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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1914
Page
4
The Daily News Frederick Maryland offers a semi weekly edition and email delivery for one dollar per year. Subscriptions require payment in advance and incentives are extended to clubs. Home and mail delivery options include monthly and quarterly rates with office connections to the local exchange.
Subscribers are urged to report missed deliveries to help improve service. The paper lists sale points including New City Hotel Buckey's Cigar Store S Market St Central Restaurant F K Schmidt's Cigar Store Wear Patrick Street Arlington Hotel Braddock Heights Zimmerman Bros Grocery Store McCardell's Store.
As Frederick prepares to mark the centennial of the Star Spangled Banner, officials hope for wide participation. A National Tribune piece recounts a Confederate veteran's visit to Francis Scott Key’s monument and notes calls for a presidential pilgrimage and congressional tribute at Mt Olivet cemetery on September 14.
A reader describes a profound patriotic moment at a statue scene in Frederick Maryland. He recalls tears and a wish for a bronze monument in every American hamlet to inspire love of country and youth, imagining a National Capitol statue with depictions of a ship deck and fort alongside the Star Spangled Banner.
Reports say this year is weak for summer resorts due to war and travel concerns. Braddock Heights remains popular with diverse guests and should benefit from improving road access and the Brunswick Jefferson trolley extension next summer.
The New York World reports police inquiries into food price increases show greatest burden on those least able to bear them. Publicity sometimes lowers prices. blame falls on wholesalers. Postmaster General discloses parcel post tests in ten cities for direct produce sales, with St. Louis handling 208 May packages, 139 June, focusing on eggs butter fruit and vegetables.
A terse, fragmentary note argues jail terms for criminal price conspiracy would help. It suggests a remedy free from legal delays, lawyer quibbles, or court vacations. The reference to Hine barge on Food hints at a peculiar legal or policy context.
Four trainmen injured when freight engines 958 and 323 collided east of Edgemont on the Western Maryland Railway last evening. Eastbound crew from Hagerstown included Engineman Smith Conductor Taylor and Fireman Morris. westbound crew from Manahan and J C Bowers of Hanover. Lord Byron quote opens the piece.
September events for Maplevi Re public school hold a flag raising and ceremony on school grounds with Oak Orchard Band performing and Unison ville Camp presenting the flag. P.O. S. of A. New London hosts its 30th annual picnic in Murdock's grove on September 12 with New Market and Woodville Bands in attendance.
With orders rising the Ox Fibre Brugh plant operates day and night. The factory ran a Saturday and one night last week and plans several more nights this week. The program pleases the community as the industry moves forward at full blast despite unsettled business conditions.
Pastor J Spangler Kieffer of a Hagerstown church led Sunday evening prayers asking European rulers to accept the proposed peace mediation. He prayed for dying soldiers widows orphans and prisoners of war. John B Hanna resigns as chairman of the Republican State Central Committee after announcing plans at a Baltimore meeting.
Readable items from The News columns dated August 25 1894 note William PL Nanemaker named warden at Montevie Hospital Master Leonard Storm injured by an iron wheel kick while playing in South Market street no bone broken trustees appointed for Liberty public school filling vacancies caused by retirement and death horse cart accident near Walkersville registers Thomas Smith appointed officer of registry for Frederick County tenth district after resignation
A Maryland county courtroom records Mrs. Harry J. Buch refusing conditional release, remaining jailed on $50 bail while facing an assault charge against a colored boy, with Justice Anders noting the option to stay out of town if she posts bail or stays out for the September grand jury. Other city cases involve fines for disorderly conduct and a Braddock man released on promise to stay out of town, while a crowd gathers around an armed suspect.
Nathan Snowden aged 17 and James A Costley aged 20 were killed when struck by a train near Bartholows. Both bodies were buried after inquest was deemed unnecessary by Coroner John L. Watkins. Snowden’s funeral was at Woodville colored church and Costley’s at Woodbine station with services at Fairview church. Also: nine year old Frank Smith survived a steer rail incident near Myersville. Senator Jesse D Price filed duplicate papers for the First district race in Dorchester and elsewhere.
Public notice states that the Frederick, Hagestown and Frederick Railway Company has exercised the redemption option on September 1, 1914, for all outstanding first mortgage bonds at 105 percent plus accrued interest, coupons after that date void, payment to be made at the trustee’s Baltimore office. Also includes administrator notices for Frederick County estates with deadlines for claims and debt settlement.
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