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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1911
Page
3
The piece reviews weeklong social events from picnics and canoes to watermelon parties and straw rides. It notes outdoor attraction, a long list of local gatherings, and ongoing improvements at the Methodist church. It mentions schools resuming September 4 and a new Associated Charities home.
The article notes the 104th anniversary of steamboat use on the Hudson marking Fulton’s Clermont voyage and the 1807 debut of Filton’s Je han Olympic. It includes a medical ad for Chamberlain's Liniment claiming antiseptic healing for wounds and muscle soreness.
Frederick’s Morris Iron Company advertises its electric lighting poles across a wide region. Sales manager MWusene Creed returned from a four week tour covering over 25200 miles visiting Chicago Kansas City Topeka McPherson Wichita Joplin Tillsburg Fr Scott Memphis and more. Three large southern agencies in New Orleans Memphis Savannah handle over fifty salesmen from the Mississippi to the Atlantic and from the Ohio to the Gulf, signaling strong demand for ornamental lamp stands.
A child visiting Hathimere in Whitmore was punched by a horse while the animal fed. The horse knocked the child against the manger, cutting and bruising both shoulders. Medical staff attended, nineteen stitches were needed, and the patient was reported to be improving the next morning.
Millard Engie of East South Street leaves for Taneytown today to perform as a vaudeville artist. He plans to present a routine featuring dancing and comedy with promise of lively entertainment for local audiences.
Miss Lulu Hummel, 22, who fell from the Forepaugh & Sells tent in York on June 16, was discharged from York hospital and returned to Milwaukee. She praised hospital care, said the weakened strap contributed to the injury, and plans to rejoin the circus on September 15 for the "butter-fly" aerial act, noting increased nerve and resolve.
The Physical Committee meets tonight to decide whether to ask H B Clark to withdraw as physical director of the association. Board members deferred action to the committee, with many favoring Clark's retention, especially the younger members who value his work with the Boy Scout movement.
Misa Wilson of the Just Government League tours Frederick and Baltimore to promote women’s suffrage. She cites Frederick as Maryland’s suffrage stronghold with multiple local groups and booths at fairs. Wilson predicts Maryland women will gain the vote within five years, citing sanitation, education, and child labor as suffrage benefits.
The Freder ick county Just Government League held its regular monthly meeting at the Woman College. Mrs Charles B Trail presided and Miss Wilson explained the fall campaign. Miss Wilson, a noted suffrage activist, will resign as state league official to pursue settlement work in Baltimore.
M. P. Moller, prominent organ maker from Bernholm Denmark, was honored at SE Obls church with a valuable pipe organ. The church, seen by Moller as a boy, stands near the graveyard where his parents are buried. A memory window was placed in 12 Five years ago, and St Obl's received a large cabinet organ from the same donor twenty years back. Last night at the Dagmar hotel Moller hosted a dinner with friends to mark his 20 years in Hagerstown business during which his factory built 1,200 pipe organs for worldwide distribution.
E S Mobley and Co receive contract for the 14 stalling of a hot water heating plant in Cottage Fo womens group Spring field Hospital at Sykesville Mad. Work started today with installation underway.
A Baltimore based antisuffragist proposes to the Just Government League that suffragists save for four months and have husbands pay eight dollars monthly for cooks and maids to raise ten thousand dollars for a legislative campaign. He claims this would prove suffragists would see value in home life and avoid politics. Mrs. Donald R. Hooker of Baltimore rejects the idea, saying suffragists will not deny themselves and are already taxed and busy with business and housekeeping.
Dr. D. W. Burbank of Stanford proposes a new program where fifteen sheep will be fattened and slaughtered for the training table. The student body plans to erect a slaughterhouse to supply mutton as the varsity diet if the team defeats the University of California this fall. A Des Moines woman found relief from severe bowel trouble with Chamberlain's Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy.
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