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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1914
Page
4
The Daily News offers daily and semi weekly editions with fixed subscription prices. The paper is mailed or carrier delivered within the United States and possessions with monthly and multi month options. Advertising and correspondence channels are provided through the News Office in Frederick Maryland.
Sub readers urged to report missing papers as the Frederick News offices strive to perfect service. Papers sold at New City Hotel Buckey's Cigar Store Market Street Central Restaurant F K Schmidt's Cigar Store West Patrick Street Arlington Hotel Braddock Heights Zimmerman Gross Grocery Store McCardenl's Store.
The second Chautauqua in Frederick opens today with attractions that provide instruction and amusement for weeklong crowds. The circuit has grown into a fixed community institution offering capable entertainment at wholesale prices, meeting a demand in smaller towns and cities and promising an interesting program this week as large crowds are expected.
Cities vie for new factories as boards of trade proliferate in villages. Corporations seek locations amid gifts and incentives while some prospects prove transient. Persistent searching, even after many false leads, aims to land a genuine opportunity.
The text urges persistent letter writing to attract businesses and reports that finding a new home for industry requires follow up and investigation. Securing a new industry yields positive prosperity, making the effort worthwhile.
The Panama Canal opens with a pragmatic start as the Ancon transits from Colton to the Pacific in ten hours, followed by a fleet of commerce ships within a day. The paper heralds equal access to all nations, citing U S good faith, no exclusive rights, and a moral triumph alongside the engineers’ achievement after a decade of work.
The poem contrasts peaceful seas with a dangerous, fanged creature of war. It imagines a dangerous future where fangs and infernal powers awaken, dueling with the vision of eternal, bloodless rule. The speaker dreams of lasting peace while nations resemble sheep under shifting tides and cold moons. William Watson.
A collage of humorous exchanges from newspapers citing playful mishearings and wordplay. Dialogues reference escutcheon meanings and everyday mishaps with light tone and crisp banter among unnamed speakers. The snippets illustrate comic dialogue style from Houston Post and Washington Star.
Walkersville defeated Thurmont 26-5 in baseball with Walkerville Ligeti Ranneberger batting. Thurmont lineup Gough Wihide. The Frederick season opens August 31 with melodrama A Wife For a Wife by Robert MacDres. A valuable horse died after breaking a leg. a man sprained his arm. A cat was caught in the mountains after black bear and rifle incident. Philip Shankle’s country store near Bethel was entered for confectionery cigars and small change stolen.
Emory L. Colblentz, a Frederick lawyer, recently operated on at Frederick City Hospital, spent over a week there and is back at work handling urgent business. He plans two weeks at a seaside retreat to recover his strength. The hospital is described as technically proficient yet homelike, earning praise for its atmosphere and care.
Captain BD John Markey Lieutenant Munshower and six sergeants and six corporals of Company A depart Frederick at 6 10 AM Monday for Saunder's Range. They join other Maryland Guard officers for a six day camp returning Saturday evening. In camp First Regiment line officers will elect a major. Company A invited to participate in Baltimore grand military parade for the Star Spangled Banner Centennial.
Authorities plan a thorough investigation of the Brunswick wreck in the yards on Sunday where two men were killed and three injured. The injured are improving. Brakeman Keily’s body will go to Pittsburgh for burial tomorrow night, while the funeral of Charles Wachter, the other victim, is today. The Lady was taken to his home near Harper's Ferry last evening. Many railroad men are expected at the services.
Mr. Phieeger and Mrs. Phieeger are expected to arrive aboard the U. S. S. Minnesota tomorrow evening. They will visit his parents, former Judge and Mrs. John E. Phieeger of West Patrick Street. The Phleeger vessel served in Vera Cruz harbor during the Mexican trouble.
The Peach Special of the Baltimore and Ohio Washington County Branch began service this morning. The train from Hag glitterstown departs each evening and gathers peaches in small consignments and carload lots from all stations along the branch.
Riba Alao Broken and Mrs. D F Davis suffered injuries from a Sunday night accident with the right leg broken and three left side ribs fractured. Annie Beckley also bruised. Real estate transfer notes Hood to Gaver for $100 in county. An odd tidbit about a nose change and a follow up punch line ends the snippet.
Local Frederick residents tout Doan's Kidney Pills as effective for back pain kidney issues and general misery. Jacob Lipps at 370 West Patrick St. says four boxes helped greatly and urges others to ask for the same remedy backed by home testimony.
Prof. Stabler arrives as agriculture teacher at the Boys High School and plans a full four year course plus demonstration farms. He will work with county farm demonstrator Emory Remsberg and aims to establish seed wheat and corn trials and student theses. The program includes a complete agricultural course and farm bureau organization.
Residents along Want Shoemaker Road appeared before the County Commissioners seeking a route from Urbana to Monrovia. Estimated cost around 40 000 with a plan to build a few miles each year until completion. Emmitsburg Booster Week scheduled September 14 15 16 and 17 with committees hard at work and a parade feat designed to surpass the five year ago homecoming.
Manzier George List of the Cit Opera House has taken a picture of the Key Monument in Olivet cemetery to be shown at the Opera House and in Pearce and Shedown theatres in Baltimore. Mayoral Board may consider watershed purchase at tomorrow's meeting. W. D. Rosere Lumber Co offered land at 1.6 per acre.
The notice warns that infection and insect bites from Wes Monquiters and other insects in garbage filled, stagnant ponds and musty places can carry disease. It promotes Sloan's Liniment as a remedy to neutralize infections and urges purchase through local druggists.
Rev. Harry Gonso of Rocky Springs fled the pulpit at MN Haven Bethe Edgewood this Sunday. Rev. C E Wehler vice president Hood College Frederick will fill in at Edgewood on Sunday August 23 at 10 15 am replacing Rev Herman.
At a special meeting the Mayor and Council of Hagerstown fixed the 1914 levy at 65 cents per hundred dollars. This is an increase of 11 cents from last year, based on a taxable basis of 13,505,860.24 dollars, up from 12,764,652.17 dollars.
Brief items of interest note new porches erected in front of four dwelling houses of Dr George D Moore on West Patrick Street by workers under Thompson and Myers. It also mentions Mr Stockman beginning work as clerk in the Board of School Commissioners office and praises Chamberlain's Liniment for sprains with standard advertisement copy.
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