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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1896
Page
2
The piece urges Frederick to attract manufacturing, especially bicycle plants, to boost employment and population. It highlights Hagerstown’s bicycle success under Robert Crawford and credits The News with chronicling Frederick’s growth and promoting local enterprise and industrial progress.
The excerpt discusses an admirer of Ex Governor Ruaseil in Connecticut weighing him as a presidential candidate on a no pensions platform, noting the candidate’s strengths and shaky support. It also cites a British trade journal on Japan Australia relations, arguing Japan’s exports could largely come from the United States and questioning Australia’s prospective market.
Local notes quote Edward Rigga on rain for wheat, eggs at 8 cents per dozen, and debates on Maryland Wheelmen meeting in Frederick. A long war poetry tract laments past battles and honors soldiers, ending with remarks on new taxes, registration, and an upcoming presidential election amid state reforms.
In this fragment from 1890 the author references a heat wave with temperatures near 20 degrees and discusses the impact on vegetation over weeks. It notes social events at a funeral home and a sale near Market Street, with mention of ticket sales and a fundraising attempt for a base ball club, including Mr. Banks and Geo. Thomas.
A oblique poetic fragment laments aging, memory, and weathered emotion. It invokes a worn mother, a daughter, and a traveler, with imagery of cicadas, winds, mountains, and tears. The language suggests a late night meditation on loss and endurance amid a gray world.
News items note a new flouring mill planned for Bageratown. Other items report a bicycle club in Union Mrs. Carroll county and the Annapolis meeting of the Anns Arundel Teachers Association. The body of Earnest Deen was recovered from the Tuckahoe river Thursday.
The Rambler company via its dealer announces a third offer of 400 in gold to the bicycle club whose Ramblers post the best aggressive time in the December mile. Earlier rewards include 1000 for fastest mile in 1996 and 500 in gold to race meet promoters. Local wheelmen welcome the added incentive to boost attendance on club runs. Meanwhile Mr O T Keseman, a noted tobicconist, underwent successful tumor removal at Maryland University Hospital and expects two weeks of recovery. Democratic County Central Committees met at the Court House to discuss recommendations for aesscors and other business.
Churches in this area publish a dense list of morning and evening worship times. The Lutheran and United churches report confirmations and pastoral changes, with a planned joint arbtration panel for home mission issues. A Century Run by multiple clubs departs from Baltimore for Woodsboro with planned stops and a color bearer.
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