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Newspaper
The Daily Mail
Location
Hagerstown, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1944
Page
3
Washington County Maryland records show year end disbursements for 1943 detailing expenditures by the county commissioners. The report enumerates funds paid across departments, including administration, public works, and services, reflecting fiscal activity for the year.
Fragmentary OCR lists names and titles including Weller Shank de Jos M, Toffman R A clerk. The legible items suggest a civic, legal, or administrative roster with multiple individuals and roles. No clear event, date, or location is established in the readable text.
Virginia fullback turned end Hank Walker, a Navy trainee from Griffin Georgia, earned the top lineman honor in the third weekly Associated Press poll. He helped Virginia hold North Carolina Pre-Flight to a 13 13 tie and joined notable selections including Roger Harding and Jack Russell. Other praised players include Bechtel, Johnson, Esser, Kane, Schleich, Turner, Nichols, Dobelstein, Hatchton, Fathauer, Warrington, Prewitt, and Winkler for their performances at tackle center and guard across various teams.
The report recalls George Stallings and Babe Ruth amid a broader note on vitamins in sports. It cites Sam Breadon and the Cardinals' rise after adopting vitamin pills, linking this to Cardinal pennants and World Series wins and noting the Browns’ 1940s rise as well.
The American Health Association awards a V pennant to the Cards and Browns for health defense with pop-up pills. Plans target energizing over 4,000 players across 225 major and minor league clubs in 1945. Track coaches distribute pills at practice. Lester Patrick enforces daily noon pill intake for Rangers players.
New York Oct 18 Radio schedule lists the last day of the Herald Tribune Forum from 9 30 pm to 10 30 pm with Dewey and Luce for Republicans and Helen Gahagan for California representing Democrats. Roosevelt not participating this time. program includes NBC CBS and MBS broadcasts with various guests and segments.
Tribune Forum notes remarks by Rep Cli Boothe Luce of Connecticut and Stelen Gahagan of California. The sustaining broadcast discusses gyroscopic motor cars with a single front and a single rear wheel that have been operated successfully.
A brassbound note states that it may take as many as twelve bottles of dried blood serum to sustain a gravely wounded fighting man, underscoring the critical supply challenges faced by medical teams in combat zones.
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