Western Maryland expands rail reach with Lincoln yard progress
The Western Maryland announces a new terminal at Lincoln Pennsylvania just outside York with ninety pound rails and completed yards. Freight movement increases as yard improvements and facilities like water supply and scales come online. The expansion boosts Hagerstown traffic and payrolls, fueling local money circulation. Major freight lines include Sandusky Portland Cement and a wire cloth firm, moving via Hanover Cumberland and Connellsville. The railroad plans further territorial growth beyond coal focus.
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The
Maryland
Lincoln
York
Hagerstown
York District
Elevator and Home Entered at Waynecastle
Thieves broke into the grain elevator and the Miller home at Waynecastle, forcing a window lock to access the office safe and scattering contents. They then entered the cellar at the Miller residence by picking the door lock, taking a knitted blouse a bucket tomatoes and a cake as the loot.
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Waynecastle
Charles F. Miller
Plant Shrubbery At Williamsport High School Grounds
Workmen from Mountain View Nursery Company at Halfway have begun planting shrubbery at Williamsport High School under landscape artist J. Frank Hetzer. The project follows a plan by W. R. Ballard of the University of Maryland and a local committee, aiming to create one of the county’s most artistic schoolgrounds.
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Williamsport
Mountain View Nursery Company
J. Frank Hetzer
W. R. Ballard
University of Maryland
Mrs Myers Suffers Sprained Ankle After Fall at Home
Mrs. C. G. Myers of Guilford Avenue fell yesterday afternoon suffering a badly sprained ankle.
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C. G. Myers
Guilford Avenue
Body of Man Found In Potomac River Near Riverside Park
The body of Isaac S. Wilson stationary engineer with N. and G. Taylor Tinplate Mills was found floating in the Potomac near Riverside Park. Police believe he wandered into the river and fell in. He leaves two sons and one daughter.
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Cumberland
Isaac S.” Wilson
N. & G. Taylor Tinplate Mills
Potomac 1
Riverside Park
Seizure of $30,000 worth of liquor aboard ship Manamar
Aboard the Munson liner Manamar arriving from Nassau, government agents found 2800 bottles of rare wines, brandies, and whiskey valued at $30,000. John McAdams led the three-officer unit that emptied the ship tank, discovering 416 burlap bags hidden on the bottom. Around 100 bottles had broken during the voyage.
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New York
Munson
Manamar
Nassau
John McAdams
McAdams
Art Auction Season Totals Reach 6.23 Million
New York reports sales of art during the just closed auction season totalled 6 229 670 dollars. E H Gary's collection accounted for 2 300 000 dollars of the sum.
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New York
E. H. Gary
Disbelief in Banks Cost Life and Cash
In Waukegan Illinois on May 17 the Beck family farm was robbed after they distrusted banks. William Beck Jr. was killed, the 6 year old mother was clubbed and knocked unconscious, and the three intruders fled with 2500 dollars in cash and bonds. A nearby bureau revealed 1600 dollars in treasury bonds and 200 dollars in school bonds untouched. Sheriff Lawrence Doolittle reported the scene.
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Waukegan
William Beck
Treasury
Lawrence Doolittle
Last American Girl Eliminated in British Open Golf Title
Dorothy Campbell Hurd the sole American in the British Women's Open Golf Title tournament was eliminated three and two by Miss Judith Fowler today at Hunstanton England.
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Hunstanton
Eng
America
Dorothy Campbell Hurd
Mias
Judith Fowler
Day
Sale of New York Stock Exchange seat tops record $395000
New York May 17. Sale of a seat on the New York Stock Exchange has been arranged at 395000, equaling the high record and unchanged from the previous transaction.
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New York
New York Stock Exchange
Dice decides leadership then death on Brooklyn pier
Edward McGuire age 26 wins leadership of a Brooklyn waterfront gang after a dice roll but is shot dead minutes later. Six survivors of Wild Bill Lovett's former gang gathered to revive the group, each believing he deserved command as the dice ballot settled the dispute.
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New York
Edward McGuire
Brooklyn
McGuire
Wild Bill” Lovett
Wild Bill
Awaited Return of Italian Dirigible from Arctic Voyage
The Italian airship Italia and its General Umberto Nobile crew were near Lenin Land after a progress over the ice fields near Spitsbergen. The base at Kings Bay awaited Nobile’s return to learn discoveries and plan a possible descent to Crocker Land. Weather reportedly favorable with speeds of 30 to 50 kilometers per hour.
