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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Feb 23, 1891
Page
4
Numerous short notes from Frederick and surrounding areas report visits, social calls, and travels. Entries mention people from Washington Baltimore and Virginia, lectures, dances, horse sales in Kentucky, church events, business trips, and a railroad conference. Also noted are a barn fire in Westminster, a candle ball donation, and a forthcoming lecture on the credit system in Good Templar Hall.
A damaged OCR fragment mentions a local sale action and officials, with partial readable details. The item remains uncertain but indicates a public sale notice context.
A lecture series by Dr. Taleone condemns gambling as a plague in New York Brooklyn and Jersey City. He describes gambling venues from elite rooms to policy games, warns of social and economic ruin, and argues gambling erodes public morals and enterprise across the urban triad.
A powerful broadside on gambling exposes fraud at card tables and faro, detailing tricks, loaded dice, and cheats. It laments ruined families, ruined fortunes, and the moral collapse as hundreds lose homes, fortunes, and virtue to gaming dens. It cites London and San Francisco scenes, ruinous sums, and a mother’s heartbreak.
A narrative of a man ruined by gambling and the ensuing collapse of his life. It recalls a dramatic descent into despair, the end of a marriage, the wrecked hopes, and a blackened memory that haunts him as a doomed figure. The text warns of vice and fate, urging caution through vivid, eerie imagery.
A fire last evening at 6 30 burned Messrs Brown and McKinney stables behind their bath shed on East All Saints street. Firemen quickly controlled the blaze saving the building framework. Eight barrels of core half ton of bay and straw and several gears were destroyed. The fire likely started from a spark blown by a passerby smoking. The York Pa Company served as agents in the city. The Brippe epidemic is spreading with stomachic throat troubles and several deaths in southern states. St James Lutheran plans to buy the Pearre property at Second and Court for a new church.
New stock of nine choicest spring dressing hams arrives at Frederick. Handsome assortment on display in the South window at Market Street entrance. Call to place orders to secure the cream of the market.
Our initial Mattings invoice arrived Saturday urging early buyers to call before shopping elsewhere, signaling potential savings for quick purchasers and emphasizing prompt contact.
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