr
This City
William E. Yinmaanmes
Donald S. Brown Jr
Long Inland
N.Y
G L Find Hopki
H. Ham‘olins
Ruxton
Otho J. Keller
Howard H. Hopkins Jr
Robert T. Fisher
David Daffin
Alden
Word Lesson From Gordon Etiquette On Relatives And Language
Readings offer guidance on proper usage and pronunciation in daily speech. It highlights expressions to avoid and suggests learning one new word daily, with relegate defined as exile or banishment and an example sentence.
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W. L. Gordon
Auto license plates rise with year and stickers trend
The piece notes car tag costs rising nationwide, with Oklahoma showing high prices for luxury cars and state variations. It mentions multi year plates, reflective tags, and small production costs, then shifts to a moral reflection on prioritizing better things over trivial acts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frederick County
American Automobile Association
National Geographic Society
Funeral Services for Mrs Bessie Appleby Bury
Funeral services for Mrs Bessie Appleby Bury widow of 5 Benton Bury who died Tuesday at her daughter’s home in Unionville were held Monday at 11 a.m. at Linganore Methodist Church with Rev Lawrence Mason officiating Interment followed at Linganore Cemetery, Unionville D D Hartzler and Sons, funeral directors Also services for Martha Virginia Dingle who died Monday evening in New Windsor were held yesterday at 2 p.m. at C C Fuss and Son Funeral Home in Taneytown conducted by Rev Frederick Horner Interment was in Church of Ged Cemetery with pallbearers William Dickensheets Glenn Crouse Herbert Ecker William Corbin Edward Caylor and Ivan Myers.
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Bessie Appleby Bury
Benton Bury
Robert Etzler
Unionville
Linganore Methodist Church
Lawrence Mason
Maurien van Sant
Isaac Nicodemus
Walter Zimmerman
Plitt von Eiff
Herman
Elbert Koontz
Linganore Cemetery
D. D. Hartzler and Sons
Martha Virginia Dingle
New Windsor
C. C. Fuss and Son
Taneytown
Frederick Horner
William Dickensheets
Glenn Crouse
Herbert Ecker
William Corbin
Edward Caylor
Ivan Myers
Church of Ged
Christmas Feast at Montevue Heats Joyous Day
Christmas was joyous at Montevue as residents enjoyed a turkey dinner with trimmings. Carols and programs filled the day as music played and gifts were given. Dinner was prepared by Mr and Mrs Austin Young with Mrs Dorothy Stroup and two Montevue staff members Roger Yinger and Lena Harris assisting. Superintendent Grace L Schell oversaw the home.
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Montevue
Austin Young
Dorothy Stroup
Roger Yinger
Lena Harris
Grace L. Schell
Strength For Today panel on L Douglass sequence 18
A modern writer voices a sharp critique of religious compromise. He imagines a church altar replaced by a bottle of wine cigarettes and a Broadway play tickets as sacrilege. He condemns the agnostic who tolerates such changes.
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L. Douglass
Elotta
Moon Eclipse To Be Visible Across Continent
In Boston AP reports a 3 hour lunar spectacle Monday with an eclipse visible across North America and the western South American coast. Eastern watchers must rise early as the event starts at 4 35 am EST with the moon entering Earth shadow and remaining there until 6 47 am before ending at 7 50 am.
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Boston
North America
South America
United States
Hayden Planetarium
Oil Five-Year-Old Stuck Between Pumps
New York AP reports 11 year old Howard Blitz of Brooklyn got stuck between two gasoline pumps while trying to retrieve a ball. A station operator Anthony Mancuso and assistant Joseph Bova poured motor oil over him and then freed him from the 5 14 inch wide gap.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Howard Blitz
Brooklyn
Anthony Mancuso
Mancuso
Joseph Bova
Howard
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James L. Campbell
East Third Street
Seaman
Norfolk Naval Shipyard
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G. E. Kline
Winchester Hall
Charles F. Trimmer
Thurmont
Trimmer
Lee Shaffer
Union Bridge
Earl Trimmer
Finksburg
Donald Trimmer
Paul Trimmer
Pauline Trimmer
Robert Trimmer
York
M C
Sykesville
Walter Lee Thrasher
Walter F. Thrasher
Jefferson
Havre de Grace
Miami’ Beach
Fla
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Stine
Middletown
Burgess
Lilli Whang
Burma
Bridgewater College
Bridgewater
Susann Long
Susann
William J. Long
Paul L. Fisher
Greenville
D. C
Kathleen Maxie
Turnock
Mary Alice Cissel
Russell J. Z. Herman
Joe Eisenhauer
United Fire Company
W. Bart Gis Storm
The
Uniteds
Storm
Nutley
N.J
William A. Kelly
Fordham University School of Education
McCormick
Chicago
Robert Hall McCormick
International Harvester Co
Leander J. McCormick
University of Wisconsin, Madison
J. W. Davis
Associated Press
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Wisconsin
Ole Lee
Mickey Mantle
Rocky Marciano
Connecticut
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