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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1896
Page
4
The WaEhLi Krewe's Tax Wasai News, a handsome twelve page issue, will be ready Thursday with news and special features. It claims the largest bona fide circulation in Frederick city and county and invites new and existing advertisers to submit copy by 5 p.m. Wednesday for new ads and by 1 p.m. for ad changes.
Wire reports from Washington and Baltimore chronicle visits and guests in this city. Harriet Bchrenner and Mrs Richards with daughter tour here while Miss Clare Smith returns from Ohio. Various relatives from Baltimore Cincinnati and Knoxviile visit families at Court Street and Harmony Grove with plans to Atlantic City.
A comic night of mirth by a group led by Jalion Bingers and Zubin dogers is planned as an open air event in the city. The Midnight Bell troupe promises satirical sketches and witty banter beginning at 8 o clock in the evening.
The County Board of School Commissioners notes the retirement on Tuesday of President Samus Dutrow and Assistant Examiner Albert B. Holz after eleven years as leaders. The article lists district by district school-building growth, new districts for whites and colors, and the tenure of four secretaries, detailing facilities expanded across Woodsboro Urbana Middletown Frederick and nearby areas.
The passage describes a segregated 36 to 6 ratio for white and colored pupils, the broadened high school system under Mr. Dutrow, and six county high schools paying for operation. It notes relocations, new campuses in Middletown, Frederick, Welkerson, Thurmont, and Adamstown, and praises the system’s financial and educational outcomes under Mr. Darrow’s presidency with over a hundred pregraduates.
A lively baseball game pitted the Frederick Juniors against the Razors with Freder ick Union’s Strawnberger and Wood pitching for the Razors and Barmgerdeer and Ely catching for the Juniors. The deciding umpire call on a blocked ball affected the score, and the Razors must sharpen to challenge the Juniors. A rematch is set for Wednesday at 6 15 PM in Northwest Addition with a picked nine from the south end of town.
The article notes a dispute over primary and county convention dates with August 23 for primaries and August 27 for the convention officially set. It records Charles Ingman, formerly of Frederick, killed at a railroad crossing near McDaniel Talbot County at age 45. He worked as an ornamental carriage painter at Hane's factory and was widely known in Fredericks.
William Henry Fisher to Henry W. Fisher and wife one acre and twenty six perches of land for forty five dollars. John C. Hagen and wife to Maggie eight acres removed to Urbana District. John C. Hagen and wife to Maggie eight to real estate in Urbana district. Jacob Bohrback trustee to John De Hardt and Hirem Keefer lot on East With street for nineteen hundred dollars.
The Hagerstown Railway hauled about 500 passengers Sunday as a new trolley line debate in Bagertown draws attention. Edna Young of Baltimore was paralyzed visiting relatives, while the Hygela Ice Company boosted output to meet Frederick demand, shipping two carloads from Baltimore. A farmer in the district displayed a cabbage head weighing eighteen pounds at a local hardware store.
The item references a ULB society in Sikeri promoting a Syrup as a cure for costive or bilious conditions and impure blood. It claims benefits for the system, kidneys, and fevers, urging gentle action and permanent relief from habitual constipation.
A Cumberland letter to the Baltimore Sun reports no courtesy in the Republican congressional primaries in Allegany County and outlines the local battle for the sixth district nomination. Colonel Pearre contends Allegany deserves another term, citing unwritten regional rotation and past service, while rival factions in Garrett and Washington counties rally around Ravenscroft and Hagner with Cook and Wellington camps reshaping alliances. The Frederick county scene also shows tensions as parties align around Wallington and potential candidates.
Mr. Gilmer Schley of East Patrick street was burned about the face and left hand in an accidental gasoline explosion at his home yesterday. A water boiler overflow and a stove incident preceded the blast as his daughter Margaret stood nearby. The fire singed his eyebrows and face though the injury was not life threatening. Separately a local dealer sold ten bushels of potatoes at fifteen cents a bushel amid a report of a bumper Frederick County yield.
Local mention of sales at two electric oil stores and optician Allen G Quynn and C Jaldor Saks at Rosenour's Store every Saturday and Monday. Multiple health ads promise advice for catarrh and deafness with Dr Hartley, plus free consultations for licensees. Musical notices invite audiences to Symphonions at A Wilcoxson and experiences with a new music box. Advertisements cover Niagara Falls tours and Royal Blue Line trips from Washington Baltimore and other stations on August 13 with mid summer Atlantic City excursion on August 19, including ticket details and agent contacts.
In this note the beverage is described as extra foreign brown ale with the label Guinea s extra forrion 5405 Alb. Bottled by L. J. Borke Brothers. The fragment mentions the product and bottlers, indicating a beer packaging detail from the era.
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