Mother Held In Shooting Fatal Wounding Of Daughter
Susan Malinda Bowers 34 faces manslaughter charges after her 12 year old daughter Frances was fatally shot in their Hagerstown area home. Investigators suggest the gun discharged as she allegedly aimed to frighten pebbler trespassers upstairs, the coroner's inquest ruled carelessness. Two young sons were placed in sheriff custody while the husband is due for release Monday.
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Susan Malinda Bowers
Martin L. Ingram
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Clarence
Baker
C. Edward Heard
Samuel H. Dukes
Carlisle Barracks
Dukes
Thor
Local Man Receives 25 Year Telephone Service Emblem
Elvin H. Follin of the Hagerstown office of the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company receives a ruby emblem for twenty five years of service. Announcement by manager A L Simpson notes that August awards encompassed 72 Maryland employees with a total of 1275 years of service.
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Elvin H. Follin
Hagerstown
Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company
Baltimore City
A. L. Simpson
C. and ©. Telephone Company
Maryland
Empleme
George Calls It Challenge In Georgia Senate Race
MACON Ga Attz reports Senator Walter F George framed President Roosevelts push for his defeat as a challenge to Georgia sovereignty He accused Edwin Dunlap former Georgia RIC aide and Atlanta district attorney deputies of working for Camp Roosevelts ally and urged Georgias voters to maintain independence from executive pressure in the Senate race
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Attz
Georgia
Walter F. George
Skating Ehorts
Edgar RB. Dunlap
Georgia Ric
Washington
George
Georgi
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Tuntap
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Lawrence
Camp
Roosevelt
Senate
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Will Adopt Flood Waif Skippy Finds Kentucky Home
Martinsburg West Virginia August 20 three year old Skippy rescued from a Harpers Ferry flood coop may find a home in Kentucky. Mr and Mrs W M Lyons Jr of Lexington offered to adopt the boy known also as David after neglect left him malnourished during hospital care. Public Assistance officials are handling the case. a planned transfer to Romney school for the Deaf and Blind was postponed as the Lyons pursue adoption.
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W. Va
Kentucky
Charles Town
Department of Public Assistance
Skippy
Chris Dailey
Lyons
Mary Sweeney Terry
Public Assistant Department
David
Fieod
School For Deaf and Blind
Romney
Terry
Juvenile Jingles and Moral Snippets from a Page Fragment
A clipped near-random assortment of juvenile jingle lines and admonitions appears, including calls to prevent delinquency, teach thrift, and avoid risky behavior. The text features aphorisms about duty, manners, and morality, some referencing social success, parental influence, and cautionary phrases about driving and drinking.
Walnut Point Birth and Local Social Notices
Walnut Point August 18 announces the arrival of a baby girl for Mr and Mrs James Lewis. Miss Almeta Burgan enrolled as a pupil at Miss Dorothy Dermody's School of beauty culture in Hagerstown. Mrs Charles Ridenour of Winters town spent the weekend with her daughter. Mr and Mrs Preston Sprecher and Mr and Mrs Everett Burgan of Hagerstown visited Mr and Mrs Roger Burgan and family Monday. Miss Ruth Smith and Mary Coffman of Baltimore and Mrs Mary Smith and daughter Evelyn of Hagerstown visit. Vincent Smith remains home after a tonsil operation at Baltimore Hospital.
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Walnut Point
James Lewis
Almeta Burgan
Dorothy Dermody
School of Beauty Culture
Hagerstown
Charles Ridenour
Wwnterstown
Amvindan Aid
Preston Sprecher
Everett Burgan
Ln Hagerstown
Garfield A B Sunday School Annual Reunion Picnic
The Garfield A B Sunday school will hold its annual picnic on Saturday August 27 in Kelbourd's Grove. The program includes speaking, vocal music and instrumental music by Prof. Chas C L Stull's Yellow Springs Band. The United States has 41 nouns per square mile.
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Auament
Kelhbourd’s Grove
Chas. C. L. Stull
Yello Springs
Famous British banker’s wife recruits air raid volunteers
London feature on Mrs. Montagu Norman, wife of a Bank of England governor, recruiting women for Air Raid Precautions work in Westminster. She leads London ARP efforts with the Women’s Voluntary Services, stressing merit over social status and describing roles from telephonists to ambulance crews and evacuation leaders.
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William McGaffin
London
Montagu Norman
Westminster
Bank of England
London County Council
British Finance
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APE TAKES HOLD OF THE AIRPLANE IN WAR GAMES IMAGE
British men in August war games are shown in a photo. Shortly after, noted journalist Cyril Joad urged London teachers to form a board of scientists and philosophers to grant permits for intentions. He warned science and the airplane threaten civilization as the ape seizes control.
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Cyril Edwin Mitchinson Joad
London
Japanese Drive Advances in Shantung Province
Japanese forces launched a large operation in Shantung to eliminate about 42,000 Chinese guerrillas amid scattered clashes near the provincial capital. Reports from Taiwan quote initial thrusts narrowing on the city as mobile Chinese resistance was reported in the province.
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Shantung
Taiwan
Burglary at Mrs Lionel Atwill Home Stuns Baltimore
Police sought clues tonight after a burglar entered the Green Spring Valley estate of Mrs Lionel Atwill wife of the stage and screen star and carried off 1428 in cigars and furnishings. The theft was found upon her return from a six weeks absence at Rainbow Hill.
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Baltimore
Lionel Atwill
Rainbow Hill
Green Spring Valley
Atwill
Duke and Duchess of Windsor
Roosevelt Labor Day Maryland visit plans debated
Washington reports President Roosevelt will visit Maryland on Labor Day with options including Baltimore for a labor art exhibit dedication or a speech on Maryland’s Eastern Shore stressing farmer labor interdependence. The piece recounts past tensions with Millard Tidings and local political maneuvering in Salisbury and Frederick County.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Maryland
White House
William Green
American Federation of Labor
Museum of Art
Baltimore
Body Of Drowned Man Arrives Here
The body of Thomas W. Linton 21 drowned July 4 in a pool near Sehotield Bar racks Hawaii arrived here yesterday morning and was taken to the Boonsboro funeral home for Sunday services He enlisted at Sehofield Bar racks as a private in Battery A Fifth Field Artillery He is survived by his mother Mrs Noah Saunders a sister Miss Frances Linton and two step brothers and a stepsister Funeral services will be held Sunday at 10 o clock at Ras funeral home Boonsboro with Rev M A Ashby officiating interment in National Cemetery at Sharpsburg.
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Sehotieldarracks
Territory of Hawaii
Boonsboro
Hinton
Boonshero
Sehofield Barracks
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