Lange Ballot: Election Details From Maryland Ballot
Ballot content shows 74 names with 33 Democrats and 32 Republicans for county and state posts, plus three names for the Governor box. Independent candidates for Clerk of the Court and potential Socialist Communist and Labor party entries noted. Also mentions referendum questions on court judges, state income tax, marriage license delay, and dentist regulation. No second choices in November. Maryland’s second choice law applies to party primaries only.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Labor
Party
Maryland
Recount Sought of Allegany Democratic Governor Votes
Attorney General Herbert R. O Conor filed a petition for a recount of Allegany county Democratic governor votes. The recount, approved on bond and set to begin Monday, covers 10 260 ballots from 73 polling places and aims to resolve a 54 vote margin for Mayor Howard W. Jackson. If O Conor wins the recount he seals the nomination. costs depend on the final error rate.
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Cumiberland
Herbert R. O'Conor
Allegany County
William A. Huster
O’conor
Howard W. Jackson
O'Conor
T. L. Richards
Election Board
Child Injured In Auto Accident In Green Castle
Lois Marie Mayhaugh an 11 year old girl from Green Castle Route 3 was seriously hurt yesterday afternoon when struck by a car on the Middleburg pike. She was rushed to Washington County Hospital where doctors found a broken left leg cuts and bruises on her face and arms and a possible concussion. Attendants said she walked into the path of the automobile.
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Lois Marie Mayhaugh
Greencastle
Route 3
Middleburg Pike
Washington County
Mayhaugh
Hay Fever Victims Gather In Parley
Hay fever sufferers in Frederick Michigan meet at the YMCA auditorium to urge the mayor and city council to enforce weed-cutting health regulations. Reverend Amos J. Traver was elected chairman and Miss Emily Apple secretary as they push for action to curb the hay fever epidemic. In another note, drillers marked rock depths at City Hall for the new municipal building foundation with several holes planned for the day.
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Frederick
Amos J. Traver
Evangelical Lutheran Church
Emily Apple
City Hall
Czechoslovakia Counts on Nature and Rails for Defense
The article argues Czechoslovakia relies on natural geography and fortified passes to shield Moravian Gate and Oder Gap. It notes a railway and highway network enabling rapid troop movement and an army of about a million in training, while western industrial regions face exposure near Germany and sea access is limited.
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Vests
Moravian
Oder
Napoleon
Austerlitz
Austria
Czechoslovakia
Dr Nathaniel Burwell Dies Quietly at Home
Shepherdstown West Virginia September 17 Dr Nathaniel Burwell aged 69 longtime practicing physician here died Friday afternoon at his home He had been in poor health but the death was unexpected Surviving are three daughters a son a brother and three sisters and he was a native of Parkersburg
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Shepherdstown
W. Va
Nathaniel Burwell
Burwell
Parkersblirg
Washington County Leads Maryland Unemployment Fund Contributors
The Maryland Unemployment Compensation Board reports 349 contributors in Washington county, with total state contributors at 10,615. Contributions are 2.70 percent of quarterly payrolls, plus 0.3 percent for the Federal government, with Baltimore and Allegheny counties higher.
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Maryland
Sunday Motoring Tour Planned by Automobile Club
A driving itinerary organized by £.H. Howard, branch manager of the Automobile Club of Maryland, lists a Hagerstown to Gettysburg route with stops on Route 16 and 60 and notes on a Harrisburg leg. The notice adds a definition of hooliganism from the Hooley gang around 1900 and directs readers to the Hamilton Hotel AAA office for more details.
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H. Howard
Automobile Club of Maryland
Washington County
Hamilton Hotel
Elks Plan Large Gettysburg Weekend Meeting Trip
A large delegation from the Hagerstown Elks led by Exalted Ruler John BE France and Secretary Ross F. Kouitz plans a Sunday motorcade to Gettysburg for the South Central District quarterly meeting of the Pennsylvania Elks State Association. The program includes a noon assembly, a 2 p.m. business session with ladies as guests, battlefield tours, and a buffet luncheon for all attendees and guests. Edward D. Smith of Lewistown will be among the guests of honor.
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Hagerstown Elks
John BE. France
Ross F. Kouitz
Gettysburg
South Central
Pennsylvania Elks State Association
Waynesboro
Chambersburg
Carlisle
Elks
Gettysburg Battlefield
Elks Home
Edward D. Smith
Lewistown
State Wilks Association
Mrs Hughes Dies. Wife of Bishop Hughes Passes at 72
Mrs Isabel Ebbert Hughes aged 72, wife of Bishop Edwin Holt Hughes of the Methodist Episcopal Church, died at her Washington home. A Brownsville, Pennsylvania native, she passed away Friday.
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Hughes
Washington
Isabel Ebbert Hughes
Edwin Holt Hughes
The
Methodist Episcopal Church
Brownsville
Machinery crumbles as league sanctions weaken
Geneva reports the League of Nations falters as Britain and neutral states reject automatic sanctions against an aggressor. The move signals a loosening of punitive measures. Separately, the Colorado River Basin extends across seven western states and a portion of Mexico.
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Geneva
League of Wations
Great Britain
Teagne
Colorado River
Western
Mexico
City Hall Plans Ready By Oct 2 for New Building
Mayor Elgin announced that complete plans and specifications for Hagerstown's new 415000 municipal building will be ready for the Mayor and Council by October 2. Bids may be advertised soon after the first of next month and the contract could be in effect before Thanksgiving. Plans to relocate city departments during construction were to be discussed at Monday night meetings.
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Hagerstowh
Elgin
New 1939 Farm Program For Maryland Similar To 1938
The 1939 AAA Farm Program for Maryland mirrors 1938 with wheat and potato allotments and soil depleting acreage limits. Payments reward soil-building actions while noncommercial wheat farms face deductions for excess wheat harvests. Wheat and potato allotments determine conservation payments and price adjustments, with 1938 practices largely retained. Also, a San Quentin hangings report notes Albert Byer, 31, executed after conviction for killing and assaulting three girls.
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AAA
Maryland
C. &. Keller
San Quentin
Calif
Albert Byer
Dyer
Army Ready to Recruit for the Reserve
Applications are now being accepted for enlistment in the Regular Army Reserve. Unmarried former Regular Army personnel honorably discharged within three years, under 36, who pass an examination may join. No annual training. Reservists can work in any civil occupation. Enlistment allowances issued every four months. exams Sept 19–25 from 5 to 7 p.m. at the Post Office building in Hagerstown.
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Regnar Army Reserve
John J. Chop
Postoffice
Hagerstown
Chop
Japanese Take Shangcheng Near Hankow Front
Shanghat Sept 17 Japanese authorities announce capture of Shangcheng about 75 miles east of the Peiping Hankow Railway along which the northernmost Hankow front army seeks to march toward the provisional Chinese capital.
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Shanghat
Shangcheng
Peiping-Hankow
Hankow
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