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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Apr 08, 1899
Page
4
The Daily News announces subscription rates and delivery options for Frederick, Maryland and adjacent areas. It notes prices for daily weekly and yearly subscriptions, mailing details, club inducements, and that the office is connected with the Telegraph Exchange. Communications and inquiries are solicited from readers and advertisers.
On April 7 in Baltimore Senator Wellington addressed a fervent crowd in support of Republican nominees. The event followed bitter past clashes with the Maister faction and marked a striking political turn with a strong reception and energetic speech.
A lengthy critique notes multiple bribe allegations aimed at influencing Pennsylvania senatorial votes. It cites a sliding scale from committee appointments to cash payments and post office positions, calling the scandal nauseating and representative of a recurring national evil in U S Senate elections.
A Thurmont article in the Catoctin Clarion details a strange system that labels residents as corporate or tax limits. People may live inside corporate limits but outside tax limits yet vote on town matters without paying taxes. The editor argues this represents taxation without representation and warns of potential debt imposition if non tax paying residents join with tax paying voters in bond issues.
Contemporary comment notes that public utility ownership has been a winning card in most municipal elections this spring across the country. It cites Lyallimore News and mentions local examples like Myersville trolley costs and library funding appeals, plus a wry remark about copyright concerns and sanitation lessons in the tropics.
A jumble of quips and witticisms from various papers. Jokes about Lent proposals, royal leniency, parental obedience, nap habits, and troops singing during the Philippine War are attributed to the Chicago Record Detroit Free Press and Philadelphia North American.
The Chicago Tribune argues campaign liars are becoming obsolete as newspapers adopt honest reporting. Readers demand truth even when disagreeable, diminishing mudslinging and character allegations without official backing.
The passage asserts a newspaper must serve readers with full truth rather than support a party. It condemns suppression exaggeration and manipulation to aid candidates, warning that such acts debauchors its columns and makes it a tool of political factions.
The Valley Register notes an unusually late spring with little garden work and barely turned furrows. In Frederick County, finance shifts grow as three new banks form in Myersville and Woodsboro, with plans for Legoro private bank and possible national bank consolidation.
Poems depict a wooing muse with vibrant imagery and a dream of marriage. A second verse traces a cleaner, dim parlor vision where love and unfulfilled dreams clash, leaving two lovers near yet forever apart, moving toward a quiet, hopeful future.
A citizen letter to Tar News proposes a yearly fair or bazar run by the town with three nights or a week of events to benefit three fire companies. It urges female leadership, a treasury with one member from each company, and funds directed to each company for protection and welfare of its members.
The funeral for George H Harman was held Thursday at 4 PM from his West South street home with services at the church. Rev Luther Euhiman officiated. Pallbearers included Capt Walter Seaunders Bi Frost August Mebrking Edward Duvall Jno White Thorss Covase. Interment followed at Mt Olivet Cemetery. F Schroeder was the undertaker.
A morning fire at Wallace C. Andrews residence 2 East Sixty seventh Street kills 12 occupants and a servant at nearby Adams home two blocks away. Firefighters rescue two servants from the Andrews house as heroic policemen save another life. Among the dead are Wallace C. Andrews and his wife plus relatives and maids. Adams house occupant Mary Laughlin dies and several others are hospitalized.
The Belles Lettres Literary Society opened with roll call and minutes, then heard readings and debates. Officers were elected as President Q. Hett and others, while Emerson Society held a similar session with a substitute secretary and a pest debate on English sparrows.
In Evansville Indiana on Easter Monday morning Harry H Quynn son of the late John T Quynn and Miss Nettie Cole were married at 12 30 in the city. The ceremony occurred at the Randall home with Rev J L Marquis officiating. The newlyweds departed for St Louis Missouri to reside, after a brief public notice and secrecy surrounding the surprise nuptials.
A testimonial driven railing about Paine's Celery Compound as the spring remedy trusted by nurses and physicians. It claims rapid relief for nervous debility blood purification stomach liver bowels kidneys and overall rejuvenation. Statements from Miss Cora Smith and Miss Georgiana Dean support its efficacy across patient recoveries.
Chief Judge James McSherry returned to Frederick from Annapolis and ratified the sale of the Catoctin Furnace. The circuit court final ratification places the property with the new purchasers, paving the way for incorporation, a company, and a board of directors. Ernest Sharp, the buyer, says the plant will resume operation once arrangements are complete.
Joseph Murdock died Monday morning April 3 at Captain Schroeder's Petersville home in his seventy fourth year. He was a brother of the lately deceased John Murdock. The funeral was held at St. Mark's Catholic church with Alice Swann and Joseph Murdock of Frederick, his niece and nephew, in attendance.
A dated advertisement urges readers to purify blood improve digestion and appetite with Hood's Sarsaparilla. The copy promises strengthened nerves and mental vitality through the tonic claimed to enrich blood and health.
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