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Newspaper
Salisbury Evening Times
Location
Salisbury, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1925
Page
3
A Maryland facility describes state efforts to trace all mental defectives in the care system. The report notes 60 400 mental defectives in the United States with 44 000 in care and 9 000 in Maryland, with 89 under care.
The article recounts a crime in Cumberland with suspects Nick and Badder questioned by investigators. Miss Wagoner identifies possible assailants, including Gortner, Payton, and Lewis, while a storage man robs and shoots Gortner during an attempted assault near a Crest hill escape.
Report from Dauphin Venta notes a bear climbed and perched on a phone wire at the forest reserve. The incident drew a crowd as a welfare line engaged in a tense standoff with the animal, observed by locals and travelers.
Fragmentary text describes an event labeled ice at Tvaskin and Quanthoo Sunday with scattered names and lines, mentioning Mary and dates in a garbled form. No clear outcome or details are readable.
A fragment from a Salisbury street scene portrays a young woman dubbed a flapper amid gossiping locals. She laments life’s hardness and pursues old dances and social climbing while a portly gentleman observes, noting the local stereotype of a “line” in Salisbury.
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