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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1902
Page
4
The Weekly News announces subscription terms for Frederick Maryland readers and city delivery via carriers. Rates include 40 subscribers in city or mail. United States mailing available for 2 orate per 3 months, 1.00 for four months, 9.00 per year. Advance payments required and telegraph/ mail orders accepted.
The piece surveys attacks on public figures like Ex Governor Brown and E Benator Hanus while focusing on Maryland Agricultural Experiment Station efforts to curb the San Jose scale. It argues for decisive action, stronger enforcement, and cooperative pest control to save urban trees and prevent neighbor tree destruction.
Fragmented joke dialogue from a 19th century column. Miss Antique seeks a partner but signals a odd outcome after a mix up in romantic pursuit. Tadge and Kew YakScr exchange wry lines about fortune and faction in a satirical tone.
Excerpts show a Washington Times joke about a man asking payment and a Yonkers Statesman exchange with an editor about a visiting poet. The tone is satirical, featuring a talking child or boy and a bold editor-in-chief. Names and dates are not provided.
The Chicago Chronicle weighs competing ideas on letter postage and domestic service, arguing for improved local postal service before cutting foreign rates. It cites the Portland Oregonian on Senator Frye’s shipping subsidy plan as a radical shift from protective tariffs, warning of public money aiding private shipbuilders while stressing the need to protect infant industries and balanced national prosperity.
A fragmentary verse piece titled Moments With The Muse expresses triumph, doubt, and the imagined funeral sermon, then shifts to Berehaven scenes with a mermaid and lost wife. The speaker reflects on love, happiness, and perpetual sorrow as tides and sea imagery recur throughout the stanzas.
Readers urge humane society action on horse shoeing abuses and call for strict penalties. A second letter discusses California pest the San Jose scale, urging radical measures to stamp it out and warning of widespread agricultural damage.
Representative Mudd of Maryland recalls repayment of kindness from ex-Bosaker Reed. He notes a past incident when Reed denied calling the Maryland delegation fools and recounts two letters from Reed denying the claim and praising the delegation for zeal and effectiveness.
Republican lawmakers oppose favorable action on a bill to place Admiral Winfield Scott Schley on the active list with pay and emoluments. Senator MaCDomas' earlier Senate push shifts to Representative Sydney Mudd who expects a hard committee fight and possible House defeat. Also, Justice Bokstein committed Charles A. Griffith to Monternus Hospital for treatment.
President L J Loree has reorganized the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad police to improve efficiency at low cost. C S Barr now heads the force with headquarters at Lumsden Station Baltimore, directing three divisions in Baltimore Pittsburg and Chicago Junction. Each division has a captain and about twelve officers, aiming to prevent freight thefts, capture carriers of stolen freight, and curb riding of ramps, with additional duties assigned to the division superintendents.
Hawkins notes a merry annual comedy titled Hanting for Hawking to be staged at the City Opera House Friday night December 11. The farce is described as a substantial hit and a clever production. Manager J W Gilingwater engages a well balanced capable company noted as favorites locally.
A Maryland case notes Charles Bogle charged with taking a bicycle owned by Miss Alica Eyles and misappropriating funds from the estate of 1660 for personal use. He appeared before the Eckatein court and was held on $60 bail for grand jury appearance. Also public notice: January 1903 books open at the office in Jefferson Frederick County for subscriptions to the Frederick and Jefferson Electric Railroad Company capital stock. Books close at 7 pm on the date. CEPERUS B LAREN et al.
A scattered Baltimore area update reports Robert White, jailed in Denton, found dead. Mrs. William Trall dies at 96 from dropsy. rural free delivery routes reviewed. Harbrokea beacon light finished with inspector due at Cambridge. Allen Hicketts, 15, shot dead near Rockville by an 8-year-old. James Chambers convicted in Deod County Court for assault on a nine-year-old, sentenced to six years. John K. Cowen returns from Europe fully recovered. Thomas Malloy, 24, from Connellsville crushed at sea. Bucklen's Arnica Salve advertised for burns, wounds, and skin ailments. Charles Gardner, German comedian, featured. Frederick jewelers promote holiday stock and fast repairs.
Morrison's Faust with top legitimate company and new scenic electrical production opens at City Opera House Saturday night. Pyrotechnic effects and the eerie Sheol scene enhance the show, touted as the finest ever presented in the country.
Prominent retired Frederick business man and ex city treasurer Lewis M. Nixdorf Sr. arrived in Winchester Saturday night to visit his son L. M. Wixdorff Jr. a noted Frederick insurance man who recently suffered a dislocation of the left shoulder in a driving accident. It is Wixdorff’s first Winchester visit in many years.
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