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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1914
Page
4
The Daily News Frederick announces mailing options and rates for the semi weekly and daily editions. It notes subscription prices, carriage and mail delivery, club incentives, and payment requirements. The notice invites readers to send letters and telegrams to The News in Frederick Maryland and provides postal details dated Monday August 17 1914.
The Frederick News asks subscribers to report missed deliveries and states it strives for perfect service. It also lists places where the paper can be purchased including New City Hotel Buckey's Cigar Store Market Street Central Restaurant Schmidt's Cigar Store Arlington Hotel Braddock Heights Zimmerman Bros Grocery McCardenl's Store.
Active measures finance construction of a Jefferson to Brunswick trolley link to connect Frederick and Brunswick and improve regional rail service. Fifteen prominent businessmen commit to stock funding, with completion expected within a year. The line will be leased by the Hagerstown and Frederick Railway Company and boost growth in Brunswick and surrounding communities.
A newspaper note calls for simple funeral rites, citing Mrs Woodrow Wilson as an example. It argues that public sentiment favors restraint over elaborate ceremonies, with Scripture readings and a brief prayer guiding the farewell and only few carriages at the railway station.
In funerals the longest carriage lines and highest power displays marked status, not mere grief. Elaboration and expense signaled community standing for the departed and friends. Some used funerals for social display, with empty-seat jokes and costly processions, while later ceremonies for Mrs Wilson suggested more sincere recognition after the initial shock.
The New York World notes that ships may be sold between nations during peacetime. Argentina sold dreadnoughts, two old battleships were sold to Greece for one new vessel’s value, and aviation could transfer built ships to other powers. Britain seized two dreadnoughts under construction for Turkey, provoking Turkish moves to acquire ships elsewhere. Britain France and Russia demand repatriation of crews. Turkey’s possible German ties threaten a broader Balkan war with Greece and Servin’s forces, risking horrors across central Europe.
A collection of quips and anecdotes highlights family lineage bragging and sharp humor. Jests about old and new arrivals cross paths with a pun filled exchange on sight and calumny. The dialogue features a professor near sighted at the zoo and a joked will leaving money to a spendthrift nephew.
A war poem by Edith H. Shank of Woodsboro Maryland laments the costs of conflict with handles of marching orders and tragic sacrifice. It invokes charges and bugle calls while denouncing conquest songs as unable to heal war’s wrongs.
Governor Goldsborough may appoint Hanna as chairman of the Workmen's Compensation Board with Cunningham and Higgins among contenders for two Republican and Democratic seats. The act takes effect November 1, requiring board organization and a broad insurance plan for industrial accidents.
Major Joseph G. Pangborn special representative of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad died of heart trouble Friday at Mercy Hospital Baltimore. Funeral from his 815 St Paul Street home at 10 tomorrow conducted by Rev Henry Branch First Presbyterian. Burial private at Druid Ridge cemetery. Many railroad and business leaders visited yesterday. B&O officials mourn his loss. Pangborn traveled often in the region on railroad business.
Mr. C. B. Kine of near Frederick, noted fruit grower and forest warden, is named tree warden by the State Forestry Department under a law enacted by the last Legislature. He will supervise roadside and public trees around Frederick and nearby areas with possible authority to trim or cut only under approval from the State Board of Forestry.
Frederick City postoffice list shows gentlemen and ladies awaiting letters on August 11 1914. In parallel, the New York State Monument Commission plans a large memorial at Antietam Sharpsburg for the Eighty fourth New York Regiment fallen at the Cornfield avenue sector, funded by prior appropriation.
Twenty years ago in Frederick report a boy Nicodemus, son of Eli Nicodemus near Buckeystown, had his right leg broken when a horse fell. Doctors Noone and Shares reduced the fracture. Hawanl Stalkty lost two mocking birds, likely poisoned. The Carroll Creek bea is being wintered. An early morning fire alarm was caused by an overfilled stove in Mrs. L. V. Schleigh’s kitchen. Prof Charles W Walter, optician of North Market Street, fell while playing with his daughter, injuring his left side.
A city patrolman, helmet and club stolen while he slept on his beat near Alderman Phebus’s home. The missing items later vanished from the Alderman’s yard and have not been recovered. Mayor Fraley jokes about the incident while calling for a stricter police call system to ensure punctual patrols.
A. A. Appleby prominent wheelwright in Montgomery County collapsed at his Germantown shop about 4 PM Saturday. He died in his 77th year, survived by his wife Miss Murphy, a son in Washington, and a daughter in California. Dorothy Hoyle and others witnessed the tragedy as they drove by.
A dated ad urges homeowners not to skimp on paint costing 25 cents a gallon, arguing a small upfront cost prevents water damage and rot. It stresses painting protects property, saves on future repairs, and highlights Devoe paint from I Hargett & Co as the advertised brand.
About 30 paving firms from Cumberland and nearby elites have asked the city engineer for bid blanks to pave 22 streets under a new 140000 bond loan. Bidders include firms from Pittsburgh, Richmond, Baltimore and New York City. Colonel Roulette named aid by Governor Goldsborough. Fritchie Memorial meeting tonight at the YMCA. Chamberlain's Liniment advertised for sprain cure.
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