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Kings. Bay
Spitsbergen
Arctic
Lenin Land
Taimyr Peninsula
Nobile
U S Wealth Shows A Great Increase
New York May 17 an economist for Stone and Webster and Blodgett Inc says U S wealth is computed at 520000000000 and has increased 4400 percent since 1856.
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New York
United States
Stone and Webster and Blodgett, Inc
Indicted Klan Cyclops Named Solicitor in Alabama
Ira B. Thompson former Ku Klux Cyclops and Crenshaw county indictment figure was named county solicitor by Gov Bibb Graves to fill the late O C Walker's term. Thompson won the Democratic nomination at a recent primary, the appointment runs until next January. Thompson and 37 others faced 102 counts over floggings. cases later dropped after initial trial.
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Crenshaw County
Lock Of Washingtons Hair To Be Placed In New York Museum
A lock of Washingtons hair will be housed in the New York City museum. The gift comes from Stuyvesant Fish, descendant of Hamilton Fish, who reportedly received it from Washington eight years before his presidency.
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New York
Washington
Museum of the City of
Stuyvesant Fish
Hamilton Fish
Beards and Hammonds Buy Homes on Guilford Avenue
Mrs Hazel L Beard bought a modern brick home on Guilford avenue via Charles F Strole & Co. Mrs Jessie C Hammond purchased a brick property on the same street through the Strole agency. Homes were recently built by Hagerstown Realty Co.
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Hazel L. Beard
Charles F. Strole & Company
Guilford Avenue
Jessie C. Hammond
Strole Agency
Hagerstown Realty Company
Unordered Suits Sent to Chambersburg and Hagerstown Residents
The Chambersburg Chamber of Commerce reports unordered suits sent by the Amer Town Clothing Co of New York City arrived in Chambersburg and nearby towns. The chamber will defend anyone sued for collection over these misdelivered garments.
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Hagerstown
Clothing Co
New York City
Chambersburg
Chamber of Commerce of the
Pennsy
Gotham, Company
Chamber ‘of Commerce
Company - Institutes
Bus Accident Damage Suit Before Jury
Samuel Calvin Mumma of Sharpsburg sues Blue Ridge Transportation Company for 10000 dollars claiming injuries from a February 9 bus accident near Sharpsburg. The Boonsboro high school bus hit a telephone pole after the steering shaft snapped. Mumma alleges negligence while the company argues the crash was unavoidable.
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Samuel Calvin Mumma
Sharpsburg
Blue Ridge’ ‘Transportation Company
Boonshboro
Pike
Victor
Mumma
Boonsboro
Boonsboro High
Cemetery Hill
Starpsburg
McSherry
Frederick
J. Lloyd Harshman
Bus Company
Insurance Company
John E. Wagaman
George G. Uhler
Lydia E.uhhler
Henry N. Martin
Nannie E. Martin
Hungarian Residents to Face Citizenship Exam in Court
Mrs Esther Shaffer and Mrs Elizabeth Nemes both Hungarians from Security will be examined by Judge Frank G Waga man this afternoon for final citizenship papers. Samuel Jacobs examining officer spends the day here preparing papers for aliens seeking naturalization.
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Esther Shaffer
Elizabeth Nemes
Security
Frank G. Wagaman
Samuel Jacobs
Two More Bikes Stolen Reported In City
Jack Lowman of 141 Eave Avenue and W S Travinger of 19 Fairground Avenue reported bicycle thefts to police today. The police docket notes one or two bikes disappearing daily.
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Jack Lowman
Eave Avenue
W. S. Travinger
Fairground Avenue
Bremen Trio Heads West From Transatlantic Flight
Detroit and Indianapolis dispatches report the Junkers F-13 with Captain Koehl Major Fitzmaurice and Baron von Huenefeld completing a leg of the East West trans Atlantic flight. The crew departed St. Louis and Schoenfeld Fort Benjamin Harrison, facing weather delays before landing at Ford airport.
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Detroit
Ford Airport
St. Louis
Indianapolis
Schoenfield
Fort Benjamin Harrison
Koehl
Fitzmaurice
Baron von Huenefeld
Here
Retired R. R. Man Recovers From Maladhy
A former railroad conductor, J. B. Pence of Halfway, recovered from tularaemia contracted after shooting an infected rabbit while hunting near Luray Virginia last November. Doctors, with U S Public Health Service aid, diagnosed December 10 and Pence was discharged cured after treatment. The illness, once fatal in some cases, is rare in the eastern United States and linked to infected rabbits and a Virginia mother and daughter who died after cleaning them.
