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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1916
Page
6
BIRELY and EB DELAPLAIND list officers and rates for the Semi-Weekly News. Subscriptions are 1.10 per year prepaid with incentives for advance payments. Office contact details and multiple local outlets are provided for subscription and advertising, with telephone numbers for The News Office.
A fragmented public health message questions readiness and self care habits from personal hygiene to handling goods, critiquing gaps between stated preparedness and everyday practices within community health behavior.
A fashion era note on workers who favor gentlemanly, clean tasks over factory toil. A dressmaker in a sizable city employs 15 girls who prefer not to soil fingers or wear overalls. Some aspire to Society circles, harming their practicality and wages.
A business owner writes to the editor about employing prisoners as part of a parole plan. He argues that while prosperity helps, securing labor is a challenge and suggests offering work to prisoners released under parole as a test for a new program.
Wm J Grove president of M J Grove Lime Company proposes using able bodied inmates for county work to earn fines and ease jail overflow. He cites reformer Justice Brunt suspending a two year sentence and urges authorities to test open employment for prisoners rather than confinement. Lime Kiln August 28.
The piece laments neighborly indifference in New York while noting the Savannah News and Aarington Star ironies. It critiques Congress printing favors during a campaign year and the lack of editorial checks on speech, citing Miss Helen Rowe visiting Warnesboro, Pa.
From The News Columns August 29 1596 Mrs Caroline C Dugan of Washington DC sister in law of Mr Frederick Heinlein died at Heinleins home after shock from an accident on the Frederick and Middletown Electric Railroad The Widdletown picnic will be near that lane tomorrow and others will occur at county sections Scales for weighing platers are now used in Maryland towns Lantern parade carnival and watermelon feast held by Frederick steelmen proved an event of rare interest and beauty
A long list of Frederick area residents report weekend travels and visits. Names include Mr L J McCartney in Sykesville, Edward Waltz of New York visiting Mrs W Z Baker, and many others returning from trips to Baltimore Atlantic City Washington York and Harrisburg plus relatives in Westminster Yellow Springs and Philadelphia.
A Kansas City man writes to the Frederick paper claiming he met many pretty Frederick girls during an auto trip and, after reading a notice about a lonesome 17 year old girl, offers himself as a suitor. He gives his age height weight hair and eyes, notes he earns a hundred dollars monthly and can sing and dance. The letter is unsigned in the paper, but typed with good handwriting, suggesting it may be in earnest. A dance invitation at Mount Airy Country Club follows, with listed hostesses and Hobson’s orchestra. A separate report says Mrs. R L Smith near Indian Springs is in critical condition after a colt kicked her in the abdomen.
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