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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1894
Page
3
The piece advises restraint in advertising, favoring steady presence over novelty. It warns against daily startling claims and urges honest, fact backed promotions with long term mercantile strategies. It notes submission deadlines for ad copy and changes.
A girl’s body found near Martinsburg in a ground excavation with a stone around the neck. Madagascar expedition planned under Royal Society and British Museum supervision. Paris consumed 21,291 horses in 1233, 4315 tons of meat sold. A Kentuckian mill leased to operate soon. A man smoking 100 cigarettes daily absorbs 120 grains opium. 50 cigarettes equal 60 grains. Germany introduces a mouthpiece to public telephones to curb contagious breath moisture. Siectricity.
A young ladies and gentlemen social at Braddock Heights Saturday evening featured dancing to Rhodes' orchestra. A large bus plus private conveyances ferried attendees, and the event extended to late hours. The Doves enjoyed a pleasant social at Miss Mary Koontz’s North Market street residence with many members and delightful refreshments.
Isaac Smith and Perrey Richardnon both of Buckeystown district receive marriage licenses. Samuel Lewie Ridgely and Minervs M. Palmer both of New Market district also obtain licenses.
August term opens with eighteen prisoners awaiting arraignment plus eleven bailed men, twenty nine confined, and more likely to join before docket. Warden Groff safeguards order with wheat bread and lenient visits while inmates, including the colored detainees, show mixed moods. A list of inmates facing hearings names Sumner Morgan through Becky Higgins and others, with charges ranging from larceny to assault and car breaking. A property sale nearby adds routine civic notes to the jail item.
Delegates to the Republican Convention in Switowk are listed by name, followed by central committee selections. Delegates include A. N. Cramer, Dr. T. B. R. Miller, G. E. L. Palmer, Chas. Snook, Elias Stal, Frank N. Miller, Marty Snook, Elias Grashon, Jobs H. Ail with Central Committee members named alongside. Piverville District delegates for the county convention on the 23rd include John McCormick and W. S. Zigio among others, with Central Committee names Jno M. Morrison, Jno W. Porter, H. Bowlus, and more.
Personal visits and travels fill a Baltimore and Maryland circuit with many names and places. Guests include J. and Edmunds from the National Bank of Commerce arriving at Lingnore Hill Farm, Rev. Dean Blake visiting Point of Rocks, and Miss Mollie Reifenider heading to Royal Oaks. Several residents return from Montgomery and Atlantic City while others set off for Philadelphia and Westminster on business and leisure trips.
The Frederick Wheelmen rode from North Market Street at 6 36 to Walkersville where Dr Zimmerman’s lawn displayed Chinese lanterns for a feast of cantaloupe. Captain Victor Barkens led a party of forty four riders, returning by 9 after a pleasant, if damp, outing. Next week’s ride to Mt Pleasant will occur Tuesday due to a concert, with canteens and coffee to fuel the trip.
Mrs. Blum, toll gate keeper on the Baltimore pike east of Frederick, emphatically denies using abusive language toward three Baltimore wheelmen who struck the toll gate Saturday night. She says she must keep the gate down at night and that she raises suspicion only when she sees or hears wheelmen approaching.
W T H Grove a Fairview market dealer died after taking poison in a lane near Frederick. Reports say financial troubles with debt to Frederick merchants prompted the act. He died at home after rejecting hospital care. age unknown, survived by a widow. Funeral at Mt Olivet cemetery tomorrow at 2 pm.
Market day in Frederick reports plentiful supplies and strong prices for tomatoes and other vegetables as buyers arrived early. Fruit, cantaloupes, watermelons, and peaches sold well with notable price levels. The Salvation Army festival drew nearly 400 attendees and featured speeches by Mrs. Dunham on the growing work in the United States. Open air and indoor meetings planned for East Patrick and East Church streets, with farewells to Glyndon Camp by Captain Dean and Lieutenant Davis.
The boz-sheet for the Key monument entertainment sale at the City Opera House on Monday evening is open at A R Yeakle's store. Reserved seats cost 50, gallery tickets 25c. Local talent will perform and a sparkling finale will entertain. Chorus members invited to rehearse at 7:30 Saturday in the F C M L A parlor. Hood's Sarsaparilla is advertised as a complete cure.
Advice warns returning residents to thoroughly air and clean a long closed house. Dust must be removed with damp cloths and carpet sweepers, dust burned, pipes flushed, and plugs removed from sinks and basins. Open doors and windows to purify, then ensure drinking water is boiled before use.
At a special meeting in Algeretown the First Hose Uniformed Rack decided to enter its hose reel race at the Winchester Fair on September 14 with a prize list of 75, 50 and 25 dollars. Augustus Fielmer to organize a racing team. Rules limit entrants to fifteen to seventeen. Winchester invites one organization per town. Hagerstown, Frederick, Chambersburg groups invited. Friendship Fire Company expected to participate.
A Berlin cable reports Catholic clergy faced parish anger over bicycle use. The pope ruled clergy may ride bicycles when serving the church such as hurried parish visits or administering last rites, noting a priest invented and rode a bicycle as early as 1845.
Mrs. Margaret White of Shepherdstown preserves Henry Clay's umbrella. Clay rode a Winchester to Harper's Ferry stage when Albert Hamrickhouse died trying to save passengers during a crash at Bracetown. Clay reportedly left the umbrella with Mrs. White as a memento. A Sabbath School picnic for Harmony Grove Union Chapel is planned at Ezra Houck's grove on Thursday, August 23, starting at 1 PM.
A lawn fete is planned Thursday and Friday evening August 23 and 24 on the lawn beside the M church at Buckeystown under Y P S O of that parish. All invited. McCardell's offers cabinets for future customers. Dr J R L Hardesty will be at City Hotel Thursday and Friday the 25th and 24th for eye ear and throat work. Bartlett pears offered cheap for preserving and canning. Trustee W W Lease Co stock to be closed out by trustee to clear shelves at Gem store. Farmers Encampment August 20 to 25 includes special round trip railroad rates to Mount Gretna from East Liberty Bryn Mawr Lutherville and Philadelphia Erie Division tickets refundable by August 25.
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