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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1938
Page
9
About 1000 spectators attend the Frederick Playground Association pageant at the Baker Park shell. Some 200 children perform in singing, dancing, and games dedicated to Joseph Lee. The event also marks the association’s 15th anniversary with praise for puppet performer Billy Bennett and a wandering dog as comic runner-up.
In Toronto one witness for the inquest into Mrs Maybelle Horlick Sidley’s death testifies. The testimony identifies T H Bull as the American malted milk heiress’s son and notes Sidley died at W Perkins Bull’s Toronto home from a rare spinal disease on July 6. Another witness, the Sidley chauffeur, says she was mentally unwell.
The piece tracks escalating Arabs and Jews tensions in Palestine under British rule. It notes rising populations, land transfers to Jewish control, and Arab unrest including strikes. Royal Commission partitions failed to satisfy all, prompting revisions. Since 1922 the unrest deepened with bombings, killings, and thousands of British troops to restore order.
Weather and crop conditions in Maryland for the week ending July 26 are summarized by John R Weeks. The week was cloudy and unusually wet with moderate temperatures ending a three week dry spell. Warm weather earlier in the month ended with thundershowers on the 20th. cooler weather followed from the 21st to the 26th. General rains occurred on the 21st 22d and 23d over the Eastern region.
A long roster of individuals appears in the society column noting many women and men. The list includes Mary Ellen Lewis Gloria Mayhew Evelyn Mayhew Charlotte Newton Winnie Abrecht Betty Hoffman Mary Schultz Arlene Grove Betty White Frances Adams Peggy Brubaker Yvonne Grove Elizabeth Main Judith Miller Ruth Stroup accompanist Miss Kathleen McCanner Billy Bennett Marguerite Summers Catherine Kennedy Mary E Wells Austin Abrecht Clyde Rice Robert Kennedy Charles Bowman Nevin Hoffman Bernard Dorsey Charles Eisholtz Millard Burley Richard Poole Marion Etzler Marie Castle Carl Hoke Donald Clem Pennel Traver Lou s Hargett Bill Yinger Jimmy Baker Sonny Baker Merril Toms Charles Wisner Paul Wisner James Geisbert Mary Sue Neal Gunmath Neal Goody Geisbert Evelyn Yates Irene Wisner Bobbe Bare James Morgan Tommy Liety Annie Elrede Daisy Kennedy Frances Dixon Daisy Dixon Mabel Elsrode Gene Gardner Donald Marsh Helen Virginia Stull Beulah Mun shower Audrey Eyler Mary Jane Hartman Mary Alice Brown Betty Reeder Mary Elizabeth Engie Tryin Eshleman Floyd Culler Robert Rothenhoefer John Derr Kenny Moberly Robert Russell.
The 23rd rains brought 5 feet of street flooding in Oakland. Week mean temperatures ran 2 to 3 degrees below normal with only 30 percent sunshine. Rain refreshed crops though haying, harvesting, and threshing were disrupted. Wheat, rye, and oats harvests were unfinished or interrupted, while potatoes and corn progressed. Early tomatoes sugar corn tree fruits and late peas were gathered in places. Grantsville reports 5300 pounds per acre for late peas. Octopus bread was noted as a Roman dish.
A bride of two weeks sails to Venezuela to reunite with her proxy husband 2,500 miles away. Mrs John J Hillary, formerly Marion Underwood Swayne of Cumberland Maryland, will repeat the ceremony with a ring upon arrival. Hillary, son of Mr and Mrs William Hillary of Grand Rapids Michigan, waits in Caracas where he is in business. The proxy vows were taken by Marcus Reinhard with power of attorney because Venezuelan law requires forty eight days of residence before marriage.
Senator Walsh of Massachusetts predicted the Senate campaign expenditures committee will seek new restrictions on political activities of federal employees. He noted the Tennessee Democratic primary showed extensive fundraising schemes and suggested provisions to bar use of federal funds for political purposes or a federal criminal offense for those handling public funds who pressure voters.
The M J Grove Lime Company near Frederick completes the abutment on the Maryland side for the Potomac bridge at Shepherdstown and begins on the first two piers. Eighteen more workers hired, unemployment cards issued in Martinsburg WV office. current laborers allowed 130 hours a month.
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