Origins and spread of Fathers Day observance
An old column traces Fathers Day from Mrs. John Bruce Dodd of Spokane promoting a tribute day for fathers after rearing children alone. It notes the first celebration in Spokane in 1910 and slow adoption, with Chicago 1912 and a Washington DC story in 2013 suggesting origins there, concluding that third Sunday in June is now an established custom.
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John Bruce Dodd
Spokane
Wash
Dodd
Lather
Spo
Ape
Chicago
Washington, D. C
Pater
Auxiliary to Post 2 hears on VA Voluntary Services growth
Amvets Auxiliary to Post No 2 met at the Post Home on June 6. Miss Linnie Schley of Martinsburg VA Center outlined the Veterans Administration Voluntary Services program and its growth to 39 member organizations. She described volunteer work including recreation, personal assistance, reading aloud, therapy, social services, church music, and other duties. A film showcased the program, and plans were announced for a Turn-About-Party at Baker Hospital on June 17, plus a rummage sale on June 24 and a July 12 ladies’ picnic at Nikirk’s camp with a coordinating committee.
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Amvets
Linnie Schley
Veterans Administration Center
Martinsburg
W. Va
Miss Schley
Veterans Administration
Veterans Administration Voluntary Services
VAVS
Clarence Cookus
North Benty Street
Hazel Wikirk
Ways and Means
Post Home
Nikirk
Lander
Catherine Hoffman
Doris Peate
Elaine Kennedy
Helen Warrenfeltz
Lilian Pearl
Helen Brandenburg
Elizabeth Staley
Hazel Nikirk
Alberta Walsh
World’s Largest Revolving Globe Buried at Babson Park
A copy of the News with 405 newspapers will be sealed in a concrete vault at Babson Park Wellesley Massachusetts to be opened June 18. The Babson Globe is a massive 26 foot diameter steel map rotating daily to mimic the earth with a 22 inch shaft and a 20 foot diameter track showcasing continents oceans and major features. PhD Walter Ford Williams and Mrs Williams attended graduation at the University of Missouri where he received a doctorate and a postdoctorate NIH fellowship. Ronald E Fox and Robert B Zimmerman are serving in an artillery exercise at Fort Bragg with the 10th Marines. Senator Thye R Minn criticizes recent speeches by McCarthy and Dennis implying tension at the upcoming Biz Four conference.
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The
News
Babson
Globe
Babson Park
Wellesley
Mass
Roger Babson Webber
Roger W. Babson
Famtus
Gaprivorn
Cancer
Babson World
Walter Ford Willams
William M. Storm
Rockwell Terrace
University of Missouri, Columbia
Willams
National Institutes of Health
Sigma Xi
Storm
Williams
Martha Jane Storm
Camp Lejeune
N. C
Phtnci
Ronald FE. Fox
Earl Fox
Route 5
Patsy Sandower
East Sixth Street
Robert B. Zimmerman
Helen A Zimmerman OloUp
Iuerick
Fort Bragg
N.C
10Th Marines
2Nd Marine Division
Harpers Ferry spelling debate letters to editor
Frederick County Maryland native notes grammatical error in The News spelling of Harpers Ferry. He urges use of Harper's Ferry possessive form, sent from New York on June 16. The editor explains AP spelling convention and mentions old habit persists.
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Harper's Ferry
Harpers Ferry
Frederick County
Maryland
Harper
Arthur W. Hargett
New York
Age
Associated Preas Slyte
Gsrithout
Dr. Hargett
Fifty Years Ago Items From The Columns Of The News
June 18 1905 report notes a fatal collision on the Western Maryland Railway at Rawson Station with twenty five killed and Freder k county residents among the dead and injured. Thurmont mourns as a major loss. Freder ick High School graduates heard a baccalaureate sermon at Evangelical Lutheran Church. Adamstown worker Arthur Day breaks arm from a fall. Frederick baseball defeats Brunswick 6 to 4 at Athletic Park in a poorly attended game. Riversville High School holds its first commencement on June 21 with graduates Coblentz Dutrow Flook Gladhill Hauver Jemsburz Smith Wachtel.
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Western Maryland Railway
Rawson Station
Patapsco River
Frederek County
Thurmont
Evangelical Lutheran Church
C.F Steck
Frederick High School
Arthur Day
Adamstown
Frederick
Brunswick
Athletic Park
Riversville High School
Charles F . Coblentz
Hubert M. Dutrow
Albert D Flook
Twenty Years Ago Items From The Columns Of The News
June 18, 1938 dispatch notes a 22 degree drop amid a seven day June heat wave and storms. A county resident defends catching bass out of season before Magistrate Sinn. Sheriff Hiltner seeks corn theft info. a man charged. About 18 men enroll at the Civilian Conservation Corps camp near Fishing Creek clearing a park area.
