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Newspaper
The Daily Mail
Location
Hagerstown, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Mar 31, 1939
Page
2
A Lancaster County themed column explores Pennsylvania Dutch life and speech. It notes Plain People farming, windbreaks from brush, and tobacco use for others, while lampooning phrases and expressions with glossary style samples. The piece blends local culture, humor, and linguistic quirks with playful commentary.
A time proven tonic marketed to women promises dependable relief from female functional woes. The advertisement urges trying Pinkham's Compound to build resistance and calm nerves, noting over sixty years and more than one million testimonials.
An inquest will be held tonight before Acting Coroner John D. Dunn to determine responsibility for the death of Miss Sara Lou Myers of Clearspring who was struck by a car driven by Roscoe Shives of Takoma Park on March 18. Shives says the woman stepped from between parked cars into the path of his vehicle. She died days later at Washington County Hospital. Foreman of the coroner's jury is former Mayor W. Lee Elgin. proceedings begin at 7:30 p.m.
The trout season begins at 5 30 tomorrow morning April 1 and runs to June 30. State licenses cost 1 25 each with about 1 300 sold at the Clerk of the Court in this city and 20 non residents at 5 50. Fishing hours are 30 A M to 8 P M with a ten fish creel limit and no trout under seven inches. Brook brown and rainbow trout are covered and Washington county streams are expected to attract many anglers if weather is favorable.
On March 30 Swartz apparel shop was damaged by a blaze that started in a basket of waste paper. The incident cost about $250 in currency and checks left in the basket, unnoticed by the janitor who struck the match.
The Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond reported February trade in the Fifth District rose to seasonal levels and surpassed February 1938 in all lines except retail in department and general stores. Retail sales were better in smaller cities while larger cities, including Washington, pulled the district average below 1938, with wholesale trade in 206 firms across more than a dozen lines up 3 percent from February 1938.
Government prosecutor accuses Johnny Torrio of paying protection money of twenty thousand dollars a month to influence illicit liquor dealings as he faces income tax evasion charges for 1933 to 1935. Torrio’s counsel counters that the government cannot prove delayed income and argues he paid a nominal thousand dollar tax. The trial also notes Torrio’s alleged ties to a New York bootlegging association and his role as a Chicago rackets boss.
In Wichita Kansas on March 30 Joseph Schubert 18 was treated after a homemade blank cartridge discharged from a pocket pistol or device. The cartridge hit his leg while he lounged by a radiator in his home. Local authorities investigated the accidental discharge and injury.
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