Treasure Hunt Pursuit Sparks County History Drive
Washington County launches a Treasure Hunt for fourteen thousand pupils as part of the National Antietam Commemoration led by Superintendent E dm Grimes. Pupils file information blanks listing up to fifteen old objects found at addresses, with gold and regular buttons for top and general participants, and a warning to avoid bringing real items to school.
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Washington County Historicali
E Dm Grimes
Captain Kidd
Washington County Historical Society
Washington Street
B. J. Grimes
Isabella Beckenbaugh
Frances Grimes
Alice M. Quick
Mary H. Chrissinger
Donald ‘Kaylor
Wiliam C.’ Diehl
Opening Day At Shockey Furniture Firm Draws 7509 Visitors
More than seven thousand visitors attended the formal opening of the Shockey Furniture Company at 28 30 Summit Avenue on Saturday. The event featured displays on all floors, floral offerings from local merchants, souvenirs for guests, and high praise for the stock and building.
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Shockey Furniture Company
Summit Avenue
City County Fight Looms Over Relief Funds
The Maryland House debates a relief bill amid pressure from Baltimore city senators to set $5 million in aid while county lawmakers push for $4 million. Debate centers on tax measures and moves to adjourn, with Senate leaders offering a $5 million program and warnings of a possible adjournment failure if $4 million is adopted.
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House
William Howard
Baltimore County
Senate
Lansdale G. Lasseer
Lasseer
Baltimore City
Finance Committee
George Hofferbert
Baltimore
Wal
Wise calls Hitler a madman in Kansas City speech
Rabbi Stephen S Wise branded Adolf Hitler a madman bent on destroying civilization in Kansas City during the Jewish welfare federation campaign opening. He warned Jews as first targets, urged Protestants and Catholics to heed the threat, commended Mayor LaGuardia’s remarks, and cited Poland’s three and a half million Jews facing pressure to flee.
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Kansas City
Stephen S. Wise
Adolf Hitler
Jewish Welfare Federation
New Yorker
Hitler
Rabbi Wise
F. H. LaGuardia
New York
State Department
Washington
Poland
Bear hunter notice in Jewell county bears sold
Notice to bear hunters states there is no more game in Jewell county. Vernon Lemley of North Branch, a local dealer who owned the county’s only bear, has sold it to 2000.
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Barr Oak
Kas
Jewell County
Vernon Lemley
North Branch Curio
Missing 3000-pound street scraper in San Diego
A 3000-pound street scraper vanished from the center of the former exposition midway site. It last appeared April 10 and requires a heavy duty tractor to move. police report notes it may have been misplaced borrowed or stolen. In Baltimore County Maryland a 700-pound War of 1812 cannon disappeared from behind a private home, with police suspecting two unknown individuals in the neighborhood amid scrap iron price pressures.
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San Diego
Calif
Exposition Midway
Cockeysville
Baltimore County
Benett F. B. Cockey
Perkins Asks For Broader Mediation
Miss Perkins leads discussions on expanding mediation to labor disputes. Governors Murphy and Lehman back mediation boards as part of proposed labor relations law. Michigan bill would halt strikes until mediation options are exhausted, drawing opposition from UAW President Homer Martini. Representatives from business groups and the Chamber of Commerce join the meeting following Supreme Court validation of the National Labor Relations Act.
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Frank Murphy
Michigan
Herbert H. Lehman
New York
Homer Martini
United Automobile Workers ,of America
Miss Perkins
Supreme Court
United States Chamber of Commerce
Sharpsburg Community Notes Highlight Visits and Events
In Sharpsburg on April 27 residents report visits from Roanoke and Washington D C figures including Nora Bowers, Ruth Himes Fringer, and Leo Gramm. Local social life includes library relocation, church class lectures, a bridge supper hosted by Miss Mary Cox with several attendees, and weekend visits from relatives and guests.
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Sharpsburg
Nora Bowers
Roanoke
Rodney Fridinger
Mervin DeLauney
A. L. Poffenberger
E. P. Earley and Son
Frederick
Thelma Davis
Washington
Silas Shipley
Martin T. Gross
Earl Heighberger
Jack
Waynesboro
Hattie Heighberger
J.C. Poffenberger
Woodrow Wade
Hubert Stine
Hagerstown
Archie Baker
Doc) Cunningham
Joe Desmond
Harry Hoover
Reichard Reilly
Leonard Heighberger
Edward Garrett
Bernard
Katherine Adams
Ec Grayson
Mabel Mose
Heli
Katherine Adarmas
Everett Sperrow
Martin Luther
Trinity Lutheran Sunday School
W. D. Himes
Mary Cox
J. W. Dorsey
Louise Clipp
Rene Burter
Theodore Poffenberger
Cox
Robert Wrand
Boonsboro
the Poffenberger
Grace Baker
Rene Burier
Kee Gysville
J. W., Dorsey
Tre
John Hiram Beachley
Leonora Vickers Hall
Eoger Otto
H. M. John
Sicn
Mark Mongan
New York
Geo. Mongan
New Method for Relief From Neuritis and Sciatica
An advertisement touts a new method for relief from neuritis and sciatica, neuralgia, and muscular aches with ARTHEROL. It promises quick relief and protection against damp spring weather, with a money refund if not satisfied, and lists H. R. Rudy, Pharmacist, Hotel Hamilton Corner as the sale location.