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Sética
Walter E. Sinn
Hiltner
Staten
Frederick County
Civilian Conservation Corps
Fishing Creek
Letters defend Maryland School for the Deaf amid attack
Parents of Maryland State School for the Deaf students rally to back the Frederic town program against Dr. William G. Hardy of Johns Hopkins. They defend oral methods and support a combined system, praising teachers, staff, and the school’s results while criticizing press coverage.
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Maryland State School For the Deaf
William G. Hardy
Hearing and
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Hynalius Bjorlee
Maryland State School
Baltimore Evening Sun
William G Tardy
Gat Uva Canalen
Baer School
Baltimore
Byorlee
Hardy
Marland
Maryland
Fredericktow
Miss Angas And Mr Douglas Married Today At Princeton
Miss Roberta Martin Angas daughter of Vice Admiral William Angas and George Bruce Douglas third son of Gentzel Douglas Jr. married at Princeton University Chapel New Jersey Rev W M Weaver officiated A reception followed at Present Day club in Princeton Attendants included Gretchen Stevenberg Anne Paestt Virginia Ball Jenifer Jennings and others Mrs Howard Streeter matron of honor Ushers listed Douglas will work for Bethlehem Steel and enter active Air Force duty They plan to live in Bethlehem Pennsylvania after a brief wedding trip
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Roberta
Martin Ancas
Wiliam Mack Angas
Princeton
George Bruce’ Douglas
Gentzel Douglas Jr
Clifton
Princeton University Chapel
W. Merval Weaver
Presbyterian Church
Gretchen Stevenberg
Anne Paestt
Virginia Ball
Brooklyn
N. Y
Jenifer Jennings
Edgewood
Howard Streeter
Baltimore
Harold Elsasser
George Mr Joughan
Newton
S. d
David Brandt
Camden
S Jn
Bruce McFadden
Winchester
Douglas
Wison College
Chambersburg
Navy
Ciil Engineer Corps
Princeton University
William Moore Angas
Jacksonville
Fla
Frank H Gale
Schenectady
Gale
School of Engineering
Key and Seal Club
Bethlehem Steel Company
U. S. Air Force
Bethlehem
D A R Members Attend Montgomery County Luncheon
Frederick Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution attended a luncheon of the Past Regents club at the Columbia Country club in Bethesda this week. Reg ent Mrs Paul B Rhoades led the delegation with members Sophie Reich Emma Thompson and others. guests included Mrs Arthur Doll and Mrs Melville Cromwell among many.
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Frederick
Daughters of the American Revolution
Regents Club
Montgomery County
Columbia Country Club
Bethesda
Paul B. Rhoades
Sophie Reich
West Third Street
William M. Stocm
Rockwell Terrace
Emma Thompson
West Church Street
Caroiine Winehrener
Grayson E. Bowers
Council Street
Chesler H. Childs
Wathingeres
Alvin. Horrawford
Doht M. Culler
Edwin Lasshe
Fairview Avenue
Arthur Doll
Melville Cromwell
Charles Fo Trunk
Gertrude Carraway
O. A. Ro
Thomas Stevens George
Elona Salisbury
Pach Recents Club
Sick Kenneth House Treats at Frederick Memorial Hospital
Among The Sick Kenneth House son of Mrs Eliza beth Mehrline Woodshorn who fell from a tree and broke his arm last Friday was treated at Frederick Memorial Hospital and returned home Saturday Market prices list grains and a garbled notice mentions Mrs William Frinkley and a trip to the Arctic Circle with references to Indianawally Island polis Ind and three weeks visit to the Arctic Circle.
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Upah B Shockley
North Market Street
Oak Park
Chicago
Shockley
National
Fraternity For the Deaf
Arthur Roberts
Shockley Jr
Kenneth House
Elizabeth Mehrline
Woodshorn
Frederick Memorial Hospital
William Frinkley
Billy
Robby
Indianawally Island
Advisory Board In Quarterly Meeting at Key Hotel
The Sal vad Salvation Army advisory board met at noon Friday at the Francis Scott Key Hotel with Richard E. Zimmerman presiding. New member Samuel H. Rosenstock was welcomed. vote to raise board strength to twenty one. Reports covered youth and adult meetings, lodging for transients, meals, charitable distributions, and a new vehicle purchase.
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Salvoneas
Samuel H. Rosenstock
Rosenstock
Harry Powell
League of Mercy Workers
Montevue
Joof
Frederick Motor Co
Army
Frederick residents claim five year growth outpacing prior period
An informal poll in Frederick shows most city and county residents believe growth in the past five years exceeded the previous five, with several quoted respondents affirming faster growth since 1950. Dissenters, mainly young men and women, offered cautious or negative views.
