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Newspaper
The Daily Mail
Location
Hagerstown, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Sep 05, 1939
Page
3
Bulletin boards with twenty enamel slides display names marks and colors of ships arriving or departing New York. Donated by a donor with romantic inclinations to share maritime interest with park visitors.
Atlantic City will host the 28th National Safety Congress with 10 000 attendees. The conference will study home, factory, office, and street accidents and seek measures to cut the rising casualty toll. Last year home accidents killed 31 500 and injured 4 650 000. Many incidents stem from carelessness and lack of consideration.
Penological experts urge allowing more parole as the best way to reform convicts, arguing self-improvement rarely occurs behind prison walls. Yet higher parole costs and punitive concerns threaten feasibility and raise questions about releasing offenders who may reoffend.
SHIPS THAT PASS There is nothing stirring in every day life as a ship coming into harbor or going out. Memories of far places, seen or vicariously enjoyed, attract large numbers of people daily to Battery Park.
Two college professors argue that the Alger novel and its modern film counterpart mislead youths by glorifying industrial wealth and glamour. They warn audience empathy shifts to heroes and stars rather than real values, suggesting avoiding provocative content may protect adolescents from distorted worldviews.
5,000 years ago Babylonian guilds enforced collective bargaining and social security. Dr. Walter H. Dubberstein notes government price fixing and industry control echo modern systems. Whether such experiments prolonged their civilization remains a topic for historians and economists to debate.
An analysis breaks travel spending into transportation hotels merchandise dining and recreation with meat and confections. The study suggests domestic travel markets total about five billion dollars and foreign travel adds about one billion, highlighting why cities states and nations court travel.
Washington writer Preston Grover argues that top reserve and national guard officers may lag in war, while regulars show knowhow. He cites ROTC, the CCC, and CMTC as building a trained pool of 20,000 reserve officers and 2.5 million potential cadets for civilian defense and future fighting forces.
In Tokyo on September 5 the Japanese government said it would stay out of the European War and focus on the China conflict. Premier Abe announced the policy after a cabinet session, with officials noting Germany and Soviet non aggression shifts ended the Berlin Rome Axis alignment. Also reported: Grady Manning and W. D. Branham drowned when Manning's power boat capsized on Lake Hamilton near Hot Springs, Arkansas.
Questions test readers on recent events including a prominent man in the news his job a Germany Soviet pact and other world affairs. The quiz asks about the defender alliance isolation after the pact and key figures and events with a page eight reference and scoring guidance.
A George Tucker piece depicts Miss Maureen O Sullivan arriving in New York with her sister and many suitcases, greeted by red caps and crowds. The scene moves through Grand Central and surrounding bustle, with commentary on manners and social contrasts. Abbott and Costello are mentioned alongside Paris burlesque gossip.
London Dean W R Inge questions Jeans and Iddington on space time. He argues annihilation misstates radiation, denies empty time, and critiques expanding and contracting universe models. Inge defends reality of time and space, opposing pure mathematical mentalism and stressing physics grounded in perception.
A dense OCR puzzle list with across clues and scattered typos. It mentions religious music, amphitheater parts, poems, verbs, adjectives, and many misread terms across numbers. Numerous errors obscure precise clues but indicate a standard cross word grid and multiple entries.
The article recalls Abbott and Costello in a backstage scene where they calm two girls, then dine together. It profiles Costello as a wry, streetwise comic who learned hard times and waxes with ease. Abbott is the taller straight man who steers conversations into humorous misunderstandings. Born in New Jersey and Brooklyn era talk, both built their act into a durable comic partnership.
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