Outbreak of Diphtheria Traced to Hancock Across Potomac
An epidemic of diphtheria in Morgan County near Hancock across the Potomac prompted health officials to act. Five Maryland cases were found by Dr. W. Ross Cameron, none of whom were school age and none among Hancock’s 350 previously immunized. Immunization clinics will be held Monday for unvaccinated Hancock children, with instructions for non-school age children to attend the school clinic or visit their doctors.
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Morgan County
Potomac River
Hancock
Washington County
Health Department
Maryland
W. Ross Cameron
Cameron
Two Baltimore Men Killed in Truck Crash at Newark
Two Baltimore men Sam Rogen thal 45 and Harry A Brotman 31 were fatally injured when their roadster hit a stopped truck after a coupling broke. Passenger Jerry Rosenthal injured his wrist and Miss Mathilda Engel Baltimore treated for minor injuries. Truck drivers Clifford Johnson 39 Newark and Bernard Hornlein Irvington were held for questioning.
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Woodbridge
Baltimore
Sam Rogenthal
Harry A. Brotman
Jerry Rosenthal
Mathilda Engel
Clifford Johnson
Newark
Bernard Hornlein
Irvington
Hen Thieves Held In Chicken Theft Case
Samuel Charles and Jonathan Mentzer were held in $1,000 bail for the November term by Magistrate Richard Duffey on charges of stealing chickens from an Irvin Avenue farm. The chickens were sold in Waynesboro and traced to the city, where the owner identified them. Charles was already out on bail for another chicken theft charge.
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Samuel Charles
Jonathan Mentzer
Irvin Avenue
Richard Duffey
Waynesboro
Charles
Rio Grande Near Flood Stage After Hurricane Hit Texas
Floodwaters from the Mexican watershed push the Rio Grande toward danger as lower valley communities battle a hurricane aftermath. With 22 dead and thousands displaced, relief agencies rush aid and disease prevention while damages reach around 10 million dollars and the citrus crop is ruined. Authorities rely on a multi million dollar dyke and floodway system believed to withstand the surge.
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Harlingen
Tex
Rio Grande
Monterey
Weather Bureau
Pick Strikes Blast Kills Morton Quarry Worker Near McConnellsburg
Parker Divens, 24, employed at Morton quarries near McConnellsburg, Pennsylvania, was killed when his pick struck an unexploded blast. Workers had set off blasts the day before. one remained unexploded. Divens died at Chambersburg hospital after the accident. He lived at Webster Mills with a wife and two young children.
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Parker Divens
Morton
McConnellsburg
Divens
Chambersburg
Webster Mills
Ridge Ave Man Sent to Jail for Disorderly Conduct
John Rupple of 487 Ridge Avenue was sentenced to ten days in jail by Magistrate Richard Duntfey for drunk and disorderly conduct after an officer reported he had beaten his family. The wife did not appear to support a wife beating charge, so it was altered to disorderly conduct.
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John Rupple
Ridge Avenue
Richard Duntfey
Rupple
Ten Pupils Removed From Downsville School Over Cough Outbreak
Ten pupils in Downsville were kept from school after a whooping cough outbreak for two deaths this week in the Dam No. 4 area. Dr W Ross Cameron health officer visited yesterday and examined students. All suspected cases were sent home. Neither victim was of school age.
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Downsville
W. Ross Cameron
Cacer
Dam No. 4
Milk Price Change In Hagerstown Brings Grade B Label
Distributors will grade milk as Grade B to sell at 11 cents per quart for consumers in Hagerstown while preserving Grade A quality. Health officials assure high quality despite new label. Rel ief agencies and schools can buy at 10 cents per quart and 3½ cents per half pint, with warnings against profiteering.
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Hagerstown
Health Department
W. Ross Cameron
School Strike Settled in Old Forge
Old Forge teachers reach agreement after a six month overdue salary demand. More than 100 teachers will return to classes next Monday, ending a strike that began on the first day of school, affecting over 4,000 students who gain a vacation extension.
