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Newspaper
The Daily Mail
Location
Hagerstown, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1933
Page
3
Friday steps to end the strike at Berkeley mills and Interwoven Dunn Mills in Martinsburg with the board to decide on disputes. Employers paid workers to resume tasks while both sides await board decisions to bar further trouble. A theater audience at a local venue reacts as a woodchuck escapes and is removed.
The readable lines recount a Detroit game with players such as Burke and Myer involved in double plays Crewe Myer to Koheli Burke and Myer to Kubel Fogel. Hits and errors are listed including left on base and baser on balls figures. The text references Texas cities and a 2033 summer session at Texas.
A scrambled readable page presents a cross word puzzle with scattered clues and partial phrases. The garbled text lists clues about biblical writings, numbers, animal terms, weather, instruments, and various nouns, interspersed with stray names and partial captions from an old issue.
In New York Aug 26 a harvest festival marked the ripening of a penthouse Muscat crop, 38 bunches grown in Mrs Mabel Brevoort Steven’s roof garden. Opera singer Marie Tiffany performed a harvest song as guests toasted Mrs Steven with beer at the celebration.
Louis Noski, an unemployed carpenter, found his 42 chickens slain in the coop after a skulker chopped their heads. He had depended on the flock for family support. Footprints and two matchboxes were the only clues.
In Cincinnati on August 25 a draft of a Sept. 26 exhibition game pits a selected Cincinnati sandlot team against the National League cellar Reds. The aim is to spark amateur baseball interest and raise funds, with managers and coaches from municipal league Class A teams choosing the players to face the Reds.
Bill Terry pounded out five hits in a double header to take undisputed second place in the National League's half of Baseball's Big Six. The standings list Klein Foxx Davis Manush Simmons and Terry with high batting marks and strong run production across teams Phillies Athletics Giants Senators andWS.
Prices paid to farmers for eggs butter lard potatoes onions apples beans and fruits. Listings show per dozen or per bushel rates with assorted small quantities and range notes. Includes new potatoes onions sweet potatoes apples green beans blue plums blue grapes corn wheat and other produce with typical rural market figures.
Do You Recall Highly seven city men and nine tyreight from the county were ord ec red to report to the draft board for examinations. Eastern Shore tomato growers lament that 50,000 bushels of red variety tomatoes turned yellow and unmarketable. Edward Zimmerman, former member of Company B, reported killed.
A train mishap near Shennan doah Junction is noted alongside theater attractions featuring Mary Pickford in M'sLiss and Sessue Hayakawa in The White Man's Laws. A high reputed citizen reported counting 136 drunks on Hagerstown streets on a Saturday. Democratic candidates for County Commissioners and the Maryland Prohibition Convention scheduled for September 3 are mentioned. Dove hunting activity and William T. Hamilton Jr. achieving thirty in an afternoon at Clear Spring are also recorded.
Years ago today the Pope Company started manufacturing its 1904 model bicycles with an expected output of 40,000. Key figures include Martin Baer of Western Pike, D. Joseph Witmer, and N. C. Bocard of Beaver Creek, noted in the report.
Baltimore grain markets report No. 2 red winter wheat at 1.54 in August and September bids, with August delivery. A separate baseball note highlights Burleigh Grimes Dazzy Vance and Jess Haines of the Cardinals, all around 40 years old, combining nearly 650 major league wins.
Andrew J. Volstead aged 73, one of the drafters of the nation’s act, resumes legal work in Granite Falls Minnesota. He has leased space above a drug store for a modest office after recently serving as prohibition administrator in California and Minnesota prior postings.
Gordon Rhodes starred at bat and on the mound to steer the Boston Red Sox to an easy 8 to 1 victory over the Chicago White Sox in the seventh and final game of their long series. The contest connected through Chicago on August 25 and highlighted Rhodes' strong all around performance.
Hollywood notes that teenage actress Dorothy Coonan, known for a freckled face, seeks 100000 pounds of freckle insurance after facing public cameras. Her contract includes provisions about freckle tone adjustments and job insecurity in the film industry.
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