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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Feb 13, 1894
Page
3
The piece promotes The Weekly News as a broad advertising medium reaching thousands in multiple counties. It highlights extensive home department content and a strong circulation, urging merchants, farmers, jobseekers, and property owners to place ads. It notes deadlines for new and updated ads each Wednesday by 5 p.m. and noon respectively.
Local column notes a freeze last week not enough to file ice houses. Miss Sallie Thomas of Washington visits sister Mrs Ernest Nichols. Community reports recovery from the grip. Plans advance for a new Methodist church. Lent services at Episcopal church twice weekly at 4 p.m. Messages urge kindness and lasting virtue, praising The News for faithful mention.
The census compares Maryland families and Baltimore figures with Cumberland Frederick and Hagerstown. It notes 902,179 families, 77,217 owners, 24,962 renters, and rising rentership. Maryland overall shows 66,249 incumbered families with farms and homes valued at millions, debt totaling $63,949,013, and annual interest around $1,458,323.
The text touts a medicinal modern remedy that is pleasant in form, wholesome in composition, and free from objectionable qualities. It suggests consulting a physician when ill and using the laxative Syrup of Figs for constipation.
The mind reader Prof. Goshaan staged a afternoon and evening show near Frede rick. He found a hidden paper using a wired telegraph test with a loop and blindfolds, as committee members observed. The performance drew many locals and a final display was planned for Junior Hall tonight.
Riding Deputy J B Cram and HB Snook pursued burglar Samuel Miller from the furnace store across rugged terrain after he fled on sight. After a long chase of eight to ten miles, Miller was captured and jailed with shots fired during the pursuit. Montevue changes: county commissioners appoint new board of charities and correction for Montevue Hospital and jail, replacing four members with C C Manght Petersville Daniel Z Padgett Adam town David Gillelan Emmitsburg and Peter H Bussard Middletown. party composition three Democrats two Republicans.
Professor Cyrus F. Flook of Myersville has been selected by the Filokosmean Literary Society at Annville Pa to deliver the oration for the society anniversary on May 4. Flook, an ex-student, has not yet indicated acceptance. The court docket included John W Watkins vs B and C R and Watkins vs B and O R R with action in the circuit court.
B F Delauney of Sharpsburg holds a German Bible once owned by the Good family. The volume measures 18 by 12 inches and is thick, weighing about 30 pounds with 2176 pages. Bound in heavy red hide with brass corners and clasp, it includes several pictures and was printed in 1720 making it 163 years old.
At a special meeting of Independent Hose Company No 1 held at their hall last night the invitation and program from the Hseerstown Fire Department was read and reseated. A committee of five including David B Kel George T Kline George B Keyser Charles B Tyson and J ITV sites was appointed to make all necessary arrangements.
Notico Bad. The report given to TEE News concerning the accident sit the. M C A gymnasium was somewhat exaggerated. The stove was not kicked over, but hay ing a defective lot was easily jarred, enough fire fell out to render the application of water absolutely necessary to avoid danger.
The funeral service for Miss Lizzie Keefer was conducted at 2 o'clock this afternoon at her home on Wess Church Street with Rev. Dr. Eschbach officiating. Pallbearers were Wmn. Flager, Charles Baller, N.J. Wilson and George Salter. interment followed at Mt. Olivet cemetery. F. Schroeder served as undertaker. Featimanials published on Hood's Sarsaparilla are presented as reliable as from a trusted neighbor.
Senate debates $10,000 street bonds for Brunswick and $40,000 water works, plus $35,000 for a Frederick city reservoir. House passes schoolhouses and waterworks bonds, harbor vessel law tweaks, and local charters. Lawmakers seek federal aid for a Great Falls fishway and coordinate Maryland Virginia oyster actions.
The obituary profiles James McKinsey of Philadelphia who died suddenly at 10:50 AM near his home after leaving moments earlier in good health. A Maryland native, he lived in Elkton and Philadelphia, served as postmaster under Lincoln, and built a career across several cities before relocating his family to Philadelphia in 1879. He leaves a wife Catherine Nickels and seven children, with a reputation for integrity and public service.
Miss Mary Socka who has been visiting in this city returned home yesterday evening. Miss Ads1 Rollins left yesterday for Washington to visit friends after a five month visit with relatives in Frederick. Mr. Chas. Davis of Washington on a short visit to his parents has returned. Miss Bilott of York, guest of Miss Louise Clingan, returned home this afternoon. Marriage Licenses Taylor A Spurrier to Miss C Augusta Burall, both near Johnsville Frederick county Bid.
A Baltimore hemp rope arrived as the scaffold nears completion. Leonard, awaiting imminent execution, shows little emotion and spends time with spiritual advisers. He tried on a new suit but disliked the trousers and had alterations. A fellow prisoner hoped for Saturday release, but Leonard replied he would go out a day earlier on Friday.
The News offers readers coupons and 15 cents to obtain parts of a World’s Fair Art Portfolio delivered weekly with Saturday delivery. Three coupons plus money or stamps entitle one part. orders due by Wednesday. two-cent stamp extra for mailed parts. Bound volume option available at $6.50, or $4.50 for the book with weekly paper for a year. Sample copies at The News office.
Brief items note Sam Jones and ex Senator Ingalls meeting in Nashville to organize a mutual admiration society. Other bits discuss bicycling for recreation, Martinsburg planning a twenty ton ice plant, and varied local observations from sleep to weather and public notices.
The column lists residents on the sick list including D Kolb and Minnie McClows of North Market Street and Louise Stephene of East Patrick Street. It also notes a bill for divorce involving Mary R Best and Cleland Mealy, filed in the Clerk’s office last week, followed by an advertisement for a bargain textile line priced from 3 cents per yard.
A brief retailer notices marketing slogan asserting timely delivery and competitive pricing. The item emphasizes value and fast service, aiming to attract customers with clear, direct language.
In the January 74 event a Rambler rider proved dominant as 69 started, 18 finished and 10 rode Ramblers while eight others used competing makes. The Rambler’s easy running and durability are praised, with dealer W. T. Delapisine listed and a note on a stenography class at the Woman's College offered by J. H. Apple.
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