Hay fever pollen advice and skin testing guidance
A medical column explains how hay fever symptoms follow pollen seasons with trees grasses and ragweed causing reactions. Skin testing can identify offending pollens and injections reduce sensitivity while new short acting drugs offer relief but require medical advice and caution about drowsiness. Dr Jordan notes he will answer reader questions including whether a fast heart rate can be fatal and says a heart rate around 100 with no disease is not necessarily deadly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jordan
Unemployment Fears Shape Budget Fight and Reform
Observers warn 6,000,000 Americans could be jobless before deflation ends, a figure equating to about 10 percent of the workforce. Rising unemployment may swell works program funding while critics push for federal streamline efforts amid a harsh political climate. Reform faces a bitter, protracted battle as public works spending competes with calls for lower taxes and fewer federal bureaus.
Demonstrating the Value of Soil Conservation
A Frederick area feature reports a 1940s soil conservation drive where 500 volunteers transformed Nellie Thrasher’s 175 acre farm. Terraces, contour plowing, strip cropping, and new pastures boosted income to 13000 a year and hay yields, while soil rating rose. similar gains are noted on nearby farms showing the broader benefits of conservation for farms and the nation’s food supply.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nellie Thrasher
Frederick
Thrasher
Evening Sun
Grace Dotterer
Dotterer
Bill Faces Tumble In Slimmed Down Pay Bill
Washington June 64 percent The new slimmed down military pay bill faced potential trouble similar to the prior measure. Lawmakers confront resistance from veteran groups and Congressmen over pay boosts for junior officers versus senior brass, foreshadowing disputes ahead.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Fifty Years Ago Local Items From The News June 6 1899
Fifty years ago local items note competing steamer trips with emergency prep and attached horses. Market reports show strawberries at three to six cents a box and cherries seven to eight cents a quart. A gasoline stove explosion in East South street kitchen injures Mrs Coral but she saves the home. A Middlelawn elocution recital draws about fifty attendees. Frederick College graduation set for June 16 with a summer session planned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Westminster
Uniteds
Sponseller
Philip Coral
East South Street
Middlelawn
A. S. McDaniel
Frederick
M. E
Frederick College
Cates
Twenty Years Ago Local Items From The Columns Of The News
Twenty Years Ago Of The News, June 6, 1929. HAROLD POTTS. ABOUT 10. SON of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Potts, Le Gore, was the subject of an all night search which ended when it was found he had spent the night with a schoolmate. It was feared that he might have drowned. About 35 persons searched for him. CONSOLIDATION OF THE FOLLOWING schools next fall was announced by Superintendent Palmer: Graceham and Center with Thurmont, Plane No. 4 with New Market, Mt. Hope with Mt. Pleasant, Rockville with Middle town, Oak Orchard with Liberty, Troutville with Woodsboro, Doubs and Licksville with Adamstown, Siglers with Burkitts ville, Pine Tree with Walkersville, MAYOR CULLER WAS AUTHOR IZED by the Board of Aldermen to confer with a Baltimore engineer relative to increasing the capacity of the electric hight pin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harold Potts
Harry Potts
le Gore
Palmer
Graceham
Center
Thurmont
Plane No. 4
New Market
Mt. Hope
Mt. Pleasant
Rockville
Middletown
Oak Orchard
Liberty
Troutville
Waodsboro
Doubs
Licksville
Adamstown
Siglers
Burkittsville
Pine Tree
Walkersville
Culler
Board of Aldermen
Baltimore
Roosevelt and Ferguson challenge minority voting dogma
Washington Daybook recalls a Detroit map showing voters do not follow religious or ethnic lines but respond to economic levels. It cites Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr and Senator Homer Ferguson, detailing ward results, labor voting patterns, and shifts in expectations as unions and foreign blocs underperform.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tris Coffin Washington
