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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Apr 20, 1895
Page
4
Mary Jars notes a holiday mood with Easter bonnets and spring fashions. Churches fill with music while street scenes show pigeons, gardens, and plans for concerts, circuses, and weddings. She mentions minstrels, Pawnee Bill, and mayoral chatter as townsfolk prepare for brighter days.
Robert Ashby and Georgianna Snowden of Frederick obtain a marriage license. The groom is listed as 72 years old and the bride about 42. Both parties are identified as colored.
An antique advertisement touts Syrup of Figs as a pleasant tasting medicine that cleanses the system, aids kidneys and bowels, relieves colds headaches and fevers, and treats constipation. It claims rapid action and high quality, with bottles priced at 50 cents and availability through druggists.
In Hankow the Christmas service at a Chinese church drew eight hundred attendees. Decorations featured red hangings and bamboo paper birds with hawks symbolic of good and evil. The editor notes progress in acquiring a lot for Mr Hwang Ming Kee’s church, amid offers from a red paper firm and a plan to await guest-room funding before building.
Granison Brain, long ill at home on West Patrick street, died yesterday at 3 p.m. aged 75 years 10 months 15 days. funeral Monday at 1 p.m. at his house with Rev. Dr. Bechbsch, burial at Mount Gilvet Cemetery. Emma Addison died Thursday morning at Thurmont from grip. 21 years old, lived with Mr. A. H. Hunt in this city.
The wedding is set at the Reformed Church on Monday at 3:30 pm. The couple, from Hazerstown and this city, plan a nuptial ceremony. A second note reports Jersey’s margarine plant near London capable of 175000 pounds daily output.
The Hagersions council granted consent to the Innerstate Telephone and Telegraph Company to build a citywide system. Rates capped at 25 dollars yearly for business houses and 15 dollars for private homes. Dr P Fabracy oversees the project with work starting in Frederick and Hagerstown slated to begin Monday amid expected rate competition among rivals.
The morning market buzzes with shoppers and a festive mood as beef shortages loom and prices rise. Billy Bilton flaunts white attire in the bakery stalls while vegetables, fruit, and fish offerings fill the scene amid spring aromas and bustling activity.
Joseph Crontse and Milton G. Urner trustees convey 2 acres 3 roods 16 perches to Samael Wertheimer for 250. John A. Mula to Laura E. Young 7 acres 8 roods 33 perches for 530. David Blidinger and wife to Walter B. Stapbeag let to Mr. Pleasant £400. Harmony Grove residents report illness and recovery. Mrs Wor J Worman improves. Noah B E Cramer confined by hip illness. Charles B. Cassell editor of the Savoclin Ciation suffers grip attack.
The will of Misa Susan McCauley a Maryland figure was dated in Washington yesterday. She leaves her cousin Mary W Sim of Libertytown this county a fifty dollar bequest and leaves legacies to other relatives.
An old time ad encourages slayings of swine this season and promotes circulars for Peer ess Paper Meat Sacks from Great Southern Co in Frederick Maryland. It claims full guarantees and mentions many merchants carry the product.
Frostburg committees push preparations for a June firemen convention parade at the Cumberland road center with a grand program including receptions, contests, and a band concert. Tensions flare with Cumberland firemen over a ball seen as drawing away crowds, while local officials vow a well organized, visitor friendly event.
State Treasurer Jackson Haruissure presents the financial condition with balance, advances, and appropriations. Bills advanced for next week include Pittsburg, Smith school, adjutant general salary raise, school book policy, fire insurance, and alien taxation. Miners threaten wage demands while a coal region meeting seeks uniform restoration of mining rates. Also notes a charitable disbursement plan and social events in Frederick and St. Petersburg.
At a recent Middletown Hose Company meeting a committee was named to arrange a Whit Monday demonstration with a parade as an afternoon feature. Plans are not finalized. if carried out, it promises a gala day and night. Also noted: petitions for letters on the estate of Ann were filed by Allen V. and Adelph Sever. Applications and bonds for Tilghman F. Gaver as guardian to Gertrude F. Lighter were filed.
An advertisement from Frederick, Md promotes a remedy titled Rheumatism Cured in a Day. The text touts rapid, miraculous healing and claims to remove the cause instantly. Signed by J A Tiniambuun Druggist.
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