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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Apr 22, 1913
Page
6
The semi weekly news serves Frederick Maryland with biweekly publication on Tuesdays and Fridays. It lists staff roles including president treasurer and manager and notes its mailing, postal designation, and free handling of inquiries. Subscriptions are one dollar annually with cash accompanying orders and club incentives noted.
Subcribers are asked to report irregular delivery as the paper's office works to improve service. The News is available for sale at New City Hotel Buckey's Cigar Store S Market Street Central Restaurant Arlington Hotel and Zimmerman Bros Grocery Braddock Heights.
Freder ick launches annual spring clean-up with city aid and broad citizen involvement. The drive aims to teach cleanliness, curb disease vectors like flies and mosquitoes, and boost civic pride by improving back yards and neighborhoods.
The piece stresses improving curb appeal by shaping front yards and cultivating backyards. It notes Frederick has too few front yards, but urges residents to transform rear areas into attractive spaces for display and enjoyment.
Fragmentary dialogue sketches mix jokes about mistaken identity and social quirks. Quotations reference Mrs Parker, a dogeared misunderstanding at lunch, and a light exchange about weather, bridge, and horse racing.
Local society column lists residents and visitors in Frederick and nearby towns. Many Baltimore travelers are noted including Mrs Jobo Stride and son Raymond, Mr Godvvin Wright, Mrs Morgan Cecil, and Dr Wot Apple. Mentions of church and mission activities, a funeral in Martinsburg, and a Maryland School for the Blind placement are included. A frost report warns of potential damage to peaches plums and cherries with late season temperatures around freezing.
A reprinted editorial from the Ohio State Journal argues that reading the Beatitudes weekly would improve the world. It calls the Beatitudes the doctrine of all religion, essential to every life regardless of wealth or education, and urges readers to gradually grasp their practical meaning amid modern materialism.
Virginia Watson captures a May Harper’s scene of an April world in a glen. A narrator recalls a clean world by a pond, ducklings sailing and a yellow dress heroine with cowslips. The verse shifts through visions of spring, distant lands, and a tranquil shoreline ending with a call to rest.
Frederick residents recall a storm that washed away fences and toppled trees followed by gale activity. A New York party, Norman and Downs, visited Middleton seeking a proposed line. Mr A C McCardin planned electric lighting for his store. The Philharmonic Orchestra directed by Prof Firestone held its third annual concert at the Opera House with a post concert presentation and collation.
Mr C Ausherman long based in Florida real estate tours his former city and county. He notes rapid southern development, especially in Florida, and reports witnessing the first frost in the county in about a year and a half during his visit.
The report mentions John Stride and Uke GB with U. barface master. It notes a person bitten by a mad doctor on April 11 and a patient receiving Pas tour treatment in Baltimore. Charles Eyer is also listed among those bitten and staying in Baltimore. Mrs Ana T Rohrer is undergoing treatment at home and is doing as well as can be expected.
A damaged advertisement claims relief from rheumatism after using Chamberlain's Pain Balm. The note describes long months of pain preventing sleep, but after two months the sufferer reports improvement and no soreness. For sale by all dealers.
Fire early this morning destroyed the frame stable of the Hygeia Ice Company near Carroll Creek behind East Patrick Street. The building, 40 by 60 feet, was largely charred but stood as a shell with upper floors consumed, horses and harness moved to safety. Loss about unknown, possibly insured. Origin listed as mystery with mice gnawing matches suspected.
Relatives of Pynis Mc Daniels formerly of Frederck report no contact from him after he was believed to have run off with a Cumberland telephone operator. They appeal for information and ask any readers who have seen him to come forward.
Market notes list latest sales and corrections up to 1000 with brokers Motter Bros Urukers and Brokers. Includes figures for coal copper cotton duck sugar and oil companies. references to Seaboard Air Line Norfolk & Portsmouth and Western Maryland among others. multiple bank and railway stocks shown with fractions and notes for April 22 1913.
Fragmentary OCR indicates Chicago grain market notes with figures on wheat and other commodities. Details are unclear, but references to prices, percentages, and exchanges imply a daily market snippet.
Today's stock quotations from Malter Bros. show mixed moves across railroads and utilities with bids and closing at various levels. Trading activity totals 146,700 shares at noon, including Atchison to Reading and Southern Pacific listings among others.
In Orphans Court proceedings John T Jenkins and wife transfer real estate to Jacob M Kanode. First and final accounts filed for Mary E Bowlus as guardian to Cyrnthia Louise Bowlus and Isaac P Sttely as executor of Emanuel Fogle. Sales report of George L Twenty Sr personal property. court orders to sell Ann R Nicholson real estate. ratification of sale of William L Firor real estate.
Miss Ritchie's school in dancing will meet Friday evening at eight followed by a nine o'clock soiree. Full attendance is requested as plans for a special dance will be discussed. 160 100 dollars reward for cure claims for Halls Catarrh Cure. Address F L Cheney Co Toledo Ohio. Sold by all Druggists. Tic Yake. Hal's Family Pills for constipation. Advertisement.
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