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Newspaper
The Daily Mail
Location
Hagerstown, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1960
Page
4
The text presents a theological reflection attributing that those who have gone into heaven sit at the right hand of God with angels and powers. It asserts that the human body of Christ is a veil concealing the glory of God and cannot be viewed with an unveiled face.
The Board of County Commissioners unanimously allowed $69,700 in federal funds to be used by Hagerstown for Burhans Boulevard. They stated the move benefits citizens by easing traffic, avoiding rail crossings, and aiding future industrial growth, while preventing funds from going to the Eastern Shore via the State Roads Commission.
An article warns dozens of Washington County shade trees die from lightning each summer. It describes an autopsy finding root damage from a bolt on a century old oak and explains how a copper mesh cable grounded deep in soil can divert strikes, protecting trees and nearby buildings.
Thousands of migrating birds pass through New York City each spring. An Empire State lighting ban from April 18 to June 1 aims to reduce bird fatalities by turning off the south side beacon near the world’s tallest structure. Audubon Society notes that lit buildings lure birds, causing deadly collisions in darkness. Human caretakers are urged to take preventive steps.
HAL BOYLE surveys common office types from the bold deceiver to the savvy statistician and reformer, noting time wasted and social dynamics. He sketches routines like napping at the desk, gossiping, excessive phone calls, and endless suggestion box ideas, concluding success comes with persistent effort.
Fragmented verse notes life as a blend of joy and pain with seasons of pleasure and hardship. It compares life to a song where love remains central, suggesting after wrongs love returns like a dream and offers repose.
Readers advocate displaying the American flag at home on holidays and urge schools and parents to instill patriotism in youth. The letter praises flag visibility along highways and calls for broader civic reverence and national duty.
A reader suggests a practical approach to reduce explicit literature at newsstands. The note mentions recent reading on censorship and proposes an idea to address the issue, describing a scenario where a snake bites three times as a metaphor. The fragment ends abruptly, offering no concrete policy or implementation steps.
Miss Ada Jacobs resigns as Modern Dry Cleaning manager with Edward Jones succeeding. Company B mustered into Federal service as a first in the state. Dr. R B Stevenson elected president of the State Board of Osteopathic Examiners. Potomac Edison moves offices and sales rooms. Red Cross life saving classes start at the municipal pool. A silk flag presented to Judge Waxaman in Circuit Court. FBI considering moving offices to this city for central district. Washington County's rank drops in poverty. Local German report on North Atlantic Pact soldiers training. Dr Richard T. Binford buys a home on Potomac Ave. Maryland University team studies financing of home building.
Histoplasmosis is an influenza like lung infection affecting over a million Americans, often mild and unrecognized without a positive test. It is caused by a fungus in damp soil rich in organic matter, with chicken roosts and pigeon roosts as common breeding grounds. Most victims have fatigue fever and a slight chest cough, while severe cases resemble pneumonia. An outbreak involved a Mississippi teacher and 11 students exposed via classroom plants from soil under a blackbird roost.
A carnival health column warns about contagious illnesses from visiting farms, urges kitchen and chicken coop restrictions, notes the danger of chest and abdominal pain and other symptoms, and discusses remedies like amphol B. Readers’ questions cover stroke, gout, ear pulsation, hair grafting, and general prevention with references to envelopes for replies.
The Allen-Scott report notes Congress aims to return in early August to tackle must passes amid wage, medical care, and housing bills. Senate leaders warn a partisan filibuster could delay adjournment, pressing for a broad legislative program before the presidential campaign.
Jim Bishop outlines the life of Michael Joseph Owens, a coal miner’s son who became a glass blower in Wheeling and Toledo. He details Owens’s partnership with Libbey, the invention of a mechanized glass-making process, patent success, and the growth of a glass-making empire, ending with Owens’s death shortly after Christmas in 1728 and his pride in the “dot tennerk.”
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