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Newspaper
The Daily Mail
Location
Hagerstown, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1950
Page
6
North Bay OntarioOctober 20A game warden Joe Carswell veteran of the RCAF confronted four pairs of sneakers and spectacles with a naked group nearby one beach scene a blonde woman in running shoes emerged from the lake as he warned the group about permits and legality and then left.
A broom corn boom sweeps Lindsay Oklahoma as buyers bid up to 500 per ton while average prices rise from 225 to higher figures. The nationwide harvest shows shortages for home and industrial use across broom corn regions in Texas Colorado New Mexico Illinois and neighboring states.
The Red Cross Bloodmobile will visit the State Reformatory for Males on Monday October 23 to collect blood. Mrs Traskin urged county residents to sign up for the November 12 Hagerstown visit with a county quota of 159 donors. Appointments for November 14 are at Red Cross headquarters. transport to St Johns Lutheran Church is provided.
The Magerstown Lodge of the joyous Order of Moose initiated its second large class of candidates for the month on Wednesday evening. Ridgely, past governor, Charles O Connor, Overtia William Nichols, Junior Governor, Raymond Stransburg, Prelate Lee Swope and Clarence Gordon, Sergeants at Arms. A buffet supper followed. Tomorrow evening Pall Jones and his band will play at the Monse Home for entertainment and dancing. A note mentions springs creating fresh water in some of the world’s oceans.
The text notes a change from 44.6 to about 29 thousand tons this year due to Lindsay's boom and a poor harv est. It mentions prices rising for households using soil factory products and a substantial portion of broom corn being bought by the military during World War II, indicating a wartime reallocation of resources and demand.
George Hewlett a sixth grader helped an eight year old girl Evelyn Earl who fell from a bridge into Pennyfack. Evelyn was rescued and taken to a hospital suffering from shock.
A schoolteacher sent a pupil home to fetch dry clothes after an incident at school. George departed to obtain attire and return.
In Fairbanks on October 20 a jokey chain of events led to a Jeep fire. Courtney Hitch-hiked to an empty cabin 47 miles from town on Richardson Highway. He drained gas, lit a cigarette, gloves caught fire, flames spread to the Jeep tires, and two off duty firefighters arrived to find no extinguishers and a burning vehicle.
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