Pay of Legislators Prompts Maryland Debate and Reform Ideas
A Baltimore Sun note discusses Governor Crothers’s call to cut Maryland legislature expenses by about 80000 dollars and favors fixed salaries for legislators. It argues higher efficiency if lawmakers receive steady pay, avoiding per diem incentives to idle sessions, while warning of risks of overly short sessions.
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Crothors
Maryland
Baltimore
Carville D. Boncon
House of Debates
Tan Xperdbers
the Sun
Benson
Annapolis
Jean Reavon
Wiles Rimgs
Farner’ & Mechanics
National Bank of Frederick
sMsty
Public appetite for wealth and scandals
The Cumberland Times laments ongoing Thaw family scandals and society fascination with wealth. It argues public interest centers on riches rather than virtue, noting personal quarrels and graft persist amid sensationalism in American culture.
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Nothce Thorn
Se Engithenan
Jovea
Cumberland Times
Mirthy Miscellany Jokes and Wit From An Old Page
A collage of antiquated quips and quibbles from multiple papers. Sentences poke fun at marriage honesty and daily life with comic misprints and garbled lines. Names and locales blur as brief jokes shift between playful taunts and social gags.
Postal Reform and Political Debate Highlighted in Early 20th Century Papers
Excerpts from the Indiana and Tennessee papers discuss postal costs, free trade implications, and calls for reduced rage in communications. The Knoxville Sentinel covers Taft’s stance on Roosevelt era reforms, trust morality, and judicial temperament shaping voters' choices.
Harvest Echoes in a Grass World Poem
A lyrical piece contrasts autumn harvest scenes with midsummer life in a grass world. It blends rural imagery of fiddlers, sweethearts, and apples with vivid nature verses about hoppers, breeze, and invisible creatures thriving in summer, then fading as leaves fall.
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Goa
Death notices from Brunswick and Middletown area
Two obituaries report the deaths of local residents. RB A Monsell of Brunswick died after Brights disease at about age 50 with services led by Rev Beaat ner and burial in Middletown. Henry Beckenbaugh of the Soldiers Home Dayton Ohio, a Civil War veteran aged 79, was a Middletown native and brother of several locals, last visiting Middletown 33 years ago.
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A. Monsell
Brunswick
New York Hill
Bright
Miss Forrest
Mensell
Loyalty Lodge
Knof P
Bartley
T. Beaatner
Martinsburg
W. Va
Middletown
Brunswick Lodge
Knights of Pythiha
Lodge
Henry Meckenbaugh
Henry Beckenbaugh
Soldiers’ Home
Dayton
Ohio
John Beckenbaugh
John Gardner
Thomas Kinna
Festtorick
Catherine Wilson
Baltimore
Weet Carrollton, Ohio
Little Johnny Jones at City Opera House
A lively musical comedy arrives at the City Opera House on Tuesday. George M. Cohan delivers a plot driven show with love interest and popular song hits while a memorable chorus performs. The Unknown character adds comic contrast in this classic 20th century Broadway style entertainment.
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Johnny Jones
New City
Tuesaday
Thia Village
George M. Cohan
Ny Jonea
Dali
Johhny Jones
Engagement announced for Margaret May Pents and Martin
Miss Margaret May Pents of 630 street Hahidors to Mr. Martin son of H. Pents contractor. The wedding will take place in October.
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Margaret May Pents
Hahinors
Eeciter Martin
H. Pents
Ridenour
LIBER
Guy
Carma L. Leetwiotierie
R. Gu Utmont
Rea el Eteras
Moran
Hager
New Plan for Green Goods Swindle Unfolds in Philadelphia
A man named Beeston, arrested near the corner of Fourteenth Street, faced Detectives Farrell and White after a peculiar encounter. He allegedly offered a counterfeit scheme to swindle Rosengarten of money using multiple fraudulent methods and declined to speak further. Charles Hoefier of 449 North Fourth Street was identified in the case.
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Mali
Ben York
Beeston
Farrell
Charles Hoefier
North Fourth
Philadelphia
Rosengarten
Teachers Seek Clubs For Certification Reform
Letters from the People urge forming a Teachers Club in Frederick to discuss first grade and life certificates. They note many teachers lack proper training and many begin as inexperienced, urging confidential inquiries to L., care General Delivery, Frederick City, Md.
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TEAC
Frederick
Achoola
Commonwealth
Theaa
Care General Delivery
Frederick City
Ex-Governor Warfield Heads Westward Tour
Ex Governor and Mrs Warfield arrived in this city around 11 30 to meet Mr Daniel C Ammidon and then proceed to Brad dock for dinner at Hotel Braddock. They plan to visit Antietam Hagerstown Cumberland Valley Waynes Buena Vista Hotel for the weekend before returning via Thurmont Frederick and Oakdale.
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Warfield
Mra. Warfield
Daniel C. Ammidon
Maryland
A. M. Landauer
City Hotel
Illness Report From Ellicott City Residence
Mrs. J. B. Dorey of Ellicott City is sick at her sister Mrs. Henry E. Cramer’s home on Enet Church Street. Mr. Alemander Woodward of North Main Street, also ill, is improving.
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J. B. Dorey
Ellicott City
Henry E. Cramer
Enet Church Street
Alemander Woodward
North Main Street
Hanover Team Plays Here This Afternoon
The Hanover baseball squad hosts a strong visiting Win team this afternoon in a narrow but likely hotly contested game.
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Hanover
Persian burial rites and the rising soul in Persia
A fragment describes burial customs in Persia where two foot long packs support a corpse in the coffin as it rises to face the angel Gabriel. The rite includes a glance to ward off defilement and a bread offering placed on the corpse’s chest to entice the spirit away.
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Persia
Gabriel
Restlessness and disease indicators in patient notes
A fragmented excerpt discusses restlessness as a sign of possible grave underlying illness and the caution doctors urge when it appears with greater intensity. It includes garbled quotes about a father and references to hospital notes and patient care.
Memory marvel of dates and methods revealed
A man explains his exceptional memory for dates. He describes memorization by repetition and reading, and recalls how exposure to memory performers in India inspired him to study Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates. He notes rapid recall of about one hundred dates after brief training and strategies to reset his brain when confused.
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Cleveland Tander
Lord Macaulay
Mitten
Mirsala
C. Lasa
Mr. Lawton
India
Diblio Muse Hall
Haydn
Granulated Soré Eyes Cured at Pearre's Mod Modern Pharmacy
Fragmentary OCR suggests a claim of curing granulated Soré with a salve at Pearre's Modern Pharmacy in Kyrela Peatndy area. The text includes garbled names and dates, but indicates a purchase of a box and a sale context.
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Marth Bordo
Kyrela Peatndy
Pearre
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