Daily Mail official notice and masthead
The Daily Mail Hagerstown imprint shows established 1828 and publication details. Editor A Hawken, foreign reps in New York Chicago and Atlanta, with Associated Press affiliation and circulation data for May 1927.
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M. Burke, Inc
Graybar Building
Lexington Ave
New York
Michigan Ave
Chicago
Constitution Building
Atlanta
Georgia
Audit Bureau of Circulation
Daily Mail
Daily Thought Light Sown for the Righteous
A compact quotation item presenting two moral maxims. The first from Psalms variant emphasizes that light and gladness follow the upright, while the second attributed to Goethe notes deep shade with much light.
French Tribute to Herrick by Louis Forest in La Matin
The article praises Myron T. Herrick, United States ambassador to France, as a popular, personable diplomat who blends cordiality with duty. Louis Forest notes Herrick’s familiarity with Paris society, his ability to win favor with the public, and contrasts him with distant ministers who behave as mere officeholders. Herrick is described as a good scout who understands the crowd and remains in touch during his tenure.
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Myron T. Herrick
M. Louis Forest
la Matin
Lindbergh
Forest
Mr. Herrick
United States
Paris
Herrick
Ordi
Mudslingers Across Time and Columbus Controversy
A 2362 AD reflection questions Byrd and Lindbergh exploits and reinterprets Columbus legacy. French biographer Marius Andre claims Columbus was no navigator or hero, portraying him as a fraud and profiteer amid speculative past.
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Byrd
Pote
Atlantic
Christopher Columbus
Columbus
Marius Andre
Mail Pouch A Means of Bleaching Out Red Noses
A fragmented column mocks advertising quackery and social pieties. It jokes about drinking, dull children, and neighborly presence, while spoofing headlines about aviation claims attributed to George Washington. A playful aside predicts doom in August as youth social timing is questioned.
Haig and Haigage: Britain’s World War Myths Debunked
A critical column questions British claims of overwhelming 1918 strength and credits American troops for tipping the war. It argues that Britain and France exhausted their manpower earlier, and that European propaganda overstated American aid while dismissing the value of U S. dollars and troops.
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Britain
France
Ludendorff
Washington
America
American Banks Expand Abroad as U S Becomes World Banker
A Foreign Policy Association survey shows American investments overseas totaling 13 billion dollars plus 11 billion in war debts. In thirteen years American railroads were largely built with foreign capital and U S securities traded in major foreign markets. At WWI start the U S owed Europe about 600 million. now foreign enterprises and governments owe the United States nearly five times that.
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United States
Foreign Policy Association
Europe
Man’s Brain Evolves Through Time Says Dr Tilney
Dr Frederick Tilney argues the human brain has gradually grown over 500000 years with the frontal lobes expanding for thought and speech while sensory regions mature. He compares prehistoric skulls to apes, noting intermediate capabilities but not equaling modern man, and predicts further evolution remains possible.
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Frederick Tilney
New York
Greece
Tilney
I Didn’t Think and I Forgot in Just Folks
The poem rails at excuses I didn’t think and I forgot as the root of human failure. It traces the pair through history from Adam to modern life, noting how these phrases derail duties, ruin ships and trains, and burden humanity with avoidable pain. It urges memory and responsibility over careless excuses.
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Adam
Rye
Answers and Ansswers readers ask in The Herald
A reader quiz in The Herald explains how to send questions for Official Answers. The exchange covers keeping nuts in heat, the world’s largest suspension bridge, tar pitch history, and whether hornpoint catfish sting, with concise official responses and dates where available.
Quillim's Quill and Wartime Reflections
A fragmentary mosaic reflects on postwar disillusion and shifting opinions among boys toward lieutenants while a satirical tone questions popular songs and government scrutiny. It surveys parenting, virtue, and aged triumph in a stream of cultural observations.
Fourth case settled in Potomac Edison land dispute
Henry S. Snavely of near Downs ville was awarded 975 dollars by a Circuit Court jury after his land was condemned to provide a route for a Potomac Edison Company transmission line. An advertisement for an electric iron sale follows.
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Henry S$. Snavely
Downsville
Potomac-Edison Company
The Once Over by H S Phillips drives through city crawl
A 1927 humor piece chronicles a driver's vain 12 hour odyssey to reach a distant office, detailing chaotic modern traffic, deadpan notes to family, and escalating mishaps as he battles cops, fog and fatigue. He ultimately reveals he cannot trust his sense of direction and ends with pleas to walk to work.
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Associated Newspapers
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