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr
Michigan
Homer Ferguson
New York
Detroit
Roosevelt
Democratic National Committee
Ferguson
Oliver J. Dompierre
Poland
Ukraine
Hungary
Belgium
Europe
The
Detroit Tribune
Yalta
Moscow
Enstead
Congress Faces Pork Surplus Policy Dilemma
Washington dispatch outlines a huge hog surplus since 1948 and the threat of government buys to prop up prices at around 16.50 per hundredweight. It reviews Brannan plan options, recalls 1930s pork purchases that fed the needy, and warns of public uproar if surplus meat is dumped or mismanaged.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peter Edson
NEA
Washington
Department of Agriculture
Congress
Secretary of Agriculture
Charles F. Brannan
Brannan
Henry Wallace
V.P
American Broadcasting Company
Hinckley
Harry Hopkins
Air Force
National Security Resources Board
Curtis Calder
Curtis Calder, the Big Utilities ‘Tycoon
Johnson
Army
Washington Service
Park
Europe
China
Puerto Rico
Virgin Islands
War Food Administration
Cuba
Atlantic
WFA
Bible Thoughts and Poetic Lines on Resurrection
A compact verse and poetry fragment reflecting on eternity and the afterlife. It cites Luke 20 36 about the resurrected being equal to angels and children of God, followed by a Tennyson quatrain imagining a brief hour with loved souls and their whereabouts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
God
Hood College Alumnae Finals Roll Call 1887 1920s
A long list chronicles Hood College alumnae by graduation year from 1887 to 1987 with names such as Emma Newman England Frederick Mary Gerhard Lancaster Ruth Coblentz Swank Brunswick and Elizabeth Austerfuhl Lehman Takoma Park. The fragment documents numerous graduates across decades and multiple towns including Frederick Philadelphia Greensburg and York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Emma Newman
England
Frederick
Caroline Smilies Hogshead
Moffatts Creek
M. Rose Birely
Mary Gerhard
Lancaster
Amy Kump Dixon
Mary Bobb Schaeffer
Philadelphia
Anna Peterman Reilman
Hanover
Grace Neldig
Elinor Markey Hughes
New York City
Marceline Kefauver Tyson
Frederick Nellie Weaver Enterline
Ashland
Caroline Craig Armington
Ridgewood
N. J
Mary Hesson Robb
Taneytown
Bertha Leich Hoffman
Shelby
Ohio
Myrtle Smith Henrick
Yonkers
N.Y
Caroline Stem Heid
Brackenridge
Claribel Wahlsen Wikel
Hollis
N. C
Rachel Albaugh Jones
Flossie Cain
Rhoda
Hartman Fogle
Mary Baille Thomas Carlson
Baltimore
Katharine Dutrow
Ruth Dutrow
Mary Grace Helfenstein
Mary LeVan Weber
Wellsville
N. Y
Margaret Muehe Zimmerman
Grace Seitz Landauer
Helen Yost Jones
Wilmington
Del
Elizabeth Apple McCain
Evelyn Keitel Veide
Washington
Mary Paxson Phillips
Emily Apple Payne
Evelyn Atherton Hertzler
Carlisle
Ruth Bennett Bunn
Nazareth
Miriam Eyster Miner
Chambersburg
Elizabeth Gilpin Palmer
Arlington
Elizabeth Kuhn Nicodemus
Mary Neighbors
Allene Thomas Mullen
Ruth Thomas Yinger
Catherine Walker Smith
Shippensburg
Marguerite Yost Terani
Hamden
Conn
Grace Brown
Josephine Etchis
Johanna Ace Zeiler
Buckeystown
Marjorie Adam Schoolman
Mary Eyster
York
Hazel Foster Wellwood
Vancouver
Canada
Martha Biiney
Elizabeth Brunner Saldwin
Jean Scott Stauffer
Anita Allie McIntire
Levitown
Ruth Blake Belt
Kingsville
Beatrice Bomberger
Posey
Lititz
Glenda Bowers Brynndsen
Anna Dougherty Good
Lansdowne
Mary Gotshall Stanley
Westtown
Esther Gray
Collingswood
Mary Graybill McClellan
Kennett Square
Janice Hall Kern
Bethlehem
Pearl Heagy Leedy
Lavenia Harrett Marsh
Ruth Harry
Stamford
Loyalist names fill the 1940s Maryland rolling lists
The article catalogs numerous individuals by name and hometown with years ranging 1938 to 1947, listing many women from Maryland Pennsylvania New Jersey Ohio and beyond. It ends by noting the Winchester Hall recruiting station will stay open Tuesday until 9 pm with a recruiter present to combat and reenlist qualified young men without interrupting civilian occupations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Army and Air Force Recruiting Service
