17 Jan 1927
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Newspaper
The Daily Mail
Location
Hagerstown, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1927
Page
1
Hagerstown shows a 25 percent population gain since 1929. Current population listed at 73,085 versus 23,064 in 1920, with 33,077 at the 1926 start. Projections suggest 50,000 within a decade, based on a Census Bureau survey and figures from 1919 to 1920.
Mexican laborers aboard the British steamship Kasey Islen were loading here Thursday when a gasoline explosion occurred. The death toll reached 23 as authorities assessed the wreck and injuries.
Hagerstown reports 5,310 active domestic water services at 1919, 6,538 at 1925, and 6,84 at 1926, a 28.8 percent rise. Public school enrollment climbs from 4,926 in 1919 to 5,044 in 1926, with a 25.8 percent increase. Paris notes a cemetery sign saying buried remain 85,000+ in the city’s population. Across city departments, 1927 occupation survey lists males and females in agriculture, mining, manufacturing, and other sectors with notable totals in public service and clerical work.
An advertisement touts a vegetable extract remedy 5.5.8.7 and 9.5.8.8 for rheumatism with testimonials including Earl C. Campbell from Johnson City Tennessee. It claims long trial history, multiple formulations, and notes distribution via drug stores in two sizes, urging readers to try the product.
City firemen have been constantly responding to chimney and heater fires since Saturday night as freezing conditions sparked multiple blazes. An explosion damaged the Mull er Os bore residence on Cannon Avenue, while a Brun baugh home and other sites reported fires. crews battled flames and saved homes amid hazardous, frigid conditions.
The Auxiliary to the Esch Rope Order of Railway Conductors of Ha ferstown hosted Grand Deputy Sarah Shiptey and sisters from Baltimore Washington Martinsburg and Brunswick for a recent installation. Officers installed included president Mrs J B Shulin and vice president Mrs Dolan Shank with secretary Mrs E G Carbaugh and several other officers.
Mrs Hila Georgs a guard and Mrs DB Smeak presided with sisters Mrs William Hart and Mrs Jacul Williams of High Rock Division No 160. Following installation a ban was served. Attendees agreed there is a surplus population and discussed the 83 surplus figures to reach agreement.
Mrs. Gertrude SteGandlich, 180 years old and formerly of Mageratown, died after a motorcycle with two male passengers struck a wagon on Monroe Street in Bullmore Saturday night. Teal and Fothereill were injured and hospitalized. police investigate. Surviving relatives include Joseph Griffith, Ada Dunabaugh, Emme Bowman, and Julia Widurunaa.
The funeral for a Baltimore resident named in the fragment will be held from her sister’s house at 4438 Michellaveaug on Tuesday at 2 30 in the afternoon. The Rev Rives will conduct the services for interment at La Fose Hill Cemetery.
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