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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1914
Page
4
The article discusses how Europe’s war will shape U S business conditions. It notes interdependence of world trade, potential initial adversity, and eventual gains for farmers and manufacturers. Local agriculture may profit from expected high grain prices, though higher living costs loom for many.
The Daily News of Frederick Maryland outlines subscription options for the Semi Weekly News mailed nationwide for 1.00 per year in advance with club incentives. Advertising and news service details include office contact, carriage by carriers, and mailing terms. Entered as second class matter September 7, 1909. Monday August 31, 1914.
Subscribers are urged to report missed deliveries as the paper aims for perfect service. The News is sold at New City Hotel, Lynchey's Cigar Store, Market Street Central Restaurant, K Schmidt's Cigar Store on West Patrick Street, Arlington Hotel, Braddock Heights, Sees Great Grocery Store, and MecCardell's Store.
Farmers are urged to plant large wheat acreages as high prices are forecast for next season. The change should greatly aid Frederick County and the city in trade and business, with corn and wheat being staple farm products in the district.
A New York World piece notes Supreme Court Justice Lurton left a handwritten will invalid for probate due to missing witness signatures under DC law. It contrasts historic figures like Tilden and Webster, arguing probate success rests on statutory exactness rather than testamentary intent.
The poem recalls a student’s vacation day reverie as September nears. It notes memory fades, maps of distant lands grow unfamiliar, and even basic facts like nine times seven seem wrong. The piece comments how holidays alter perceptions of people and places. The mention of 1914 US sugar crop appears as an inserted contextual aside.
Twenty years ago today in Frederick reports detail injuries at Steiner Brothers Milling Company after an arm break and a fire on North Market Street caused by leaking gasoline. A candidate for Congress is urged, a Key Monument entertainment aids the fund, a new love song debuts, and a horse becomes unmanageable on East Church Street while a poultry shipment heads to Timonium Fair.
John Richard Baer aged 78 died after a lengthy illness at 236 West Fourth Street. He was a former lampfighter, member of Reynold's Post and the Junior Fire Company, and survived by seven daughters and two sons. Funeral at St. John's Catholic Church, with burial in St. John's cemetery. C. Carty in charge. John W. Rine, 78, of 605 Walnut Avenue, died after a long illness. Founder of the Frederick County Colony in Baltimore, he was active in Union Square Methodist Episcopal Church affairs. Survived by widow, four sons, three daughters, a brother, a sister, and many grandchildren. Funeral Tuesday at 3 PM, Western Cemetery burial.
Thunder showers are expected in New York, New England, the South Atlantic and Gulf States, and the extreme Southwest with generally fair weather elsewhere. Northwest showers return in the latter half of the week. Temperatures rise early in the week in central regions and again toward week’s end in the West. No tropical disturbance is anticipated.
Misa Sara Enright daughter of Mr and Mrs J H Enright West Third Street is rehearsing in New York for a new play to appear this season in Miss Helen Ware's The Revolt which opens late in September Irene Enright her younger sister also on stage with the Lula Sanderson Hogan Cauthorn Company now at the Knickerbocker Theatre Excavations have begun on Derr Street at West South Street by the H and F Railway for a sewer pipe to connect South Street to the alley intended to repair the dangerous gutter and improve conditions at the site.
Miss Marie Ward daughter of Mr and Mrs William E Want of Rockville elopes while bride’s family attend Rockville Fair. She marries Smith Linthicum son of Gaithersburg merchant George F Linthicum in Washington. The couple’s union follows a marriage precipitated by absence of families.
Conductor Charles Jennings sustained a crushed foot at Brunawick yards last night when one car bumped into another. Several men had to be amputated.
The article recounts a Claren on tale of Cantetou and notes the use of Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. It quotes a testimonial stating a wife suffered severe bowel complaint for months and was cured after taking a bottle. For sale by dealers.
Roger G. Harley is installed as secretary of the Y M C A in Frederick, succeeding Dewitt T. Free who returns to teaching. Harley, with 18 years in Frederick county, comes as active manager while Free continues teaching at Creagerstown. About 500 members remain, with Free residing on newly purchased Creagerstown land and Harley awaiting housing at Yellow Springs before moving to the Y M C A building.
Mr Harlex comes from Brungwick where he led the High School as principal and is praised as an educator. The Y M C A plans night school with free tuition for boys and young men, in cooperation with the county school board, while a girls night school will continue at the Federated Charities building. Activities include Bible classes, religious meetings, union mass meetings with speakers, and a boys secretary and gym instructor to be appointed. The article notes the funeral of Dev Thomas Bos Owines and a health ad for Chamberlains Liniment at the end.
Edward W. Crimmins swallowed carbolic acid during a personal crisis on Saturday, lingered before acting, and reached his sister Mrs. Catherine Foster in West Patrick street where he disclosed the act. Dr. Goodell treated him and believes he will recover. Crimmins says domestic troubles prompted the act and his wife was away in Baltimore. Germany lifts dye import restrictions, enabling neutral ships to carry dyes used by Union Manufacturing Company.
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