Boonsboro Plans July Fourth Washington Monument Dedication
Boonsboro gears up for a July 4 celebration at the Washington Monument site with a 2 PM ceremony. Invited speakers include Governor Harry W. Nice and Dr F W Besley. The pageant features a Revolutionary Soldier salute and Boy Scout plus CCC participation. The monument marks prior dedications in 1827 and 1882.
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Boonsboro
Washington
Harry W. Nice
F. W. Besley
State Forester
Worth
National Park Service
Boy Scouts
CCC
Boons-bor
The
Odd Fellows
Juniors Ready for State Firemen Convention
The Junior Fire Company lines up for the Maryland State Firemen convention held June 24 to 26. Uniforms for the parade will be distributed three days prior. About 65 Juniors will participate with the M. C. 4 Junior Bandag escort. The hall will be elaborately decorated for the event. One new membership application was received.
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Maryland
Harlem Honors Selassie Pilot Brown Condor
Charles Norman profiles Colonel John C. Robinson, the Harlem hero dubbed the Brown Condor, former Ethiopian air liaison to Emperor Haile Selassie. He recounts wartime service, a planned teaching post at Tuskegee, and rival Colonel Hubert Julian.
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Brown Condor
Selassie
Harlem
Charles Norman
New York
John C. Robinson
Emperor Haile Selassie
Lenox Avenue
Robinson
P. M. H. Savory
United Ethiopian Aid Society
Ethiopia
Hubert Julian
Black Eagle
Addis Ababa
Robison
Haile Selassie
League of Nations
Red Cross
Chicago
Tuskgee Institute
Alabama
Julian
Commmon
United States
Joe Louis
Detroit
Church To Mark Old Folk's Day
The twenty first annual Old Folks Day will be celebrated Sunday morning at Myersville United Brethren Church led by Rev D R Fair. Originated in 1915 by the late Cyrus Fook the event drew as many as 1000 in past years. Albert D Flook chairs arrangements. program starts 9 15 A M with Sunday School led by C C Haupt and featuring Rev B H Snell and A A Moser. The service recalls early church days sans instruments with hymns led by Chas C Grossnickle. participants include Theodore Romesburg Louis Ruprecht the Fulmer sisters and others. A luncheon and group photo follow.
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Myersville
C. C Haupt
A. A. Moser
Frederick
Chas. C. Grossnickle
Theodore Romesburg
Hagerstown
Louis Ruprecht
Fulmer Sisters
Frederick County
Washington, D. C
Jacob Hoover
Elmer C. Thomas
Boonsboro
Sara Stottlemyer
Lewis Kefanger
Middletown
M. L. Ricé
Loyal Order of Moose Plans Maryland Convention Here
The Loyal Order of Moose held its regular meeting with Regional Director Charles Kennedy in attendance. The committee reported progress on plans for the Maryland-border state Moose convention to be hosted here on September 5, 6 and 7.
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Loyal Order of Moose
Charles Kennedy
Lois Gabriel and Family Visit in Cearfoss
On Sunday afternoon Miss Lois Gabriel and her brother visited the W. W. Miner household. Mrs. M. Carbaugh stopped by Monday with Mrs. Preston Myners. Other visitors included Mr. and Mrs. Walter Miner and daughter. Additional callers with C. R. Stouffer's family were L. Frank Murray Mrs. K. Delauter and several couples from Nova Pa visiting Mrs. Carbaugh and family.
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Preston Myers
Harry Myers
Chalmer Myers
Nova, Pa
M. Carbaugh
Boy earns perfect attendance record at local schools
Russell Spessard son of Mrs Margaret Spessard of North Mulberry Street has completed six years at Wayside Broadway and Woodland Way schools with a splendid record. He has missed only four days in eight years and achieved perfect attendance for six years. A cypress in Winn Parish Louisiana is believed to be 2509 years old.
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Russell Spessard
Margaret Spessard
North Mulberry Street
Wayside
Broadway
Woodland Way
Six Years of Dips and Gains in Economic Trends
The piece cites statistics from 1920 to 1936 showing unemployment rising to 313 percent by 1933 then down 30 percent by 1935, large price swings in cotton and grains, hog and steer prices rising, butter and oats falling, and gains in exports, imports, stocks, and power production. It credits government programs with stabilizing foreclosures, farm income, national wealth, and industrial output to April 1936.
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Charles E., Broughton
Sheboygan, Wisconsin
Federal Reserve Board
Mystery Death of John Donbroski Baffles Laurel Police
The body of John Donbroski was found about five feet from Baltimore boulevard. Sam Opolus of Baltimore alleges a hit and run by a truck after a day in Washington with friends who abandoned him. Opolus claims a separate man robbed them on the return trip and Donbroski died in the ensuing incident. A census reports 31 884 sheep and related livestock in Lower Rio Grande valley counties, up from 14 685 in 1930.
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Laurel
John Donbroski
Baltimore Boulevard
Sam Opolus
Baltimore
Donbroski
Washington
Opolus
Rio Grande Valley
Highlights of Republican Platform in Cleveland
June 12 report outlines GOP campaign points for a Republican president. It condemns the New Deal for waste and coercion, vows to curb federal power, restore free enterprise, and push pay as you go for seniors. It calls for labor rights, anti-sweatshop laws, agricultural support, tariff reform, anti monopoly measures, balanced budgets, sound money, and nonparticipation in the League of Nations and World Court.
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Cleveland
Republican Party
Congress
Supreme Court
New Deal
Relief Administration
Tarif Commission
United States
America
League of Nations
World Court
Brethren Church Preaching Sunday June 14 in St James
St James notices Jane King former pastor L V King returns for sermon and musical by his five daughters. Rev W S Baker to preach Sunday morning. King and family visit local friends. Sperow Green Bloom Myers and others hosted and visited. community weekend greetings noted.
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Ohio
Daniel Sensenbaugh
Clarence Sperow
John Sperow
Walter Green
Emma Green
Keedysville
Carrie Bloom
Richard Bloom
Courtney Myers
Local visitors and church group meet in Spielman's area
Wooburn spent Saturday with C. M. Myers and Hagerstown guests Mr. and Mrs. Keefer Loudenslager and daughter visited Mr. and Mrs. George Shank on Sunday. The Brethren church Woman s Missionary Society met at Mrs. Howard Trone s home at Spielman s with the program Womanhood in Foreign Lands. Refreshments were served by Mrs. Trone to a long list of attendees. Elliott Eikeberger and family and Bernice Baker visited Johnstown Sunday. Those who consult the Classified Ads regularly are bound to profit many times.
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Trone
Daniel Sensenbaugh
W. S. Baker
Willam Sheeley
Gaza Cross
M. L. Bloom
Charles Schamel
William Eyler
D. K. Poole
Howard Trone
Lucy Moats
Guy Long
Walter Green
Otho Lowery
Jane Trone
Ruth Sensenbaugh
Elliott Eikeberger
Bernice Baker
Johnstown
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