Harris and Gilson Named Bank Officials
James H. Harris serves as vice president while C. Albert Gilson holds the position of cashier at the bank.
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James H. Harris
C. Albert Gilson
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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1911
Page
6
Parcels Post and the Deficit Debate
The Assistant Postmaster General P V DeGraw backs a larger parcels post to reduce the post office deficit. He advocates lowering rates to 12 cents per pound, increasing weight limits, and charging 25 cents for 11 pounds, arguing rural carriers could return millions if adopted. Critics question guaranteed gains, but supporters urge Congress to consider the plan amid broader municipal government reforms sweeping the country.
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P. V. DeGraw
Beliver
Columbian Magazine
Missouri
General de Graw
Uncle Sam
Obher Sound
Prairie fire and misgovernment rivalries in local reform
A prairie fire debate contrasts a new advocacy with old style misgovernment in Indianapolis. A man arrested for stopping his mother in law from self harm is linked to a would be novelist seeking a fresh plot. Custom house receipts amid Mexico’s revolution show a large crop of potatoes.
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Indianapolis
Custom House
Mexico
Rainfall and irrigation, taxation issues in Maryland
Commentary notes heavy rainfall and its potential to boost agriculture through irrigation, while criticizing uneven property assessments under the 1910 law. It argues Maryland could store water in lakes to support irrigation, cites Frederick and Washington counties as examples, and calls for uniform statewide taxation to avoid higher local tax rates.
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Maryland
Astern
United States
Baltimore American
the Sun
Baltimore City
Baltimore
Frederek County
Frederick County
Baltimore County
Washington County
Darrell Frederick
Washington Tes
Frederck
Tax equality and state taxes in Maryland debate
The writer argues wealthier areas like Ballmore pay higher state taxes due to assessment methods. Using city and farm examples from Frederick County, the piece questions fairness under the Constitution and suggests a single statewide assessing agency modeled after Baltimore’s Appeal Tax Court to remedy inequality.
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Ballmore
Frederick County
Uctual Worth Ag
Appeal Tax Court of
Baltimore
Rumor of Sunlight Restoring Hair Causes Public Scrutiny
The Pittsburgh Dispatch notes a rumor that sun and sea air can regrow hair, prompting many balding men to expose their heads to skeptical crowds. The piece jokes about potential hair growth methods and questions whether vanity motivates the bald headed, ultimately praising a well shaped head regardless of hair.
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Taldssers
ST Grilzes
Pittburg
Minutes of Merriness and Margins of Gossip
Excerpts from the Louisville Courier Journal reveal clipped humor and social quips. A precocious youth, his uncle, and a host of quips about marriage, happiness, and language illustrate light fare in a miscellany.
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Louisville Courier: Journal
The Ghigger Chigger Folk Poem Fragment
A comic verse laments the chigger creature biting through skin and fur with fierce tenacity. The playful rhythm mocks its persistence, while stray lines reference local figures and a cluttered catalog of magazine scraps.
Closing Old Plants Move Proceeds to Frederick Iron Works
The Morris Iron Company moves equipment from Elizabethtown and New York to Frederick to form a new combined factory site. Rapid construction, nine skilled staff join, and the warehouse at Mast and Highth streets shelters most gear as plans to remodel the Frederick Iron Works and expand capacity advance. Garber Green adds upgrades to South Market Street livery stables with new stalls iron troughs and grating.
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Garber & Green
Pioneer Livery
Augiatt
South Market St
Coadh
Nannie Rigdon
Julgatt
Morris Iron Company
Fizabethtown
New York
N.Y
Frederick
Elizabethtown
Mast and Highth Streets
Elmer P. Morris
Frederick Iron Works
Garber & Ureen
South Market Street
Chicago Grain Market Summary
Chicago grain prices show Sept Wheat at 51, Dec Wheat at 7% 98, May Wheat at 1ent 1038 102, Sept Corn around 647g, Dec Corn 2. 62 62.
Twenty Years Ago Today in Frederick Nightly News
Local items note the Battimore and Ohio Railroad building a Brunswick facility for off duty employees with a reading and sleeping room. Miss Joanie Smith offers tinkins and laid services abroad. Front press indicates the repair work will be enormous. Farmers sell old coats by the bushel. Sister Louise ODonoghue, mother superior of the Convent, died. E Brady and Sons of Baltimore win the contract for the new Bo and OU station here. Building to be brick with granite trimmings.
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Battmore and Ohio Railroad
Brunswick
Joanie Smith
E. Brady and Sons
Baltimore
Bo & OU
New York Stocks Today Quotations
New York stocks are listed with quotations provided by Motter Bros and Co. The report catalogs price levels and broker activity across leading issues.
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Motter Bros. & Go
Baltimore Stock Market Prices Corrected to Noon 1911
Motter Bros. and Co bankers and brokers report midday prices for municipal and corporate bonds stocks and notes. The list includes Anacostia & Potomac 5s, Seaboard Air Line 1st 4ds, United Ry Cons 4s, Seaboard Company securities and various coal and electric issues with bid and price levels across multiple firms, banks, and rail lines.
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Motter Bros. & Co
Bankers and
ALG. T. Con
Anacostia & Potomac
Chicago Ray 'S
RF & C. Gs
Vairmont Coal
Georgia
Alabama
Houston Oil
Trouston Oil
Elec. Rwy. & Mercantile Trust
Citizens’ Bank
Northern Central
Nort
Portsmouth
Somerset Coal
Sparrow’s Point
Seaboard Air Line
Seaboard Company, Common
Seaboard Company
United Rys
United
United BR
Sestern Maryland
MD. Trust
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