Directors Hold Meet Here on Company Tax Increase
At the Blue and Grey room of the Frances Scott Key hotel directors of the Potomac Edison Company met to review six months of business. P R Smith, president, reported taxes rose about 50000 with gains in gross revenue and ongoing expansions, including financing savings and property acquisitions in Maryland and West Virginia.
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Potomac Edison Company
Ro Paul Smith
Mr. Smith
Smith
Alo
NRA
Mrr. Smith
Maryland Light and Power Company
Maryland
Boonsboro
Emmitsbury
Lonacomins
Harpers Ferry Electric Light and Power Company
Brunswick
Harpers Ferry
West
Romney
Moorefield
Virginia Public Service Company
Sun
Fur
Penang
Washington
Unclear agency talks on rural electrification and costs
Fragmentary report cites Mr Smith discussing federal electrification and proposed street netting to raise 2500 dollars annually. Text mentions towns in West Virginia and Virginia areas, and notes about operating costs and bus purchases in a prior year.
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West Virgina
Berryy
Winchester
Smith Gress
TSS
ATLA
Chicago
Addi Nien
Reckless Driving Case Dismissed in Frederick Police Court
Reckless driving charges against two automobile operators were heard and dismissed by Magistrate Walter Sinn in Frederick Police Court on Thursday due to conflicting evidence after a crash at North Bentz and West Seventh streets. One car overturned, several minor injuries, both cars damaged.
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Frederick
Walter E. Sinn
North Bentz
West Seventh Street
A. P. Halfleigh
Bessec
Walkersville
Bentzy Street
Seventh Street
Guy Anders
Marion Carmack
Daniel Swomley
Bernard J. Burgender
Baltimore
Trippe
James B. Rothenhoefer
John W. Murphy
Carl Shilling
Baker Park
Charles Burras
Robert Staley
Shuling
Typhoid Cases Reported in Knoxville Neighborhood
Two men in Knoxville are ill with typhoid like symptoms as 100 residents receive inoculations in a vaccination effort led by Dr. Elmer Kefauver and county health nurses. The illness appears confined to one house but officials warn of broader risk during late summer and urge immunization.
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Elmer Chefauver
Libertytown
Miss Beny © Duvall
Knoxville
Daniel W. Miller
Daniel W. Muller, Jr
Kefauver
Miller
Kefauter
Mexico
Toraan Lenaew Allende
Reir
Allende
Miguel Hidalco
Hidalco
Allende and Hidalgo Freedom Effort in Mexican Independence
A fragmentary account recalls Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla and Jose Maria Morelos y Pavon, leaders in Mexico's bid for independence from Spain. It notes Allende’s later role, betrayals, and a hard desert retreat. a 1916 stamp commemorates their efforts.
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AkFlende and
Hidalgo
Mexico
iCepywright
NEA Service, Inc
Fevers and duty: a remark on personal family care
A speaker laments widespread neglect of a duty to protect one's own health and that of family members. He calls fever a reminder of responsibility and urges action to safeguard loved ones.
Pecora Held Up as Chief Counsel for AT&T Probe
Ferdinand Pecora was reported asked to head the FCC inquiry into the American Telephone and Telegraph Company. He currently sits on the New York Supreme Court bench and was a Roosevelt White House guest at dinner.
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Washington
Ferdinand Pecora
Roosevelt
Federal Communications Commission
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
Pecora
New York Supreme Court
President Roosevelt
White House
Peace pleas rise as US and Britain seek Ethiopian peace
Washington and London pressed for peace talks after Mussolini asserted Italy might accept terms. Secretary Hull discussed with the Italian ambassador and urged a peace proposal. In London, Foreign Secretary Hoare questioned purifications for war and urged continued work toward a settlement. The Geneva League crisis hinted at an extraordinary council session.
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Africa
Mare i
Washington
London
Benito Mussolni
Ia Coould
Hull
United States
Hicare
Italy
Ethiopia
Briain
League of Nations
Geneva
Council
Tax program attacked by business groups and critics
Washington July 11. Business groups led by the Chamber of Commerce of the United States assailed the Presidents tax program as destructive and confiscatory. Debates in the Senate mirrored fierce opposition to broader wealth distribution and higher taxes on inheritances gifts and large personal incomes with calls for greater burdens on big corporations.
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Washington
Tr Chamber of Commerce
Unite States
Prescent
Debe
Senate
Maiig
Conference moves toward resumption in the Netherlands
Dispatches indicate Rome and London denied Italian reports of ceding Prance and England on the site, while Addis Ababa joined the denials. The Italian foreign office faced protests from the Thaban minister as negotiations appeared to fracture.
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Netherlands
Rome
London
Italy
England
Addis Ababa
Harrar
Thaban
Foreign Office
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Martyra For
Mallest Republic
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Carty
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Smerry
John D. Hendrickson
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