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Newspaper
The Daily Mail
Location
Hagerstown, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Oct 21, 1950
Page
3
Daily Mail Hagerstown announces subscription rates in advance for city and mail delivery. The paper notes circulation options including monthly and six month terms, with different zones and a foreign mail rate, and states the Associated Press holds exclusive rights to local news republication.
The fragment references a biblical verse and a speaker labeled as Matt, noting a sense of strangeness and a request to take someone in. The readable text is fragmentary and lacks clear event or context for fuller reporting.
Consumers can relax about color television for now as the FCC presses color broadcasts in New York. Industry resistance and court challenges slow adoption, with only experimental color telecasts possible and black and white sets remaining viable for several years.
Berlin in October saw the Germany Industries Fair as a powerful Allied propaganda display. West Berlin boasted rebuilt stores and rising production while Soviet zones showed little new construction. The fair featured a broad range of German-made goods, with prices often lower than U.S. equivalents, and included international exhibits from Britain, France, and the United States. The standout US display was an American Rambler house with an $8,000 to $14,000 price tag, symbolizing postwar American influence and the potential for German unification free of Communist control.
Dr. Nash D. Fabricant surveys noses in an Eye Ear Nose and Throat Monthly piece, tracing how climate shapes nasal form and detailing types of noses and faces. The article riffs on folklore around nasal itching and cites Leonardo da Vinci on facial study, ending with a teaser about tomorrow’s topic The Common Cold Is Still With Us.
Don Whitehead notes that Korean War shows the Army must train for combat, not only offer education or travel. He recalls postwar recruitment promises of culture and trade, contrasts early unready troops with hardened veterans, and asserts recruits must understand fear and duty, including possible foxhole combat.
A fragment from Edgar A. Guest poem about the simple human endowments of head and heart. It notes that brains and courage, not grand titles, drive heroes, leaders, and makers for service at home or shipment.
The humorous column discusses frozen food cabinets and Janine rushing to thaw supplies while a psychologist notes crowd emotions. It raises a playful question about intimacy in public settings as Christmas approaches.
A banker warns that tax dodgers threaten good government while others question tax spenders. The comment touches on accountability, public finance, and the cost of taxation in a broad political frame. No specific names or places are provided.
Dr Philip Lawrence of the Public Health Service traced life expectancy tables from 1600s England to today at the Life Insurance Underwriters Association luncheon in Hotel Patterson. M Glenn Borer presided as discussions noted these tables are used by diverse businesses and industries beyond insurers. The speaker also commented the average life of a tree is between 200 and 300 years.
Report covers 1791 theater itineraries by the Merkle-Harder Company and Charles McGrath, performances of The Contrast and Like Mae ter Like Man, with audience praise in cities across the era. It shifts to 1930s crop notes on vegetables, beans, citrus prospects and Gulf Coast grapefruit, then local zoning on Rt. 40 and Shady Bower to Sunny Bower, plus city sanitation duties on dishwashing and ballot printing in Frederick and Hagerstown.
United States Fidelity and Guaranty Company of Baltimore hires J B Ferguson to finish the six mile Cumberland to Six mile House stretch. Gangs of youths hunted rabbits and birds out of season on Sundays using pistols. Water supply rising six inches daily after railroads cut off. reservoir now about six feet deep. Edgar Allan Poe to Hall of Fame beating unknown poets Willard Brooks Randy Jackson Roger Williams and others.
A column discusses preventing heart disease by avoiding infections, managing high blood pressure, obesity, and diabetes, plus early recognition. It notes a Panghorn loan offer for unemployed workers, a $800,000 double track bridge plan at Harpers Ferry, and local happenings including two deer gifts to City Park and a fire destroying The Mail Pouch Tavern with owners J. B. Rodgers narrowly escaping.
Public health notice lists streptococci, staphylococcus, and colon bacillus as frequent offenders. It urges readers to request a stamped self addressed envelope to obtain a leaflet detailing the causes and treatment of cystitis.
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