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Newspaper
The Daily Mail
Location
Hagerstown, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jan 12, 1929
Page
2
Partial OCR shows address lines for the Pally Mail Editor and business departments. Mentions general manager B Phillips and second class matter. Includes Associated Press copyright language and rights statement, with unclear further details due to damage.
A dated quotation fragment cites Omos 5 23 praising listening to songs and viols while noting that among liberal arts, rhetoric and arts influence passions and deserve emphasis by leaders. The text pairs a biblical style line with a Napoleon remark on arts guiding passions and public encouragement.
A New York minister laments Americas lack of genius noting prosperity without leaders in art. He cites a desire for an American Shakespeare or Michelangelo and contrasts arts with industry while praising Ford Edison Wright and others shaping a world where mind guides matter.
The speaker argues that a different kind of work is essential and spiritual and that future generations will produce singers and artists as the nation matures. It highlights the value of enduring, albeit unconventional, cultural contributions.
Theodore Fortune faced court on charges of listening at doors and hotel windows for gossip, then relaying what he heard to guests. He pleaded guilty and awaits sentence in a $500 bail case that revived a rarely used colonial statute.
Carl Snyder of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York told the American Statistical Association in Chicago that the United States has about 40,000 millionaires. He traced growth since 1914 when Amelia had around 7,000, crediting wartime gains and the stock boom, despite tensions in textiles, coal, and farming.
A string of quirky notes touches on an embezzler in Ohio who claimed liquor purchases, rumors of a robin sighting from motorists, Mussolini’s warning tone, stock market luck, Carlyle’s hired song, a desire to avoid umpires, and medical corps advisories to skip kisses during influenza, all reflecting a noisy, humorous column of stray observations.
Poem honors Edgar A. Guest mourning his death with lines extolling his ascent to a better life beyond earthly pain. The verse suggests he has found a "richer world" and clearer sight, while comforting mourners that he has overcome strife and failure.
Washington gossip notes how Herbert Hoover's long standing collar sparks political reactions among conservatives who see steadfast tradition in the White House while progressives worry it signals inflexibility. The piece also visits cheerful radio figure Cheerio and Paulina Longworth's Washington visits amid the Taft era connections.
A spectacular downtown fire at the Seneca Hotel in Seattle was brought under control early today. Ten guests trapped in their rooms were carried out unconscious, while the remaining 20 guests escaped with warning from the night clerk. Most smoke victims were reached by fire ladders. no serious injuries reported. The fire also damaged the Victoria Hotel and nearby buildings.
Washington dispatch reports that all Army officers below major must study cooking to ensure soldiers get enough to eat. The order aims to improve mess standards and feeding of troops.
In New York on January 11 Maude Adams plans to lecture after returning from India and is set to film Kim, a project that has long intrigued her. She has lived a cloistered life, with few details of her comings and goings shared beyond intimate friends. Broadway whispers persist about her attending premieres while rumors of a nun’s life faded.
Dr Morris Fishbein reports Hygeia editor Dr Van Duyne studied 212 senior girls at a prominent school. Findings show 39 percent had deformed feet on entry and 2 percent at graduation, with high heels linked to foot defects backaches fatigue and increased injury risk. Emphasizes proper fitted shoes to prevent misery.
Star of American stage Miss Maude Adams has been living a reclusive life for five years as an experimental scientist at General Electric in Schenectady New York. Reports say she is pursuing a new color photography project while balancing plans to film Kipling's Kim. Rumors swirl about India shoots, a pending Kipling option, and a Broadway return through dramatic recitals with manager Charles Wagner guiding a televised comeback.
The Department of Commerce estimates the average American family today has more than a third more purchasing power than it did in 1914, reflecting long term gains in real incomes and living standards.
In Paris the Petit Restaurant on Rue Hippolyta Sedas remains the world’s smallest eatery, run by a proprietor who refuses expansion. He serves only five at one table despite rising demand. Mr and Mrs Arthur Coldsmith are also noted as the proud parents of a son.
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