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Agranton
Old Forge
King Feisal of Iraq Dies in Berne at 48
King Feisal of Iraq died in a Berne hotel from a heart attack at age forty eight. The monarch, famed desert warrior and ally of Lawrence of Arabia, faced Iraqi Assyrian unrest linked to mass killings reports. He had been gravely ill after arriving from Baghdad and had traveled to Switzerland for treatment.
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Berne
Switzerland
Feisal
Iraq
Lawrence of Arabia
League of Nations
Baghdad
Resume Trading on Saturday as Markets Reopen
New York news reports that Saturday trading will resume in the security markets and most commodity exchanges. The stock exchange, closed for six Saturdays, will return to its usual two hour weekend session.
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New York
Stock Exchange
Marmaduke Grows Three-in-One Tomato Weighing Two Pounds
W. M. Marmaduke of 321 South Locust Street raised a three in one tomato weighing two pounds in the garden. The discovery notable for its size and uniqueness draws local attention to home horticulture efforts.
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W. M. Marmaduke
South Locust Street
Ford Ends Vacation in Michigan to Return to Detroit
Henry Ford will end his vacation at a Michigan camp and be in Detroit Monday morning, Ford Motor Co officials said. The statement notes his return follows a period away from the company and public events in the upper peninsula.
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Ford
Detroit
Henry [Ford
Michigan
Upper Peninsula
Ford Motor Co
Storm Devastates Oyster Town Leaves Family in Mourning
Mrs. Hester Jane Lewis of Oyster Virginia died from shock after a 90 mph gale and six foot tide wrecked her home two weeks earlier. She leaves six sons three daughters and nineteen grandchildren. Mrs. Charles F. Ely witnessed the damage and returned home to learn of the tragedy.
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Charles F. Ely
Chestnut Street
Hester Jane Lewis
Lewis
Mayor I M Wertz to Meet Chamber Directors
Mayor I M Wertz will meet the chamber of commerce board this afternoon to discuss weekly developments including the milk code now in effect after a milk price increase. Milton D Moore and Dr W Ross Cameron will attend and discuss the code and related topics. The proposal for a Hagerstown Day at the fair and a half holiday during fair week will be considered. NRA campaign progress may also be on the agenda.
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I. M. Wertz
Chamber of Commerce
Milton D. Moore
W. Ross Cameron
Hagerstown
Hagerstown Fair
Dr Parkhurst foe of Tammany Hall dies in New Jersey
The Rev. Dr. Charles H. Parkhurst militant minister and longtime foe of New York's Tammany Hall died at 4 a.m. after falling from a window at his nephew's home in Ventnor New Jersey He was 91 and had been in excellent health. Parkhurst's 1892 pulpit attack on administrative bloodhounds helped spark reform that unseated Tammany leaders and brought mayoral changes including Strong and Roosevelt. He never wavered in his view of political corruption. He sustained brain concussion a fractured skull and a fractured leg prior to death.
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Winthrop Parkhurst
Atlantic City Hospital
Madison Square Presbyterian Church
Tammany
New York
William L. Strong
Theodore “Roosevelt
Robert A. Vanwyck
Parkhurst
Seth Low
New Jersey
New York Embroidery Strike Ends After Night Conference
An all night NRA mediated meeting settled the dispute, allowing 15 000 striking embroidery workers to return to work Monday. The agreement provides a 35 hour five day week and a minimum wage scale, and ends unsafe conditions and child labor concerns. In a separate note, 67 year old Mrs Nannie E Krantz reportedly hanged herself amid financial reverses.
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New York
NRA
Grover A. Whalen
Whalen
Copperheads Hatched From Garden Eggs
Mrs William Eavey found twenty five small eyes under a rock while gardening. She told her children to feed them to the chickens. One egg broke and a copperhead emerged. Three eggs survived and were given to Dale Gams who kept them in a jar and now guards the two hatchlings.
