Armstrong Named Head of State Historical Celebration Panel
Alexander Armstrong former state attorney general is appointed chair of a committee with the Washington County Historical Society to plan a 1937 triple anniversary celebration to be held September 12 1937. The event aims for national reach with invitations to all governors and a possible presidential attendance. The state and federal committees will coordinate with the society. Other members named include Chief Judge De Lindley Sloan.
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Baltimore
Alexander Armstrong
Attormer
Washington County Hitorical Society
Maryland
Union
United States
Washington County
Nice
de Lindley Sloan
Mercy Tank Alligator Vessel Transports 22 Aboard
The Alligator amphibious craft piloted by Al Williams and employed by Roebling carried 22 people across a lake and up the far bank. Roebling expects 50 aboard could ride it, as he tests a model he plans to expand with his father John A. Roebling of Port Sewell Fla and Bernardsville N J.
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al” Williams
Roebling
John A. Roebling
Port Sewell
Fla
Bernardsville
N. J
Notable Maryland figures listed by Washington County Historical Society
A roster of prominent Maryland officials and figures affiliated with the Washington County Historical Society is presented, including former judges, senators, governors, mayors, generals, a speaker of the house, and society presidents from cities like Hagerstown and beyond.
Slayer of 3 under guard in Erie Pa hospital
Samuel C Weed, 40, Sunday School superintendent, accused of beating wife and two children to death with a hammer. He is guarded on a hospital cot after attempting to seize a guard’s revolver and leaping before a car. Police say he spoke of a “scarlet sin” but investigators found no clear motive.
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Erie
Samuel Co. Weed
Louis Wittenberger
Weed
David
Charles
Robert Bolmes
Leroy Search
Gaid
Federal aid programs aid drought farmers across plains
Direct grants and WPA plans target hard-hit farming communities. Food shipments move to drought areas while livestock and feed are rerouted to more fertile grazing in the north eastern state regions. Nebraska and Minnesota report insufficient rains hindering replanting, with Oklahoma stressing water for livestock as vital. Subsisistence checks reach 3,900 families as resettlement efforts plan to involve 25,000 farmers within days.
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Federal Surplus Commodities Corporation
North Dakota Welfare Board
Livestock Feed Agency
Agriculture Department
Kansas City Economics Bureau
Federal Agricultural
Leslie M. Carl
Iowa
Nebraska
Minnesota
Howard Wood
North Dakota
Oklahoma
Sudan
WPA
Resettlement Administration
Fate of Idaho the dog weighed by Justice Benedict
In Brockport New York Justice of the Peace Homer Benedict considers whether Idaho a shaggy mongrel dog charged with causing a high school youth's death should be destroyed as a dangerous animal The hearing follows testimony that the dog jumped on Daniel Houghton while swimming in the Barge Canal on July 11 and possibly menaced Russell Breeze on July 4 The village of 3000 is split between supporters of the complainant and the dog's owner Victor Fortune to whom the summons to show cause was issued Friday
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Brockport
Justice of the Peace
Homer B. Benedict
Idaho
Victor Fortune
Fortune
Benedict
Daniel Houghton
Canal
Russell Breeze
Justice Benedict
Divergent Opinions in Brockport on Idaho Case and Religion Notes
Readers debate Idaho case with calls for harsh punishment and defense as a playful youth. Fortunes beliefs contrast with Justice Benedict's views amid Brockport letters. The piece also notes comparisons between Buddhism and Christianity with scholars dating Buddhism’s origins to northern Hindustan before Christ.
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Hindustan
Hagerstown Officials to Meet State on Road Route
Mayor Irvin M Wertz and seven city officials travel to Baltimore to discuss securing rights of way for the Hagerstown Frederick dual highway. A surveying corps may relocate the route to avoid costs, as roads commission estimates reach 110000 with city share half.
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Irvin M. Wertz
Baltimore
State Roads Commission
Hagerstown-Frederick
WPA
Homer ©. Tabler
Comunizaion
Hagerstown
Council
Roads Commission
Editor condemns GOP mailing scheme in Daily Mail
In Chicago the Republican National Committee sent millions of letters using telephone directories as mailing lists. Each letter includes two pre paid envelopes and a request to return one dollar per envelope to a fund for defending the constitution. The Democrat who wrote says returning sealed empty envelopes would waste postage, and notes he requested 1932 additional envelopes.
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Daily Mail
Republican National Committee
Chicago
Post Office Department
Classified Ad Message Captures Local Interest
A compact notice invites readers to place a message in a classic classified style. It highlights the reach of a simple pitch and the attention of those who seek its message across the community.
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TTY Heads
Cleveland Avenue
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Elsworth R. Rou Jette
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L. C. Lushbaugh
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Herbert Cost
W. Keller Nigh
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Live Stock Sales, Inc
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Great Lakes States
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Ralian Riviera
England
Samuel Papys
Paris
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Raphael
Whistler
Titian
Cleveland Museum of Art
Radioland
Ed Wynn
Phil Cook
Showboat
Lanny Ross
Irene Berdoni
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Cities Service Hour
Great Lakes Symphony
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