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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1896
Page
2
A clipped 1596 newspaper fragment notes Frederik and Mr. Tee Dewy entering the Frederick Me venue for a Great seathers Prirs event. It mentions ticket prices and a Saturday August 22 date, with references to readers and performances and a brief on advertised shows.
The Frederick issue highlights the rise of the city with electric transit, new streets, and industrial awakening. It lauds Lord Chief Justice Russell’s Saratoga speech urging peace, arbitration, and friendship among English speaking nations, and presents Frederick as a thriving commercial hub with diverse departments, fiction, and market reports.
The text discusses opinions on the beauty of new currency notes and compares the $5 and $1 notes, noting a five to one ratio. It mentions a Senior leader’s stance near an academic college and hints at fraud allegations against a person named Seeman coop hurter, questioning Mr. Bi’s fitness for presidency.
A fragment from the Philadelphia Record reprints federal policy disputes on silver, party loyalty, and religious influence in campaigns. It cites Bryan as the Boy Orator and quotes discussions from the New York Independent. The text sketches Democratic tensions and calls for conscience over party lines.
A fragmentary verse laments a departed songwriter named Kathleen Mayoer, recalling a melody that touched hearts and memory’s ache. The speaker mourns the singer’s absence, noting the world’s forgetfulness and fate that silences a once cherished voice.
Notices cover local advertising plans by Mr. Re Lorentz and a Frederick tab. Hegerstown corn dealers expect prices not to exceed a few cents per barrel. A partial lunar occultation will be visible tonight. Market Street Bridge repaired and Cram’s carriage factory front repainted. Prison statistics note five male convicts per female in English prisons. London School Board runs 406 schools. Chicago juvenile offenders not found guilty may go to Walls Mission. Five tons of Sims beans shipped via Pennsylvania Railroad. Dog days end Monday. Three fences: 100 feet of barbed wire fencing needs eighteen pounds of wire. John Robinson’s circus to perform early next month.
Editor letters from Brunswick Middletown and Fort Braddock urge action on street road access, cleanliness and safety. Residents lament limited railroad street access by the Lorentz lot, urging directors to bring the electric road into town and down to business center. Also notes on morning and evening poetry, a Farmers' Picnic date, and local rail facilities praised by Frederick citizens.
Frederick Juniors outslugged the Frederick Unions 8 to 4 as Young hit a long home run in the fourth inning. Molesworth pitched well for the Unions, while Baumgardner, Ely, and Shipley sparked the Juniors with solid batting and key plays. A decisive return match is planned next week to settle the title claim.
Charles Pither of Walkersville died at his home at 8 o clock after a short illness of typhoid fever aged 53 leaving a widow and four children funeral to be held tomorrow afternoon from the Gatied Brethren Church Also notices death of Aston Taneyhill aged 87 former slave in Reich family and funeral in Chapel Ailey Interment in St Johns Catholic cemetery under F Schroeder undertaker James Gambrill Roberts son of Mr and Mrs Roberts of Westminster and grandson of Mr Gambrill of Frederick died aged 2 years and 16 days Sparring Match between Joseph Tansey and Lawrence Harley planned with venue to be announced Good luck to Gilmer Schley after a days hunt in Montgomery county with twenty seven squirrels.
Precaution in feeding children during hot weather reduces infant deaths. Lactated food is promoted as a safe, nourishing substitute that does not irritate the gut. Physicians endorse using it at first signs of weakness or poor growth to support steady weight gain and development.
A local youth, son of a noted farmer, returns from a city trip sadder but wiser. He leaves for work on the railroad, wanders through Baltimore and Philadelphia, ends up in Wilmington hungry, and is aided by friends before returning home. A lesson about choices and guidance unfolds amid a rout of local notices and a fire alarm contract dispute in Cumberland.
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