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Newspaper
The Daily Mail
Location
Hagerstown, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1923
Page
2
The Daly News at Hagerstown lists circulation details and audit notes from 1922, referencing The Daly Journal editors, Broad way and Michigan avenues, and The Audit Bureau of Circulation. It discusses communications, postal rates, and classified notices, while juxtaposing rhetoric about farmers and urban workers and musing on a Natiorwide movement for Taft in 1924.
Consumers fear shortages and steep costs of anthracite as miners strike looms and federal price protection winds down on September 22. Congress will not extend the law, raising fears Washington residents may face rationing and profiteering this winter. A consumers’ group reports resupply and prices are controlled by linked interests seeking mutual profit.
In Sweden a farmer named Jake won a prize for land improvement after clearing twenty thousand cartloads of rock from three acres. He spent years removing boulders, increasing arable land to 40 acres and planting 9 acres of forest. He built a stone wall and improved access, raising his family’s living conditions.
A Philadelphia Record excerpt describes a mock letter alleged to be circulated to farmers critiquing tariff pledges by the Republican National Committee for the 1920 campaign. It claims promises to raise tariffs to aid manufacturers but betray farmers, noting a 4 cent bushel wheat duty was proposed only to be revealed as useless. The piece suggests the gist is whispered in the Midwest and may influence voters before 1924, with Democrats accused of hoping to exploit dirty tricks.
In New York City a unique service business thrives with Mrs Mary Hatch Willard at its helm The Innner Home Bureau sells broth custards and other foods for the sick and offers patient transfer help from homes to trains The venture arose from a simple act forty years ago and grew into a commercial success Through constant enthusiasm and bold ideas the bureau expands by supplying needed items and services to those unable to obtain them locally
A 1923 verse fragment from NBA Bervice Inc. reflects gloom and financial strain. The speaker laments dwindling purse, wasted idols, and a bleak mood while joking that a meal might lift spirits despite pervasive despair.
Mrs Willard traces a shift from social debutante to self made entrepreneur as she builds a broths and jellies bureau into a growing medical supply business. She adapts quickly to demand, buys a stretcher for doctors, lists nurses, and expands stock while serving diverse clients from a sick infant to bankers.
A fragmentary notebook of quirky phrases notes Quillen's Quill, envy over screens, Darwin, and a run of odd spellings. It mentions Mryan and a party readout, wheat prices, Alaska publicity, a prize fight, and a returned vacationist with a stubborn, odd appearance.
The piece critiques political tension and immigrant policy, referencing figures like Kiesola and the senator. It notes anger over losses in sports and calls for suspicion toward moderns, while arguing that in this free country everyone has a chance to pursue opportunity and earn esteem.
A garbled collection of phrases references a cornet practice neighbor a free country opinion aliens pacifists professors and coal export disputes Atlantic City discussions and a phonograph headline with stray names and sentences from an old newspaper page.
A long Q A feature lists questions on theaters, advertising origins, canal traffic, ink removal from newspapers, copyright counts, irrigation by country, Wagner piano usage, World War burial ideas, Titanic era rescues, Gettysburg camping, Holy Land trips, Mrs Lincoln date of death, and early US naval conflicts. It cites various experts and dates, including 1591, 1704, 1922 figures, and events through Napoleonic era.
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