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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Mar 22, 1949
Page
11
The News notes Boston University's two glee clubs will perform in St. Paul’s Methodist church Hagerstown Thursday. The combined chorus of sixty voices comes from ten thousand students with Rev Norman L Trott serving as St. Paul’s minister.
Frederick county officials defend slow jail improvements after a state report ranked the Frederick jail as the dirtiest in Maryland. Sheriff Guy Anders praised Inspector Reidt for pushing funding and oversight, noting substantial interior work and ongoing tearing down and rebuilding with completion hoped by September.
Richard Blizzard of Woodville received a suspended one year sentence in the House of Correction after pleading guilty to assaulting his mother and sister on March 18 before Magistrate Manuel McWenberg. Clifford Lloyd, a young sailor, was fined $10 for peace disturbance after entering a former judge’s home at 2:30 am while misreading a girl’s address. Clyde Thomas, 82 Lincoln Apartments, jailed 30 days for assault on Elizabeth Jackson following an argument over a watch. Grace King, Five and a Half Street, fined $5 for breaking glass as a protest aimed at the father of her daughter’s three children. Herbert Frazier, Frederick, jailed five days for drunkenness after a $5 fine. Henry Genius, arrested for intoxication, did not receive a hearing. Collateral forfeitures for city ordinance violations included $2,580 for W. Lester McCall, $10 each for Charles A. West, Edward Betsen, and $3 each for several others. Traffic collateral included amounts like $11.43 for Delmar A. Maust. Several vehicle and trailer license incidents noted with small sums. rubies range in color from rose to deep purple.
Salisbury March 21 William Francis Allen pioneer strawberry magnate died at his home after a year long illness. He was 82. His firm William Francis Allen and Sons shipped nearly 12 million strawberry plants annually to U S and foreign buyers. The catalogue is Salisbury post office’s biggest revenue source. He spurred cantaloupes, watermelons and cucumbers on the lower Eastern Shore.
The 900 acre Salisbury area nursery and orchard produced 150000 bushels of peaches annually. Allen, a former president of Maryland and Peninsula Horticultural Societies, led many local and state groups. Allen Memorial Baptist Church is named for a son who died in India. Pre cooked meals now packed frozen.
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