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Newspaper
Salisbury Evening Times
Location
Salisbury, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1925
Page
8
The Odrian sisters perform as Meadliners at the Arcade Theatre this week featuring a lively vaudeville program. They display a snappy dancing act and the famous Hula Dance, supported by a group of personable entertainers delivering song and charm.
Several regular readers of The Evening Times did not receive yesterday's edition due to curtailment caused by machinery. The Times regrets the inconvenience and states every resource is deployed to obtain the remaining parts for today.
A Baltimore based developer sold 353 building lots at a Salisbury area auction drawing 1560 attendees. The sale on the Pennsylvania Maryland Highway featured fifty foot frontage sites averaging high prices as Thera J Fyffe and Co. reported strong demand and a promising suburban growth future.
Fragmentary notice notes fourteen world famous comics and a twelve page comic section in Sunday editions with American content. An advertisement line underscores special features and ads.
Police pursue a suspect in break-ins at Camden School and Grammar School on West Chestnut Street. Rooms were ransacked and left in disarray when teachers arrived for sessions. Despite repeated incidents this term, authorities lack enough evidence for an arrest and vow to halt the vandalism.
Arraignment occurred before Police Justice Sander T Hearne over the disappearance of an automobile owned by Fred Williams of Fruit Hand. Four men, John Dante and Harris Gannon brothers and Durand Willey, were convicted and sentenced to two years each in Maryland House of Correction at Jessups. The accused claimed they rode with Dante Gannon but had no part in taking the car. Dante Gannon had a prior reform school sentence, with an escape reportedly occurring.
Wall Street with New York trading opened with renewed speculation and brisk action. Early gains of 1 to 2 points were shown by American Sugar Refining Allis Chalmers Central Leather Philadelphia Messersel Meteors and Mathieson Alkali as stocks moved up. The market rose on steady rediscount rate retention by the New York Federal Reserve optimism over the Locarun security pact and improving business conditions.
The text suggests that if you ignore personal interests you will gain success in literature and science, achieving fame and fortune. It notes capability and accuracy, a tendency to overlook defects, and hints at marriage and a large family as outcomes.
Reported items note a telephonic swhecbed link from London to New York through radio four with a 95 rate. Chicago clinic programs aim to cut infant mortality funded by Schepp of New York, pledging millions. A Newark father with seven children receives dime per child from John D. Rochefe. W H Marshall heads a group buying the Vanderbilt Hotel in New York for 96 million on the Commodore site. Beirut and Syria report bodies of 24 bankers killed by French troops shown in public squares. California’s earthquake insurance hits half a billion dollars sold in the last month per the state insurance commissioner. Caruso’s singing quality cited after attempting German style. Sun recalls Menich Soviet chief claimed in a Iimore Americon.
Theft of about $2.50 from the cash drawer at Ben Fanden’s store on School Street was reported to police last evening. Authorities say the shop has been robbed a second time within a year.
A California farmer keeps three sheep that act as traveling mutton cases fed on hay seed sprouting after recent rain. The woolly trio, with green backs and sides, are touted as the oldest mutton leg in the country on display at a butcher shop. A man once ordered the meat 55 years ago and never returned.
Fragmentary lines suggest social critique on parental visibility and class. A speaker notes a climber named tmn and puzzles about detours. The text contrasts money with social acceptance, implying that financial lack excludes from society.
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