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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1912
Page
4
The Frederick Daily News lists its publication schedule and pricing for subscriptions and delivery. It notes semi weekly editions on Tuesdays and Fridays, and offers rates for one month, four months, and six months. The notice includes mailing and office contact details for the Frederick, Maryland newsroom.
Subscriptions note readers who miss deliveries should report to the office as efforts to perfect service continue. The News is sold at New City Hotel Buckey's Cigar Store S Market Street General Restaurant F K Schmidt's Cigar Store West Patrick Street Arlington Hotel and Zimmerman Bros Grocery at Braddock Heights.
The News thanks readers for their confidence and patronage during 1912. It notes growth and improved service across departments and expresses sincere best wishes for a happy and prosperous year ahead.
Standing on the threshold of the new year, the city looks back at 1912 with steady growth. New residents and industries arrived, buildings rose, and no major calamities or epidemics troubled Frederick, marking a hopeful, progress-focused retrospective.
The brief note celebrates a fruitful year with bountiful crops and growing trade. It looks forward to greater prosperity in 1912 and jokes about superstition around the year thirteen. Leap Year brides are mentioned as part of the outlook.
From the New York World report on postwar peace, great powers press for Austrian demands in the Balkans while Turkey resists. Albania's independence rises amid Slav loyalties and tribal, religious rifts, with outsiders likely to influence its future boundaries and identity.
A reflective year end note wishing readers and News patrons a Happy New Year. Although text contains playful misspellings and fragmented lines, it encourages cheer, optimism, and resilience, with quips about sunshine, laughter, and gratitude amid shifting fortunes.
Poem reflects on bidding farewell to the old year and greeting 1900s era renewal. It laments failures and promises kept, urges beginning anew, invokes Christian faith through Jesus Christ, and ends with hopeful prayers for mercy as the year turns to nineteen thirteen.
Miriam Kirk daughter of Mr and Mrs C T Kirk of Dover Bel Willmar will marry Frank A Dell son of Mr and Mrs Charles Dell of East Third Street His city The engagement was announced after Mrs Dell spent summers with relatives in Drexelburg The Dell family is well known in the community An accident near Frederick injured a three year old boy at the home of Mr and Mrs Edward S Houck of Germantown prior to the event.
President Jacob Rosenstock and tl landependent Jose Company, Ne, appoint a committee to adopt resolutions on the death of Willie Mehrling Selwll. Named members include Morshidl Steckinin, Vernon err, Chas. Abrecht, Woe Gilbert, and Villarles Hiddlenioser.
A string of colorful clipped dialogues and quips from a regional paper. An audience member jokes about a lecturer’s claim while others toast misheard names and domestic quips. The tone mirrors a bustling social page with quick exchanges and wry humor.
A fragmented Frederick column notes events from twenty years ago. It mentions a college reception at the Frederick Ponn Seminars, chaperones including Maure Kell WoC Keller and Dr. Edward Nelson, and a land sale of the Glade Vidley farm to Mrs. Mary KE Kunkel of Baltimore. It records six months officers for Fredonia Caun and a slate of trustees and representatives, with Lipps and Layman named among them.
Frederick's weather records show 1910 had 48.6 inches of rainfall, far above normal, with 39 inches as annual norm. 1909 saw 35.72 inches. December precipitation varied, monthly totals ranged from heavy to dry, plus a single small snow event. The year featured extreme wet and dry months, ending with low December temperatures.
New York stocks quoted today with prices and changes provided by Motter Bros Co. Market activity covers key indices and leading issues, reflecting broad movement across trading sessions.
Motter Broa & Co. Bankers and Bakers quotes list prices for diverse issues ledgers and bonds including Seaboard Air Line United Rys and Western Maryland, with entries for Anacostia Potomac Citizens Bank Fairmont, Chicago Railways, Houston Oil and Merch balances, reflecting market corrections up to today’s noon session.
The Frederick weather year 1911 closed with an average temperature near normal after a warm start and a very cold winter. The summer was exceptionally warm while autumn and late-year cooling kept overall averages just below the normal mark. Highest readings reached 97 degrees on June 25 and a low of 18 below zero earlier in the year.
A Friday afternoon benefit matinee at the City Opera House will feature dancing by eight young ladies led by Miss Louise Kemp and others. Miss Martha Kemp will play piano, Miss Willie Ritchie will give instructions, and Herman and Co. will present a vaudeville illusion act with special moving pictures. Tickets are selling fast as funds for the Barbara Fritchie Memorial rise with a recent F100 contribution from Dr. Wh. o T. Evans of Becatur, IL. A memorial association meeting is set for this evening at the Y M C A.
A consular report claims Faroe island inhabitants and their cows eat dried unsalted coalfish. The cod-type fish is said to improve milk yield. Fish is eaten dried without cooking, crushed on stones.
An advertisement touts ZEMO as a guaranteed remedy for eczema and itching. It claims instant relief after first use, offers 25 cent and 1 dollar sizes, and notes distribution through drug stores and direct orders from E W Those Medicine Co.
At the earnest solicitation of his friends Lewis T. Fraley announces himself as a candidate for mayor. The notice cites capital stock surplus and profits figures and indicates submission to Democratic primary decisions.
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