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Newspaper
The Daily Mail
Location
Hagerstown, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1932
Page
4
A group of 95 bonus seekers including four women and a four month old child camped at the Fairgrounds last night. They travel in automobiles escorted by police and plan to depart at daybreak for Washington to press cash bonus claims despite Congress adjournment until December.
CHICAGO July 20. Equipoise the four year old from C V Whitney stakes stable is to run for $20 000 in the Arlington handicap Saturday. He carries 134 pounds the heaviest weight in a mile and a quarter race. Gusto gets 116 pounds while Tred Avon was assigned 115 pounds and Top Flight 105 pounds. Steienfetchit and Pittsburgher carry 108 and 105 pounds respectively.
Prices paid producers for food commodities across grade quality and quantity list dried corn eggs chickens butter country hams shoulders bacon lard Old potatoes sweet potatoes onions dried apples beans turnips walnuts and other staples. The Hagerstown Grain and Cens reports figures for farmers corn wheat and other grains quoted at regional markets.
Do You Recall notes a shed fire at John Shipley farm Locust Grove and a central city car ticketing by Officer Dodson. The item lists local social visits, marriages licensed for Guy Slayman and Nannie Kendle, and a wheat price uptick to 2.05 per bushel. Nearby residents visit Harrisburg Washington and Mount Vernon, with several families traveling and hosting guests.
William Hicks, 33, died at Casey town after heat exhaustion. At Martinsburg a Fairfax Club dance was attended by Misses Mavin Jamison Bessie McComas Mary Emmert and Blanche Rust with Dr Victor Miller and Alex Lane. Victor Smith of Sharpsburg stood nine feet eleven inches tall. David C Miller killed fifteen opossums while cutting timber near Greencastle. Thunder showers followed a 163 degree reading, the highest in years.
Mr and Mrs Hall Wilson and daughter Reno of Hagerstown spent Wednesday with relatives in Sharpsburg Billie Friedell of Shenandoah a returned home after three weeks with grandmother Mrs Fannie Pulse Mrs William Fisher vice president of the Mite Society entertained at her home with a social evening and refreshments listed attendees Several families and individuals are noted visiting moving in and traveling through including Ronald Ott and family Betty Hebb Betty Jane Benner and others Laura Jane DeLauney underwent tonsil and adenoids surgery at Washington County Hospital Clyde Cronke visiting in Hagerstown Miss Mary Cox visiting Dorothey Brooks Hancock and Mr and Mrs Dude DeLanney listed among local residents with various activities.
Ellicott City Maryland July 15 for the first time in 49 years the whipping post was used as Janes Barnes a young Black person was lashed five times in the jail yard by Sheriff George G Day Jr following a sentence by Magistrate Caleb D Rodgers for wife defeating the only crime punished by the whipping post in Maryland.
Chicago July 20 The return of Bill Jurges to the Cubs lineup Friday is postponed a week. The shortstop, linked to an attempted shooting incident involving Violet Popovich, was found to carry a third bullet between his ninth and tenth ribs on the right side and left the hospital after its removal. He had two previously known wounds and pain recurred last night.
It is noted that Chris Bat Resta line struggles with the Petrolla family, unable to take them or leave them alone, amid the era's featherweight scene and related tense dynamics.
Frankie Patrolle defeats Bat for a second time in two weeks, earning a 10 round decision while Bat is knocked down in the fourth round for a nine count. The feud with Billy and the Fargo Express continues as Frankie extends the family’s string of wins over the rival.
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