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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1923
Page
2
A backstage lamp exploded during a schoolroom comedy titled TPOPSY TURVEY, starting a blaze that killed 76 people including many children. The fire spread quickly as the audience fled, stairs collapsed, and attempts to rescue loved ones failed amid flames and debris.
A crowd of about 1,504 attended the Agrettural Dark motorcycle races on Saturday afternoon. Promoter Delphos gave away prizes and about $200 in prizes were distributed. The event featured multiple five-mile races with winner times around 5 to 7 minutes. Har Tom Conner, from Hagerstown, won most races. judges were from Hagerstown and the home city. The program drew large local attendance and aims for more races during the Firemen’s convention weekend.
In the American League recaps Basser and Deavernes figure in the batters list with fleeting mentions of Myatt Quinn Dexar and others amid scattered box score fragments. A brief note cites two major highways in Quebec to be lit, one Montreal to Quebec and another Montreal to the U S boundary, as a regional transport item.
A weekend of widespread vehicle crashes reported across Frederick County includes six hurt at Worman's Mill and twelve total incidents. A fatality occurred near Death Curve outside Frederick Washington line as a motorcycle racer was run over after a wet skid. Multiple wrecks near New Market Licksville Woodsboro and Deerickt injured several, with one baby and two Baltimore residents among the injured.
Elmhurst Housemother at Connersville Indiana appeals for funds to run the school with Dandelion Liv items. She says the students are wonderful and expresses strong satisfaction with the program.
A string of local mishaps includes two young men in a Ford causing minor damage after a village incident, Charles Turner sustaining a head wound from a concrete mixer pan, and a late midnight crash near Steiners Mill with no injuries. A North Side teen shoplifts a grocery order, while smugglers use rock salt as buoyant ballast to recover lost liquor sacks.
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