Ridgeley King Sentenced Six Months for Larceny
Ridgeley G King received six months in the House of Correction after a Police Court session with Magistrate Sherman P Bowers. E M Huntzberry of Hagerstown was granted a four day reprieve on $15 of $25 posted for fishing law violations, and Clyde A Yommer near Grantsville was fined $109 for drunken and reckless driving. King, a local resident, was jailed in default of $500 bond for appeal to the Circuit Court after confessing to taking an addressed envelope and $15 from a postal mailing bill. Rufus E Thornton testified for the complainant with police endorsing the case. Officers Ellis Carty and Martin Kanade supported Thornton’s account.
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House of Correction
Sherman P. Bowers
Ridgley G. King
E. M. Huntzberry
Hagerstown
Clyde A. Yommer
Grantsville
King
Circuit Court
Rufus E. Thornton
South Market Street
Ellis Carty
Martin Kanade
Thornton
Stride completes boat training and Navy posting at Norfolk
Norfolk Seaman Second Class Stride son of Mr and Mrs Irvin G Stride 257 Washington street completes boat training at Bainbridge and is now stationed at Norfolk Va. in nine months in Navy. Other items note intoxication driving charges on South Market Street with Yommer found guilty after testimonies of officers Phebus Trump and Kanede. fines total 107 plus costs. Additional sentences: John Blackston four days in jail for disturbing the peace. Mary V Myers forfeits 245 for operating automobile without license. ordinance violators for intoxication and disturbing the peace for several named individuals with $2.50 to $5 collateral totals.
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Stride
Irvin G. Stride
Washington Street
Bainbridge
Norfolk
Navy
South Market Street
Yommer
Ben Phebus, Jr
Grantsville
Phebus
Norman Trump
Kanede
John Blackston
Klineharts Alley
Carty
Mary V. Myers
Frederick
Phobus
George M. Gaver
H. B
Maryland traffic deaths drop in February but total rises
Twenty traffic deaths were reported in Maryland during February, fewer than in any month since 1936, the Maryland Traffic Safety Commission said. There were 1,016 other accidents with 471 injuries, 660 in Baltimore City and 356 in the counties.
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Baltimore
Maryland
Maryland Traffic Safety Commission
Baltimore City
Marriage Is a Serious Business review and a novel note
Weekly Book Review discusses Dr Randolph Ray's Marriage Is a Serious Business based on 30000 marriages over twenty years. It highlights five rules for happiness, notes anecdotes enliven the guide, and frames marriage as a joyful career. It also previews Stanley F Donath The Lord Is a Man of War with a troubled hero in America’s slums and South America.
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NEA Service
Randolph Ray
New York
Whittlesey House
Ray
Dr. Ray
Stanley F. Donath
Knopf
Vienna Kern
Jan Doorin
America
South America
Jan
Crumb Hunt and War Time Reading Highlights
Saturday kitchen inspections and KP labor define Crumb Hunt as officers demand cleanliness and efficiency. The piece also reviews anti-Semitism writings by Ben Hecht and a Washington DC exposé by The Man at the Microphone, noting piercing critiques of Roosevelt and other leaders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ben Hecht
Scribner’s
Hecht
Washington
iDoubleday-Durant
Mnion
Pocket Prayer Book for Soldiers Sailors Stressed by War
A compact edition edited by Gerald Mygatt and Chaplain Henry Dartington offers the Soldiers and Sailors Prayer Book to fit a pocket. It serves as a morale booster amid Gestapo oppression in Czechoslovakia and the broader impact of Spanish neutrality on the little people.
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Gestapo
Czechoslovakia
Soldiers' and Sailors
Gerald Mygatt
Li-Col
Henry Dartington
The
Army
Knopf
Three-Car Crash in Brunswick Says Driver Fell Asleep
Robert Bart Fauble of Route 1 Myerstown escaped injury when his car collided with a parked vehicle in New Addition Brunswick at about 5 30 PM Monday. The parked car struck another parked car. State Trooper Walter Wilt said Fauble admitted he fell asleep at the wheel and no charges were filed.
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Robert Bart Fauble
Route I
Myersville
Ralph Hutzell
New Addition
Brunswick
Walter Wilt
Fauble
Railroading Seen as a Man's Calling Through History
A historical view notes that railroading has long been regarded as a male profession. It discusses gender roles in the industry and how perceptions shaped participation, work culture, and opportunities for women and men over time.
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Ridgeley King
Richard N. Siride
Ben Phebus
Bowers
Huntzperry
Morris
Philip Morris
Pump Morris
Newspa
Crumb Hunt
Roosevelt
Eisenhower
Admiral King
de Elmer
Dunior
Donald
Fire Man
Practi Ice
Cead
Barbara Fritchie Motor CO
West Patrick Street
Yeomon
Pennsylvania Railroad
Pennsylvania Railroading
United States
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