04 Jan 1913
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Newspaper
The Daily Mail
Location
Hagerstown, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1913
Page
1
A lengthy, OCR heavy notice details folding trains, schedules, and connections for the Western Maryland Railway and related lines through Hagerstown and surrounding towns, listing departures, arrivals, and Pullman service. It includes a legal notice about a valuable property sale in Maryland, describing heirs, payments, and court actions tied to a 19th century land transaction.
In Leltersturg District Washington County Maryland executors of Martha D Lerten offer for sale by public auction a tract of about one hundred acres with residence, mill and outbuildings, on the public road near Ascoba Church. The property includes a two story stone dwelling, multiple outbuildings, water works, and farm improvements, with deed histories dating to 1874 and prior. Sale enforced by court order dated May and December, with terms and conditions listed in the public notice.
An advertisement extols a product named Mother’s Friend, claiming it prepares the expectant mother for nature’s processes and helps the baby develop stronger. It describes benefits like easier labor, improved overall physical condition, and guidance for expectant mothers, urging readers to seek the product from Dradfield Regulator Co.
Fragmentary text references counties, treaties, companies, roads, and various persons with garbled names. No coherent event, date, or location emerges to form a definite news item.
A long readable fragment outlines morning and evening worship at St Pauls United Church in Wathen with pastor Rev B K Thomas. It notes Sunday and Wednesday services, Sunday school, choir, and church activities, plus references to other local churches and missions.
Readable fragments narrate Thanksgiving origins from early colonial hardship to the 17th century. Mentions Plymouth, harsh winters, scarce food, and the shift toward communal feasts and religious observance. Also references patrols in a city park and later public acknowledgments of a day of thanksgiving by Congress.
A partial OCR list shows items like peas nuts coal and stove parts with prices such as 68.80, 7.00, 4.50, and 4.25. The text mentions run of mine coal and lump coal and a Bere Bit fine of 8.00 in a chaotic catalog-like fragment.
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