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Newspaper
The Daily Mail
Location
Hagerstown, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1915
Page
2
The piece riffs on wartime rituals across towns marking the war anniversary as not a holiday. A street scene shows three women in distinct outfits prompting a humorous answer. A Cleveland court case about stealing a favorite spirit ends with a quip about a ghost. Government decree restricts telephone language to French in Italy, raising questions about American usage.
A former secretary accuses revivalist Billy Sunday of lacking originality, arguing many preachers quote others and that tactful writers have long profited from clever sayings. The piece cites repeated speeches, defenses, and theories about attribution, noting a teller’s claim of “unconscious crystallization” as defense.
The annual advertising convention in Chicago gathers about 10,000 delegates, the largest assembly in the association’s history. The piece extols advertising's universality and value from cradle to grave, noting its role in marriages births and public notices, and amplifies its impact on daily life and commerce.
The piece argues advertising alone cannot fix economic growth and cites Henry Ford’s model town concept. It contrasts well advertised cities with self styled model towns where rulers control wages and bread and butter, suggesting living wages as essential to genuine prosperity and worker happiness.
Lutheran Sunday school plans Childrens Day exercises Saturday evening while UW B Sunday school resumes on Sunday. Work on the new hook building progresses with the first story wall nearly complete. Carpenters place heavy steel girders and joists on the same floor as masons pause for lime. Brandenborg remodeling store room to gain display space. Morgan and son assist by mill work plant overhaul to meet demand. Miss Belva Stattlemyer leaves Sentenlaughs for a summer course at Nor ward College Morrison. Mr and Mrs Alfred Pryor of Forville visited Wednesday with Mrs Ellen S Smith.
In Rockville Maryland on a Saturday afternoon Mrs. Andrew Jackson Mobley of Quince Orchard nearly fell into a 62 foot well with an eight foot water bottom. Her son rushed for help and helped pull her to safety using a chain and rope, leaving her unharmed aside from a few bruises.
Washington reports on Lemberg as Galicia's capital, a central Polish stronghold under Austrian overlordship. Once poor and unhealthy, the city has risen to a bustling metropolis of about 200,000, with major rail links to Odesa Czernowitz and Budapest and ranking fourth in the Austrian Empire by size.
Rev W W Putnam a Baptist minister in Calhoun shoots and kills Hower Taylor after a buggy collision. Putnam fires five times, saying You twin by daughter as Taylor drags dead from the buggy. Taylor, married with a newborn child, was driving with his cousin when shot.
In Farkeraburg Ohio A W Shim longtime Belpre National Bank clerk and village mayor disappeared Saturday amid reports he is short about $2000 in his accounts. R W McConaughey a Cincinnati bank examiner leads a probe but no arrest action has been taken yet as the investigation continues.
Grafton West Virginia charged with robbery and the murder of aged Mary Haack at her home near Philippt Barbour county six months ago. Police say he is the leader of a band of miscreants terrorizing the district. Boyd Thorn, recently arrested, confessed membership. Thorn's young wife testified today. Several others implicated, more arrests expected.
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