Air Circus Here Sunday at Airport
A new type of aerial show sponsored by the American Legion arrives at the Hagerstown airport Sunday at 3 30 for a two hour performance without passenger flights due to commerce rules. The Flying Aces perform from a four ship setup with two women and thirteen men featuring a 10 000 foot delayed parachute drop by Herb Bassett and a motorcrelé wall ride by P H Cunningham among other stunts. Ed Sherard leads the group and insists all feats will be completed as advertised.
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American Legion
Hagerstown
Department of Commerce
Maryland
Flying Aces
Sky
Jessie Martin
Darrel
Herb Bassett
P. H. Cunningham
Jimmy Woods
Bob Gunn
Johnny Crowell
Crowel
Ed Sherard
Aces
Britain sees first slight slump in recovery since 1932
London reports a minor drop in British business activity after a prolonged recovery, raising questions whether the dip is temporary or the onset of a deeper recession. Analysts cite limited external demand and domestic market gains behind tariff walls as factors in the current recovery.
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London
Britain
Rupert EH. Beckett
The
Westminster Bank
Caces Charge Of Shooting Away Legs Of Wife
Robert Lee, a Negro, jailed in Baltimore on a charge of shooting his wife Susie Lee’s legs with a shotgun in Virginia two years ago. Susie said he shot them off. he had escaped from a sheriff near Petersburg. Virginia officers were notified, and he awaits trial.
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Baltimore
Maryland
Robert Lee
Prince Edward County
Virginia
Susie Lee
Susie
Petersburg
Robert
Smith and France Speak at Meeting in Dagmar Hotel
H Webster Smith, a Republican gubernatorial hopeful, and Dr. Joseph I France US Senate candidate spoke at a well attended Dagmar hotel ballroom meeting. J Forney Young presided as Smith and France announced a two day county tour.
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H. Webster Smith
Dagmar Hotel
Death notices for Stifer and Brugh in Philadelphia area
John P. Stifer 54 a Pennsylvania Railroad telegrapher died of a heart attack while reading on his back porch at 31 Franklin Street at 7 45 PM. Survived by wife Daisy sons Floyd M. and Stuart M brother Hugh and sister Maidee Coffman. Funeral Friday at 4 PM from Suter funeral home with Rose Hill interment. Ida M. Brugh 72 of 757 Guilford Avenue died yesterday afternoon of general debility. Survived by brothers George B. Jacobs and Frank Jacobs and sister Laura Jacobs. Funeral Friday at 2 PM at home with Rev Dr Paul E Holdcraft. interment Rose Hill Cemetery.
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John P. Stifer
Pennsylvania Railroad
Franklin Street
Lutheran Church
Daisy
Floyd M
Stuart M
Hugh
New York City
Maidee Coffman
Washington, D.C
Suter
Ine
Terment
Rose Hil
Ida M. Brugh
Willow
Irvin Bry
Guilford Avenue
Brugh
Emmanuel C. B. Church
George B. Jacobs
Ontario
Canada
Frank Jacobs
Tacony
Laura Jacobs
Paul E. Holdcraft
Rose Hill Cemetery
Card of Thanks for Kindness After Death
Mr and Mrs John R Entler thank neighbors and friends for kindness during the illness and death of Winele John M Spitter. They also acknowledge flowers and acts of care. Ady.
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Winele
John M. Spitter
John R. Entler
Ady
Arma Picnic Outing Promises Record Attendance and Pageantry
Ideal weather draws hundreds to Row's Park for the Arma Club annual outing. A full schedule includes contests, music, vaudeville, fireworks, and an address by U S Senator Gerald Nye of North Dakota. Crowned Queen Mildred Jenkins of Hagerstown at 7 PM as Mayor Wertz officiates.
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Row’s Park
United States
Gerald P. Nye
North Dakota
America
Mildred Jenkins
Hagerstown
I. M. Wertz
Where There Is a Will There Is a Way
Nelson P Collier and Lowell Miller traveled over 200 miles from Mitchell Indiana to the fair with one leg between them. Collier, who lost use of a leg to infantile paralysis, pushed Miller who is legless in a wheelchair. The journey lasted 25 days.
