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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1926
Page
3
Civil war threats in Poland are cited as a backdrop as lawmakers propose a central hospital wing for a county home and push for county support. They back bills to lease all child eating institutions, end indenture, and raise the illegitimate child support cap to $700 annually.
At the annual convention in Baltimore the Maryland League of Women Voters urged centralizing county poorhouses into four state homes for the aged. About 150 members attended as Miss Lavinia Engle reported cost savings and per capita statistics supporting a centralized care system under the upcoming Legislature.
Ten contestants from five Frederick County high schools competed in a county wide declamation contest at Frederick high school auditorium. Harry Gross Jr of Middletown won first with Preadwater Jim. Pauline Gall Thurmont captured second with The First Settler's Story. Rachel Swith Emmitsburg took third with Highwayman.
The county school officials announced an annual affair to continue after the success of the first event exceeded expectations and the contests are assured to continue.
The white body of Harry Mark Rowe Jr was found floating in the Severn River near Annapolis late Friday afternoon. He had fatally harmed his father and assaulted his stepmothers and sister at their Catonsville home two weeks earlier, and the search party located the body beneath the bridge about 2:06 PM.
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