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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1924
Page
8
Arlington County officials will test the validity of a sanitary law as a key hearing follows. The county faces questions on sewerage and bonding for public works while officials and attorneys discuss the operation of zoning, a proposed jail, and road/parking arrangements, with local officials and citizens attending a courthouse session.
Fragmented OCR reports a car accident near Richmond Vio involving a pastor, his son, and the mother during a high school event. The son died from injuries and the mother was hospitalized. authorities investigated the wreck and possible contributing factors.
The Washington Post reports the State Corporation Commission denied Washington-Virginia Railway petition to revoke the Alexandria Barcroft and Washington bus line certificate confirming continued service to Alexandria and Arlington. The ruling ends the bitter dispute over bus versus electric rail, aided by the Alexandria Chamber of Commerce and opposed by local civic groups. A separate note covers a Maryland man found asleep on a platform with a bottle of whiskey, a gun charge against Clarence Hunter, tar covering Gravel Street, and a board meeting for the Alexandria Hotel Corporation to discuss a site for a new George Mason hotel.
A dense schedule of radio programs across US networks and local stations. The list includes weather forecasts, livestock and fruit market reports, concerts, baseball scores, speeches, and educational programs from stations such as WCAP WCAP WRC KYW WEAF WJZ WGY WGN and many others with times ranging across the day and night.
University of Ionas WHAA will close for three weeks starting August 28. The last broadcast will be orchestral selections at noon August 27 and the station will resume shortly after September 15 with programs on Tuesday and Sunday nights and every noon except Saturday and Sunday. A new 100 watt experimental station is under construction with two 75 foot towers to support the antennae and will serve as the university radio laboratory.
Bodies of Joseph Maucher and Miss Clara Rudd who drowned yesterday at Ocean View were brought to Lynchburg Virginia for burial. Maucher leaves a mother and ten sisters. Rudd has a brother and four sisters and was visiting Washington two weeks prior to the tragedy.
Frostburg Maryland Aug 1 police and volunteers hunt for four men three women and a boy scout aided by residents after Mary Catherine Mitchell four is believed kidnapped during a family picnic near Frostburg. Reports say the girl was last seen with four men in a car and later seen being led toward the mountains. The father James W Mitchell of Uniontown returned home saying no ransom demands appeared and the child may have strayed.
Howard Sampson a 35 year old mine motorman was killed at the RT Ross Coat Company Bloom Taglon Mine in Piedmont when a train of cars derailed and crushed him against a rib of the entry His wife and child survive.
Frostburg Maryland reports a car crash injuring five people with John Keedy 22 also known as Jiggers Thomas dying at Viners hospital. Skidmore 23 and Myrtle Minnicks from Garrett County sustain skull fractures while others escape serious harm in the wreck near Franklin Saturday.
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