Winchester Hall
Army and Air Force
Education Honors and Awards Reported in Local School
Education officials list certificates and premiums for penmanship typing and scholarship in the Junior and Senior Departments. Names include Nancy Lee Zimmerman Patricia McGinnis Peggy Magruder Joan Biberstein Betty Ward Jean Bennetts and many others with prizes for penmanship neatness and English composition. A Gold Medal for department and a silver medal for department are noted along with a four year scholarship to Georgetown Visitation Convent and a best paper award for catechetical lectures. A train derailment disrupts the Washington Philadelphia express route in northeast Baltimore and market prices for Wheat Corn and Barley follow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nancy Lee Zimmerman
Patricia McGinnis
Peggy Lou Magruder
Joan Biberstein
Betty Ward
Jean Bennetts
Patricia Bruen
Ann Woodward
Kitty Lou Burleigh
Judith Roach
Barbara Byerly
Celine Mack
Linda Lee Nash
Patricia Maguire
Alice Greenhalgh
Ann Keyser
France Firor
Jo Ann Kingdon
Rose Marie Cappello
Mary Grove
Mary Qtto
Marguerite Crabites
Mary Kuhn
Patricia McHale
Margaret Dexter Buettner
Angela Lynch
Joy Valentine
Kathleen Snow
Mary Lou Melton
Judith Otte
Susanne Fitzpatrick
Victoire Griffin
Helen Wight
Theresa Firor
Mary Virginia Offutt
Bettina Pepe
Eleanor Landreau
Patricia McCambley
Tita Jerez
Marilyn Ann Morrison
Brooklyn
N. Y
Mary Austin
Charles H. Conley
Bettina
Therese Pepe
Howard J. Marshall
Washington
Coli. E. Austin Baughman
Baltimore
Patricia Ann McHale
Marie Helene Reese
Frederick
Fort
Georgetown Visitation Convent
Angéla Lynch
Louis Victor Baughman
Herbert R. Jordan
Patricia Kelly
Sykesville
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Edwin P. Jordan, M. D
NEA Service
Edward F. “Er
Catoctin Conservation District
Soil Conservation People
the News
Washington Daybook
John McCormack
House
McCormack
Clare
Truman
James Forrestal
Lke
Floyd Odlum
Defense
Louis Johnson
Economic Cooperation Administration
Paul Hoffman
Bob Hinckley
Lean
Government Game
Constable
Globe Synd
Christ
Tennyson
Burns
Northumberland
Ontario
Port Dalhousie
Hood College
Oas
Rebecca Davis Metzler
Dorothy Dutrow Brittain
Lucene Glock Graham
Dayton
Rebecca Muellerman
D. C
Sarah Leiter
Washington, D. C
Marjorie McFerran Wuetig
North Wales
Marjorie McKee Wilson
Glyndon
Sophia Meredith Libman
Muriel Meyers
Ann Arbor
Mich
Emilie Miller
Helene Schmauch Sc
Betty Coffman Robertson
Pocomoke City
Lucille Corbett Moore
Warren
Janet Cristern
Tuckaftoe
Irma Crouse Wells
Virginia Ellis
Jane Ferber
Scranton
Anna Gaither Beers
Dorothy Hahn Nikirk
Cynthia Harris Sanville
Mary Alice Kutz Erb
Fleetwood
Elizabeth Kynett Speed
Grace Levis Schwartz
Ruth Loud Pearson
Haddonfield
Mary Cary Metcalfe
Elizabeth Moberly Dierkin
Sophia Olsen Haun
North Hills
Doris Parker
San Francisco
Calif
Faith Reichey Durland
Nanuet
Seba Russell Darby
Big Pool
Betty St. Clair Hoffman
Sunbury
Charlotte Snowdon Justin
Mary Stalter Beams
Summit
Beatrice Summers
Betty Swisher Stauffer
Anna May Wilson Hughes
Braddock Heights
Jean Willie Haggett
W. Grange
Betty and
Reighard Lafferty
Pittsburgh
Mildred Binder
Helen Burton Sheldon
Mary Gillan Fish
Mary Gladys Jones Wise
Forest Hill
Margaret Metz
Waynesboro
Alice Moser
Myersville
Winifred Rider
Littlestown
Dorothy Zulick Eister
Dallas
Tex
Lauretta Maisel
Helen Enany Spotts
Connersville
Mary Elizabeth Engle Robbins
Eleanor Higgs Welker
Euclid
Ann Wikes Hausman
Trenton
Jacqueline Wright Baldwin
Micietown
Frances Ann Delaplaine Randall
Eleanor Gambrill Bowers
Fort Worth
Texas
Mary Lower
Hummielstown
Sara Robinson
Serene Quynn Collius
Hagerstown
Elizabeth Benchotf
Woodstock
Marjorie Blakeney
Rutherford
Bette Blome
Jane Brinton
Hastingson-Hudson
Suzanne Cartier
Severna Park
Anne Chaney
Catherine Chingos
Hollidaysburg
Katharine Cooper Watrous
Boston
Mass
Colleen Crowhurst Nutley
Shirley Davis
Pikesville
Adelaide DeLamater
Mary Frances
Six
Nancy Smith
NEA Service, Inc
T.17
U. 5
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
AJ Pwopar
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