Giant Meteor Startles Five States with Skyward Fire
A gigantic meteor lit the dawn sky across five states Texas Oklahoma New Mexico and Colorado before dawn Friday. Observers in Amarillo and Albuquerque reported a bright blue mass and a long fiery tail with fragments. Air mail pilots described close passes and a rumbling shock that woke residents. Meanwhile Fort Wayne reports Berghoff Brewing ordered 30 million bottle caps and 7 million labels with a 100 new bottling workers addition on April 6.
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Amarillo
Tex
North Texas Plains
Oklahoma Panhandle
Kansas
Colorado
New Mexico
Transcontinental and Western Air Line
Albuquerque
N. M
Bill Coyle
Adrian
Coyle
Frank’ Williams
Fort Wayne
Ind
Berghoff Brewing Corporation
Citizens Debate City Campaign Ties and Local Leaders
Readers discuss voting for businesslike leadership in Hagerstown. Letters challenge Republican tactics, defend Welfare Federation aid, defend Mayor election choices, and cite sewerage trunk line savings from machinery use versus hand labor.
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Daily Mail
Herald
Hagerstown
North End
Trunk Inc
Lee Elgin
Council
Marion Nixon Wins Divorce In Los Angeles Court
Film actress Marion Nixon testified in the divorce action against her husband Edward H. Hillman Jr. in a Los Angeles court and was awarded a divorce. Hillman is described as the son of a wealthy Chicago merchant.
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Marion Nixon
Los Angeles
Edward H. Hillman, Jr
Chicago
Ohio River flood outlook eases across western Ohio
River conditions improved as the Ohio River rise declined and Weather Bureau reports indicate the Mississippi will not reach flood stage at Memphis Tennessee or Helena Arkansas, offering relief to Louisville and surrounding areas on March 24.
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Louisville
Ohio River
Mississippi River
Ohio
Washington
Mississippi
Memphis
Tenn
Helena
Ark
Bitter Tone Tonic Tablets Sold At Cauffman’s Cut Rate
A claim offers Bitter Tone Tonic Tablets an old Indian style blend of roots herbs and barks to restore pep vim and vigor with a money back guarantee.
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Cauffman
Hagerstown rally touts Roosevelt Rebals and police plan
A Hagerstown gathering featured speakers from the Democratic slate including W. Harry Reisner and Alan Harbaugh. President Reed defended progressive city policies and attacked Republican tactics, citing a push for a trained police chief and limited campaign spending while promoting Roosevelt era prosperity.
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W. Harry Reisner
Alan A. Harbaugh
W. Lee Elgin
Park Geiger
Cyde Bowers
Aaron E. Beecher
Hagerstown
Norman B. Scott
Scott
Frank Leiter
Thomas W. Pangborn
Reed
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Roosevelt
Ritchie
Reisner
Board of County Commissioners
Hess
Poller
Barber
Board of Street Commissioners
Roanoke
Columbus
Ohio
Philadelphia
Smedley Butler
Washington
Glassford
Norfolk
Salem
Greencastle
Willam P. Lane
Richard Coffey
Judge Duffey
Strike settlement aimed at N. C. Taylor Tin Mill dispute
Washington reports that labor department conciliators will again try to settle the tin workers strike at the N. C. Taylor Tin Mill in Cumberland Maryland. An earlier effort during the Doak administration failed over union recognition.
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Washington
Department of Labor
Conciliation Division
N. & C. Taylor
Cumberland
Department
Doak
Slayer Convicted in Maryland Killing
Basil Heath of Delmar Delaware was found guilty in Circuit Court of first degree murder for fatally shooting Charles C. Hill at a gasoline filling station on the Delmar Salisbury highway. The verdict eliminates capital punishment and imposes life imprisonment.
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Salisbury
Basil Heath
Delmar
Del
Charles C. Hill
Here
Heath
Hill
Delmar-Salisbury
Sunday Movie Bill Approved in Allegany Senate
In Annapolis Maryland on March 25 Senator J Glenn Beall won Senate passage under suspension of the rules for a House of Delegates bill allowing Sunday movies in Allegany. An amendment empowered mayors and councils to decide towns open for films. The bill passed 18 to 6 and goes back to the House for concurrence.
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Annapolis
J. Glenn Beall
Rep
Allegany
Senate
House of Delegates
House
Howard Galbreth
Beall
Fooks
Carol
Lansdale G. Lasseer
Prince George's
Students Will Test Beer Law at St Johns College
St Johns College students plan a court challenge to a pre Volstead statute banning merchants from selling beer and wine. A senior French student Vicompte Pierre de Douville-Maillefeu and Baltimore law student Robert A Bindall Jr will front the wine and beer sides as a mock trial with support from the student body and City Counselor Roscoe C Rowe. An old bar and a biergarten plan are noted as potential outcomes of the case. A wedding in Pelton England is also mentioned with unusual ages among the wedding party.
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Annapolis
St. John’s College
Vicompte
Pierre de Douville-Maillefeu
Paris
France
St. John’s
Robert A. Bindall, Jr
Baltimore
Sindall
Vicompte’s
Roscoe C. Rowe
Congress
College Avenue
When Strangere Marry at Henry's Theatre
The Columbia drama follows a mat clinging to his contract in the jungle romance as estranged spouses clash amid red dust. Lilian Bond and Jack Holt star, with Lee Tracy delivering a standout war-dramatic turn as Private Jones. Gloria Stuart and Donald Cook lead a strong supporting cast in a fast paced production.
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Flussi Tia Jou
Java Jungles
Columbia
Henry
Jack Volt
Ay Steve’ Rand
Tropics
Lilian Bond
London
New York
Lee Tracy
Private Jones
Maryland Theatre
Bill Jones
Tracy
Gloria Stuart
Donald Cook
Leutenant
Berton Churchil
Walter Catlett
Frank McHugh
Emma Dunn
Shirley Grey
Wilhelm von Brinck
Ferdinand Schumann-Heink
Russell Mack
Private Jones at Maryland Theatre Delights Fans
Lee Tracy stars in Private Jones at the Maryland Theatre with World War II humor as a doughboy drafted into war. The bill includes Movietone News and a Vitaphone short with Eddie Bergen. Also showing Topaze with John Barrymore and Myrna Loy as the lead support, with continued shows daily from two to eleven.
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Maryland
Private Jones
Tracy
the Maryland
Tm. Movietone
Vitaphone
Eddie Bergen
Galen
John Barrymore
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