Daily se Mail publication rates and masthead details
The Daily se Mail from Hagerstown Ohio lists subscription rates of 4.50 per year and 0.40 per month with two cent sight copies. It provides foreign representation contacts, editorial and circulation departments, and notes second class mailing. The issue is dated April 1928 with postal and circulation remarks.
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A. A Hawaken
Editor
Ee Ee
S. E. Phillips
Hagerstown Postoffee
Tinie
Tragedy of a Boy and Father Walk to Pittsburgh
An editorial profile follows Robert Thornton and his five year old son Clyde as they flee a ruined Missouri farm after floods. They walk to Newark then Pittsburgh seeking aid, aided by a kind Philadelphia policeman who raises funds for their train fare. The piece laments the harshness of life and urges greater sympathy and action.
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Robert Thornton
Clyde
Missour
Newark
Missouri
New Jersey
Pittsburgh
Philadelphia
Pittgburgh
No Great Loss After All 4 Writer Opines On Theater Decline
The World’s Work notes a drop from 5000 legitimate U S theaters twenty years ago to about 500 now with only large cities sustaining seasons. While this is seen as a national misfortune, the Italian writer argues films have conquered and that old small town drama was often poor. He contends cinema offers superior averages culturally to past third-rate companies.
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United States
Chicago Gang Killings Mark Grim Toll in Hammond
The city mourns Scalisi and Anselmi two veterans of gang violence found shot to death in an abandoned car in Hammond Indiana. Both men had faced murder charges for police killings and St Valentine’s Day massacre links but escaped punishment through lawyers and juries. Chicago’s crime wave continues to shock yet offers a grim sense of relief at their deaths.
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Chicago
Scalisi
Anselmi
Hammond
Ind
President Hoover entertain cabinet offers festive meal
The piece notes plans for a fall buffet for cabinet members hosted by President and Mrs Hoover and mentions inviting Mrs Gann and Mrs Longworth amid factions. It also cites the Mayflower yacht up for sale, Coolidge reflections on trade, and a deer herd near Peoria fleeing from Chicago zoo.
Just Fouxs By Edgar A Guest
A humorous verse about Mabel’s marriage ending parental meddling. The speaker notes fewer fashion judgments from a mother and himself, yet laments the loneliness since Mabel now has only her husband to please and no one to critique her dress or upkeep.
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Mabel
Fruit Pies Tip for Fresh and Crispy Serving
Fresh fruit pies make a treat. Bake the crust over the tin rim then fill while crisp with strawberries or other fruit. Top with whipped cream and serve for a light, fruity dessert.
Southern textile strike drive fuels WTUL union push
Washington reports show the Women’s Trade Union League plans to move its national headquarters from Chicago to Washington to organize southern mill workers. AFL interest signals renewed labor fights over low wages and harsh conditions in textiles, shoes, and garments, with campaigns for union labels and upcoming strikes affecting thousands.
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Washington
South
Women's Trade Union League
Chicago
American Federation of Labor
William Green
A. F
Nora
South Carolina
Tennessee
Mlen
New York
Mlassachusetts
Lillian Berstein
Chicago Federation of Labor
National Industrial Conference Board
United States
League
the Teague
International Ladies Garment
Gorillas to be Killed and Brought to New York Study
A Columbia University medical college expedition, in cooperation with the American Museum of Natural History, plans to kill adult gorillas in Africa, embalm them, and transport them to New York for anatomical study and comparison with humans.
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New York
Africa
College of Physicians and Surgeons of
Columbia University
American Museum of Natural History
More than a hundred perished in Polish blaze
Dispatches from Warsaw report a massive fire in Poland killed over 100 people. The item notes the catastrophe amid a jumble of unrelated local market quotes and domestic ads, with scattered figures on farm prices and poultry costs interleaved in the page.
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London
The
Exchange Telegraph Company
Warsaw
Inte
Poland
Belmont Hotel saved at eleventh hour in Manhattan
May 18 New York report on the Belmont Hotel narrowly spared from wrecking after a rich man Edgar B. Davis offered capital to keep it open. The tale ties to Broadway figures Eddie Dowling and past theater ventures, noting breaches by a noted check artist who was caught during closing. The piece closes with a wink at fashion and Broadway trends.
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New York
Belmont
Manhattan
Stary
Edgar B. Davis
Dr. Brooks
Smallpox Vaccination and Disease Transmission History
Dr Morris Fishbein explains smallpox as a preventable disease and vaccination as protective. He traces medieval fear, Jenner's work with cowpox, and shifts in belief about disease spread from air to more limited transmission methods, noting ongoing safety concerns for respiratory illnesses.
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Baward Jenner
Belief in Telepathy and Witchcraft Threatens Public Health
A historical reflection notes how early inventions like the telephone sparked myths that disease spreads via distant spirits or magic. It argues that ignorance feeds fear of transmission by talking wires, just as belief in charms and telepathy persists.
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Hagerstown
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Burke Muipars & Room
Lexington Ave
New Yorde
Member
Audit Bureau of Circulation
Galn
Associated Press
Daily Thought
Jearth
Boileau
Foel
Mrs. Hoover
Coolidge
Wall Street
Illinois Bottoms
Peoria
Chicago Zoo
Just Fouxs
Edgar A. Guest
Neepsi
Rodney Dutcher
NEA
Workers’ Union
Saral Green
Kansas City
National
Waitresses’ Union
Childs
A. I. of L
Gastonia
N. C
Jennie Green
N. Jonathan St
G. S. Cong
Harry C. Main
Franklin Street
Central
Hagerstown Light & Heat CO
Hagerstown Grain and Feed Co
Gambrill
Schumacher
Quaker
Q. K
Swift
Maryland Poultry Company
Eddie Dowling
Eddie
Cohan and
Harris
Broadway Jones
Little Johnny Jones
Broadway
Morris Fishbein
American Medical Association
Hygeia
the Health Magazine
Edward Jenner
Pasteur
Pennzoilerna Vania
Smith Furniture Co
Franklin St
Garver Furniture Co
Potomac St
Danzer Metal Works, Inc
Sheet Metal Specialists
W. Lee ST
A. Huigubarger
Optometsiat
BUICK
Thiumma Motor Co
Frederick St
Studebaker President
Straight
South Potomac St
Fleigh Motor & Tire Co
Frederics Road
Echanics Loan & Savings Bank
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