Federation of Labor Opposes Volstead at Maryland Convention
At the 24th annual Maryland State and District of Columbia Federation of Labor meeting resolutions condemn racetrack gambling and the Eighteenth Amendment. A law banning track gambling is urged for Maryland General Assembly, unions pledge to oppose Volstead enforcement, and Bow ie Laurel track owners are criticized for relying on outside help. Vincent A. Sheehy is endorsed for U S Attorney of the District of Columbia. Additional measures seek merit-based efficiency ratings reform, a Saturday afternoon holiday for government workers, a shorter work week, a merger-franchise charter protest, and more taxi stands near hotels.
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Maryland
District of Columbia
Federation
Vincent A. Sheehy
Prince George’s County
U.5
Coolidge
Tracgen Companiees
Washington
Board Plans Visit Today On Broadway Building
The Board of County Commissioners will inspect the Broadway building this afternoon after their weekly session. They will be guided by a contractor to decide whether it is wiser to repair the structure or erect a new one amid ongoing debate.
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Broadway
Board of County Commissioners
Americans Prefer Water Over Beer In Heidelberg
In Heidelberg Germany on May 22 visiting Americans at Mine Host Fritz Getter's headquarters reveal most drink water with lemon soda and orangeades while beer is largely avoided.
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Heidelberg
Germany
Fritz Getter Gayn
Democrats in Convention Back Ritchie for President
Maryland Democrats move to back Governor Ritchie at the national convention with a 32 delegate plan and a mix of city and district selections. The caucus listed Ritchie alongside Ty Ding, Bruce, Ray, Robinson, Jackson, and Hershey as delegates at large, amid factional tensions over the Baltimore delegation.
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Baltimore
Maryland
Ritchie
Beald
Houston
Ray
Robinson
Jackson
Omer F. Hershey
Henry P. Turner
Talpor
William S. Gordy
Dudley G. Roe
Queen Annes County
J. Ben Decker
Cecil County
BE. Brooke Lee
House of Delegates
Preston P. Lane
Washington County
William CG. Walsh
House Overrides Presidential Veto on Postal Pay Bill
Washington May 22 The House ordered a vote to override a presidential veto for the first time this session. The move follows a bill to raise pay for postal employees assigned to night work.
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Washington
House
Battle Near Pekin Reported Imminent
News dispatch from Peking reports a decisive cattle on the northern defense of Pekin against Nationalists expected imminently at Wangta 110 miles south of the northern capital.
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Pek
Wangta
Railroad Man Badly Injured In West Virginia Accident
Norman C. Lightner of Chambersburg a brakeman on the Pennsylvania Railroad was badly burned and injured last night near Falling Waters West Virginia when a spray hose on the engine burst sending hot water and steam over him He leaped from the engine after hearing a hissing noise and suffered bruises cuts and unspecified further injuries The train was stopped after the hose broke and the locomotive was traveling 36 miles an hour at the time of the accident
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Norman C. Lightner
Chambersburg
Pennsylvania Railroad
W. Va
Lightner
Woman Hurt After Tripping Under Car Near Leitersburg
Mrs John E B Dickens of Waynesboro was badly injured when she tripped and fell onto the roadway as she returned from Hagerstown. The right rear wheel passed over her left foot near the Hoffman farm north of Leitersburg. She suffered cuts and bruises including a head wound and received first aid at Leitersburg before being taken home to Waynesboro.
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Hagerstown
John EB. Dickens
Waynesboro
Hoffman Farm
Leitersburg
Wealth And Smile Won't Help Much
New York May 22. A magistrate in traffic court announced that no rich young sitter would smile away a suspended sentence. He fined Virginia VanderHo 19, twenty five dollars for speeding in her red roadster.
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New York
Dryer
Virginia VanderHo
Babe Ruth speeding charge quashed in New Jersey
Babe Ruth, once charged with speeding in Wee Hawken New Jersey, has had the case dropped. Chief Doland states Ruth is the greatest baseball player and a friend of mine, explaining the dismissal.
