Baltimore City Prohibition Enforcement Act Moves
In Annapolis the 1929 Maryland legislature nears clash as a bill to enforce prohibition in Baltimore City gains House and Senate support. Speaker E Brooke Lee attacks the measure as local overreach while Crabbe of the Anti Saloon League pushes the act resurrected from 1924. Debate promises a heated fight.
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Annapolis
House
Baltimore City
E. Brooke Lee
Senate
Antisaloon League
Lee
Anti-Saloon League
Baltimore
Crabbe
David Robb
Cumberland
George W. Crabbe
Anti- Saloon League
DHL
Earnings do not justify Western Maryland stock price
Western Maryland common stock around 43 dollars trades at about 20 times earnings. The 1928 earnings were 2.20 a share on 508000 shares, versus 3.22 a share in 1927. The market may overvalue the property amid Eastern railroad consolidations, with control of the road nearing settlement. The Connellsville link under construction will cost the road nothing and may boost traffic, while Taplin interests loom as a potential game changer.
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Western Maryland
Eastern Railroad
Taplins
Maryland
Connellsville
Lee Towson Remains in Critical Condition
Lee Towson son of Mr and Mrs Arthur H Towson of Smithsburg and Cornell student remains in critical condition after pneumonia illness about a week. His mother has stayed at his bedside and his father faced travel to Ithaca New York. Towson was a former St James School football star and Cornell varsity player. Senator Charles Curtis leases Vice Presidential suite at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington after March 4 inauguration.
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Lée Towson
Arthur H. Towson
Smithsburg
Cornell University
Washington
Charles Curtis
Kansas
Mayflower Hotel
Wild Man of Borneo Buried in Wisconsin Graveyard
Platt esville Wisconsin January 17 The original Wild Man of Borneo was buried in Greenwood Cemetery yesterday Sylvester Hendershot was the name on the headstone He was 82 and had spent his last years in poor health at the Grant County poor farm For 20 years Hendershot was Barnums wild man Then domestic trouble and his wife and their five children left him He was found in a shack near the farm last week cold hungry and dying.
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Plattesville
Wig
Greenwood Cemetery
Sylvester Hendershot
Grant County
Hendershot
Barnum
Walters Trial Likely As Appeals Court Grants New Hearing
Attorneys for Reginald E. Walters, convicted killer of Prohibition officer Hunter R. Stotler, prepare for a retrial after the Court of Appeals granted a new hearing. The case may be set for the February circuit term if the mandate arrives from Annapolis. otherwise it awaits the May term. Walters has spent over a year jailed awaiting the ruling, and the court’s opinion cited improper admission of statements in his confession claiming self defense.
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Reginald E. Walters
Hunter R. Stotler
Prohibition
Court of Appeals
E. R. Roulette
A. S. Mason
Clieuit
Annapolis
Daily Mail
Walters
Hope
W. H. Adkins
Stotler
Colonial Maryland note found by Williamsport man
Co R. Claggett Sr of Williamsport recently acquired a colonial currency note for two dollars. The small heavy paper piece, dated January 1 1767 in Annapolis, bears Blonden J Clapham's ink signature and Maryland coat of arms. The reverse lists printer Jonas Green and an anti counterfeit warning.
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R. Claggett, Sr
Williamsport
Maryland
London
Assembly of
Annapolis
Blonden J. Clapham
Jonas Green
Counter Feit
Marshal Foch Improves, Doctors Say
Paris January 17 report that Marshal Ferdinand Foch is somewhat better today after a long bedside consultation. Doctors issued a bulletin noting a slight improvement observed over the past three days and said the trend was continuing.
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Paris
Ferdinand Foch
Five Teens Hold Up Park Avenue Jewelry Store
Five young men held up the Park Avenue jewelry shop of G Mauboussin in New York shortly before noon today escaping with gems valued at about 200 000 dollars. They forced the safe and shaw cases and fled.
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New York
Park Avenue
G. Mauboussin
Shaw
Moats Released From Jail in Support Case
Roy Moats of Williamsport was released from Chambersburg jail on his own recognizance after an arrest on November 15 for failure to support his three children. The complaint was filed by Mrs. Gertrude Meckley, aunt of the children.
