31 Jan 1929
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Newspaper
The Daily Mail
Location
Hagerstown, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1929
Page
1
New York story notes Nathan Straus celebrating his 81st birthday offers a health tip. He urges doing something good for others each day to shift focus away from self. Making this a habit helps prevent illness.
A carpet declared as the world’s largest has been laid in the tea lounge of the New Empire Theater in London. It was woven in Czecho Slovakia because no loom here could handle its size. The rug costs $35 per square yard.
Edgar Shank stayed with the Foley and Hoke families in Hagerstown on Sunday. Numerous friends and relatives visited, including Rev G C Carpenter, Allen Longs, Gladys Shipley, Mary Mason, Minnie Cling, the Nalley family, Edmund Baker, Sylvester Marshall and children, Mary Martin, Thelma Marshall, Qmer Goodland, and many others. A horse incident injured Homer Cavanaugh at Dinsmore stable. Lewis Downey pallbearers.
Mrs Bertha Underwood widow of late Senator Oscar W Underwood shown leaving their estate near Washington for the trip to Birmingham Alabama where he was buried. With her is Charles T M Lewis lifelong friend of the Alabama senator.
Transpacific pilot Martin Jensen failed to set a new solo endurance record as a forced landing halted his flight off Long Island. After a perilous takeoff at Curtiss Field he flew two hours over Long Island Sound before smoking from the motor forced a landing on a narrow beach near Northport.
The Register of Wills reports 26 administrations opened in January 1927, up from 25 in the same month last year and 46 started year to date this year.
An advertisement touts Dr Edwards Olive Tablets as a wholesome cleanse for the system and a liver tonic to restore beauty and vigor. It promises a blemish free complexion, improved energy, and freedom from bad taste and stomach troubles, with olive colored tablets sold for 30c and 60c.
A wake stirred by a tailskid did not injure Jensen and caused no damage to the plane upon landing.
Blanche Ring argues that theatrical folk should not marry each other and that her husband Charles Wihminger, from whom she is separated after 16 years, should have a home sort of wife while he is not the type for a domesticated woman. Also notes the death of University of South Dakota President Slagle in Indianapolis.
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