10 Jun 1921
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Newspaper
The Daily Mail
Location
Hagerstown, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1921
Page
1
A lively City Park event featured a boys parade and kite flying contests. Prizes were awarded for races basethrowing horseshoe pitching and other games. Spectators enjoyed the day as the committee announced a record turnout and a festive mood.
A guardian consents to the Klwauis Elks Lions Rotary club sight seeing tour to Washington for the son. The document names the guardian and authorizes travel.
More than four hundred boys led by the Pennsylvania Band in new uniforms marched in Hagerstown with Mayor Bowman and Chief Barber leading the procession. The band, composed of 40 Pennsylvania railroad employees, performed at the M C A and Court House. Applications flood the Y M C A for a free Washington trip for 9 to 14 year olds with space limited to about 150, urging guardians to submit early. Civic groups Rotary Lions and Kiwanis sponsor the initiative to educate youngsters about government and history.
An advertisement promises quick changes in health after using Dr. Thacher's Liver and Blood Syrup. It claims relief from digestion issues headaches exhaustion and constipation, with a money back satisfaction guarantee. Available from local druggists including D. C. Aughinbaugh & Son and Beauchamp Drug Store.
City councilmen proposed street work plans costing about 410000 or more, far above the city budget. Mayor Howman suggested ward surveys to learn street needs and submit recommendations as a group. Last year the levy was 140000, with about 3200000 bond issues funding streets like Summit Avenue and Potomac Street.
Distograph Products Corporation announces an invention that lets anyone with an active auditory nerve hear as clearly as natural hearing. The firm offers a ten days free trial with no deposit, prepaid at their expense, inviting readers with deafness to send name and address for trial use.
An Hagerstown Maryland mechanic Mr Arthur Crosby of M P Moller Auto Works reports relief from headaches indigestion and dizziness after using Vendal Vendor pills He praises the medicine for restoring appetite sleep and strength and notes Warehams Pharmacy sells Vendal in Hagerstown with Baltimore offer for out of town orders. A second ad promotes Foley Pills for inactive kidneys with testimonial from Landon Taylor Dorchester Iowa claiming kidney relief and renewed strength.
At a meeting of the directors of the Hagerstown Fair Association yesterday, the board decided to rebuild the bleacher section of the Grandstand and to erect 48 boxes on the Grandstand. The boxes will face the stage but be placed to not obscure spectators. The stage will be rebuilt and under the stand dressing rooms added for performers. The Tootomba horse sheds will be repainted with fences and buildings repaired.
The directors reviewed the cats yesterday and outlined several new features for the 1924 show.
Thieves took three bags of silver coins valued at about 25 dollars from the Millar and Wine store. The incident is described in brief with no further details on suspects or motive.
Thieves reportedly gained entry to the Kobler building through a trap door in the roof Sunday night. They are believed to have climbed from a nearby building, entering through a window to reach the robbery scene.
Fragmentary reader letter touts a weight gain and strength claim for a tonic, listing quantities like 4 pounds 60 tablets 60 cents and referencing an old patent medicine style remedy. Mentions Terrost Wien and Aughinburgs.
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