02 Oct 1928
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Newspaper
The Daily Mail
Location
Hagerstown, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Oct 02, 1928
Page
1
Late varieties are in excellent condition for packing and market. Growers resumed work today, but estimates show the crop is about one third below expectations. A week of cool weather slowed foliage and deepened color, whetting demand for the king of fruits. Cold mornings and autumn chill will drive appetite as the season advances.
The piece notes Americans think of apples as winter comfort, with snappy red fruit in demand as frosty nights arrive. Hancock growers report top quality fruit this year likely to fetch good prices.
The forthcoming American Legion convention in San Antonio Texas will feature four leading figures. Scott W. Lucas will serve as judge advocate while Rev Gill Rob Wilson holds the role of national chaplain and Eben Putnam will be national historian. Bowerman Elder is listed as national treasurer.
Washington aims to keep government close to the people as Governor Albert R. Ritchie of Maryland urges state rights in a WMAL broadcast and across 19 allied stations. He says prohibition harms liberty of decision and that men resent the infringement on personal choice to drink or abstain.
Miss Bessie Forsythe returns to Baltimore from Indian Springs while Page Funkhouser leaves for Takoma Park to pursue an electrical course. Local visits include Ella Gehr Raymond Gehr and others. Jessie Hull improves after a blood poisoning boil. Clearspring vs Hagerstown soccer opener ends with 13 3 score favoring Clearspring. Team roster lists Shank Mills Seibert Ernest Clarke McCarty Fiery Kreutz Lesher Cushna Miles. Frank Carbaugh eats a bee, honey weighs about eighty pounds. Arthur Sufficool family visits G W Mills in Charlton. A box social at D D Clopper’s raises eighty seven dollars for the church. Ruth Haines and sons visit John Haines. Mersey Tunnel project to be largest sub aquatic tunnel, three miles, Liverpool to Birkenhead, eight minutes travel.
A coroner's jury in Waynesboro exonerated the train crew and the automobile driver in the fatal Waynecastle collision that killed Mrs. I. W. Clark of Munhall Pa. The panel urged installation of safety apparatus at the crossing citing multiple past accidents at the site.
A health tonic claims to revive scalp glands and pigments to restore natural hair color. The ad touts Lea's Hair Tonic as harmless, not a dye, with gradual, natural results and mentions teachers and hairdressers using it nationwide.
The advertisement touts a wafer style callous remover named Joy Callous or Bunion Wafers priced at a quarter. It claims immediate pain relief without razors acids or doughnut pads and that the wafer peels away the callous to reveal healthy skin.
A fragmentary notice from Waynesboro last night mentions a funeral parlor context and a thrash event. No further details are legible, leaving the core actions and identities unclear.
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