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Weehawken
N. J
Babe Ruth
Doland
Mina
Bakers Strike At Cumberland City Continues Unchanged
In Cumberland, bakers still operate as strike persists since midnight Saturday. The dispute began April 1 when a new wage scale from the union was rejected by master bakers, with a second scale rejected on April 28. The head baker earned 37.80 weekly, sought 45, then agreed to 40. Third-class bakers sought six extra weekly, then accepted a three dollar rise.
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Hat
Cumberland
Urney Men Bakers
Man Loses Leg In Motorcycle Collision Near Waynesboro
Alvin S. Wingert of Quincy was seriously hurt when his motorcycle collided with Clayton Miler’s car on the Waynesboro Mont Alto highway. Wingert’s leg was amputated at Waynesboro Hospital. He had been recovering from pneumonia. His 9-year-old son George and passenger Carl Duey were injured in the sidecar.
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Alvin S. Wingert
Quincy
Clayton Miler
Marion
Waynesboro
Mont Alto
Wingert
Waynesboro Hospital
George
Carl Duey
Convict Confesses As Detective Case Tied To 1926
Oklahoma City reports a convict confesses to playing detective in 1926. The detective's widow was tried and acquitted in connection with the case.
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Oklahoma City
Man Ends Life by Hanging in Hay Mow At Farm
William Keefer 67 at his farm near Lurgan took his life by tying a rope to a hay conveyor in the haymow and leaping from a stationary ladder. His body hung 26 feet above the floor as his son found him. Keefer had long spoken of such an act.
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William Keefer
Lurgan
Keefer
Agent Jailed After Early Morning Shooting
An insurance agent Charles Calhoun of 204 Frederick Street was jailed on a $1000 bond after arraignment in city court for shooting at Lewis Mullenix during a July morning alley confrontation near First Christian Church. Mullenix testified Calhoun drew a .38 revolver and fired, missing him. Calhoun allegedly pursued and leveled the gun three times. Mullenix said Calhoun had pursued Mrs. Mullenix, and after a previous dispute Calhoun followed him, exchanged blows, and produced a revolver in the alley.
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Charles 8
Calhoun
Frederick Street
Defauult
J. H. Bitner
Lewis . Mulleniz
Locust Street
Mullanix
First Christian
Mullenix
Lve
Mim and Hout
Meetis Lumber
Baitimor
Christian Church
Cal‘houn
Kieffer Pears Devastate Sandy Hook Orchard
Rio Janerio May 22 A martyr to the X ray Dr Alvaro Alvin began research in 1895 and continued his work despite injuries. Less than a bushel of Kieffer pears will be this year’s crop from James R Keller’s 400 tree orchard near Sandy Hook. Freezes this spring wiped out the pear crop in the area, one of the largest in the state. Keller noted only two pears remained in the entire orchard a recent survey.
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Rio Janerio
Alvaro Alvin
James R. Keller
Sandy Hook
United States
Keller
She Did Not Like Diet Of Husband Seeks Separation
New York May 22. Mrs Virginia Smith Healy seeks a separation. Papers show her husband admitted he once lived on ants snakes and small chocolate in South Africa.
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New. York
Virginia Smith Healy
South Africa
Scientist Noguchi Dies Fighting Yellow Fever in Africa
Dr Hideyo Noguchi, a 51 year old Japanese scientist linked to the Rockefeller Institute, died in Accra on the Gold Coast battling yellow fever after identifying its cause from his own case. He had worked with the Rockefeller Foundation since 1904 and had recently inoculated a monkey with his infected blood, which also died. Associates will continue his work on a vaccine as his notes guide further research.
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New York
Hideyo Nogucha
Tropics
Rockefeller Institute of Bedical Research
Accra
Gold
Africa
Noguchi
Rockefeller Foundation
Institute
Ready To Lay Main Under Creek At Williamsport
Contractor MacLaughlin of Pittsburgh prepares to install the Potomac to Ha Serstown water line by crossing under Conococheague creek at Williamsport. Coffer dams are in place and electric wires extend from Williamsport to the work site for night operations. Work was delayed until warm weather.