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Chicago
Nelson P. Collier
Lowell Miller
Mitchell
Ind
Collier
Miller
Pari Mutuels On Golf Match At Agua Caliente
Pari mutuel wagering will debut at the Agua Caliente championship January 31 to February 5 in Mexico. A betting pool set at the clubhouse will allow bets on professionals for 18 holes per round with 90 percent to ticket holders and 10 percent to top daily 15-hole scorers. The event’s name shifts to Agua Caliente Golf Sweepstakes.
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Agua, Celients
Mexico
Chauffeur At Center Harbor Suspected Kidnap Plot
Center Harbor police guarded a private girl's camp as state authorities probed claims by Louis Morrow, a Wilmington chauffeur, of a possible plan to kidnap three Meed daughters. He was taken to Cancard State Hospital for observation after officers found no immediate danger.
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N. H
Aug
hLaconia
Holaday Meed
Wilmington
Del
Louis Morrow
Cancard
Pig Roast at Shilling’s Filling Station
A pig roast event is planned at Shilling’s Filling Station on the Chewsville and Smithsburg Pike on Thursday August 2 from 1 PM to 12 AM. Admission 50 cents. Proceeds support Ady.
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Shilling
Chewsville
Smithsburg Pike
Campaign Bible Daunts Republicans This Fall
Emil Hurja, Democratic Chair in Washington, says Republicans have no chance in November. His campaign bible details every candidate for 435 House seats and 35 Senate seats, tracking New Deal sentiment, Roosevelt popularity, patronage, public works, and veteran votes.
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Washington
Emil Hurja
Man Threatens Suicide At Pittsburgh Station
An unidentified man at Fourth Avenue station in Pittsburgh stepped onto railroad tracks and lay down telling passersby he would kill himself. An assistant station agent warned that the next train would not arrive for about thirty minutes, prompting the man to walk away.
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Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania Railroad
Fourth Avenue Station
New Methods Succeed in Crime Drive
Washington officials report a new investigative approach matching criminal patterns across unsolved cases. The Justice Department uses modus operandi analysis to link extortion and kidnapping offenses, asserting repeated methods reveal the same criminals behind multiple crimes.
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Washington
Justice Department
George
Nelson
Apenia
Violims
Elnes Tefl
Fan-American Airways makes record flight attempt from Stratford
Bridgeport Connecticut August 1 The Fan-American Airways flying peat forty two thousand feet is the largest in the United States and holder of almost all world altitude records with payload. It took the air from the Housatonic river at Stratford at 9 25 a m EST to attempt to smash eight world records for speed with payload.
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Bridgeport
Conn
Fan-American Airways
United States
Stratford
Call Minnie Osborne 13386 M For Styleling Garments
Advertisement notes Minnie Osborne 13386 M handling styling garments including corsets girdles belts and supports. Mentions milk product Hearthstone Farm pasteurized milk now sea quart. Proprietor M Berry Doub.
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M. Berry Doub
Campaign launched to smash Nazi campaign continues
The report notes a government payroll impact from the Nazi crackdown with workers unpaid until cases clear. Twenty federal employees who cried Heil Hitler during a chancellery raid are among those paying checks. Franz Holzweber and Otto Planetta died with Heil Hitler on their lips after execution. The cabinet weighs Van Papen’s envoy post to Vienna as fascist forces push propaganda and require citizens to report political rumors.
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Hitler
Franz Holzweber
Otto Planetta
van Papen
Vienna
Kurt Schuschnigg
Rugged Individualist Defends Exit Choice On Streetcar
John MacDonald fights for the right to choose his own exit on a Philadelphia streetcar. He used a carpenter hammer in the confrontation, striking the conductor and the motorman, and then left through the exit he selected.