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Moats
Roy Moats
Williamsport
Chambersburg
Gertrude Meckley
What Our Public Health Nurses Do in Hagerstown
In a typical Hagerstown morning two nurses of the Public Health Association cared for a mother and newborn, two diphtheria patients, a paralytic, a seriously burned youth, and conducted diphtheria cultures to check spread. All patients were unable to pay for nursing services.
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Hagerstown
Washington County
Public Health Association
95 Pound Wife Cruel To Him
Chicago court hears divorce suit by Policeman John Belskey who accuses his wife of cruelty. He recounts being slapped punched and tossed during the altercation and claims she seized his revolver and threw him from the house. Proceedings proceed with the judge to decide.
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Chicago
John Belskey
Discoverer of rare disease dies at 54 in Washington
Dr Joseph Goldberger a United States public health service scientist died at Naval Hospital Washington at age 54 after months of illness linked to pellagra studies. He suffered prior illnesses including typhus fever yellow fever and dengue. A post mortem was planned to determine the cause of his fatal illness. His work advanced pellegra understanding and is believed to have saved thousands.
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Washington
Joseph Goldenberger
United States Public Health Service
Naval Hospital
G. W. McCoy
The
Health Service
Lrienic Laboratory
Goldenberger
Goldberger
Mexico City
Brownsville
Texas
Minister Sues Over Broke Promise in New York Case
Miss Betty Randolph, former actress and thrice divorced, was served with a summons in a breach of promise suit filed by Rev Bartholomew J. Chudacek of Philadelphia. The engagement to the minister, announced last June, ended with three dates for the marriage not materializing. Also, Paramount’s new million dollar sound stage burned in Hollywood.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Betty Randolph
Bartholomew J. Chudacek
Philadelphia
Randiph
School Board Considers Consolidation Proposals Around Huyetts
A special Board of Education hearing on consolidating schools near Huyetts is planned for tomorrow with patrons from Walnut Point Sylvan Grove Rock Hill and Broadfording expected to attend. Weekly sessions will run on Tuesdays for four weeks to hear recommendations. Sandy Hook patrons may seek consolidation and a district high school to serve 31 pupils currently attending Frederick County High in Brunswick.
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Huyetts
Board of Education
Walnut Point
Sylvan Grove
Rock Hill
Frederick County
Brunswick
Kellogg Peace Treaty Signed by President Coolidge
President Coolidge signed ratification of the Kellogg treaty to renounce war in the East Room of the White House. Senators and cabinet officers witnessed, with notification going to 14 other signatories and one final step remaining to exchange copies for archival deposits.
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Washington
Coolidge
Senate
White House
Goldsborough to Speak at Lincoln Day Dinner
United States Senator elect Phil Lips Lee Goldsborough will speak at the Lincoln Day banquet on February 12 in the Masonic Temple. The dinner is sponsored by the Young Men's Republican Club with help from a Republican women’s committee.
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United States
Phillips Lee Goldsborough
Senator Goldsborough
Young Men’s
Republican Club
Babe Ruth mourns wife after tragic death in Watertown fire
Boston January 17 Babe Ruth views his wife’s body for the first time since the fire at Dr Edward H Kinder’s Watertown home raised questions about the cause. He prays at the casket as floral tributes arrive from Yankees figures. Ruth plans funeral in New York and burial in Calvary cemetery with a Requiem Mass set for St Augustine’s South Boston. Dorothy Ruth attends, while district attorney and fire marshal deny accidental death theories.
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Boston
Baba Ruth
Ruth
Joanna Woodford
Aators
Jacob Ruppert
New York Yankees
Miller Huggins
Lon Gehris
Babe
Calvary Cemetery
St. Augustine’s Church
New York
Dorothy
Academy of the Assumption
Wellesley
Robert T. Bushnell
Georg
Neal
Church Plans Mail Campaign to Reach Nonattenders
NEW YORK, Jan. 77. A mall campaign to take the church to those who do not go to church is planned by the Protestant Episcopal Church. The plan modeled after big mail order houses was outlined before the annual synod of the province of New York, New Jersey and Porto Rico at Garden City, Long Island. Rev. Gabriel Farrell of Rhinebeck said the effort aims to make the most irreligious sections of the country religion conscious. Questionnaires will be mailed to prospects asking them to outline the field of religion in which they are interested and literature on that subject will be forwarded.
