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Newspaper
The Daily Mail
Location
Hagerstown, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jan 14, 1929
Page
3
Communications addressed to the Daily Mail Editorial and Business departments note S E Phillips as General Manager and indicate post office entry as second class matter. The snippet mentions total paid circulation figures from November 1928 to November 1937 with gains implied.
A compact saying from Holmes or a devotional note references Mark 7 36 about secrecy and wisdom. It notes that while a secret may be wisdom, expecting others to keep it is folly. The line suggests beware the urge to reveal truths prematurely.
A St. Louis speakeasy patron heroically eats two dollars worth of sandwiches to aid friends under federal scrutiny. Officers question the purchase, eat the sandwiches in bulk, and arrest the bartender. The tale underscores courage and sacrifice amid prohibition era tensions.
Noted Harvard astronomer Dr Harlow Shapley challenges the idea that Earth is a tiny speck in the universe. He argues our local star group is a major continental cluster, five times larger than average, offering renewed human significance amid expanding knowledge and pessimism about science.
Colonel William B. Greeley argues in American Forests and Forest Life that the government underfunds fire protection, buying only a fraction of needed equipment. He estimates a $3 million requirement to prevent losses, warning that scant protection risks immense timber losses in bad fire years, citing 1910’s nearly $15 million National Forest timber loss. Congress should review policy.
The piece argues Congress should uphold constitutional reapportionment via the Fenn bill as a measure of its integrity. It mocks evasions and links political conformity to broader public virtue, then shifts to a string of humorous, era-specific vignettes on politics, dairy cartons, family life, diet fads, and consumer credit for airplanes.
A Massachusetts woman sues her husband for divorce claiming he knocked out several of her teeth and refused to pay her dental bill, after she stayed up late practicing scales on a trip.
Well meaning supporters push for a treaty among great powers to renounce poison gas. The piece argues such a pact would be easily signed but ineffective since nations would abandon none of their strategic gas stockpiles in future warfare.
Coffee flavored bread pudding moistened with coffee instead of milk. serves with thin cream or custard. For lamb chops or fried chicken, thin orange slices with a small rim of pimento create a decorative garnish.
Eastern standard time schedule charts many radio stations with frequencies and program lineups. Listings cover WEAF WJZ WOR WABC WLWL WPG WEAL WCAU KDKA WHAM WGY WSB WETC WSM W RVA WWVA WGN WLIT WTAM WCXO WBFO and other outlets detailing afternoon dinners, orchestras, dances, news, and special segments across cities like New York Newark Philadelphia Baltimore and Chicago.
San Francisco January 4 Slayer of wife discloses a pact to kill a woman and then let the state take charge of his own death. Turkey Sending Medal Angora January 14 Mrs Evangeline Lindbergh departs for Constantinople carrying a Turkish aviation league medal for her famous son.
Dr Morris Fishbein explains salt as sodium chloride is essential beyond flavoring. It is tied to bodily balance, cravings signal deficiency, and intake should avoid over salting as the body regulates needs. Meat eaters obtain salt from animal blood, while vegetables and fruits supply less salt.
Warner Mizell Georgia Tech halfback declined a film contract after a Hollywood screen test during a trip to play California. A big studio offered to halt his schooling for immediate work, but he wants to think it over and discuss with his parents before deciding.
A fragmentary verse by Edgar A. Guest reflects on the power of careless words to wound and endure. The speaker laments how pain can be both hard to bear and easier to cure, while words can smite with invisible scars that never fully heal.
A poem on how scorn can transform friendship and how words wound. Mr and Mrs Wilbur Jennings and family of Browneville were recent callers of C D Coffman and family, illustrating social visiting patterns in the era.
In an age when so many folks forget anniversaries an easy way to give friends pleasure is to take a new calendar and go through it with your book of birthdays writing the name of friends and relatives over their birth dates A card that reaches one on that day of days never fails to please.
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