Transportation By Air Promises Faster Travel And Safer Skies
R W Babson discusses the rise of air transport from horse and buggy days to helicopter taxis and long range troop planes. He notes radar and automatic recorders aiding safety, pilots' errors as crash causes, and industry moves toward higher speeds and better reliability.
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Roger W. Babson
Babson Park
Mass
Sen
Ola
Boston
Logan Airport
National Safety Council
U. S
Howard Hughes
Trans World Airlines
General Electric
House votes to freeze social security tax at one percent
The House approved a two year freeze on social security taxes at the current one percent rate, with Senate action anticipated. The move maintains a total 3 percent employer and employee deduction, avoiding the planned six percent by 1949.
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House of Representatives
Senate
Congress
Church and Schools Promote Progress in Communities
The passage argues that churches and schools are essential to American progress. Missionaries establish schools and hospitals abroad, spreading modern knowledge and practical skills. This educational and medical aid creates demand for American products, benefiting both spiritual and commercial interests. Religion and education are portrayed as interdependent drivers of development.
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Christian Church
Foreign Lands
Dorothy Dix on the working wife and modern motherhood
Dorothy Dix argues that being a working wife complicates life for women and families. She contends that bread earning shifts from home duties to jobs, strains marriages, and can neglect children, yet she notes the working wife is often honorable and not to blame for these pressures.
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Heaven
Vic
Bicycle Meet to Bring 2500 Visitors to Frederick
June 26 1897 report notes 2500 visitors expected from Baltimore and Eastern Shore for the State Bicycle Meet. 300 Century Cycling Club riders arrive a week early, met by Frederick wheelmen escorts. Athletic Park opens Monday with a fireworks display costing 300 dollars, amid local interest in Frederick versus Hagerstown team race. Baseball at Athletic Park features Unions 12 Athletics 3 with Riddlesmoser and Bennett on the mound and Ely Wood Baumgardner behind the plate. Mr Eli Wolfe sold 3790 boxes of straw berries this season from his market farm.
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Baltimore
Century Cycling Club of
Ridgeville
Frederick
Athletic Park
Hagerstown
Athletics
Riddlesmoser
Bennett
Unions
Ely
Wood
Frederick W A Foundry
Ness Men's Assoc
Local items from the News June 27 1927
The County's taxable base rose by about 3 million dollars in the past fiscal year but a rate increase for July 1 is not indicated. Frederick won a Blue Ridge League game 4 0 over Martinsburg as Charlie Brown allowed 13 hits. A bulldog mascot for United Fire Company died after being struck by a car. About 250 Carlisle residents and businesspeople plan a Frederick Brad dock Heights luncheon tour under chambers of commerce sponsorship.
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Frederick
Martinsdurs
Charlie Brown
Blue Sox
Big Brindle
United Fire Company
Carlisle
Braddock Heights
Frederick and Carlisle
Labor unions clash with Taft-Hartley ruling examined
Washington observers compare reactions to the Taft-Hartley act with earlier Wagner act disputes. The piece predicts expanded union powers despite new limits, argues Congress can regulate labor relations, and notes expected legal challenges and court battles ahead.
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Washington
Liberty League
Congress
Truman
National Labor Relations Board
A F of L
CIO
Observes 50th Year With B and O R R
John T Schley, station master at B and O Camden Station Baltimore, celebrated his fiftieth anniversary with the railroad. Born September 22 1883 in Baltimore he married Lulu Duicie Browning in 1907. Retirements noted include Ernest Day and L Trittappe of Frederick County with 33 and 30 years service respectively.
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John T Schley
Camden
Baltimore
Mr. Schley
Lulu Duicie Browning
Frederick
Schley
Frederick Countians
Ernest 31 Day
Brunswick
L. Tri
Weather data and road petition from Clarksburg farmers
The record notes 24 hour weather ending 3:30 today with June precipitation at 3.54 inches versus normal 4.15 inches and a 1946 June 5.29 inches. It lists high and low temperatures, sun and moon times, then reports three Clarksburg farmers asking Montgomery County Commissioners to improve the Stdell Shiloh Road near Clarksburg before winter, citing a prior winter’s impassable condition for transporting the ill on a stretcher.
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Clarksburg
Montgomery Courty Commissioners
Stdell-Shiloh Caureh
Bible School enrolls 164 at Union Bridge program
Union Bridge Vacation Bible School enrolls 164 students this week featuring Bible drills memory work music and stories with the faculty led by Rev Richard Iller as dean. On July 3 a dramatized Day at Bible School will offer home study tips for parents.
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Union Bridge
Keysville Lutheran Church
Richard Iller
Thurstor Pfoulz
Sevvin Fogle
Charles Messler
Margaret Edwards
Beatrice Gladhill
Paul Niswander
James Coshun
Jesse Pfoutz
Carl Abboul
Doris Niswander
Patsy Boone
Samuel Harley
Richard Miller
Gregg Kiser
Thelma Lee Devilbiss
Helen Phillips
Mr. Miller
Donald McIntosh
McIntosh
Wed Evening Wedding Unites Woodfield Bennett in Olney
Carolyn Woodfield and Harold Bennett wed in St. John’s Episcopal Olney with Rev. Ribble officiating. Attendants wore yellow marquisette and green morinette. reception followed and couple to tour the Midwest before settling in College Park Maryland.
