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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1919
Page
6
The Semi-Weekly News announces a sale of goats at $1.26 each, with cash on delivery options noted. The notice appears in the Fredericksburg post office section and references a seasonal publication schedule and subscription details.
A 1919 editorial argues arbitration often fails and calls for a larger community based panel to avoid biased outcomes. It warns monopolistic unions and railroad strikes threaten essential transport and urges calm, reasoned, tolerant settlement by representative mediators.
An editorial argues profiteering harms social order and urges public sentiment and trade boards to address high prices. It warns against overreach, suggests targeted investigations, and notes production must not be crippled. It calls for reasonable profits and wage restraint to allow prices to recede naturally.
A reader thanks The Nova editor for publishing a postal shower note from Rev Ulysses Rupp of Mt. Gretna Pa and plans to attend Sunday services August 17. A memorial proposal favors a public rest station over a park, suggesting heated facilities, relics, books, displays, private rooms, restrooms, phone, water, internet, schedules, and possible fruit and vegetable exchange.
Frederick county records efforts continue as Governor Harrington proclaims a recording day at Red Cross HQ in Frederick. By ten this morning names were flooding in from ex servicemen and those in any branch, with Red Cross workers busy assisting in filing cards and collecting Maryland honor roll entries. Photographs are preferred but not required, and many stations have already published registration sites across the county.
Frederick column items note political maneuvers with George Birely denying a House of Delegates bid and awaiting nomination reconsideration. A Brick Works supper feeds eighty employees with twenty five melons. Junior Fire Company plans a committee for G W R Shriner’s death with Brongle Rodork and Lampe. Hammond Urner sends a cane from Cuba with a rosewood handle and a Mauser shell ferrule for the bullet point.
Purely personal notes recount visits and relocations of residents and friends across Maryland and nearby states. Highlights include travels to Atlantic City, new positions in railroad offices, weekend visits, and a triple birthday surprise at the Wachter home with many locals attending.
The Frederick County Board of Education appointed Miss Margaret A. Lemon of South Carolina as rural supervisor, replacing Mrs. Nan Mildren Mosteller who retires. Despite higher salaries, a widespread teacher shortage persists, with many unwilling to teach rural or high school posts unless wages meet 1100 to 1200 per year. Preparations for the September 1 opening continue for white and colored schools, with about 10,000 pupils expected.
Sale notice from Roehole and Long New Jersey lists cabbage celery and cauliflower plants with prices per thousand and per hundred, plus delivery terms. Also advertises a desirable country place in Montgomery County Maryland with 8 acres good land and buildings near Barnesville Station. Letters to W. Al Maxwell Comus MD. Dates with August September shipment. No business on Sunday.
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