01 Jun 1921
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Newspaper
The Daily Mail
Location
Hagerstown, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1921
Page
1
A long column extols the value of cheerful youth in Hagerstown and promotes a "Reys' Week" business-led effort to aid the city’s youth. It muses on the Imperial Conference in London focusing on naval size and Japan relations, then ponders race origins, destruction of ancient libraries, and contrasts British unemployment with American conditions.
Washington notes the spread of automatic phones in rural districts provides 24 hour service, reduces reliance on central operators, and speeds news via party lines. It highlights rural gains, ongoing switchboard replacements, and the role of women as operators evolving to repair work in the system.
London June 1 Oakland Rutland guardians amused by health ministry ideas on aiding workhouse inmates now warned the ministry has crossed the line proposing nightshirts for tramps who seek shelter in workhouses. Mrs J C Byron returns from Bethlehem Pa after attending the Bach festival.
Topeka hosts a campaign for a coast to coast paved Victory Highway through Topeka and Kansas City honoring World War II heroes. George Stansfield originator proposes route laid out by the Federal Department of Public Roads with a consolidation of existing highways. California Good Roads Association pledges half the cost, Ben Blow aiding the effort.
A 1921 AVIA piece exhorts readers to eradicate the fly as a disease carrier. It portrays the fly as an evil menace to both country and city and urges decisive action with a bold wartime tone. The verse repeats the call to Smash abolish and delete him and ends with the chant Swat the Fly.
Astronomers report spiral nebulae receding from the Milky Way and globular clusters approaching. Our galaxy sits at the center of a vast system as celestial bodies drift, some speeding outward at hundreds to over a thousand miles per second, prompting questions about the universe’s deepest secrets.
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