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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1928
Page
4
The Daily News reports a planned project at All Saints and Bentz streets to build modern homes for colored families and relieve overcrowding. Mayor Cufer backs a builder to offer affordable rents as part of a broader park and welfare plan transforming Baker Park area and municipal parking.
Inquiries yield consensus that Gene Tunney is favored to win the July bout. Respondents D Murray Stauffer and Francis Biser express support for Tunney, with QO F Engelbrecht and other voices also predicting Tunney's victory and stamina in line with prior fights.
The elm is praised as a valuable wood with strong bending qualities and wide shade, used for slack cooperage and baskets. It notes varieties like American elm and slippery elm, its role in vehicle frames, and historic references to elm trees in Philadelphia and Albany.
A fragmentary note cites 1 Timothy 6 10 about love of money corrupting passions as people seek advancement. The text reflects a moral warning on ambition and material pursuit.
Kansas City May 13 The quadrennial Methodist Episcopal conference discusses episcopacy amid calls for reform and possible abolition. Life tenure election residence and bishops' dominance are key points, with some favoring ending the system. The body backs unity, disarmament, and prohibition while delaying wider church reforms.
Fragmentary notice recalls events from Frederick twenty years ago including sales and lodge references. The legible portion hints at local happenings around business sales and lodge activities dated September.
The Woman's Auxiliary of the American Legion and the Woman's Missionary Society of the United Lutheran Church in America held a morning service at the church with Rev.die Jinpp and spoke on the virtue of generous, selfless gifts. Miss Nona Liebl delivered the sermon in the evening stressing love, sacrifice, and mothers' influence, linking the day to humanitarian service and wartime mothers. Births, Sunday school notes, and choir selections accompanied the event.
A jumble of historical anniversaries and events listing figures like Henry IV of France Robert Owen and Catherine Adams along with notes on diplomacy stock market events and upcoming observances. It recalls past birthdays and events including Islam’s Caliphate Congress in 1926 and various figures with dates and places scattered through the text.
A brief puzzle note explains letter golf where players change one word to another in a fixed number of strokes. The example changes COW to HEX in three steps: COW HOW HET. The rules require common usage words, no reordering letters, and six strokes for a dueling setup.
Shanghai May 13 Chinese Nationalist government formally protests to Washington through a cable to President Coolidge. They request the U S attitude toward the grave situation created by Japan as Japanese troops invade Shantung. Casualties are tallied with Japanese claims of about 2 950 total. Chinese casualty figures include 200 civilians.
Maryland sends a carload of purebred Hampshire and Shropshire rams to Tennessee as the first export of its kind. Selections from six Maryland flocks were made by C. C. Flannery and K. A. Clark, with rams from Belair Farms, University of Maryland, and other breeders. The 32 rams will be auctioned at Waverly to Tennessee producers who market high quality winter lambs.
In a fragmented item, read as a local notice, details hint at a planned event or incident involving individuals named in a cryptic form. The text references a specific date and place, with limited legible context for action or outcome.
A compact reading on word usage and pronunciation. It highlights immigrant versus emigrant, eject, and the correct forms shone versus shown. The piece urges daily vocabulary growth and defines motive as that which moves to action.
A lively notice from X A Lufburrow about a very active boy. The piece describes constant motion in the home with the child always on the go and causing noise and activity across seasons.
The American Medical Association urges pool sanitation with rules: bathers must shower, pass through foot baths, launder attire, and wear caps. No fever or skin disease, no spitting, no eating, no contaminated objects. Violators face removal and loss of privileges. election results note re-election of Laytonsville commissioners Bell Farber and Plummer.
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