No Increase In Output In Second Quarter Figures
Commerce Department reports a 35 annual rate of 243 billion in goods and services for the second quarter, a rise from 231 billion in 1947 and 204 billion in 1936 due largely to inflation. Industrial production dipped in June, while farm products and personal services boosted dollar totals. The note cautions inflation persists as demand grows despite higher output.
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Department of Commerce
Commerce Department
Dorothy Dix Answers on Love and Widowers
Dorothy Dix advises that a fiancé’s dreams about his former wife likely reflect jealousy or defensive excuses, not spirits. She cautions that a widower’s attachment to his first marriage can threaten a new union and suggests avoiding marriage unless the past is closed. She also answers a young reader about women’s choices and dismisses claims of old fashioned rules, insisting women seek happiness with realistic standards.
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Dorothy Dix
Miss Dix
Joseph
The
Bell Syndicate, Inc
Fifty Years Ago Local Hems From The Columns Of The News
From September 3 1898 a column notes three bright sky spots over the southeastern city area described as lanterns on a large kite by Joseph C and William Hah drawing a 600 yard tail. A girl injures her hand at her uncle’s home by a glass salt dish. A large crowd gathers at Col Baughman’s race track for a local horse race won by Jones and Wineberg. Republican convention delegates in the Opera House authorize voting for Billion G Urner as the nominee.
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the News
Joseph C
William Hah
Col. Baughman
Henry Wineberg
W. B. Dell
Charles Jones
Robert Fraley Jones
Wineberg
Counts School Co
Republican Cou
Opera House
Billion G. Urner
Twenty Years Ago Local Items From The Columns Of The News
Two thousand two hundred two students enrolled as the new term opened. Frederick High reported a score B28. Construction of the West Patrick Street store building for McCrory Five and Ten is to begin tomorrow. Frank Coblentz, formerly B and O Railroad cashier, leaves for Philadelphia to take an assistant agent post. The United Fire Company captured one first and two second prizes in the Labor Day parade in Washington with about 160 companies participating.
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the News
Frederick High
Patrick Street
McCrory Five
Frank Coblentz
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Philadelphia
United Fire Company
Washington
FBI Red Expose Methods Will Shake House Group
Washington Daybook reports the Justice Department will soon reveal the FBI led probe into Communists on U S payroll with indictments and new details. The piece notes tensions with the House Un-American Activities Committee and discusses perceptions of Communists, fellow travelers, and the era’s anti communism dynamics through named figures like Tom Clark and Bentley while contrasting official briefings with meet reports. It also mentions Evita Peron related notes and a Davis reunion with a large gathering and a watermelon feast.
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FBI
House
Tris Coffin
Washington
Justice Department
Uncle Sam
Tom Clark
House Un-American Activities Committee
Bentley
Whittaker Chamlouk
Robert Stripling
Feows
Miss
American Communist Party
Communist Party
Soviet‘Union
U. S
National League Results Yesterday
The New York club defeated Pittsburgh by a 3 to 4 score as National League standings shifted. Four games are scheduled today including Philadelphia at New York and Chicago at another venue, with additional matchups to be announced.
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New York
Pittsburgh
Forrestal Not Slated for Campaigning This Autumn
Washington dispatch notes Secretary of Defense James Forrestal will not engage in political campaigning this autumn. President Truman agrees, keeping Defense and State out of partisan activity. Senator Hatch’s remarks about a stump campaign were not meant to be literal, aiming to clarify the nonpartisan stance of the post. Forrestal will vote for Truman in the coming ballot.
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Washington
James Forrestal
Hatch
Rotary
Forrestal
Deat Truman
Secretary of Defense
Navy Department
Roosevelt
Truman
Treasury
Agriculture
Mir. Donaldson
Postal Service
Oscar Ewing
Republican Congress
Congress
Draftees And Vets Guide Delivers Answers In Print
Major Thomas M. Sial answers reader questions on draft age changes and registration timelines. He explains turning 26 shifts you to a separate class and possible future calls if the age is raised, plus how to obtain a lost discharge certificate from the Adjutant General’s Office in Washington.
