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Newspaper
The Daily Mail
Location
Hagerstown, Maryland, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1923
Page
2
Charles Shank of Halfway reports extensive damage to his planted sweet corn crop. Ground moths attacked and destroyed nearly every grain of his early variety Golden Bantam, with pests eating the germ. The remarks mention Decoration Day as a context for local people.
Ten thousand Maryland farmers, families, University of Maryland students and alumni gathered at College Park for Farmers Day. The program featured a cornerstone laying for the Dairy Industry Building with remarks from Dairymen leaders, ROTC drills, and the Maryland Governors Cup awarded to Company A led by J W Wisner Jr. The afternoon featured Governor Albert C. Ritchie’s address reflecting the celebratory spirit of the annual event.
The column notes Mr Irvin suffering a sore hand from factory machinery at Hagerstown Shop and Logging Company. It lists visits by Mr and Mrs Wilson Arndt and others to Frederick to see nurse Mrs Bessie Freilft, and reports arrivals of Rev Anram Martin and Rev Preston Horst at Isaac Horst’s home for the illness of Mrs Abram Martin. It records various social visits among local families, travelers from Cearfoss, Huntington College, and Washington, with names including Mr and Mrs Patrick, Mrs Maggie Mier, Walter Widmyer, Jane Doe, George Ringer, and others visiting friends and relatives in the area.
Chicago reader Mrs Helen Sevior shares her story of relief from backache and weakness after taking Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. The ad urges other women with similar female troubles to seek the same help and includes a promise of correspondence with an experienced user.
International News Service reports the Merr it transport carrying 560 Russian refugees to the United States as their promised land. The voyage, led by Admiral Stark aboard the White Fleet legacy ship, is greeted with joy and gratitude by the travelers. Local Lancaster area notes follow, mentioning visitors and community events amid a backdrop of wartime migration.
Police raided the home of Benjamin Sommers on Harmon's Alley yesterday arresting eleven men and women for being drunk and disorderly. Helen Sommers was charged with engaging in a riotous disturbance. Only a white man was reportedly found among occupants. Separately a South African diamond batch yielded 90,801 carats, valued at about 1.4 million dollars in March.
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