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Artherol
H. R. Rudy
Hamilton Corner
The Day Nursery Helped a Mountain Widow
Alice and Robert were a devoted couple who lived simply near a mountain road. After Robert’s death a physician directed Alice to the Day Nursery in Hagerstown where she found lodging, clothing, and employment help. The story highlights thirty years of the nursery’s care for mothers and children.
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Alice
Robert
Clearspring
Hancock
Hagerstown
Good Samaritan
Beer and Champagne Flow for Coronation Toasts in London
London plans massive celebratory drinking as 250000 extra barrels of beer are expected to be consumed during the coronation. Hotels stock champagne and wines while night clubs operate on bottle club schemes allowing patrons to drink from bottles labeled with their names.
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London
Samuel Pepys
Charles I
America
Say Company Union Being Organized in Motion Pictures
A woman customer was threatened as vandals scattered creosote on walls, pictures, hangings and carpets. The Screen Actors Guild and producers named committees to confer starting tomorrow on Guild demands including recognition as the sole bargaining agency for motion picture players. Some extras refused to pass picket lines while big name stars moved through in numbers. No action on a proposed walkout or any agreement to observe lines until the conference reports next Sunday. Officials cited studio workers’ lack of sympathy with the strike effort.
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Screen Actors’ Guild
Guild
Motion Picquire Players
Pat Casey
Isbor
Knights to Attend Ascension Day Service in Full Force
St Bernard Commandery No 9 Knights Templar will attend Ascension Day services at St John s Episcopal church Thursday evening at 730 o clock in a body. The sermon will be preached by Rev Dr Walter Byron Stehl a Sir Knight. The Commandery will be accompanied by the Junior Y M C A band.
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St. Bernard Commandery No
Knights Templar
St. John’s Episcopal Church
Walter Byron Stehl
Chicago grain market quotes from Stein Bros and Boyce
The Chicago grain market lists bid prices for wheat corn oats rye and soy with May July and September expiries. Quotations show opening highs lows and fractional adjustments for each futures contract across wheat corn oats rye.
Barber shop painting finally finished after 20 years
In Morril Nebraska Lew Smith recalls an itinerant artist who long ago sketched a perturbed redskin in an unfinished oil painting. The artist returned quietly and completed the scene by painting the Indian and his canoe into the stream, fulfilling a promise he reportedly made 20 years earlier.
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Morril
Neb
Lew Smith
Smith
Bombing Kills Twenty in Zaragoza City Attack
A government bombing plane blasted a residential section of Zaragoza today, killing twenty people and injuring thirty, many women and children, as it plowed through Insurgent antiaircraft fire. The attack occurred in the Spanish city on May 3.
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Zaragoza
Spain
Former Governor III Ill in New York Hotel Room
John K. Traer of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, once governor from 1911 to 1915, lay seriously ill in a New York hotel today but relatives described his condition as favorable after several days of illness while visiting the city. Separately, New York fashion observers note culotte owners prefer a hidden front button design to conceal the garment’s division.
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New York
John K. Traer
Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania
Reunited on Doorstep of Her Chateau
Edward and his fiancée again appeared at the chateau as rumors of a May or June marriage spread. The couple, amid speculation and press attention, awaited an official arrangement while mayors denied being approached to perform a ceremony.
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Chateau
Ernest Aldrich Simpson
Don
Edward
Mrs. Simpson
Tours
Monts
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Clem Sohn
Vincennes
France
Sohn
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Stein Bros. & Boyce
McComae Armstrong Building
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United Aircraft
Union Pacific
Westhouse Elos
Western Union
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Loews
Teras Corp
Gils
Warner Bros
Chicago Grain Market
Blue Ridge Fire Insurance
Franklin Cane
Glenwood Range Your Gas Co
Jackson Whitlow
Stooping Oak
Public Square
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Silver Polish Knox
Westinghouse
Crosley
RCA
Zenith
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Thor Ironers
Thor
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