Teacher and class locked in one room schoolhouse
Mrs Valeria Jones, a teacher at Orchard Ridge School in Hancock district, says a group of rabbit hunters locked the front door and blocked exits with a heavy wire grating. Pupils and teacher pried open a cellar access, a boy crawled through a window to fetch a key, and they escaped without charges. No Trespassing signs were posted around the grounds.
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Orchard Ridge
Hancock
Valeria Jones
Yale
Jones
Bills Recommitted in Cumberland County Delegation
In Annapolis Maryland December bills setting an eight hour day for Cumberland laborers and capping Allegany teachers pay cuts at ten percent for the current fiscal year were recommitted to the county delegation on the Ways and Means Committee recommendation.
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Annapolis
Cumberland
Allegany County
House
Ways and Inzans Committee
Board of Education Plans Brick Addition With Cloak Room
The Board outlines a brick construction addition featuring a stone cloak room for the Grand Jury and a foundation with new toilets. Corridors will connect the addition to the main building on both floors, and the exterior will generally conform to the present architecture.
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Board of Education
Grand Jury
Kellogg Idais Mine Gunker Hill Depth Below Sea Level
In the Coeur d'Alene mountains Kellogg Idais sits with the Gunker Hill mine's lowest point at 77 feet below sea level.
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Kellogg
Idais
Coeur d’Alene Mountains
Gunker Hill
Fresno State students misspell ecstasy thirty eight times
In a spelling match at Fresno State College in California, contestants attempted to spell the word ecstasy and produced thirty eight different misspellings, highlighting struggle with the word’s tricky spelling.
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Fresno State College
Cal
Courthouse Addition Planned for Washington County
Work to start soon on a Civil Works administration funded wing to the Washington County Courthouse. Architect A J Klinkhart has plans for a 24240 foot addition at the southeast corner with fireproof vaults and new first and second floor offices. The project, costing about 25000 dollars, has state approval in Baltimore and includes new sheriff and assessor areas and relocated toilets.
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Washington County
Civil Works Administration
A. J. Klinkhart
State Adinistrator
Baltimore
Sheriff's Office
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Orchard Ridge School
Salicon
Fifi D’orsay
Maurice Hill
Chicago
Fifi
Associated Press
Flere
Foley Pille
Hagerstown
Frances Northcross
the Herald-Mail
Cooking
General Electric
Schindel, Rohrer & Co. Inc
South Potomac St
Hagerstown Dairy
Herald-Mail Cooking School
Mrs. Northcross
Hagerstown Dairy CO
South
Potomac St
Waynesboro
Waynesboro, Pa
Ramm OL Tai
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