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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Apr 24, 1912
Page
5
From noon today to noon tomorrow the sky shows Saturn Mars Venus Jupiter and Mercury. Evening visibility includes Mars and Saturn while Venus Jupiter and Mercury appear in the morning sky with rising times and relative brightness noted.
Professor Surface of Pennsylvania explains whitewashing trunks has limited pest control and harms natural appearance, recommending lime sulfur solution as a more effective insecticide and fungicide. In Buckeystown a major concrete paving project begins, with two sections slated along Main and frontages near the Standard Lime and Stone Co. and William G. Baker residence, under contractor N B Ponton.
West Park street resident Emmett Roelkey is slowly improving and able to sit up while Miss Ida Riggs has recovered enough to move about the house. John A Kennedy and H Roy Mealey show significant improvement from illness. A spring rheumatism warning is issued with Chamberlains Liniment recommended.
City Board of Aldermen, in a volatile special session led by Aldermen Rice and Johnson, tentatively approved the water superintendent Wiener’s pay after heated debate over bills and past salaries. The meeting also reviewed West Church street paving costs, reported a saving of 1850.72 below estimates, and discussed West Third street financing and sewer needs for flooded cellars.
Charles Dreyer, a 42 year old farmer living near Monrovia, used a shotgun to kill himself in his cellar around noon after walking away from his work and family. He had been drinking recently and neighbors say he appeared rational otherwise. Survived by his wife and three children. his mother and a nurse by marriage in Monrovia.
Local notices advertise workers needed by Ox FIDRE Brush Co and Inganore Copper Co with evening applications. A school soiree hosted by Miss Ritche at Armory High School is scheduled. Yellow Springs Band concert and field meet at Guys High School on Friday evening plus athletic park events Monday afternoon. A tobacco store for sale in Athletic Park area invites inquiries to Young & Staley, and a Melaphone sold at Rireiy's Palace of Music.
Advertisement notes sixty gallons of Distilled Water on hand and urges consultation with a physician on its use. Walter G. Dugan, pharmacist, promotes distilled water as required by the United States Pharmacopeia. Also mentions the Second Annual Field Day at Athletic Park on April 29, 1912 with parades, drills, and events, admission ten cents.
Neidig and Miller advertise a silk sale with deep reductions on dress silks, foulards, and wash silks. Prices drop to 6a55, 88c, 25c yard in various widths including 36 and 28 inch silks. Also promoting black silks, messaline, pongee, and Jap silk at lowered rates along with other fabrics and textiles. Nearby real estate ads and local services appear in the same notice.
In memoriam note for Eva M Kreh who died April 24 1910 expresses devotion. Private sales advertise full line of household effects including piano parlor and dining room suites carpets and dishes at low prices. Local notices for plants gas portable stoves and yard items offered by R E Creager Thurmont MD and G O Paxson at 217 North Market Street. Plant listings and ads for sale residences on Patrick Street appear among the fragments.
John D Hend offers new season fabric options including light weight yet heavy looking weaves. Featured white knit gloves priced 4.00 short and 8.00 long, versatile for many fabrics. Also advertised are neckwear, belts, laces, waists, tub suits, serge coats and other garments from Baker and Hendrickson firms with various officers and directors listed.
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