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Philadelphia
John MacDonald
MacDonald
Cop Catches Cop In Ashland Traffic Bust
In Ashland Oregon on August 1 officer caught officer when John F. Graham a special deputy was arrested by eight local policemen for driving 50 miles an hour through the business district. Graham posted ten dollar bond.
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Ashland
Ore
John F. Graham
Graham
Undertaker’s Outing Turns Bizarre In Jersey City
In Jersey City on August 1, officers seized an apparently abandoned hearse with coffin inside. James Singleton, a Black undertaker from Florence, DC, explained the coffin was empty. He had come for a body but the casket body had gone south by train, so he attended a party in Harlem.
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N. J
Offcers
James Singleton
Florence
D. C
Tlarlem
Elks Parade Promises Many Prizes At Maryland Event
The 14th annual Maryland Delaware and District of Columbia Elks Association convention unveils numerous prizes for parade features set for August 11 to 14. Awards include floats drums and lodge representations with top prizes for tallest shortest and fattest Elk, plus prizes for best decorated buildings. The parade features 355 boys bands and a $500 prize pool, with 13 lodges marching and two concerts by the Washington Elks Boys Radio Band.
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Elks’ Association
Committee On Decorations
Hagerstown
Washington Elk’s
Waynesboro
Quincy
Havre de Grace
Washington Elk’s Boys
U S Islands in violent clash over New Orleans governorship
In New Orleans, gunfire from machine guns lit the night as state troops surrounded City Hall under Governor Allen's martial law order. Mayor Walmsley and Senator Long traded barbs on radio amid talk of a September congressional primary and Long’s vow to root out vice, seen by Walmsley as a power grab.
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Q. K. Allen
Ward
Walmsley
Long
New Orleans
Two Women Pay Late Entry Refund to Regina Theater
Regina Saskatchewan on August 1 report that two women who sneaked into a theater as children have now paid their admission, fifteen years late, sending the manager money to see the show they missed.
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Regina
Saskatchewan
Cutting Third Set Teeth and Giant Tomato Display
G B Hart marked his 77th birthday by cutting the first of his third set of teeth and quipped about his grandfather doing the same after 70. In Joliet L P Kaetzel showed a yellow Ponderosa tomato weighing one and three quarters pounds with three companions around a pound each.
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Til
G. B. Hart
L. P. Kaetzel
Cannon Avenue
Chicago grain market quotations by Stein Bros and Boyce
Quotations from the Chicago grain market reported by Stein Bros and Boyce from the McComas Armatrong Building. The note records bid and ask levels, price movements, and house summaries for corn wheat and oats as of the latest trading session.
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Stein Bros. & Boyce, McComas-Armatrong Building
Stein Bros. & Boyce, McComas-Armstrong Builder
Sunday School Picnic at St. Mark's Lutheran
St. Mark's Lutheran near Wolfaville five miles south of Smithsburg holds its annual picnic on Saturday August 18. Music will be provided by the Harmony hand.
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St. Mark’s Lutheran Sunday School
Wolfaville
Smithsburg
Harmony Hand
Square Dance in Boonsboro This Thursday Night
Square dance at Red Men’s Hall Boonsboro Maryland on Thursday night August 2 dancing from 9 to 1. Admission 25 cents for single and 25 cents per couple. Everyone welcome. Ady.
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Red Men's Hall
Boonsboro
Missing man Neal Myers to appear before county authorities
Neal Myers, missing for three weeks, was to appear this morning before Cleveland county authorities. He claims he did not know murder charges were filed against him until Morrison informed him. Miss Mills, chosen by Fredric March as the university's most beautiful girl in 1930, was found dead after a quack remedy was administered at Mrs. Brown's apartment.
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Morrison
Miss Mills
Fredric March
K. F. Stephens
Myers
Brown
Paul Updegraf
Oklahoma
Grange Meeting Postponed To Thursday Evening
Leitersburg Grange postpones its weekly gathering from Wednesday to Thursday because of the Orma picnic. The event will be at Keller Hartle’s home in Leitersburg with a readings and stunts program and watermelon served.
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Grange
Ourma
Keller Hartle
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