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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1898
Page
4
The papers offer home and mail delivery within the United States at varying rates. Subscriptions require advance payment and are accepted by mail or carrier. The News Office is connected to the telephone exchange, with ads and correspondence accepted day or night. Moon phases are listed with dates and times.
The issue previews 1899 as full of events, notes the Cuba situation with US flag over Havana, and reviews the year 1898. It highlights Ensign Willard and General Otis, recounts the Santiago campaign, and promises continued improvement of The News with essays, fiction, and lessons for readers.
A detailed explanation of how centuries are counted and when the twentieth century begins. The piece argues that the year 1900 does not start a new century, and that the twentieth century actually begins January 1, 1901, using examples of hundreds and Roman numerals to illustrate the concept. It extends the idea to everyday counting and even bicycle mileage to clarify the century boundary.
Fragmented notes from a jovial column recounting small town humor and gossip. Quips blur lines between sport and social remark as readers joke about teaching in mountains, women, gas bills, and a barber’s self-shave misadventure.
A Kansas City Star synopsis urges Congress to heed the Presidents call to complete the Nicaragua Canal as a maritime highway linking Atlantic and Pacific seas. It stresses the canal as vital to US commerce and influence, noting delays must end.
A superintendent’s report catalogs the life saving service’s decade of duty. Nearly 4,000 people aided aboard wrecks and other distress cases, with 663 shipwreck survivors sheltered and hundreds of lives saved by brave crews. The narrative honors the public servants as heroic, comparing their courage to battlefield charges.
Editor Shafer notes the year stands out in the last quarter of the century as transformative for national unity and sectional reconciliation. The Brunswick Herald reflection praises the year despite past turmoil and looks ahead to New Year festivities with cautious optimism amid holiday calm.
A miscellany features verses on the old year and the new, noting aging and time’s passage with wit, plus a report: Cornelius Schier of West Sixth Street, once blind for seven years from cataract, has regained sight through surgery by Dr. Wm. C. Boteler.
The annual Christmas entertainment of St John’s Sunday School was staged at City Opera House last night. An interesting programme was rendered in a most excellent manner.
Congressman elect George A. Pearre of Cumberland and David J. Lewis also of Cumberland, both active in Allegany county bar, formed a new law partnership to take effect Monday next.
Tas News offers a fine line of 1889 calendar samples and invites buyers to view and receive price quotes for calendars. The notice promotes calendars as attractive advertising tools and notes seeing the item in The News.
Ensign Arthur Lee Willard, born February 21 1870 in Kirkville Missouri, is identified as a Frederick County stock member with parents from the county. His parents Lewis A Willard and Dewalt Willard are traced, noting other Willard relatives such as Mrs Carlton P Abult.
Mrs William Hamilton age 63 of Kansas City Missouri dies in an elevator accident at a Middletown Valley store when the car rises and strikes her skull. She leaves a husband and six children. Edward Shank aged 24 of Myersville dies of brain fever at home after a weeks illness. he is survived by a widow and three children and was recently injured on the Myersville road.
The page recalls Ensign Willard at Annapolis, Edward L Wilhard and Arthur Willard as cousins, and celebrates Major General Elwell Otis of Frederick County, lauding his Civil War rise and Philippine command. It notes Otis’s birth in Frederick, urges faith in Hood’s Sarsaparilla, reports obituaries for Mrs. Dan iel Reeder and Alexius Rice, and mentions infant H. O. Merriman’s death in Knoxville.
The November United States Official Postal Guide lists changes in service and offices. It notes Hawaiian stamps at face value, corrected addresses, money orders to Korea via Japan, direct exchanges with China, Yukon mail links, parcel post with Trinidad, reduced stamp prices, and a ban on personal matter in third class. Maryland gains Barber Bigpool Brink Cascane Dover Harry Rover Welcome with Tyler and Willoughby restored. Allenfresh Gorman Lordville Startown discontinued.
The state nears debt elimination as the treasury could hold a surplus if assets are sold. Proposals include selling Northern Central Railway mortgage for about 2.6 million, Washington branch of Baltimore and Ohio for about 1 million, and the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, with bids possibly reaching 2 million. Combined proceeds could exceed 4.6 million, covering liabilities and leaving a balance, amid plans to divest fluctuating stock. Maryland officials weigh bids from West Virginia Central or Pennsylvania Railroad interests, aiming for fair offers while preserving fiscal stability.
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