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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1909
Page
4
A fragment discusses oyster prospects this season and hints at fair treatment for Baltimore in legislation. It notes some want an extra session of Congress to watch Fowler and Speaker Canyon. A statistician cites heirs in the past decade averaging 21 billion eggs annually, a curious figure for public chatter.
Federal pure food laws reduce some abuses but protection rests on every state enacting and rigorously enforcing its own pure food law. Pennsylvania findings show adulterated items from bleached flour to cheap crushed sausage. full protection requires statewide, enforced regulations and independent inspectors.
Disjointed current comment notes discuss Ex tor Day and yesterday in Baltimore. Mentions establishment of a lave army field at College Park and Rand as a center of intercat for come etocome amid local business chatter.
A collage of comic exchanges and vaudeville snippets from various periodicals. Characters discuss misadventures with a boiler, jokes about a captain and a noble dog, and quips about a boy who may become a champion pugilist. Senator Sorghum admits reading all the funny stories he could hefty.
The War Department should withhold consent for using troops in public shows and tournaments. Military presence must reflect event importance and regional representation, not serve as a fundraiser. Moving troops is costly. dignity of service must guide authorization.
A cobbler helps a beggar and a worn woman and child, sustaining them with shoes bread milk and aid as night falls and a divine guest is hinted. An embedded ad for Ry dale's Catarrh Remedy promises universal relief and a money back guarantee.
Albert M. Jones and B. Al Boydke of Hagerstown Missouri demonstrate an automatic system to prevent railroad wrecks by detecting red signals and applying brakes. The device, designed to halt trains if signals are missed, uses track sensors and air brakes. Jones says it offers cheap installation and prior approvals from interstate commerce officials, with a factory already in operation in Hagerstown.
A Western Maryland Railroad official quips that many baggage loss claims are wildly inflated and that valuable items like purebred cows and expensive trunks rarely come to harm on tracks He cites examples of overvaluation and bluffing by claimants while contrasting the true losses with modest items such as a $10 dress case.
Brief notices describe the Middistown Valley event taking place at the usual location west of Middlstown. The Market and Patrick street paving has been removed and repaved in front of Mr Daniels property on Dill avenue by a crew led by Mr McClellan Phebus. A spring wagon loaded with brick belonging to Frank Sereil of New Market collapsed while crossing the Northern Central Railroad trucks at East Second street.
A reflect dance was held in Germantown Maryland on August 1 and drew many Washington city and Montgomery County guests. The hall was adorned with plants and pendants. a Washington orchestra provided music while a long list of attendees from Germantown and beyond was noted.
Baltimore stock market column lists prices and securities for August 2 1909. Includes cotton duck, gas age, power, Georgia and Alabama entries, Seaboard Air Line bonds, United Ry. bonds and certificates, Western Maryland 4s, among others.
Quotations from Frederick County Farmers Exchanges cover grains and feeds with prices for corn oats and barley, timothy and clover hay, bran and middlings, wheat, oats, buckwheat, meals, cotton seed meal, and more. Notable figures include No 2 Red Oats at 3.75 per barrel and timothy mixed ranges, with prices varied by grade and lot. The column also includes unrelated prose and notices from the era.
Frederick Maryland advertisement for a local bank highlights 100 years of operation, listing officers Charles B. Trail as President Janice Harrie as Vice President and Q. Albert Gilson as Authorized, touting deposits, modern facilities, and prompt service with interest on special deposits.
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