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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1911
Page
6
The Daily News announces subscription rates for daily and semi weekly editions and notes mail delivery options. The News Office is connected to the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Exchange, accepts advertisements and orders by mail, and invites correspondence from across the country.
Subscribers who do not receive their paper regularly are asked to report the issue to the office as efforts are made to improve service. The Frederick News is sold at New City Hotel Buckey's Cigar Store 8 Market St Central Restaurant F K Schmidt's Cigar Store W Patrick Street Arlington Hotel.
The Journal of the American Medical Association reports a decline in fatalities from Independence Day accidents over nine years, noting fewer deaths and injuries this year. Bullet incidents and reckless gunfire still cause harm, but rockets and fireworks show a marked decrease as a national campaign promotes sane celebration.
Harry N. Atwood claims sneezing poses the top risk to pilots and jokes that the proper ammunition in an airplane would be snuff.
A fragment claims Cuba faces widespread graft charges as tensions rise after an assassination attempt on an editor by the president's son. It also notes a couple dying from exposure on Pike's Peak in August, described with sharp cynicism.
A Louisville Courier brief notes major railways plan to cultivate friendly relations with farm residents along their lines. It argues that removing rural prejudice could benefit both sides, citing that railroads often face costly, unfair damage claims yet sometimes settle fairly.
Columns in Baltimore papers ponder autumn signs from political speeches to fashion, noting the fall hat market opening as summer ends. The pieces reference Colonel Watterson’s wartime pledge, Doc Wiley’s punishment, Mona Lisa jokes, beefs and sauerkraut pricing, and surface cultural reflections on national life.
An Evening Sun line extols defending freedom as the key of a major cause or the Tropic of Capricorn, framing a grand, symbolic defense of liberty. The remark uses bold metaphors to emphasize resolute defense.
A jumble of humor from period papers includes a dog for sale with a pounds reward, a jab about a vaccinated bat boy, a photographer’s call for truthful likeness, a widow’s tale about alimony and a dog custody, and a father warning his daughter about engagements on the beach with sample quips from The Sketch The London Opinion The Toledo Blade Life Courrier Journal.
The excerpt blends a lyric excerpt by Shaemas O'Sheel from the New York Times with a brief local item noting a freight car carrying a number of bushels of potatoes for the Frederick County Farmers Exchange on the Northern Central Railroad at East Street was broken into on Saturday night and a quantity of potatoes is believed stolen.
Street improvements begin on the south end of South Market street with paving planned next. Traffic is diverted as drivers must detour on both ends of South Street to reach the business part of the city.
From the Frederick column a Baltimore woman Miss Lou Harris and Charleston WL Va man Markethamt son were in a wagon crash on Woodshoro pike leaving all injured. Brakeman James Dinh fell asleep on the track as a train approached and could not be warned. A fire at John W. Welker’s Mt. Pleasant home and attached store burned, damage over $2,000 with partial insurance.
Dr. James J. Bentley of Richfield Copper Company, based in Mexico, reports strong outlook as mining operations near Querohali, Senorafil. The camp, 303 miles from Nogales, Arizona, will employ about 60 workers, with labor scarce. An 80 ton smelter is being built, matte ore with copper content to ship to markets, while cattle ranching will operate independently on 26,512 acres of ranch land.
John Adams about 37 died at City Hospital after a week long typhoid illness. He worked for the Bo and Rail road at Point of Rocks and is survived by a widow two children and a brother Harry Adams of Luckett Va. Remains shipped to Point of Rocks for interment with M J Richison in charge. Agnes Louise Stamm infant of Ve and Vis George Storm died at Lancaster Pa aged one year. Burial will be at Lancaster after relatives visited.
Miss Kie organizes resumption of her dancing school for the upcoming session and contemplates holding an Assembly Thursday evening during Fair week. The school will open with sessions preceding the Assembly, and the date will be announced later.
Market reports show Sept wheat trading around 28 dollars with fractional quotes and Dec wheat near 101 percent. May wheat sits near 1014 percent with slight adjustments. Sept corn quoted at 2.88 with bid around 2.47 and other nearby figures indicated.
Prices of latest sale corrected to noon today by Motler Bros. & Co. Bankers and Brokers tabulate bonds notes and stocks including Anacostia & Potomac Chicago Railways Cotton Duck Coal Gas Power Fairmont Georgia Alabama Houston Oil Cooperatives Southern utilities and Seaboard lines with percentages and par values for August 28, 1931. A dense ledger of securities shows bids and yields across utilities railroads coal and trust companies.
James H. Harris appointed as Vice-President and Q Albert Gilson named Cashier in the listing of bank officers. The brief notice confirms their positions within the financial institution.
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