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William Eavey
Trezo
Dale Gams
Rohreraville
Grams
Chesterland township flush with inheritance funds
Chesterland township faces a winter with 7 000 available for good work 20 000 in debts and 60 000 school indebtedness yet 171 000 will be received as a second inheritance tax payment from Walter White's estate after a fatal car crash. Trustee Mark La Morcaux warns the money will be placed in a bank while decisions are found.
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Chesterland
Mark ‘la Morcaux
Fordney Dies Remembered As Buchanan Nomination Link
Thomas Potter Fordney 93 died in Lancaster Pa. He told James Buchanan of his presidential nomination and once raced on horseback to deliver the news to the future president. The obituary notes his personal ties to the White House era and his place in history.
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Fordney
Lancaster
Thomas Potter Fordney
James Buchanan
United States
White House
Buchanan
Everett man fatally crushed by truck in accident
James E. Jackson, a Everett Pennsylvania businessman, died after a truck passed over him as he rode on the rear following a flat tire repair. A Hagerstown motorist found the body and brought it to Everett where it was identified. The driver did not realize the accident had occurred.
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James E. Jackson
Everett
Hagerstown
Jackson
Four youths held for Nesbitt kidnapping slaying in Michigan
Police say four men Robert Razzo 23 and Robert Bufta, both of Detroit Douglas Whitsett of Toronto and Charles Davidson of Port Huron abducted and killed Joseph Nesbitt automobile service manager after taking 87 dollars Nesbitt died in a Mt Clemens hospital Razzo claimed the victim was “in the war” and he shot him because he was “in the way.”
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Detroit
Joseph Nesbitt
Automobile Service Company
Macomb County
Robert Razzo
Robert Bufta
Douglas Whitsitt
Toronto
Ont
Charles Davidson
Port Huron
Mich
Neabitt
Mt. Clemens
Razzo
Factions Hold Parley in Havana Amid Cuba Crisis
In Havana today six men and a woman met with delegates from all factions to study Cuba’s problems. Provisional President De Cespedes may be reinstated with a coalition cabinet to supplant a five man junta as US warships crowd Cuban waters.
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Havana
Cuba
de Cespedes
United States
Aurélio Alvarez
Job
Byron Reed Named to Farley Reception Committee
State Senator William D. Byron and George A. Reed head the honorary reception committee for the Young Democratic League of Maryland banquet at the Lord Baltimore Hotel in Baltimore. Postmaster General James A. Farley will attend as guest of honor at 12 30 Monday noon.
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William D. Byron
George A. Reed
Democratic Organization Club
Young Democratic League of Maryland
Lord Baltimore
Baltimore
James A. Farley
Farley
Hart held on 90000 bond in Cicero poolroom shooting case
Jack Hart 36, fugitive from Baltimore, was held to the grand jury on 90000 bond after arraignment before Police Magistrate Henry J. Sandusky in Cicero on three counts of assault to kill. Hart, chained under guard, muttered no plea and had escaped Maryland prison while serving a life murder term.
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Chicago
Jack Hart
Baltimore
Henry J. Sandusky
Cicero
Kis
Hart
Maryland
Billy Sunday’s Son Hurt in Fourth Story Window Fall
George M. Sunday, 40, son of evangelist Billy Sunday, was in critical condition after a fall from a fourth story apartment in San Francisco. A note by Mrs Sunday claimed she lost balance and fell. police say she recently suffered a nervous breakdown amid financial worries. she had a broken finger from the incident.
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San Francisco
George M. Sunday
Billy Sunday
Sunday
Harold Jackson
Jackson
Upward Retail Trend Boosts Commerce in New York
Dun & Bradstreet Inc reported an ongoing rise in retail sales as price levels lift, with the fall buying season sparking broader commercial activity beyond the general inflation.
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New York
Dun & Bradstreet, Inc
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