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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Feb 21, 1894
Page
4
Schools suspend normal sessions with half day devoted to Washington’s birthday programs including readings recitations and songs. Post office hours are shortened with one delivery and two collections. Banks offices stores and many businesses close for the Frederick College Alumni Association anniversary event.
Soatel arrivals noted noon yesterday list several individuals with their origins and destinations. Names include Crrz Horer Hebden J H Kahn Chas Bachman McComb Miller and others from Baltimore Cumberland Virginia Hanover and more to the county and city.
The Young Men's Republican Club organized last month at Bit Ple ssant elected President C Edward Cram. Vice President Balls Boogher. Secretary Clay Croneburg. Treasurer Warren Houck. Executive Committee Robert Cramer Jake Harris and C A Thomas. Meetings set for Saturdays at C A Thomas store. Ira T S Hawkins Chattanooga Tenn promotes Shilohs Vitalizer claiming life saving relief for debility, drapepain, liver or kidney troubles. 75 cents, Garrett Pearre Drugista.
A sweeping digest notes various Maryland happenings from economic and legal actions to transportation projects. Key items include the Hockville to Bethesda turnpike start, bridge grant at George's Creek, bond drive for Ellicott City water works, railway debates in Howard and Baltimore counties, and suits involving edge mont land and Farmers Insurance. Authorities, counties, and towns such as Anne Arundel, Harford, Cecil, Carroll, and others are active with appointments, elections, and legal decisions.
Miscellaneous notes include Tasso manuscripts with many erasures still legible, a banana with two peels found at Hagerstown shop, Senator White educated at St Marys College, St Emmitsburg. William T Stansbury, longtime Baltimore Sun printer, found dead aged 73. Zig Zag Battalion plays Mechanicstown this evening. Weather then mild with lingering snow. Spring brings many househunters to survey property. F P L R annual directors meeting set in Baltimore Friday. James Bier of East Fourth Street joins the United States Army in Washington.
Advertising in Tas saws and Tas Weekly News promises broad circulation among well to do residents. Copy deadlines are by 3 pm each Wednesday for new ads and by noon for changes, with the paper aiming to help advertisers reach prosperity and home readership.
Readers of Tez News receive assurance that efforts will be made to improve the next edition and provide better content for out-of-town readers at a small daily cost. The note promises up-to-date coverage and a positive experience for subscribers.
A Sana Francies Examiner report notes a wealthy Chicasoan purchases a costly coat made in the city. It features Alaska sea skins with Kamchatka silver tipped sea otter cuffs, valued at 520 dollars each, and the coat weighs 200 pounds with brown satin lining.
Ephraim Mullican aged about four years of Lay Hill Montgomery county committed death by own action last Sunday night by jumping into a well with 16 feet of water. An ex Union soldier he had suffered with the ERP and acted queer. He left home wet on Saturday and later jumped into the well after telling a false story. He was unmarried and lived with brother in law Oliver T. Van Horn.
Purely personal notes list visitors and departures among residents, including Frank G Lambert, M J Grove, and others. Salvation Army officers Captain Groselande and Lieut Merk, with Adjutant D E Dunham, are described as stationed in Frederick with meetings held for the unit.
The Gauls House near Harper's Ferry on the Valley Branch of the B and Q was closed after a railroad car jumped the track and rolled over on its side just as it reached the saloon. Three postal clerks aboard escaped unharmed though the incident blocked entry and exit through the front.
Freight operations will be suspended tomorrow in Frederick to observe a legal holiday. Also note advertisements for Dr Bulls Cough syrup and Karl's Clover Leaf health products praise cures and offer guarantees from local druggists Garrett and Pearre.
A fragmentary notice mentions Porrzx Dace and CHEM Cuer with sole proprietorship in Boston, alongside Sealy and Healy’s collaboration. The text is garbled but indicates a business or professional pairing linked to blood-related work.
Captain Walter Saunders as auctioneer offered a two story weather boarded house and lot on East Sixth street and a one and a half story house on West Sixth street for Paul Shearer executor. The items were withdrawn at bids of 506 dollars for the East Sixth property and 250 dollars for the West Sixth property.
The bread wagon of Mr. Rudolph Neidhardt on East Patrick Street overturned near the square corner this morning. Contents were scattered as the team was driven by Fredrick Smith who escaped injury.
Charles T. Abalt qualified yesterday in the clerk's office as road supervisor in election district No 3. Darell Padgett qualified as Commissioner of Charities and Correction.
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