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Frederick City
Frederick
Fair Sex
Cave
George G. Miller
Rocky Ringe
Walden “Miller Becky
Great Power Diplomacy and the Cold War Pressure
A 1955 New York Herald Tribune column argues that the United States Great Britain and France push for a real secure peace over the cold war with Soviet Russia. It stresses the need to end communism influence and for Soviet forces to withdraw as a condition for genuine peace at the San Francisco talks and summit.
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David Lawrence Sew Lokr
Great Britain
France
United States
San Francisco
Molotov
Eisenhower
Marshal Balzantin
Soviet
Russia
Premier Faure
Eden
America
Poland
Czechoslovakia
Moscow
Mosco
Sovet
Germany
Europe
Eith
Soviet Russia
New Yorke Herald Tribune Inc
Classification Night Observed By Optimist
The local Optimist club held a classification night at the Southern restaurant with new member classifications for Charles Ford, Carol Leightner, William Horton, and others. Frederick city officials will attend the weekly dinner on June 22, with a surprise meeting planned for the following week and proceeds announced.
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Optimist
Southern
Charles Ford
Carol Leightner
William Horton
Fred Sheip
Samuel Hays Kling
Edward Brownlow
Harry Lease
Frederick City
Kupferbers Krnne Wedding at Grace Evang Reformed
Mrs Dorothea Staley Kehne wed Lee Kupferber at Grace Evangelical and Reformed Church in the city. The ceremony featured honor attendant Mrs Wesley Emmons Jr of Philadelphia and best man Wesley Emmons Jr. The bride, given in marriage by Monroe Staley, will reside at 802 Willow Avenue. Kupferbert is a bacteriologist at Camp Detrick.
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Kupferbers—Krnne
Dorothea Staley Kehne
Lee Kupferbe
Camn Detrick
Freday Svenmz
Loullen
Raymond KR. Wilhem
Wesley W. Emmons Jr
Philadelphia
Monroe Staley
South
Kupferbern
Willow Avenue
Kupferbert
Camp Detrick
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Sen Thye R-Minn
Sens
McCarthy R-Wise
Denney
Ind
the News
Charles
Lease
Frances
Rissard Red
Frederith
Evening Sun
Maryland School For Deaf
Mary
Supctaisoys
Heariuss
Marstland
Martland School
Marsland School
Miss Angas
Mr. Douglas
Binkley
Raymond EL Sut
Woodsboro
Geraldine Keeney
Robert L . Keeney
RFD 6
Abriacht College
Reaging
Maryland School For the Blind
George Bruce Douglas Ord
Gallup Brothers
Girard
Ralph Gallup
Jame Wace Griffin
Cline
Gallups
Newburgh
Noy
Terr Lorrane Flook
Wanda Hoffman
Patto Beaver
Aan Kadlula Schindel
Brite
Jean Willer
Joanne Derr
Gwen Gordon
Jane Mae Gyllin
Gene Voune
Philip Lindenstruth
James Campbell
Gerald Castle
Ryanke Green
Wither Ford
Bil Grave
Randall Higinbotham
Finwaré
Charles Wo
Ross
Braddock Heights
Bisai Brith Nanar
B Nar Brith Lodge
Albert Hirsch
Hens Sevena
Finner
Francis
Leonard
Zimmerman
Chania
Joseph Blung
Mex Smallberg
Ersanvation
Campsey
Tharmant
Michael Peregoff
Ann Louise
Emmett Rat Pearre
E &., Pearre Sr
Clarksburs
Hyattstown Methodist Church
Hyattstown
Melvin H. Partridge
Shookstown Road
Susan Partridge
Cushing Academy
Ashburnham
Thomas Partridge
Dartnouth
Hanover
N. H
Charles E Stambaugh
Vicki Jean
Anne M. Warner Hospital
Gettysburg
Bosling Brook Farm
Garden Club
Federated Garden Clubs
Marsland
Bowling Brook Farm
Middlebure
F. Earle
Shriner
Carroll Garden Club
Carroll County
Wenders
Organ Society
Hammond Organ Society
Leon Loeb
Wellcome: Farms
Urbana
Crown
Earl Woodworth
C. W. Carty
Edward Fay
Pen
Barbara Burgee
John Colliflower
Robert Castle
Marstreritte Dorcas
John Fox
Edward Fox
Harietta Hr
Dorothea Rhehte
Evelyn Lantern
Helen Linton
Rose Martin
Michael Glands
Daisy Pearl
Reesee
Salvation Army
Byd Wilhelm
Powell
Mes
Feth
Brandenburg
Oia A. Cook
South Market Street
Jamez Stockman
Twelfth Street
Charles Zimmerman
Equity
Evelin Suther Covell
Harold Covell
Frederick Jn
Covelsant Ner Nishand
Oc’ Cuquan
Richard E 7Uimerman
Tim Gog
Cope Wises
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