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Newspaper
The Daily Mail
Location
Hagerstown, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Apr 30, 1929
Page
2
The provided text is a masthead and publisher notices for the Daily Mail of Hagerstown. It lists publication details, editor, general manager, subscription rates, office addresses, and Associated Press acknowledgment rather than a discrete news event.
Dr George W Crile suggests life resembles a charged storage battery essential for daily work. when depleted, activity ends. He notes science has shifted myths toward complex formulas, yet still cannot define electricity itself. The piece weighs modern views against ancient beliefs and questions what truth may finally explain.
Americans seeking world peace and U S British goodwill find encouragement in Hugh Gibson's Geneva remarks echoing President Hoover. He urged friendly naval reduction, stressing spirit over specifics to reduce distrust and competition and pave the way for resuming an important task.
The Michigan legislature approved stiff fines and jail for carrying a gun while intoxicated, aligning with penalties for drunken driving. The argument cites the rifle as a dangerous instrument similar to an auto when inebriated, asserting the intoxicated man is out of place in modern society.
Harry F. Sinclair faces three months in jail after being convicted of bribery and theft of oil valued at a hundred million dollars. He argued that jail would harm widows and orphans among stockholders, urging the government to revoke the sentence. The plea is seen as weak and unfounded.
A quirky roundup notes a public park scene, with a jest on Cleanup Week and rising law obedience comments by President Weaver in AP coverage. It mentions Hollywood divorces, a Kansas City whisky seizure refused by a hospital, and non workmen tearing down Chicago's first steel skyscraper. The Greeks turning Mount Olympus into a national park is cheekily noted alongside a potential US tourist film lure.
A lively New York gossip column catalogs stage names and anecdotes from Broadway and Lafayette, Ind. couriers, noting recent burlesques on The Cradle of the Deep, auditions for film and theater, and famed theater offices. It mentions Eddie Cantor Corey Ford Eddie Dowling Del Rio Rudy Valentino and Belasco.
A reflective poem describes a tranquil garden free from human strife where plants and birds share sun and rain equally. The narrator seeks solace from envy and wealth disparity, finding peace in nature’s impartial order.
In Caracas Venezuela shepherds use the yakamik a crane species to guard flocks. The birds reportedly wander with the sheep yet always return home at night guiding the herd ahead.
A copy of the Daily Citizen, a Confederate States newspaper printed in Vicksburg Mississippi on July 2 1863, is shown by John Ponner at 40 Charles Street. The issue praises Lee and Confederate leaders, notes Lee hold in Hagerstown and threat to Washington, and predicts Southern victory while reporting Northern desertions. The piece, printed on wallpaper, laments Vicksburg’s fall and says Grant has “dined in Vicksburg” and that the editor will publish no longer.
Dr Morris Fishbein surveys baldness as idiopathic with no proven cure. He debunks superstition about sap in hair and sun therapies, notes heredity and constitutional factors, and advises scalp hygiene and minimal greases. Historical remedies include animal fats from Egypt and early America.
Prices for wheat corn and various feeds listed by Hagerstown Grain and Feed Co including Pure Bran at 1.90 per cwt and Quaker and Ful-O-Pep feeds ranging from 2.15 to 4.40 per cwt, plus poultry litter and codes for egg and bird products. Also lists oyster shells, cod liver oil, tankage, and select seed corn with miscellaneous poultry prices for Maryland Poultry Company.
Advertises Lee's Laxative Compound Cathartic as a cure for gas pressure heart distress and dyspepsia. Claims ten minutes to relieve gas and a full bottle can banish indigestion with improvements in dizziness nervousness and sleepfulness. Offers a 10 day sale price of 1.25 bottle reduced to 1.00 at H. P. Middlekauff Drug Store and other pharmacies.
A new discovery by Dr. Stickel, a German chemist, claims to banish corns without harming flesh. The formula excites white blood cells to granulate the root, removing the corn with no pain or soreness. The Corn Fly treatment bundle includes remover, bunion remedy, and foot bath powder, offered at Rudy's Pharmacy with a money back guarantee.
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