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Newspaper
The Daily Mail
Location
Hagerstown, Maryland, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1934
Page
3
County melon growers plan a Wednesday Boonsboro High School meeting to address alleged fraud by unfamiliar hucksters selling distant cantaloupes as Boonsboro. County Agent Milt D Moore notes the Boonsboro cantaloupes are famed for their soil driven quality and flavor amid imitation in the county.
The National Security Life Assn offers a no medical exam Life Protection Certificate for ages 10 to 75, paying up to $1590 for death from any cause and $2000 to $3000 for accidental death. No money required initially, just name and age, free inspection, no agent calls, limited offer from Beverly Hills.
County growers plan a meeting to discuss cantaloupe market issues and laws against selling imitation Boonsboro cantaloupes. Dr. R. A. Jehle will cover cantaloupe diseases, C Graham on fruit insects, and County Agent Moore on general growing. Rems burg and Moore organized the event for Boonsboro.
The Washington County Scoutmasters Association holds its third training lecture at 7 30 tonight in St. Johns Episcopal Church parish house. Prof William Diehl of South Potomac Junior High School will speak. Skipper James Webb and Scoutmaster William McBrien lead the meeting urging all Scoutmasters assistants and committee men to attend.
Vincent Sprecher and his son Edgar gathered 84 mushrooms on Sunday beneath three trees in The Neck near Williamsport.
A Farm Credit Administration unit in Baltimore will establish a statistical department to collect county level data across Pennsylvania Delaware Maryland Virginia West Virginia and Puerto Rico The chief statistician John Gauss of State College Pa will assume duties in early May The department will study soils livestock and poultry productivity and maintain borrower records for credit evaluation across the district and its various units including the Federal Land Bank National Farm Loan Associations Baltimore Bank for Cooperatives Production Credit Associations and Federal Intermediate Credit Bank
Rev. Dr. C. A. Lynch president of Lebanon Valley College delivered an address titled The Minister Doctor of Humanity at the county Ministerial Association meeting in the Y M C A. He outlined how ministers aid individual, national and world needs. Rev. Dr. Lynch spoke at the United Brethren ministers session in St Pauls U B church in the afternoon.
The passage warns that many girls misapply cosmetics and leave stale rouge and powder in pores. Over days this clogs and distends pores, preventing normal function and leading to signs of ugly cosmetic skin.
Boston plans a Harbor tunnel under the waterway linking downtown to East Boston at an estimated cost of 16 million dollars. The project aims to improve vehicular transit and reduce surface congestion with a submerged tunnel design and supporting infrastructure.
D Paul Oswald the Chewsville government weather observer reports April temperatures ranged from 177 to 24 degrees with rainfall about 0.5 inches below normal. The month had four killing frosts and two light frosts plus 8 rainy days and traces of rain and snow.
An unidentified man, posing as Bobby Jones, caused a plane at Lozan Field to be held ready for over an hour so he could make a nine hole run to Boston. He called a travel bureau and used a fake room number. the hoaxer, who telephoned from a Baltimore library, was not found.
City Engineer Samuel Green awalt reports April new building construction valued at 9,890 with 17 permits issued. This compares to April 1933 when 12 permits valued at 1,000 were issued, showing a sharp rise in activity from the prior year.
May listings include Resolute Council Beck's Restaurant 48th anniversary on May 3, Washington County Young People's Conference May 4 at Christ Reformed Church, Choral Club of Woodland Way Junior High School performs Polished Tedles May 5 at 8 p m in High School Auditorium, Music Week May 6-12, State Convention of Chiropractors May 6, Trial by Jury May 10-11 with St James School Chorus at 8:30 p m in Women's Club, Spring Race Meet May 15-28, Senior Play May 16, Shine's Orchestra May 18 at Church of the Brethren Auditorium, Maryland Federation of Tabor Convention May 23-22-285. Contact Miss Bertha Negley, secretary, at telephone 2015, before the first Monday of each month for inclusion.
Maj. Gen. Hugh I. Scott retired famed Indian fighter and former Army Chief of Staff died last night after a two month illness at Walter Reed Hospital. He was 80 years old.
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