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MacLaughlin
Pittsburgh
Potomac River
Ha Serstown
Williamsport
Texans Lose Share of Duke Trust Fund Claim
In Somerville New Jersey on May 22 authorities denied the claim of 103 Texans to share a $2,000,000 trust fund left by James S. Duke. The ruling ends the dispute over the sizeable legacy and affects numerous potential heirs.
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Somerville, N. J
James 5
Duke
Fish Better Run Celia’s After You in Williamsport Tale
A damaged account from Williamsport describes Celia Butler a 75 year old Black woman who reportedly obtained a fishing license. The piece notes her love of fishing and the various Potomac and Conoco Cheague Creek waters near Williamsport. The tone implies community trepidation as Celia fishes with skill and determination.
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Potomac River
Conococheague Creek
Williamsport
Celia Butler
Celia
Calia
Mail Airplane Crash Kills Pilot E J Morrissey
Richmond May 22 Northbound mail plane on New York Atlanta New Orleans route crashes in fog near Sandston Virginia killing pilot E J Morrissey 35 of Aurora Illinois first fatality on the route. He left behind a wife and three children. The wrecked mail was sent to Washington by train.
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Richmond
E. J. Morrissey
Aurora
Ils
Philip Gotf
Sandston
H. A. Eliott
Piacira Aviation, Inc
Morrissey
New York-Atlanta
New Orleans
Morissey
Washington
Fog associated crash prompts second near miss on NY to Atlantic air mail route
May 22 Washington report recounts a second near collision on the New York to Atlantic air mail route. Pilot Verner E. Treat, delivering mail from New York to Richmond, forced a late night landing at Sykesville Maryland after running out of gas and failing to land at Washington due to dense fog and thick clouds.
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Washington
Morrisey
Richmond
Verner E. Treat
New York
Sykesville
Worker Hurt at Landslide Near Hancock
George A. Coleman, Baltimore, suffered cuts and bruises after slipping from a steam shovel while repairing it amid a landslide that covered Baltimore & Ohio tracks above Hancock. He fell about 15 feet to the tracks and was taken to a Martinsburg hospital. Washington May 22. Smoot tentatively chosen to head resolutions committee at Kansas City.
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Baltimore & Ohio
Hancock
George A. Coleman
Baltimore
Coleman
Martinsburg
Washington
Smoot
Kansas City
Astrophe series continues on page twelve
A fragmented clipping hints at a continuing series with the phrase still hanging in the balance. Further details appear on page twelve, suggesting an ongoing feature or serialized report that readers would find continuing in-depth.
Realty Case Before Jury In Foreclosure Action
Trial of the Baker couple against Groh Company over a property bought at sale. Baker sought return of a deposit after foreclosure. attorneys W P Waehter Brindle and Brindle for Bakers and Garland B Grok for the defendant appeared.
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Gro’ Company
Aoeking
Baker
Setth
Groh ‘Company
W. P. Waehter
Brindle
Bakers
Garland B. Grok
Storms Kill Four In South Texas Crop Losses Reported
A series of storms across southern Texas killed four people and injured over 50 as wind hail and lightning struck farms near Laredo Ferrin Ells county and Cameron. A 14 year old boy died and his mother was injured in a field. two cowboys died as a house collapsed in a wind event. lightning killed Mary Hus in Cameron. a tornado damaged a home near Ferrin Ells. Heavy crop losses were reported in early onions and other fields referenced. Bank stock sales occurred at the courthouse with Hagerstown and Maryland Surety shares traded at quoted prices.
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Laredo
Texas
Marry Hus
Cameron
Ferrin
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Pekin
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City
Babe
Bakers Strike
Quincy Man
Man
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Lewis Mullenix
Freezer
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