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Newspaper
The Daily Mail
Location
Hagerstown, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1928
Page
2
A garbled OCR fragment lists names like Mary Nolan and Syd Chaplin alongside film titles and notes about directing and acting. The jumble mentions a run of three and terms like Fortune Hunter and pinata, Chicago, and Academy, but specifics are unreadable.
Fragmentary OCR text mentions firearms, musicians, orchestral accompaniment, and film promotion with references to George Bancroft and a title Bull Underworld. The readable parts are incoherent and do not yield a clear, factual news item or event to summarize.
Singer Mary Land trots out Eadie Peabody of the Went Coast with Jimmie Maisel for the newest Vitaphone program featuring Poet and Peasant, Blues, and a chorus led by Mary Lewis from the Metropolitan Opera. Willie and Eugene Howard headline comic turn. Esther Ralston stars in Somethin Always Happens, a lively farce with thrills and laughs.
The Wagon Show is an authentic circus life story set in Montana and Wyoming when the West was young. It showcases stunt riders steam inline, midget acts, and dramatic action as Ken Maynard headlines the latest western feature at the Academy.
Pen-Mar Park opens for the season with excursion trains starting tomorrow and preparations underway for a busy warm months. Hotels and cottages have been refitted to welcome thousands from Baltimore Washington Norfolk and Richmond with reservations already being made. The Maryland National Guard encampment set for July and August. Western Maryland Railway arranging for park reunions and special programs with dates listed for religious and community groups and a busy schedule through Labor Day.
The superintendent notes sleep postures vary by species. Monkeys curl or lie flat, gorillas and chimpanzees rest with hands at their heads, bears and wolves sleep in any comfortable position, while timid creatures stay alert even asleep. The Sella Floto troupe reports a greatly enlarged terrarium with 83 dens and 5 elephant herds, plus 40 camels.
Four Uniontown fliers in a Ryan monoplane praised the Krel der Reisner Aircraft landing field and urged Hagerstown to brand the city with large painted signs. They advocated painting roofs, marking buildings, and promoting the town as a future air center with a weather bureau to study hazardous Allegheny mountain conditions. They predicted aviation will surpass rail travel in fifteen years and noted new pilot licensing and plane registration rules. They flew from Governors Island to Philadelphia and Baltimore before reaching Hagerstown, evaluating the city for the aviation role.
The report cites Barry M. Bartle collecting $33,000 and Daniel E. De lected $16,000 amid county tax collection expectations. Officials say many residents with property here visited town yesterday, stressing ongoing tax considerations and anticipated sums. Marquis of Baltimore is noted in relation to the event.
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