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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Apr 08, 1913
Page
6
The Frederick Daily News and its semi weekly editions describe subscription rates and delivery options. It lists officers including Birely and Delaplaine, notes postal handling, newsroom contact via Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Exchange, and retailers where the paper is sold. It urges reporting missed deliveries.
Frederick County faces a dangerous period for fruit crops as frost effects damage buds on peaches plums and cherries. Some orchards report crops worth 860 to 1009 dollars. cherry and plain crops likely total failure. Authorities urge spring cleanup days to improve community health and recall past public health efforts.
Citizens are urged to protect public health by joining the annual cleanup program. The message stresses that individual effort shows duty to the community and helps maintain a clean, healthy environment.
A compact collage of quips and witticisms from various papers. It cites humor about college lessons football signals weather insurance and a household misfortune. The snippet culminates with a pun on a large family and longing.
The Chicago Journal notes government crop data show ten of thirteen key farm products priced lower than the 1908 12 five year average, with declines up to nearly 60 percent. Corn, wheat, oats, barley, rye, hay, and potatoes drop, cotton up slightly, butter up two cents, while farm workers leave rural areas as machinery boosts output.
Miss Marion E B Gibson of York and Mr Nicholas Douty of Philadelphia offered a refined program at the Woman's College last night. The concert featured a Boheme aria and a distinctive ballad rendition, drawing a large eager crowd. Nearby, Hahn and Betson are upgrading the engine house rear with new sleeping quarters and sanitary fixtures for drivers.
Twenty years ago today in Frederick reports on a Frederick County Historical Society paper by Hon. Frederick J. Nelson about the Freder ick Bar. The old Jacob Koehler property on West Fifth Street, about a century old, is being torn down. Catoctin Valley Creamers near Middletown reopen by a farmers stock company. Isaiah Moser of Myersville sues for five dollars daily for bridge work in Jackson district. County Commissioners offer two hundred fifty dollars. Palmetto Fibre Company installs new machinery for self‑boxes. Evenszahn adds a new soda fountain to his confectionery.
Alban M. Wood, a young attorney from Frederick, has taken duties as clerk to the Senate Committee on the District of Columbia. Appointed by Senator John Walter Smill and sworn in at Washington on April 1, the position entails handling matters relating to the District. The office has several vacancies, with Clarence W. Taylor of Snow Hill, Md., among those yet to be filled.
Mr Wood, a Virginia Law School graduate practicing in the county with his father, was appointed to a clerk position in the District committee. He is a Democrat active in local politics, will mainly work from the Capitol, and earns 2400 a year. He previously served as Saint chief clerk of the House of Delegates and sits on the State Central committee. Senator Smith assumed the Mayor role for Washington yesterday, moved into prominent District Committee offices near the Capitol, with access to the Senate chamber and nearby lawn between the Capitol and the Library.
Excavations have begun for the foundation of an addition to the Empire Theatre. John A. Jamison is performing the work.
An old advertisement touts Dr King’s New Wheeze for coughs and lung troubles. It claims relief from persistent coughs and colds, noting a farmer from Muscadine praising the product and its price as four dollars.
Prices of latest gales corrected up to noon today by Motter ros and Co Bankers wid Brokers. Listings include Seaboard Air Line United Ry Funding Western Maryland Mercantile Trust Chicago Railways Pairmont Coal and Houston Of Dig among others. Readings show varied figures across bonds stocks and notes with several 4s and 12 percent indicators.
Quotations show open high low and closing figures for many railroads and investments. Listings include Atchison B&O Brooklyn R Erie Southern Pacific and Northern Pacific among others with prices and changes. The page also includes Bucklen's Amicæ Salve testimonial and an ad for real estate and mortgage securities alongside a help wanted notice seeking a refined young woman as mother's helper.
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