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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1938
Page
2
A historic local notice from the Daily News and Independent reflects on publication practices, name verification requirements for letters, and correction policy for errors in reporting, indicating standard post office filing and author attribution for opinions and facts.
An English initiative funds eight hundred courtesy squads to teach drivers manners and reduce road accidents. Trained volunteers from Scotland Yard issue polite warnings and tickets to violators, aiming to prevent crashes before courts and hospitals are needed. The experiment seeks citizen decency as key to highway safety.
Fifty economists from major universities and financial institutions form the Economists National Committee on Monetary Policy. They condemn expanded government spending as a device to lift the economy, arguing preservation of credit and currency soundness underpins private capital flow and broad business recovery. They recall 1929 economists who denounced Hawley Smoot, later proven correct.
A curious geometry brainteaser describes a Mexican pyramid with a square base eight feet per side and three tiered steps. Each step rises ten feet and projects ten feet from the edge. Compute the total exposed surface area on the tops of the three steps.
People often feel discouraged in striving to lead better lives and ask why progress comes slowly. The piece argues moral victory requires continuous effort, with many defeats before final victory, and that genuine change comes only after persistent struggle despite persistent weaknesses.
Dana Lamb and June Cleveland Harpers recount a sail from San Diego toward the Panama Canal. They built a wood and canvas canoe and endured jungle treks, malaria, shipwrecks, and near-death rescues, turning their voyage into a hair-raising real life adventure. Strong survival tale with constant peril and self supplied gear.
A May 31 1883 column notes a fatal fire and explosion at Zellers store. It criticizes merchants for entrusting risky tasks to youths, reports the $300 aid to explosion victims has been spent by relief committees, and praises physicians for aiding seventy injured people.
In Frederick Maryland a small band of Union veterans joined the Memorial Day procession to Mount Olivet cemetery with a patriotic address by Leo Weinberg. A service flag bearing 300 Slavs marked present and former students in service at Mount St Mary’s College. Former Governor David J. Walsh of Massachusetts spoke. A native of Nottingham England, Rev Isaac Tozer died at his daughter’s home in Frederick after ministry in the nearby area. Torn A Null, 65, a farmer near Tanertown, died in a runaway on a steep hill near Bruceville.
Lititz, May 3 AP feature describes Pennsylvania Dutch cuisine based on Mennonite traditions. Dishes include schnitz un knepp, sauer kraut with pork, shoo fly pie, cottage cheese with cream, and apple butter. A prayer precedes the meal, reflecting farm life and community dining.
Ellen and Lizzie Carper sisters share a Knepp ham schnitz recipe from Lititz Pennsylvania. It uses two pounds ham one quart dried apples three cups flour one egg a pinch of salt brown sugar and baking powder. Soak apples and boil ham with soaking water then add apples and sugar. Make dumplings from flour salt and powder with egg and milk drop into the pot and simmer fourteen minutes until served hot.
The New Market Homemakers Club will host its second annual flower show Friday at the 7.0. O. F. Hall New Market Exhibition classes include single specimens collections of three to five stalks arrangements for hall table artistic arrangements and flowering shrubs or trees Entries must be submitted by 11 am and public viewing runs 2 30 to 9 pm Judges will be three Middletown club members County Homemakers invitees and Captain Robert Bott Salvation Army has a window display at 217 North Market Street outlining Army activities for the past year.
The display notes the Army as a Broderick County Community Chest member and highlights funds used for 413 families aided, 998 garments, 187 gallons of milk, 730 transients helped, 1 399 meals, 2 349 Christmas baskets and 151 toys for 350 children. Salvation Army and Girl Scout activities include 17 members and a weekly parade at 223 West Fifth. Calvary Methodist Friendly Circle Class hosted by Mrs Kemp Beatz and Arsham Davis served refreshments after a business meeting led by president Mrs Glenn Strine.
The Clermont, a famous old hotel near Charmain Pennsylvania, has operated each summer for 73 years but will not open this season. The owner Mrs Charles Cowman of Baltimore plans to offer the property for sale.
The open classes invite any boy or girl to participate and will be shown for at least one week. The display is made possible through the courtesy of Holden S Felton.
An overview of bread in the American diet discussing production, sanitation, and nutrition. It notes ten billion loaves and thirteen billion quarts of milk used yearly, compares white and whole grain bread, and emphasizes bread as a major energy source with minerals vitamins and protein. It contrasts bread with other diet components and warns against bread as the sole food.
A collage of quotations from Charles Webb to Cordell Hull and Sumner Welles, touching on personal legal disputes, democracy, spiritual revival, peaceful world order, and political platforms. Includes Magistrate Overton Harris and H R Sanford remarks on youth and platforms.
A quiz on proper dance party etiquette covers who should leave with the guest of honor, greeting hosts, serving at a punch bowl, replying to thanks, and complimenting a dancer. The authoritative answers state the girl should suggest leaving with the guest of honor, greet both hostess and guest of honor, the man serves both glasses, a thank you is proper, and telling a man he is a good dancer is not poor taste.
A compact listing of historical anniversaries and notable birthdays, highlighting Walt Whitman’s birth on Long Island and various figures such as Jessie Benton Fremont, Edward Parrish, and Charles G. Abbot. Includes major events like the 16th Amendment ratification, Jutland battle claims, and the Sacco-Vanzetti trial, followed by a brief horoscope note.
A reflective verse by W. A. Lufburrow encourages resilience after hardships. It urges not to dwell in gloom but to face challenges, keep hopeful thoughts, and strive to win prizes by enduring knocks and bumps. The poem honors perseverance and brighter outlooks amid real woes.
New York gossip column catalogs Billy Rose's career from the Casino de Parc to the Texas fair, and his late vaudeville comeback. It notes his shifts from Crazy Quilt to a water show in Cleveland, the Casino boom, and a record $120,000 box office in two weeks. Rose’s knack for reinvention underlines a restless entertainment era.
Beallsville will hold the annual Confederate Memorial Day exercises at the 310mcaty cemetery on Sunday afternoon June 5. The E. V. White Chapter United Daughters of the Confederacy of Upper Montgomery County will supervise, with Mrs. E. W. White of Poolesville in charge.
A devotional snippet presents John 16 27 urging belief in God and love as the Father’s care. It weaves a Longfellow line about love giving itself, offering a contemplative mood for readers seeking spiritual encouragement.
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