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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Apr 22, 1901
Page
4
Citizens debate municipal hiring quality and the push for rural-free delivery in Oecil and Frederick counties. The paper notes a large interest in good jobs and warns against sensationalism, while Frederick residents seek Sunday sermon abstracts and rural delivery funding tied to a $4,000,000 appropriation.
A Philadelphia program aiding the unemployed converts vacant lot gardens into rabbitry. An old German gardener quickly built a herd from a pair, reaching nearly 200 by November. Five gardeners began similar rabbitries, proving a trio can yield two to three hundred hares in eight years. A Frederick county correspondent notes skepticism from Colorado but suggests the industry is stabilizing.
Fragment discusses beliefs about Belgian value tied to food, noting that factors like hair color shades do not count while the rapid multiplication and low maintenance cost of animals are considered significant.
After three weeks of mental concentration Aguinaldo issues a proclamation urging his former companions to seek reconciliation with Uncle Sam. MacArthur plans to celebrate by releasing 1000 insurgent prisoners. The broader public sees it as bombastic and insincere. Maryland bass and carp debate, urging a law to destroy the carp and protect the bass. Wheatminster would tax fire insurance firms with a $10 license, suggesting Taneytown adopt similar. Cumberland News questions the harshness of imprisonment in a Clearspring case, noting cycles of petitions and fading memory of crimes. The pattern: political gestures, local regulatory ideas, and a justice system under scrutiny.
A jumble of quips and jokes from various papers. characters like Meandering Mike and Talking ministers trade witticisms. Fragments mention a dentist, a gas gag, a mock sermon and wedding nerves, with brisk urban humor across papers.
The Philadelphia Record notes President McKinley earns an outing for rest and education, hoping the Pacific Coast trip broadens Americanism. The Washington Star adds a pie piece on New England pastry, praising pie as a life preserver of flavor and habit. A Connecticut fisherman’s luncheon choice is mentioned.
Valley Forge site of Old Fort Washington is celebrated with a humorous note about a Revolutionary hero who used pie plates as paddles to stay afloat after losing an oar. The tale ends with the rescuer reaching shore fatigued but unharmed and no record of the pies' fate. Also discusses Southern cotton goods growth and Langley Manufacturing at West Point diversifying production into lap robes towels and quilts.
A fragment from an old column features verses on April as a fickle muse and a chorus of opinion about modern life. The piece blends light poetry with a local voice critiquing social trends and cast in a period newspaper tone. It references elections, electric lights, and trolley cars as part of the era’s mood.
Advertisement claims widespread suffering from liver and digestive diseases in the United States. It hawks August Flower as a cure, pricing it at 75 cents, urging readers to visit Crogelists and purchase a bottle for relief. An almanac reference is noted at Main's Drug Store.
A column mixes humor on marriage and platonic friendship with a quip about old maids and a Filipino chief, followed by a public notice for a valuable Maryland real estate sale. The sale, by mortgage assignee, describes Nos. 57 and 59 West Patrick Street Frederick City with a three story brick building front and rear dimensions given, to be sold at public sale.
The Noah Barnes general merchandise store was broken into on Saturday night. Thieves carried off shoes gloves tobacco pants razors and pocket knives but left a lone dollar in pennies. They pried open the window with iron bars and spilled oatmeal into creeks nearby. A half barrel of flour was stolen from Herman W. Nicodemus mill the same night. No clew to thieves.
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