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Thomas M. Sial
Washington
Spokane
Wash
Congress
Kings Vicuntar Cc
Adjutant General's Office
Department of the Army
Washington 25
D.C
Kansas City
Air Corps Recruit Simons Enlists at Lackland Base
Frederick High School graduate from Frederick class of 1948, Pvt Simons, son of BR. H. Simons, has enlisted in the Army Air Corps and is stationed at Lackland Air Base in San Antonio Texas.
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Pvt Simons
BR. H. Simons
Frederick
Frederick High School
Army Air Corps
Lackland Air Base
San Antonio
Tex
Union Bridge Weekly Civic Notes And School Opening
The Union Me morial Post 8806 VFW carnival is this week at Union Bridge Firemen's Park from Monday to Saturday. Elmer A Wolfe School opens 1948-49 term Tuesday Sept 7 at 9 am with Dean Manifold as principal. Bus routes unchanged. cafeteria closed initial days. Manifold and wife to occupy Main Street apartment. Local visitors include Miss Lulu Nusbaum and Dorothea Rinehart. Washington DC visitor Flo Washington and cousin Paul Fleming. A men’s clothing factory in the Eichman building shut last Thu/Fri due to heat wave. thundershowers brought relief to Union Edge.
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Union Bridge
Union Memorial
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Elmer A. Wolfe
Manifold
Elmer Wolfe
Mainstreet
George Thomas
Lulu Nusbaum
Taneytown
Airs
David Rinehart
Dorothea
Washington, D. C
Eichman
Washington
D C
Paul Fleming
Grange to Meet at Carrell Manor Monday Night
Grange to hold regular meeting Monday night September 6 at 7 30. Education committee plans program led by Mrs Elmer Michael man. Tickets for Grange Day at Timonium Fair available from the secretary that night.
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Grange
Carrell Manor
Elmer Michaelman
Timonium Fair
Night games light up a Twilight schedule for AL matchups
The American League slate includes Open Washington at New York, Cleveland at St Louis, Boston at Philadelphia, and Descent at Chicago as a twilight night lineup with night games noted.
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Washington
New York
Cleveland
St Louis
Boston
Philadelphia
Descent
Chicago
Detroit
St. Louis
Anniversary notes and birth dates in Know America Today
A noisy collage lists anniversaries of historical figures, births, and milestone dates. It names John Scudder, Francis Blanchet, John Noyes, John Drew, John Keely, Louis Sullivan, and others with birth and death places and years. The piece also recounts events like the 1783 peace, the 1894 Labor Day observance, and other World War II era items and birthdays, ending with a cautionary horoscope about gullibility and money.
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John Scudder
India
Freehold
N. J
Francis N. Blanchet
Oregon Country
Oregon City
Pacific Coast
Canada
Portland
Oreg
John H. Noyes
Oneida
N. Y
Brattleboro
John Drew
Ireland
Philadelphia
John E. W. Keely
Louis H. Sullivan
Chicago
Boston
Forgotten Memories review on Floyd Willison novel
A Chambersburg book note on Forgotten Memories by Floyd E. Willison with 232 pages from The Craft Press. It centers on Lt Alice Macintire a Navy nurse with amnesia after a Pacific base hospital bombing. The plot shifts from Delaware to Australia New Hampshire and Montana as memory fragments surface and romance with George Rutland leads to tragedy. Market prices for Wheat Barley Corn follow.
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Floyd E. Willison
Chambersburg
the Craft Press
Mr. Willison
Pacific Base
Delaware
Australia
New Hamphire
Montana
Alice Macintire
George Rutland
Lt MacIntire
Pacific
South Dakota
Baltimore
Tjamsville church program advertised for Sunday evening
The Tjamsville Methodist church, with Rev. McGill of the Christian church Hyattstown, will present a music and songs program Sunday at 8 o'clock DST under the Women's Society of Christian Service. The item is followed by a string of local social notes about residents visiting relatives in Phoenixville Annapolis Ocean City and other places.
