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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Feb 21, 1935
Page
4
The Frederick Daily News publishes on February 21, 1935, from the Mews Street building. It is an independent daily except Sunday, affiliated with the Associated Press, and notes the policy on letters and corrections.
A quirky column reflects on comforts of home and the nuisance of everyday life, contrasting homesickness with spring signs. It notes Babe Ruth as a springtime harbinger and a 101 year old Chicagoan who says longevity comes from minding one’s own business, ending with a wry remark.
In Edgewood on Feb 21 Donald Lee Eyler and Talbot Alexander lie in Frederick and Baltimore hospitals, both reported doing well. Local social notes record visits among the Grimes, Yingling, Barnes, Schulte and Eyler families with several Sunday and weekday calls. Historical records note approximately 25,000,000 lives lost in earthquakes.
Chicago on February 21 hears from Will Rogers that the slot machine convention, run by manufacturers and operators, dominates the city with steady rents since 1929. He says it funds political campaigns, attracts ambassadors and senators, and even features 24-hour play with lunch wagon attachments, replacing golf and stock exchanges in national life.
Stanley Staley was surprised with a birthday party Monday night at the East Eleventh Street home of his parents Mr and Mrs Marlon J Staley. Music and singing followed, a 29 candle pink and white cake was served, and attendees included relatives and friends listed by name.
A birthday party honored nine year old Winifred Smith at 255 West Fifth Street hosted by Mr and Mrs Irving Smith. Guests included Margaret Winger Charlotte Shaffer Mary Allee Davis Lois Jean Davis Edith Bumenauer Donald Hiltner Thomas Bennett Leonard Blumenauer Pierce Stanley and Jackie Gayer. Music by Donald Hiltner and several cornet selections plus refreshments.
Fifty and twenty years ago in Frederick recounted with vivid local detail. Charley Shank made the best sleighing run from Smith's hotel to the Green House restaurant in forty five minutes. A runaway coal wagon caused havoc on North Market Street, wrecking awning posts and display cases at Byerly's portrait gallery and Burger's gallery of art. The skating rink will be given to the city’s poor in a few years under directors John B Thomas, Henry WeNixdorff, Asbury Hunt, and John H Bennett.
In February 1915 Frederick coverage notes unemployment relief and farm work efforts led by Postmaster W C Bure with work applications distributed. Dr Charles He Conley named Tredeick County Agricultural Society president, appointing P L Hargett John W Humm David Cramer to the executive committee. Joseph G Muller near 97 celebrated at home, traced as Maryland grand old man, visited bank directors. Frederick debaters lose to Hagerstown in a women’s suffrage debate with Joul den Waters and G Humler Bowers as local reps. Mr and Mrs Alexander Ramsburg East Phildstrong marked their 55th wedding anniversary.
Pacific Coast shows signs of recovery with optimism about rising prices and improved business. Babson argues the gold decision aids inflation, boosts stocks and real estate but raises living costs and could require less government relief. He notes gains in California and Northwest, improvements in retail and wholesale trade, and cautious labor outlook for 1935.
Emmitsburg residents report visits from Miss Edythe Nunemaker and Mrs. Lucy Keiper in Atlantic City. John Hollinger underwent appendectomy at Frederick City Hospital. A Tuesday bridge club gathering occurred at Mrs. J Brooke Boyle’s home. Patty and Francis Beall kid daily with German measles. The Women's Missionary Society met at Mrs. Robert Gillelan’s home. Charles J Ridge Jr of Emmitsburg returned to Mitchell Field from Miami. Musical comedy The World’s All Right to be staged at St Euphemia’s Hall with a 100 member cast led by M D Redding. featured acts include studio quartet and hillbilly harmonizers.
The piece reflects on transport evolution from horse coaches to modern rail and road. It muses on future changes and whether today’s classes will seem as outdated as past modes. It emphasizes mobility’s progress and uncertainty about what lies ahead.
Under religious education sponsorship a six week community school for Christian workers begins next week at Calvary Methodist Episcopal Church Mt Airy. Friday night sessions cover Old Testament by Prof M J Schreyer Westminster Theological Seminary Rev G Robinson Westminster and Rev Herman McKay Calvary Church Mt Airy lead Recreational Leadership. Also notes Republican election supervisors recommendations for Carroll County.
The article discusses typhus spread by body lice in crowded wartime conditions. It cites Wicolle 1909, cites Serbia in 1914 with 150,000 deaths, and notes delousing in World War I armies reduced civilian spread. It warns that civil areas still face outbreaks in slums and tenements, stressing continuous warfare against dirt and lice to prevent epidemics.
Bruce Catton surveys The Reign of Soapy Smith by William Rose Collier and Edwin Victor Westrate. The work recounts Jefferson Randolph Smith a sharp con man who preyed on Colorado miners and Alaska adventurers during the Klondike era, illustrating the rough frontier humor shaping American character.
New York gossip notes Robert Emmet Sherwood, famed playwright of The Petrified Forest, who recounts a long pattern of being fired from Harvard at 18 and from Vanity Fair, a Boston newspaper, and Life. He later found success with The Road to Rome and Reunion in Vienna, while the Pulitzer Prize committee faces secrecy. The column also surveys Broadway life, including Waller Slezak’s onstage eating and rogues among stagehands unions, with light anecdotes about staff strikes and theater quirks.
A legendary criminal leader famed for killings and generosity, a square shooter with a kind heart, he spent vast sums on saloons and built churches for itinerant ministers. He rose to power in Skagway during its boom years, then was toppled by rivals as the frontier era waned. Published by Doubleday Doran & Co.
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