Word: hagerstown
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...comfortable but not wealthy Teetors, to whom Ralph was born 45 years ago in small Hagerstown, Ind., soon saw that the boy's blindness was not going to hamper him anymore than he could possibly help. Every day he ran to & from grade school where he got splendid marks. At the University of Pennsylvania he got his B. S. without difficulty. Because he was sensitive about his affliction and hated to accept help, he learned to do almost everything for himself...
After the War, Teetor went back to Hagerstown to rejoin the company founded by his uncle in 1900, in which young Ralph had balanced crankshafts after college. He married a small, trim schoolteacher named Nellie Van Antwerp. They now have a 5-year-old daughter...
...switched from railroad equipment to automobile engines to piston rings. It became the Perfect Circle Co. in 1918, is now the biggest U. S. maker of piston rings (capitalization $1,625,000), turning out 300,000 "perfect circles" a day. It has more Teetors than Sun Oil has Pews. Hagerstown has less than 2,000 inhabitants, but a third of them work for Perfect Circle and the town has no unemployment. Perfect Circle mail grew so heavy that little Hagers-town got an $80,000 post office...
...last week Professor Roscoe Raymond Hyde of Johns Hopkins heard that Puerto Rico is suffering from an epidemic of influenza (10,000 cases; no deaths). Next day he heard that the region around Hagerstown, Md. also is suffering from an epidemic of influenza (1,000 cases; no deaths). Those epidemics Professor Hyde feared might denote the beginning of a pandemic such as devastated the U. S. in 1918. Immediately he sent for a dozen ferrets on which to test the virulency of the germs which were causing the Hagerstown trouble. When Professor Hyde expresses fear, wise men take heed...
...Hagerstown, Md.. races, the pencil of one D. H. Beck ran down the list of entries, stopped short beside the name of a two-year-old filly. On her nose Beck slapped a $1 bet. First across the line galloped his choice. Back home where his wife was trying out a new cook went D. H. Beck with $404.20 profit from his bet on Filly Trycook...