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Newspaper
The Daily Mail
Location
Hagerstown, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1929
Page
8
County officers seized thirteen slot machines and other gambling devices at amusement parks, lunch counters and filling stations in Martinsburg West Virginia. Proprietors were held on bonds of 500 dollars each for court action after weeks of investigation showing children operated the machines and some were run on Sundays.
The Hamilton estate plot near Woodland Way and Bellevue Avenue was chosen as a probable site for North End Junior High School. The five acre parcel, purchased for about fifteen thousand dollars, joins land given to Hancock for a public park by Mr Widmyer and Mayor Mason. The Widmyer site at Hancock was also approved. Bids on coal were opened and will be tabulated for next week's awards. The board accepted the resignation of William B Hutzell after 36 years in the school office, effective July 21. Teacher appointments were confirmed for multiple schools including Antietam Street, Broadway, and Boonsboro elementary. An oblique in memoriam notes the death of Meredith Monroe Bealer, age 7 months, in Ady Gapland, Md.
The Japanese Beetle scout group has been transferred to Frederick after a month of work in Hancock, Clearspring, Williamsport, Leitersburg, Cearfoss, Halfway, Boonsboro, Smithsburg, Cavetown, Thurmont, Emmitsburg and Taneytown. Most pests were caught in East Avenue and North Street, while outlying areas show little infestation. The traps will stay through the summer as similar operations occur elsewhere. Floyd Sherman leaves Hagerstown for New York to study with Madam A Parker, planning to join Kelly Har-
Hagerstown reports coach Harris of Columbia University recently saw Sherman in a local paper about a trip to the city and secured him a part time post as assistant in the Lennox Hills Settlement physical direction. Sherman will also sing in the St. Mark's Episcopal Church choir.
A historic estimate notes that if two billion Earths were lined up side by side, they could form a continuous spherical shell around the Sun at Earth's orbital distance. The figure underscores the enormity of that orbital scale and the immense volume of space.
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