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Newspaper

The Daily Mail

Location

Hagerstown, Maryland, United States of America

Date

Dec 30, 1938

Page

3

Daily Mall Establishment Notice and Publishing Details

Daily Mail details publishing schedule and address information for The Mall Publishing Company including office locations in Baltimore New York Chicago Atlanta and contacts. It notes subscription rates and rights of publication by The Associated Press and reserves special dispatch rights.

BAWKE National Burke, Rulgers and Mahoney, Inc Ney Chicago Graybar N. Wabash Lerington Ave Atlanta Glenn Daily Mall B. Phillips Pl’ de Blember Bureau of Circulation Associated Press

Menace of Rifles Among Boys Prompts Police Warning

Captain McCleary regrets Christmas gifts of male and air rifles to boys. Richard Smith was struck by a lead pellet and hospitalized. Police claim rifles in youth hands violate the law and orders to arrest bars found with such weapons. Parents urged to cooperate to prevent serious trouble.

McClearr Richard Smith Captain McCleary

The Holidays and the New Year Mood in Ian's View

The article reflects on the Christmas to New Year period as a transitional week of parties, reflection, and planning. It links seasonal change to life’s cycles, notes how resolutions follow relaxation, and discusses Congress as a questionable source of magic in budgeting and federal affairs.

Rej Congress

Hon ors for the Brontes memorial in Westminster Abbey

American readers learn that Emily Charlotte and Anne Bronte will be honored with a Westminster Abbey memorial. The Brontes are praised for literary impact, notably Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights, with dramatizations in the US and UK.

Emily Charlotte Anne Bronte Great Britain Westminster Abbey Brontes Jane Eyre United States England Hogland Bronte

Gargantua Goes Abroad in The Greatest Show News

Gargantua the Great, famed gorilla, has left the United States after touring, photographed and written about by critics, and lionized by crowds. With the Greatest Show on Earth failing financially, Gargantua sails to Europe seeking new attention and kinship among notable figures.

Gargantua United States Jie Earth Garganina Europe

Washington Daybook on presidential patronage and appointments

The incoming Congress complicates the Presidents plans as he withholds key appointments. He may use Supreme Court, ambassadorships, and federal posts as strategic tools to influence legislation, with high paying roles including 16 district judges and eight district attorneys. The move aims to leverage congressional action while risking political fallout.

Washington Congress Federal Trade Commission Supreme Court Senator Black Supreme Cort Senate Black Cardozo Russia Canada Iran Persia Circuit Court District of Columbia Federal Reserve Board Federal Power Interstate Commerce Federal Home Loan Bank Board T.va Harry Hopkins

How's Your Health Muscle Strains and Treatments in History

An excerpt explains two types of muscle strains functional and traumatic and outlines differing treatments. Functional soreness results from prolonged effort and fatigue, relieved by heat, massage, and exercise. Traumatic strain follows sudden injury, with immediate pain and swelling. treatment uses ice first then heat, with rest as key. The piece notes the first permanent English settlement in America was in Virginia.

America Virginia

Cross Word Puzzle Debuts With Clues and Answers

A scrambled crossword puzzle page presents clues and answers across and down with names like Israelit and Chagel lawgiver. Partial word fragments, scattered numbers, and misread letters suggest a dense puzzle layout typical of a historical newspaper segment. The puzzle blends varied topics from geography to general knowledge, inviting solver participation.

Artifice Spike of Flowers Proprietor New Star Targetuhs Miladx

Just Folks Poking the Fire Poem Fragment

A poem fragment describes the speaker staking a playful claim to poke the fire amid family scenes. The child recalls echoes of a father’s urging to “Move back a bit” and a mother’s quiet presence as logs burn. Themes of whimsy, control, and the spark of imagination arise from the home hearth.

Miss Nellie McCardell Weds Dr Hoffmeir in Hagerstown

In a formal ceremony led by Rev. Spangler Kieffer, Miss Nellie McCardell daughter of Mr and Mrs Wilfred H McCardell, married Dr Frank N Hoffmeir a noted young Hagerstown physician. Auctions at the court house sold nine fronting Harbaugh farm properties in Conococheague to Welty Clopper for 1220 dollars.

Nellie McCardell Wilfred H. McCardell Frank N. Hoffmeir Hagerstown 4. Spangler Kieffer Ion Reformed Church Jacob E. Fisher Joseph Murdock J. C. Bolinger Court House Harbaugh Conococheague District Welty Clopper

Years Ago Today in Hagerstown Boomed Building Plans

Emmet W Gans, president of the Chamber of Commerce, predicted 1924 would be the biggest boom in local building. Clerk of Courts records show 2975 deeds and mortgages filed, 1958 marriage licenses, and 99 divorces. An 80 attendee Frolic featured novel games and boxing. The Potomac Edison merger valued newly formed company property at about 22 million dollars. Market prices: Wheat 1 06, corn 1 00, flour 6 00, oats 62 cents.

Emmet W. Gans Chamber of Commerce Hagerstown Clerk of Courts Potomac Edison Company

Juvenile Singles and Fair Play Note Lines

A juvenile singles item notes pay bills first in a will context, and youngsters learn fair play by rules. A quip says the best way to kill the devil is to prevent delinquency, while a vaudeville line references an invention ending the devil.

Dad

Norfolk and Western announces six and a half million dollar rail program

Roanoke, December 30. Norfolk and Western Railway unveiled a six and a half million dollar construction and repair program adding ten large freight locomotives to its shops. This follows an earlier six million one hundred thousand dollar plan for twelve thousand tons of steel rails and fastenings plus 1500 new hopper cars and six hundred new steel box cars. In another note a speeding driver is blamed for the death of a large cat named Skippy owned by Mr and Mrs W H Cauffman of Broadway.

Roanoke Norfolk and Western Railway W. H. Cauffman Broadway

New Year's Love and a Web of Love and Music

Noel Marchand navigates a tangle of romance and ambition as David Narrows, Allan Collings, and Elaine drift through her life. The revived script and theater plans collide with Noel's emotional pull between a dying lover and a returning, ardent admirer. Amid New Year celebrations, secrets surface and loyalties shift in a restless, melodramatic mood.

Swanstrom Noel Susan Douglas Dixon Allan Elaine Palm Beach David Cairo Jovnus Noel Angela Lorde

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