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Newspaper
The Daily Mail
Location
Hagerstown, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1928
Page
2
Governor Ritchie names Oscar F. Lackey of Baltimore to succeed John N. Mackall as chairman while Mackall remains chief engineer. Change follows a conference and requires no legislative action under existing law.
The salary figures show the chairman at 4800 dollars and the chief engineer at 8000 dollars. The proposed separation aligns with J. J. Nelligan’s commission survey on the State Roads administration. Governor Ritchie backs the commission’s call for a treasurer and an auditor, to be created by act of the Legislature. Lackey is noted as harbor engineer for Baltimore during Mayors Mahool and Preston.
Advertisement claims olive tablets cleanse the system, ease stomach troubles, and tone the liver. It promotes improved appearance and energy for men and women, describing the product as a vegetable, non griping laxative priced at 15c 36c and 60c.
Professor Windaus of the University of Gottingham, Germany, wins the 1928 Nobel Prize in chemistry for his derivation of Vitamin D, now recognized as a cure for rickets.
Edith Goetz of Camp Hill Penn and Stanley Kohanski of Baltimore aged 24 were married in Hagerstown and arrested in Washington while honeymooning. Licensing records list Kohanski as Rochinski aged 24 and Goetz as 19. Goetz rumored to be 16. Capt Hyde Speese led Harrisburg detectives to the arrest. Milton Frush visited cousins near Huyetts recently.
The article notes four Scout mantels missing from the council office and asks that any who borrowed merit badge pamphlets return them. It announces monthly Board of Review dates and Court of Honor in January, plus reports on various Troops 2, 4, 6, 18, 44, 7, 10, 11, and 12 with meetings, elections, awards, contests, talks, and upcoming events led by leaders like J B Ferguson and R J Kelley.
Mrs. Nettie Cummings of Pittsburgh credits Ten Herbs with dramatic relief from indigestion constipation and nervous insomnia after years of diet limits dizziness and blurring vision. She reports improved appetite better sleep and restored strength after only a few bottles and endorses the medicine for public help. Wareham and Hagistown drugstores carry Ten Herbs.
Misses Dorothy and Julia Wastler of Loys Maryland have returned home after spending Thanksgiving with their sister Mrs. P F Fleagle on Fairground Avenue.
Reduce stomach pain with Phillips Milk of Magnesia a tasteless dose neutralizes acids quickly. Since 1875 it has been a physician trusted remedy for excess stomach acids. Use in water for fast relief, available in 25 and 50 cent bottles at drugstores.
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