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Harold T. Bennett
Carolyn Wood- Geld
Bradley M. Woodfield
Damascus
T. E. Bennett
Browningsville
St. John's Episcopal Church
Olney
Arthur LeBaron Ribble
Henry Woodfield
Japan
June King
Norfolk
Bliss Phyllis Hamilton
Parksley
Janet Owen
Skipwith
Jusior
Shelby Jean Bennett
Browningville
Mary Jane Mullinix
Edset Walker
Robert Bell
Alexandria
Malcom
University of Maryland
Bennett
College Park
Weddings O Leary Boland and Obermiller Roop in June
The Gaithersburg ceremony at St. Martins Catholic Church united Claire Boland and Richard O Leary with Rev. Paul Meyer officiating. The bride wore white satin and rosebuds with attendant Ann Leary. Nearby, Kitty Bailey Roop wed Robert Obermiller in New Windsor with Rev. F Paul Harris officiating. The couples plan residences in Washington and Miami respectively.
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Wenner—Souger
John X. Souder
Bruns
Eriogene Rhodess Souder
George Woodrow Wenner
Washington
Wenner
Knoxville
Brunswick
N. H. Fravel
Mrs. Wenner
Virginia Beach
Wiles—Harne
Doris Harne
James Harne
Smithsburg
Robert Wiles
Wiley Wiles
Middletown
Mt. Pleasant Church of God
Walter A. Pettit
Marguerite Harne
Hagerstown
Russell Wiles
Lee Harne
Merle Harne
Walter Petiit
The
Petits
O'Leary
Boland
Gaithersburg
St. Martin’s Catholic Church
Paul Meyer
Claire Boland
Glenn Boland
Richard O'Leary
Martin O'Leary
J. G
Joseph ME Boland
Ann O'Leary
Frederick Tomasck
Jack Roland
Thomas N. Singleton
Madeline Fennell
William Somerville
Miss Boland
Warner G. Welsh
Libertytown
Airs
William Boland
Germantown
Obermiller—Roop
Kitty Baile Roop
Preston Baile Roop
New Windsor
Robert Adolf Otmiller
Canton
Herbert Mizer
Dover. O
Obermiser
Eldbrooke Methodist Chapel
F. Paul Harris
Father
C. Rooms
Mgion
Louis G. Roop
C.R Williams
Waston
Gary R Brown
Communities Outside City To Aid Memorial Hospital Drive
Plans for a $660000 fundraising drive by Frederick Memorial Hospital were set at a dinner in Hotai Vindobona with 30 leaders named to chair committees across Frederick County and neighboring Carroll and Montgomery Counties. Charles F. Bowers urged a broad, area-wide effort beyond the city, noting the hospital serves a wide region and expects 700 volunteers.
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Memorial Hospital
Frederick
Frederick Memorial Hospital
Hotai Vindobona
Charles F. Bowers
Bowers
I. Bowers
City of
Carroll
Montgomery
Expec
Dorothy FairBride
Henry Lee Davis
Paul Michael
Exnes
C. Webb
Frank D. Worthington
James H. Gambrill
James H. Grove, Jr
Charles S. Lane
Jacob R. Remsburg
Samuel H. Rosenstock
Mr. Bowers
Ballenger
Pascal Renn
Braddock
E. D McCain
Buckeystown
Nes S. Zeiler
Frederick Outlying
John Renn
Lewiston
R. Paul Buhrman
Singanore
George P. Yon Ea
Airy
S. J. Albert Nice
Athy. Atkins
Mr Pleasant
Raymon New Market
Paul Zimen Windsor
Randall G. Thurmont
Ross Vascarora
Burien Cannon
Bridge
Raymond E. J. Woodsboro
Gail L. Cutfoss
Burkittsville
Samuel Ausherman
Jefferson
Edgar E. Thomas
Liberytown
Robert Diller
Myersville
D. Edgar Bittle
Marshal Leatherman
Middletown
N. E
Mountain Theater Opens Fifth Season With Pursuit of Happiness
The Mountain Theater staged The Pursuit of Happiness a three act play by Alan Chilan and Isabelle Loudon in Frederick County. Cast included Jor Reese Sam Brown Paul Wilson Jack Willis Patricia Jenkins Dorothy Lambert James Decker William Berrian Robert Cavendish Edwin Kemp Roger Alien with William Weaver directing and James Deck er co producer. The opening drew Fredericktonians Martinsburg and Hagerstown audiences as wartime themes and a Hessian hero set amid colonial scenes produced laughter and scene turning moments including the famous bundling episode. The show runs nightly through Saturday with Three's A Family following next week.
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the Mountain Theater
Alan Chilan
Isabelle Loudon
Lawrence Langner
Jor Reese
Sam Brown
Paul Wilson
Jack Willis
Patricia Jenkins
Dorothy Lambert
James Decker
William Berrian
Robert Cavendish
Edwin Kemp
Roger Alien
William Weaver
James Deck
Harry L. Deck
Mountain Theater
Frederick City
Martinsburg
W_ Va
Hagerstown
Little
Braddock Mountain
Connecticut
New England
William Bernan
Prudence Kirkland
Aaron Kirkland
Aaron
Comfort
Winter
Cupid
Mortimer Sherwood
Virginia Light Horse Cavalry
Air
Decker
Jimmy Doyle Dies After World Welter title bout
Jimmy Doyle, a 22 year old boxer from Los Angeles, died from injuries sustained in the welterweight championship fight with Ray Robinson. He collapsed 17 hours after being knocked down in the eighth round and later died in Cleveland.
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Cleveland
Jimmy Doyle
Los Angeles
Cay
Ray
Sugar} Robinson
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