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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Apr 22, 1911
Page
8
A fragment from a home arts manual lists recipes and tips for meals and cleaning. It includes Codfish Balls, Cream Cornmeal Puffs, Bacon Fritters, and Celery Sandwiches, plus methods for cleaning muslin, laundering black clothes, and polishing silver. The tone mirrors era newspapers with practical household advice.
Quotations show local farm prices corrected April 22. Wheat and corn ranges, oats and barley per bushel or ton, flour prices for winter and spring wheat, mill feed and bran, middlings, and animal feeds. Seeds and hay prices by bale and ton, potatoes per bushel.
The market shows spring vigor with rhubarb and greens, prices listed for butter eggs poultry fruit vegetables and fish. Several stalls fear shortages as warm weather boosts demand while Billy Dorkheimer’s pansies fail to arrive this season.
About 80 members of the Frederick County Colony of Baltimore celebrated the second anniversary with a musical entertainment and dinner in the Odd Fellows Temple parlors Thursday night. The program featured a Vernon solo by Leslie Larrimore piano by Gertrude Shaw vocal numbers by Marian White John Wolbourn Clinton Sporrier and the Chipoui Sextet a poem by Louise Malloy and an address by John A. Deponai. The arrangements were led by chairman A M Geisbert with Mrs J Madison Brown Dr D S Rinehart Misses Jessie D Rine Nellie Chapman and Lillie Long assisting.
In Emmitsburg a citizen meeting nominated candidates for mayor and commissioners to succeed several officials. Burge is named to succeed Samuel L Rowenel and others include GL Gillelan Dr. T K Zimmerman. Commissioners nominees include M P Schuft H J Frizetl Oscar Fraley and Harry Harner. Shuff declined to stand and was excused. Registration shows thirteen names removed and one added, total vote Exc 169. Mrs O Frank Monahan and her husband returned to Baltimore. Mr Monahan left for the West to pursue auto business.
Notes of interest from across Maryland and surrounding areas report events from Washington to Rockville. Highlights include a Baltimore church fundraising progress, political candidacy decisions, a railroad leadership change, notable deaths, accidents, and local road and school fund updates. A Rockville fair aeroplane feature is discussed along with a county tax rate cut and a minor horse accident near Harmony Grove.
The ad guarantees Sunny Monday laundry soap works with any water and washing method. It claims clothes become whiter and sweeter, with no shrinking or damage to woolen lenses and flannels, unlike rosin soaps.
A testimonial from Aasnun Winston of Lynn Massachusetts praises Pinkham's Blood Purifier for rapid relief after one bottle and twenty pounds gained in three months. The ad urges a reliable spring remedy to combat fatigue pale skin eruptions and tired feeling by purifying the blood.
Advertises discounted Walnut Stock items including Tar Felt Roofing 2 ply at 60 cents per roll and Rubber Roofing 1.40 to 1.60 per roll. Galvanized roofing 3.30 per 100 sq ft. Red Barn Paints 1.25 and 0.75 per gallon, cold water exterior paint 40 cents per package, Graphite Roof Paint 1.25 per gallon. Also offers buggy wheels 58.00 per set, bar iron 1.50 to 1.90 per 100 lbs, buggy axles 1.25 per set, buggy rims 75 cents per set, steel buggy tires 0.90 per set. Lightly garbled pricing noted.
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