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Pence
United States
Pacific
Luray
Virginia
Vestal Held for Larceny in Carpet Sweeper Theft
Paul Vestal, a South Carolina native with a prior jail term for telephone pay station tampering, was recommitted to jail after arraignment before Justice Richard Duffey on larceny charges for stealing a carpet sweeper from the Presbyterian Church. He was arrested after selling the item to a local dealer, claiming his wife and two children were hungry.
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Paul Vestal
South Carolina
Richard Duffey
Presbyterian Church
Vestal
Mary
David Clark
Intrepid Woman For Returns
Lady Heath, formerly Mrs Eliott Lynn, the first woman to fly from Cape Town to Europe, arrived at Crydon in a light aircraft from Le Bourget. She completed a 10 000 mile solo flight from Cape Town begun on February 12. She endured sun stroke and a forced landing at Bulawayo on February 26, a fever at Tripoli on May 1, and damage to her plane at Tunis.
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Croydon
Eng
Lady Heath
Eliott Lynn
Cape Town
Europe
Crydon
le Bourget
Bulawayo
Tripoli
Tunis
Hancock Youth Poisoning Probe Opens
An investigation into Lewis Daniels 22 of Hancock who died at Washington County Hospital after weeks of illness began by Constable Charles Barnhart. Friends think he died from poisoned whiskey and authorities will interview doctors and locals. autopsy decision pending.
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Lewis . Daniels
Lewis Daniels
Bessie Daniels
Hancock
Washington County Hospital
Charles Barnhart
Constable Barnhart
Mrs Lulu Seale Named Dallas County Sheriff
Dallas on May 17 reports Mrs Lulu Seale has been appointed sheriff of Dallas county, succeeding her husband in the role and marking a notable family succession in local law enforcement.
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Dallas
Lulu Seale
Dallas County
Heavy Masonry Work Beset By Damaged OCR Fragment
Fragmentary OCR text describes renewals on a heavy wall masonry project. Names, dates, and specifics are unreadable, leaving a partial glimpse of the work scope and location.
Unclear OCR fragment on missing family near Norfolk steamer
Fragmentary report describes a barge rescue near Norfolk with Augusta A Denhart and crew hearing cries. A tug and the steamer Vieginia aided searchlights for an hour but found no trace of the Insley family as the barge lurched and sank without warning.
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A. Bateau
Augusta
Rev Dr Henri Ki effer Elected President of Frederick Rotary
The Rev Dr Henri Kieser, pastor of the Frederick Reformed Church and son of Mrs J Spangler Keiffer, was elected President of the Frederick Rotary Club yesterday in this city.
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Henri Li GQ. Ketites
The
Frederick Reformed Church
Mra. J. Spangler ‘Keiffer
Orcutt and Perrott Divorce Suits Filed in Court
Roy Orcutt seeks divorce from Gertrude Orcutt with attorney Charles W Wolf. Judge Wagaman grants absolute divorce to Oliver C Perrott from Hazel E Perrott. The couples married in 1910 with allegations of desertion and faithfulness.
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Roy Orcutt
Charles. W. Wolf
Gertrude Orcutt
Wagaman
Oliver. c. Perrott
Hazel E. Perrott
Oswald
Perrott
Dancer Murder Shocks City After Film Feature
Maria Montero, the Spanish dancer seen in Douglas Fairbanks film The Gaucho, was murdered last night at her 57th Street studio. An Argentine medical student, Horacio Colombres, who loved her, returned with a pistol and killed Montero before turning the weapon on himself. The tragedy follows a past affair and a confrontation over her leaving him.
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Maria Montero
Douglas Fairbank
Nixon
Academy
Associated Press
Horatio Columbres
Miss Montero
Parta
Weat
57Th Street
Lice
Alfonso of
Spain
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Son
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Polar Region
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Chambersburgers
Calvin
Blue Ridge Transportation Company
Naturalization Court
Bremen Trio
R. R. Man
Maladhy
J. B. Pence
Fred. Melchoir
Bremen
Givene Ly Island
Kieffer
Rotary
Columbrea
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