01 Jun 1916
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Newspaper
The Daily Mail
Location
Hagerstown, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1916
Page
1
A garbled, OCR style clipping mixes conversations about surgeons, conventions, crops, and daily life with stray names, places, and partial phrases. It includes remarks on a surgeon who cuts patients, a convention, wheat crops, a shopping scene, and a shipment of drugs from Amsterdam to New York, all presented as disjointed fragments.
A New Jersey court upheld a second degree murder conviction in a self-defense case, prompting discussion on non-resistance. Chief Justice Gummere favored retreat to safety before force, while critics argued standing ground reflects courage. Voices from pastor John Haynes Holaka and Dr. Holmes debated duty to retreat versus violence in self-defense.
A stream of humorous misprints and scrambled phrases yields a quirky, garbled passage. The text riffs on secrets, manners, and mistaken idioms with odd spellings and slurred lines, presenting a whimsical mosaic of nonsensical dialogue.
Billy Chandler reports from Indianapolis that Crawford racers finished strong in a major speedway event. Three Crawford cars carried Dusenberg motors and Maryland colors, with two taking prizes and one Protest reclassifying Art Johnson to eighth and Chandler to ninth. The total prize money was about 33,500, and the drivers head to Stour City for another expense paid race with significant prizes.
A vintage ad touts Get-It- Goes Work corn cure, claiming fast pain relief with no sticking, no bandages, and painless removal. It claims universal effectiveness for all corns and promotes easy application, with Chicago based Lawrence & Co and local distributors Warehamsa City Pharmacy and Central Drug Co. listed.
A Savannah man Sam Wilkerton pawned his hat to raise funds for a marriage license after negotiation with a preacher. He traded the hat for a dollar to secure the ceremony, but the marriage certificate remained elusive as the clerk interrupted the moment. The anecdote centers on the humorous gambit and the missing official document.
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