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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Apr 11, 1899
Page
3
The Weekly News promises a handsome five page issue on Thursday with news and features. It boasts the largest anti fide circulation in Frederick city and county and invites new and changed advertisements with deadlines midweek.
Mr John H Cramer of Walkersville is missing since Thursday. Police and detectives search Harrisburg York Lancaster Baltimore and Washington based on his last seen movements after buying tickets to Bruceville and Harrisburg. He is described as 6 feet 11 inches tall with a dark beard and gray mustache, wearing a black alpine hat brown coat and vest and a patched knee. He carries a four foot cane and is lame.
Messrs Penjamin and Gerson Rose Nour were in Baltimore yesterday. A. G. Thompson of Gaithersburg visited Frederick. Miss Ethel Close returned home to Rocky Ridge after visiting Mrs. Stanp. Lewis Kline from Washington returned home. Mr and Mrs H T Smith of Baltimore visited with Mr and Mrs Lewis Fraley and returned home. J Freak Clemmer John H Bowman T M Smiley and W B Sproul of Staunton, Virginia, are in Frederick on business. Mrs Lewis Mehbrling and Miss Blandis Whitmore visited Mr and Mrs Wim E Brixton near Frederick. Walter Wilson of near Pittsburgh and Miss Clear of Washington, D C, guests of Mrs Chapline. Admiral and Mrs Winfield Scott Schley and Col and Mrs Galvin R Natt attended the Grid Iron club reception in Washington Saturday night. George VanFossen, lately in Frederick to start a palmetto fire plant in Hall, Canada, expected home soon. plant in successful operation.
A Baltimore reader reports Dr. Jolliffe, formerly of Frederick, imprisoned in Havana under General Ludlow. Allegations include incommunicado confinement, denied counsel, and harsh prison conditions. The note accuses US and Cuban authorities of extortion and injustice.
The postponed Baltimore and Ohio annual meeting will proceed with a board led by financial interests after a directors’ session. A resolution to reorganize without foreclosing the Main Line was adopted with support from security-holders, preserving tax exemptions from a 1878 Maryland contract. John K. Cowen to continue as president. Oscar G. Murray as first vice president.
Baltimore conference sessions discuss a ambitious twentieth century education drive for Methodist Episcopal youth. Bishop Galloway delivers a pivotal address supporting a $1.5 million goal amid debates on meeting location and timing. Finance reports show funds allocated to bishops, superannuates, and education plus church missions and Sunday schools across the Baltimore area.
A speeding motorist charged through a group of female students from the School for the Deaf on the Georgetown pike near the cemetery. He returned shortly after, continuing at reckless speed despite pleas from teachers. No injuries were reported, but the act was condemned as dangerous and improper public conduct.
George T. Brown of Brownsville and Miss Jane Boteler daughter of Mrs Rebecca Boteler were married Saturday afternoon at the bride’s Magnolia home in Pleasant Valley. The ceremony was conducted by Rev E T Helfenstein and assisted by Rev Robert Osmond from Antietam parish.
John H Frazier proprietor of the bowling alleys on South Market Street travels to Baltimore to enter bowling contests. He aims to support Frederick bowlers and aid Germania Bowling Club No 1 in its contest with the Broadway Business Men's Club of Buffalo New York tomorrow evening.
Mr Samuel A Gregg a noted mail agent between Frederick and Jefferson appeared this morning in a banded new passenger wagon. The move marks a return to public transit service with a fresh vehicle amidst local travel improvements.
Civil Engineer Pownall estimates 18400 feet of 12 inch pipe will be laid to tap Fishing Creek above Weddell’s Saw Mill and connect to the main line at Brook Hill. About 200 workers are expected from next month, with completion by mid July at a cost not exceeding 28000 dollars, adding sixty gallons per capita daily for twenty thousand people. The creek water is described as high quality and soft for general use.
The Baltimore cabbage price soars making meals costly. The International League of Press Clubs opens its annual convention in Baltimore. Sophia Weinstein, six, of 1006 East Pratt Street, was fatally burned when her clothing caught fire.
Hon. Douglas H. Hargett, clerk of the Circuit Court, telegraphed his son Walter Hargett of Franklin and Marshall College to come home due to an epidemic of spinal meningitis in Lancaster. The student had been chosen to deliver an oration at his class banquet, while other local items note a Santiago play at City Opera House and horticultural and quarantine measures involving cattle and disease control.
Mr J Mubbard of the Postal Telegraph Cable Company announced a new line from Pittsburg to Baltimore via Frederick. An office may open in Frederick in July, likely on Patrick Street, with existing poles reused and limited new poles. Crews are already at Cumberland and Hagerstown, moving toward Middletown and Frederick.
The St John’s Tabernacle Society of St John’s Catholic Church hosts an Easter Social on Wednesday evening at 7:80. The event features talent from Frederick with a piano bargain at Ordway’s Music Store and a KNABE piano on sale. The Woman’s Christian Temperance Union plans a Jonquil Tea at Frederick College on April 17 and 18 with music, literature, and refreshments for sale.
Osteopathy claims high cure rates for a wide range of chronic illnesses including heart lung diseases pneumonia nervous disorders and various forms of paralysis and pain. The Patterson Institute of Osteopathy advertises training in Descriptive Demonstrative Morbid and Living Anatomy and promotes natural non medicinal treatments. Also ads for plated utensils flowers corsets clothes wringers and cook stoves by Allen G. Quynn & Co with bargain prices and room clearance.
A lively spring sales pitch highlights silk and satin duchess fabrics, silks, satins, and linings. The ad touts unique patterns, rapid turnover, and bold claims of strong profits, urging customers to buy two pieces and wire for more. It emphasizes dainty, airy garments intended to flatter many figures and notes exclusive patterns.
In Clinton Main offers a grand new store selection of wool dresses and dress goods with colors ahead of rival offerings. An affordable $1 Kid Gloves made famous by others at $1.25, plus white quilts for present use, are advertised as great bargains. Dr. Wm. C. Boteler situates his eye nose and throat practice at 28 N Market Street near City Hotel with free glasses adjustments and examinations.
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