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New York
Protestant Episcopal Church
New Jersey
Porto Rico
Garden City
Long Island
Gabriel Farrell
Rhinebeck
N.Y
Smallpox Case Reported Here in Hagerstown
Smallpox appeared in Hagerstown with a quarantine on a Randolph avenue home. two county cases reported from Rohrersville earlier. Authorities expect no outbreak with isolation. About 200 city homes quarantined for scarlet fever though most cases mild. one doctor notes more severe cases than in five years. Influenza in public schools improving. attendance near normal per Superintendent Grimes. Officials continue precautions and sickness checks among pupils.
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Hagerstown
Randolph Avenue
Robrersville
B. J. Grimes
Pupi
Mechanics Bank Board Election Update
Stockholders of the Mechanics Loan and Savirts Bank will elect directors this afternoon. The existing board includes Henry Holzapfel Alexander Armstrong R. M. Hays Dr A P Stauffer J Frank Roessner and Mayor Reuben Nusey. The board will organize next Monday to elect a president to succeed the late J Frank Beek.
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Ers
Mechanics Loan and Savirtus Bank
Henry Holzapfel
Alexander Armstrong
R. M. Hays
A. Pp. Stauffer
J. Frank Roessner
Reuben Nusey
Frank 8S
Beek
Hoover Goes to Miami for a Month
President elect Hoover will depart Washington on January 17 for Minot Beach Florida to stay just over a month as guest of J C Penny on Belle Isle. He will attend a monster all star demonstration in Miami in honor of his visit to Florida and meet state officials. He plans to fish tarpon and other large game fish and return two weeks before inauguration to continue Republican talks.
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Washington
Hoover
Minot Beach
Florida
J. C. Penny
Belle Isle
Miami
Miami Beach
Fenny Estate
King Shows Improvement, Bulletin From Buckingham Palace
London January 17 A favorable bulletin from the King's doctors described improvements since the illness began and was posted at Buckingham Palace at noon today. King George VI shows steadier condition and better strength after recent treatments and rest, officials said.
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London
Buckingham Palace
Slight Decrease In Bank Deposits This Week
A slight decrease in weekly bank debits is shown for the week ending January 16. Debits this year total $2,642,000 versus $2,678,000 last year, a drop of $36,000.
Former local youth acquitted in Indiana murder case
Harvey L. Smith once a private detective and evangelist was acquitted in Superior Court at Elkhart Indiana of the murder of Mrs. Genevieve Stults. The sealed verdict followed a five-ballot jury and a daylong trial attended by his father Thomas Smith. Stults disappeared in 1928 and bones found later identified her body with a crushed skull and found in a lime pile near Mishawaka. Smith admitted paying $50 to scare her out of town but said he turned the money over to two strangers.
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Harvey L. Smith
Elkhart
Ind
Smith
Thomas Smith
Hagerstown
Thom Smith
Carnival Bark and Evangelist
Stults
Wunter
South Bend
Charles Reyher
That City
Jack Kimball
Reyher
Change Plea On Robberies Involving Mentzer and Kenhour
Jonathan Mentzer 26 near Waynesboro confessed to eight thefts after being shot in the leg and withdrawing his denial of guilt. Samuel Kenhour near Boonsboro also admitted to thefts, implicating five companions in jail. Mentzer’s leg infection developed as authorities traced Kenhour to the Boonsboro home for medical help.
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Jonathan Mentzer
Waynesboro
Samuel
Kenhour
Boonsboro
Mentzer
Itenhour
Ice on Streets Triggers Minor Wrecks Across Hagerstown
Ice on streets causes several minor automobile accidents with bent fenders and falls but no serious injuries in Hagerstown and surrounding county as warmer weather is forecast to melt ice tonight. In Portstown, Ohio two section crew members for Baltimore and Ohio were killed instantly and five others injured when struck by a freight locomotive at daybreak. In Miami Beach, Judge Carlos R Hardy is ousted by the American Bar Association amid allegations of a 312,500 check from Aimee Semple McPherson.
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Hagerstown
Weather Bureau
Portstownx
Ohio
Baltimore, and Ohio
Miami Beach
Fla
American Bar Association
Carlos R. Hardy
Aimea Semple McPherson
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Lee Towson
Marshal Foch
Rasputin
Russia
Holy Devil
Marie Rasputin
Berlin
Lfe
Zar
Sues
Serge Burns
Hollywood
Cal
Paramount
Goldsborough
Babe Ruth
Tor
Herbert Pennock
Church Plans Mail Campaign
Mechanics Bank Board
King
Doctors
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