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Newspaper
The Daily Mail
Location
Hagerstown, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1944
Page
9
A vintage advertisement invites readers to purchase scrap quilt patterns including Grandmother's Fan and a fourpiece quilt kit. The notice mentions Pattern 742 and a yardage chart, offering patterns and a needlework pattern for linens and garments for fifteen cents, with an address in New York for ordering.
The National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis reported 3,992 polio cases through Aug 5, the highest for a comparable period in 28 years, with New York North Carolina Kentucky Pennsylvania and Virginia named as epidemic or near epidemic states. A separate item notes a special railroad rate of one and one quarter cents per mile for ex service members, effective Sept 1, from release to destinations in the U S and Canada.
A jumble of old classified lines announces glass replacement, radio service, housework ads, office work for a high school graduate, and various job openings. Listings mention Glass Shop on Locust, PORTE Radio Service on Highland Way, Sears Roebuck financing, and a range of salary offers and application details across Washington Street, Hagerstown, and Franklin Street areas. The scattered notices include openings for general office tasks, relayed job requirements, and contact box references for replies.
A Nazi informant reports Gilp Kiel, former German Consul General in New York, condemned to death for defeatism by a Nazi court. Kiel retired in 1938 and had lived in the United States until Germany's war. The informant says many Germans are being executed.
Classified notices offer clerical, chauffeur, driver, warehouse, and sales positions in Hagerstown and Baltimore regions. Includes female clerical, factory and mechanic roles, ice truck driver, laborers, and a high earning sales prospect with Braun & Bigelow. Also requests Box numbers for responses and mentions defense work restrictions.
A mixture of property ads and official notices outlines a 100 acre farm near town for sale at 490 dollars in easy terms through Hagerstown Realty Co. plus listings for Stone Woman Macadam and West Farm Agency area agri real estate. Public notices reference Maryland Tax Commission actions and storage company records with dated attestations. notices seek sale or disposal details and provide Box 42 as contact.
On Saturday August 19 1944 at 1 00 o clock PM a sale of modern and antique furniture will be held at 406 West Wilson Boulevard. Items include metal day ha el dishware Victrola sewing machines kitchen ware glassware bed linens and porcelain. Many walnut and Empire pieces chairs tables frames and rockers plus old clocks pictures and prints. Mrs Robert Downly listed as sale contact and terms to be announced.
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