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Newspaper
The Daily Mail
Location
Hagerstown, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1932
Page
6
Crisfield Md Aug 2 E mund Johnson 22 of Lawsonia near here was found dead with a bullet wound in his heart today His mother, hearing the report of revolver, found him lying across the bed in a dying condition The wound apparently had been personal safety related.
The Board of Education reviewed multiple bids for transporting pupils next term. Bidders must meet requirements before final decisions and names will be announced. Routes include Falling Waters to Williamsport, Salisbury to Williamsport, Woburns to Downaville, Fountain Rock to Williamsport, Sideling Hill to Hancock, Strites to Leitersburg, and Eakles Mills and Smoketown to Keedysville with costs around 500 to 900 dollars.
About 160 customers of John and Anton Grohear, brothers who ran a grocery, paid their bills by building a new store. They worked off debts at fifty cents an hour, starting a month ago when the lease expired. The brothers supplied materials for the project.
The district consolidates affecting Strites and nearby schools. Burnside and Coxes are moved to Sharpsburg at an estimated cost of about $850. The Strites school will be abandoned and likely sold later as part of the consolidation plan.
A long Sunday of visits features Mr. and Mrs. Martin E. Horst and family of Maugansville and many area residents. various Burkholder, Showalter, Cook, Hartman, and Oberholzer households host guests. The Brethren in Christ Sunday school near Reid held a picnic on Tuesday July 26 with contests, prizes, and marshmallow roast in the evening accompanied by guitar and harmonica music.
In 1931 Americans faced widespread poverty at home while traveling overseas, with total tourist expenditure reaching about 570 million dollars. The report contrasts domestic distress with continued international leisure spending, highlighting economic strain and outward mobility during the era.
Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell star in a two city set romantic comedy about young love and its trials in The First Year adapted from Frank Craven. The story follows a marriage and its comedic strife including a business shift a real estate deal a spat and a reconciliation with a notable supporting cast. Marie Dressler leads a separate drama about the stepmother problem at Henry's Theatre culminating in a courtroom climax.
At the Colonial Theatre a Columbia mystery drama unfolds entirely aboard a trans continental train. Ben Lyon and Barbara Weeks headline the feature with a suspenseful sequence of events driving the plot.
Downsville letters report Mr and Mrs John Hoff and son Carl traveling to California and Olean New York to visit Hoff s father who is critically ill Mrs Hoff visited sister Emma Long. Miss Jane Lous visits Miss Rannah Fiook Verda Baker Rohrer hospitalized with a tumor 4 I club members Daniel and George Roth Charles Downey and Laurence Mason joined Allegany boys
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