Memorial Day debates echo through Maryland legislature
A Maryland General Assembly debate covers Memorial Day changes and Civil War memories. The article notes three bills HB-18 HB-108 and 3.50 proposing to adjust the holiday observance while recounting the national origin of Memorial Day via a story tied to Confederate and Union graves. It also covers EPA auto inspection delays, VFW events, Maryland Distinguished Scholars, spending-limit bills SB-562 and HB-839, and veterans direct deposit benefits through the VA.
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Byrd Receives National Geographic Gold Medal In D C
In Washington D C Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd and companions return from Antarctica to receive acclaim. President Hoover to present a National Geographic Society special gold medal at the White House on a June day in 1930.
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Washington
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Middletown Lions Club organized at Kepler's Inn
Yesterday items from the News-Post files recall the Middletown Lions Club forming at a meeting and supper at Kepler's Inn. Officers elected included Harry M. Groes as president and C Meson Hoffman as first vice president.
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Earl M. Kepler
L. Osmond Derr
Wilbur Devilbias
J. Elmer Harp
Howard A. Gross
Foster C. Remaburg
Berbert C. Davis
E. W. Beachley
Frank C. Ryan
Frederick Lions Club
Walkersville Woman’s Club
Harry Hedges
Annabelle Grantham
Frank Nicodemus
William Powell
Mary Nicodemus
Charles Crawford
Notable Frederick figures honored and bridge inspections expand
Dr Leroy Fothergill a Fort Detrick adviser received the Army Outstanding Performance Award for his chemical corps work. State Senator Samuel Barrick praised scholarships laws affecting Hood College, opposing a bill that would eliminate 26 local women’s scholarships. Ike Rhoderick and Tommy Hammond earned bowling honors from the Optimist Clubs Junior Bowling program at Terrace Lanes. County engineers report nationwide bridge inspection requirements, with 140 bridges over 20 feet, eight closed for reconstruction, and bids approved for the Old Annapolis Road Bridge design.
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Savage
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Pennsylvania
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Punxsutawney
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Williams
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Barrick
Jacob Ramsburg
Ike Rhoderick
American Junior Bowling Congress
Tommy Hammond
Bernard Lorenzen
Optimist
Optimists
Terrace Lanes
al Hudak
Hudak
Links Bridge Road
Devilbiss Bridge Road
Talbot Run
Leshart
Catoctin Bollow
Appapolis Road
Usder
Hedak
Usid
Charles Flore
Walkersville
Reed Maistepasce
Maintessece
Letters on Sunday shopping hours and rural nostalgia
A reader writes from Frederick about Sunday shopping restrictions once common in Chicago and asks whether four Sundays before Christmas could test changes. The note references old days of horses and bacon, deer hunting, and local memory, urging practical discussion of hours without sensationalism.
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