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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Apr 22, 1916
Page
6
An older Frederic Md newspaper notice outlines publication details for the Daily News and the Semi-Weekly News. It lists subscription rates, office contacts, printing capabilities, and carriage options, noting prices and mail delivery terms. The notice also mentions cooperation with the Brunswick Times and printing services offered.
On Easter Sunday Frederick will joyfully observe the Christian festival marking Christ's resurrection and the victory over death. The article notes the season of spring with blossoms, green leaves, and bright skies as part of the festive mood and tradition in Frederick.
The article argues most mail order sales drain rural trade away from farming districts, lowering prices and harming local markets. It urges farmers near Frederick to support local dealers to grow stores, clerks, and fair farm product prices, contrasting near-market stability with distant mail order drawbacks. It notes residents Mr. and Mrs. George T. Phebus and Ben visiting Baltimore.
Mayor Lewis H Fraley weighs purchasing a semaphore for Market and Patrick streets to replace hand gestures and whistles. The city would mimic large cities where the device uses two crosspieces marked Go and Stop to open and close traffic as officers pull a cord. The scheme, praised in Baltimore, aims to streamline city policing at the Square.
A damaging wind storm swept Frederick's southwestern district yesterday afternoon around three. It toppled a chimney at Elmer Bay on Jefferson street, crushed bricks into the kitchen, toppled Fred Nellingen chicken coop on South street, and levelled structures along Derr Burck street. A window sash blew from Dr. Robert L. Hammond's East Patrick street home.
Easter treats attract crowds as window displays at the Buffalo Hotel and Larry's Perfection Café showcase grand meals and flowers. The Union Bridge branch of Open Branch at Thomas & Co. hires John H. Repp as local manager after May 1. University of Pennsylvania’s Meredith Staub visits his North Market home over Easter. Mary Pauline Staub visits Washington. Eleanor Martz recovers from appendicitis. Draft dangers noted alongside Sloan's ointment ad for neuralgia relief.
Purely Personal items list social visits and travel among Frederick residents and visiting kin. Mrs George Biggs tends a Pittsburgh father. Dr A J Ragall and others visit relatives in Frederick. many relatives and friends travel from Baltimore Washington Lovettsville and beyond for Easter holidays. A number of local residents host guests and attend events with families on East Patrick Street West Church Street and South Market Street.
The article notes the 1913 city election books held 2,301 registered voters, with only 30 colored men having voting rights under the grandfather clause. After court rulings removed the clause, registration days in June could add 400 to 500 colored voters, potentially boosting next municipal turnout beyond 1913 levels amid a Frederick population that includes 1,468 blacks per the last census. The piece recalls 1912 registration totals and precinct counts, and cites the 1910 city vote of 2,127 registered voters. It also mentions ongoing spring laxative ads from King’s New Life Pills.
The piece recalls the Battle of Lexington as the first real outbreak of the Revolution. It notes British losses of 93 killed or captured and 185 wounded, and mentions Lieut. Col. Smith with 800 Red Coats. The add promises independence from debt and urges saving with a bank, highlighting special deposit rates.
Administrator advertises public sale of the estate at the Ballenger Creek Pike near Frederick, listing horses including four leaders, cattle with milch cows and calves, hogs with Chester sows, farming tools and implements, wagons, harness, lighting gear, and household furniture. The sale covers hay, fodder, corn and various farm equipment.
Proposals will be received by the Mayor and Board of Aldermen at the City Register’s office until noon May 1 1916 for three contracts including A extension and repairs to an existing building B installation of power plant equipment boilers generator and switchboard and C revision and extension of linework furnishing lamps transformers and electrical equipment and power station wiring.
Local items note April 22 1961 Frederick events. A bicycle accident on We Patterson Street caused a dislocated arm. The County Commissioners deferred appointing assessors until May due to appointee absence. Howard Kussmaus junior at the Court House helped spread lime as cleanup began. Dr J Beale gave a prayer of thanks after a Roland QO crash near Gorsyth Swath Row, sparing passengers and crew from injury.
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