Local option boosts Prohibition stance at Potomac Synod
Frederick Maryland June 15 delegates to the Potomac Synod of the Reformed Church adopt a resolution urging local option and temperance education to aid in returning National Prohibition. A $5,000 endowment fund for young women’s education is presented for Hood College and Catawba College. Officers named to serve until 1940 meet in Lancaster. Women barred from Louisiana barrooms under 1894 law.
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United Evangelical and Reformed Church
Syrued
Evangelical and Reformed Churches
Ralph E. Hartman
Frederick
Charles P. Price
York
Joshua Levens
North Carolina
Paul Kehm
Baltimore
Reading
J. Travers Thomas
Hartman
Lancaster
6000 Turkeys Make Egg Hunting a Full Time Job
Seth Miller works as an egg gatherer at Maplecrest turkey farm near Fruitland Iowa. He collects eggs from 6000 laying turkeys daily and makes multiple rounds to nests each day depending on season. Turkeys lay between 2800 and 4000 eggs per day according to Miller.
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Seth Miller
Maplecrest
Turkey Farm
Fruitland
Iowa
Miller
Hig
Flag campaign success reported by American Legion official
Samuel Cohen, chairman of the flag committee, announced last night that orders for flags taken this week would likely be delivered today as supply had exhausted. He thanked the public for cooperation during Flag Week and urged citizens to display flags during the Veterans of Foreign Wars convention this weekend.
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Samuel Cohen
The
American Legion
Cohen
Shiloh observes Men’s Day in Sunday School services
Shiloh noted Men and boys filled all offices and taught classes during Men’s Day on June 4. A 17 member young men’s chorus from Trinity Chapel sang. Guest speaker Russell Hicks of Hagerstown spoke on He came unto His own and His own received Him Not. Families hosted visitors including Plume, Batt, Hildabridle, Cunningham, Stevens, Kershner, and Langenstine among others. John Lewis returned home after ten weeks in Washington County Hospital.
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Shiloh
Trinity Chapel
Russell Hicks
Hagerstown
Edward Ridenour
Leonard Henesy
John Lewis
Washington County Hospital
Alice Plume
Lester Plume
Irvin Batt
Martinsburg
Wva
David Hildabridle
Gilbert
Ruth Cunningham
Mill Run
Harold Stevens
John Kershner
Paul
Chester Clark
Rose Langenstine
Ira McKee
Bett Marie
Wayside Avenue
Lloyd Lewis
Dorothy Papa
Sabillasville
Lewis
Retired Editor Ralph Pulitzer Dies in New York
Ralph Pulitzer aged 60 former newspaper editor and son of Joseph Pulitzer died after abdominal surgery at Presbyterian Hospital Harkness pavilion on May 1 Funeral services will be held Friday He had served as vice president of Pulitzer Publishing Company which runs the St Louis Post Dispatch and once managed the New York World papers He married Frederica Van derbilt Webb in 1905 they divorced and he later married Margaret K Leech author 11 years ago
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New York
Ralph Pulitzer
Joseph Pulitzer
Pulitzer
Pulitzer Publishing Company
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
New York World
Harkness Pavilion
Presbyterian Hospital
Frederica Vanderbilt Webb
Margaret K. Leech
Farm Inmate Held After Escape From Roxbury Farm
Irvin Limper, a Baltimore convict who escaped from the State Penal farm at Roxbury on November 8, 1937, has been captured in Chicago. Superintendent Himer B. Carl said Limper was picked up by Chicago police on suspicion, and Baltimore officers expect to question him about recent hold ups. Limper was sentenced in 1930 for a twenty year term for thirteen robberies and later had three years added for a prison break.
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Irvin Limper
Baltimore
Roxbury
Chicago
Himer B. Carl
Limper
John
Sonny) Carson
Carson
Penal Farm
Limper Arrested Near Chicago After Escape Claim
Detectives Lodsdon and O Connor pursued the vehicle of Limper alias James Irvin Harper near the Chicago Detective Bureau. The car bore an Ohio plate and he admitted fleeing a prison farm. He denied involvement in a $1600 Baltimore payroll robbery on May 5 in 1931.
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Limper
James Irvin Harper
Chicago
Joseph Lodsdon
Timothy O'Connor
Baltimore
Escape Attempt Ends in Gunfire at Maryland Penitentiary
A man and two companions were wounded by bullets fired from a guard's gun during an attempted escape from the Maryland Penitentiary. Details of injuries and the aftermath were not disclosed.
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Maryland
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