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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Nov 28, 1927
Page
5
Obituary notices list deaths of Rene Wee Weagley James W Burdette Susan Steiner Jemimah Ridgeway and others. Details include birthplaces residences churches funeral times and interment locations in Cavetown Martinsburg Point of Rocks and Lovettsville with survivors such as spouses children and siblings named. The notices summarize passings and arrangements in local parishes and cemeteries.
Grain market report appears with scrambled text showing prices and references to livestock. Frederick County products and price notes are mentioned but details are unclear.
A sequence of nuptials is reported including Gladys Brown and M. Brown of Smithsburr tied the knot at 6 pm on a Sunday at the Centennial Memorial United Brethren church with Rev. George W. Strine presiding. In another ceremony Guy Wolfe and Jena Houck wed in the Evan Relics Lutheran parsonage with Pastor U. S. G. Rupp officiating. Parents Mae Cline witnessed the Brown event.
Funeral of Ernest F. Kelly held at Mt. Carmel Thurmont with pallbearers Paul Eckenrode Geo Sharrer Girard Pexeorode Fan Hummer Pius Kelly John Eck enrode. Requiem Mass at 9:30. Interments and rites for Miss Mary Elizabeth Guizemlanner at Carty Funeral Home. Samuel H. Slater and Charles Wilson also honored with services and pallbearers.
John N Isbell a mortgage broker was shot by his wife Sunday in their Chicago home after catching him with another man. Mrs Isbell, later fully dressed with a concealed pistol, claimed separation since 1825 and said she hoped to keep him for the children. Isbell survived and asked that his wife be executed if he died.
A massive flood swept across a 34 mile wide area east of Oran, Algeria, after hours of torrential rain. Reported deaths number in the hundreds as buildings collapsed and hopes were dashed.
Thanksgiving week news notes list visiting relatives and social events around Hagerstown. Names include Mr and Mrs Vroderits Bowers, Mr and Mrs Brant and son, Mrs Mary Brant and son of Greencastle PA, Mr and Mrs George Lovett and Miss Georg ia Templeton, and Miss Ruth W. Gaile. Also mentions Miss Titian Grove and Miss Rebeeca Grove at Will Maria College, and a Dasmer Hotel gathering for Monte Bealle’s family in Washington.
T. B. Sunday School room hosts a benefit musical and literary program featuring Prof. Stanley Erdman and the Old Masonic Choir from Baltimore plus Margaret Erdman, prof Dobbins, Miss Gabel, and Miss Grace Brane. Evening December 1 1927 at 745. Admission twenty five cents. Nearby vendors advertise grocery items and local loans services.
A fragmented description lists items at a meal event including cows horses and harness goods. The text references a large puttie salt and various equipment pieces, but the overall meaning is unclear and garbled.
A scanned banking page lists officers and assistants including G Zimmerman as cashier, Sayvel G Ouval l as assistant cashier, and J Travers Thoas as assistant cashier. Other names include Thomas H Hallix, James H Gamb rill, and John 3 Newman among staff.
The Salvation Army drive restarts today and aims to reach a ten thousand dollar quota by Wednesday evening. Chairman H. Dorsey Etchison says about eight hundred contributions have been received, funding a permanent West Fifth Street home for the organization. Workers will meet at the YMCA tonight and again on Tuesday and Wednesday to review returns.
A Thanksgiving program will be given by pupils of Mr Philip's school at the schoolhouse this evening at 7 20 o clock Rev John S Adam Middletown will deliver an address A Parent Teachers meeting held November 9 at Mt Philip featured a health program with Dr E C Kefauver County health nurses Miss Locker and Miss Elizabeth Toole attending Superintendent G Lloyd Palmer present
A man on his way to luncheon stops to talk with a woman and she agrees to sit and chat. They order iced tea and a sandwich while conversation continues. She praises his sandwich and considers eating another after more tea and pie.
A fragmentary report notes Lucretius as an illustrious poet who argued for science and atomism over divine causation. It cites ideas on light speed, heat, sound echoes, and matter as atoms, framed as ahead of his era and opposed by religious authorities.
The article discusses Aspasia's disputed appearance and asserts she guided Plato and influenced Socrates through wit and wisdom. It notes she advised husbands and wives, acted as a court of justice, and shaped men with her intellect, while critics and poets debated her true character and role.
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