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Women's Guild
Women’s Guild
Mt. Pleasant J Reformed Church
Chas. H. Hassler
Clarence Cramer
Welty Wasiler
Welty Waster
Carrie Grove
Raymond Lindsay
Wm. T. Delawter
Chas
Hossler
Roger Reese
Roger Ramsburg
John Barke
Abs
Frank Stottlemeyer
Tjamsville
Upper
Montgomery County Church Singers
McGill
Christian Church
Hyattstown
Aleader
Hogarth
Jack Lrey
HL Crawford Swomley
Betty Swomley
Oceana City
Annapolis
Charles E. Moylan
Charles Jr
Danny
Baltimore
Moylan
Harry C. Swomsey
J. Melville Cromwell
Alvin H. Crawford
Frederick
William Oden
Kemptown
James F. McQuade
Maggie Addison
William Biser Smith
Ocean City
N. J
Niagara Falls
Washington, D. C
J. W. Smith
Montgomery
W. Va
J. William Smith
Wilmington
Leon Windsor
Airy
Albina Biser
Lessons in Word Use and Spelling Tips
A compact guide highlights common misuses such as everywhere vs everywheres and surprise pronunciation. It defines lamentable as pitiable and deplorable with emphasis on the first syllable, urging daily vocabulary growth and careful spelling.
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W. L. Gordon
Cantata versus Opera and Selah meanings
A cantata is a dramatic musical work sung without costume or action, while an opera includes costumes scenery and action. Selah in the Psalms likely marks a musical or liturgical pause or outburst, with two possible meanings.
Doll earns parachute wings at Fort Benning
Pvt. Richard E. Doll son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank A. Doll of 13 Rosemont Avenue has completed the five weeks basic airborne course at the Infantry School Fort Benning Georgia. He has been awarded the official United States Army Parachute wings.
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Richard E. Doll
Doll
Frank A. Doll
Rosemont Avenue
Infantry School
Benning, Ga
United States Army
Vienna Coup Returns In Tough Bridge Hand
Maxwell L. Johnston of Mill Valley recounts a challenging bridge hand from a Vienna Coup theme. The deal features wild bidding, a spade lead, a heart back, and a squeeze that decides at trick eleven with East retaining key cards. Johnston chose a line using diamonds, clubs, and hearts, culminating in a rare endgame where West faces a double squeeze and an unfavorable distribution.
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Wil
Tam E. McKennexe
America’s
NEA
Maxwell L. Johnston
Mill Valley
Calif
Vienna
Mr. Johnston
East
Diamond
Hearts
1 Johnston
West
Dummy
Worth
Court News Equity and Divorce Actions in Local Docket
Equity court lists several divorce bills including Edward K Saltzman against Lozetah J Saltzman and Sarah J Hartsock against John os Hartsock. Other items note temporary alimony and counsel fees, marriage licenses for John Ross and Doris Bows of Bethesda, and multiple pairings with ages and addresses. Property transfers include Lucy N Wachter to Charles of Price and Charles U Price to Lucy M Wachter with city amounts. A separate regional note highlights Miss Charlotte Gibbs near Point of Rocks owning a night blooming cereus with six blossoms observed this season.
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Court News Equity
Edward K. Saltzman
Lozetah J. Saltzman
Sarah J. Hartsock
John Os Hartsock
John Ross
Doris Bows
Bethesda
Paul D. Beall
Mt Airy
Helen Z. Treganowan
Baltimore
Charles Bradley Luhn, Jr
Hamilton Avenue
Annie Elizabeth Kroh
East Third
Clyde’ E. Stup
Frederick
Betty Jane Baer
South Water Street
William Charles Murphy
Elizabeth Kuhn Miliken
Washington
Joseph Ray Arnold
Boonsboro
Jane Louise Kettler
Walkersville
Lucy N. Wachter
Charles of Price
Charles U. Price
Lucy M Wachter
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Washington Daybook
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Rockefeller Institute
Jonesboro Ga
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Encino
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Lawrence W. Robert, Jr
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