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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Feb 24, 1922
Page
4
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The article discusses high meat prices attributed to profiteering and distribution costs. It notes retailers' narrow margins, labor, taxes, and rent as drivers, with freight rates and packing costs sustaining elevated meat prices. It calls for reform in distribution and packing efficiency to lower costs for consumers.
W Trickett, supreme lecturer of the Moose, outlined a proposed 90 000 endowment for an orphan’s home in Northern UH Jd. He described a facility offering high school education to children of widows and guardians, aiming to aid the country’s underprivileged youth. Members urged support and adherence to the order’s traditions as tensions with critics surfaced.
Readers from Frederick Junction to Lewistown share mixed views on whether giant airships will be perfected for safe operation. Answers vary from confident to cautious, with several respondents predicting eventual safety parity with airplanes.
The Listen Irene company, a 3- dozen performers led by Nyra Brown and John G Gets, brings a three act musical comedy to the City Opera House. Promoted as a top touring show, it features a Fashion Girl number with ten thousand dollars worth of gowns and an illuminated jeweled flirtation walk extending into the audience.
Actress Minnie Maddern Fiske urged an environmental defense for children in theatre at Harrisburg addressing the professional child labor debate. She cited her own early start and supported exemptions for exceptional child performers with proper education and supervision. The report notes pigeons used in forest fire fighting and baseball in New York as historical side items.
Frederick remembers events from February 24, 19th century items. A church known as Hauch's church was torn down to build a dwelling. Brunswick bonds worth 25,000 were sold to a bank for city improvements. The Harwood will probate begins. Local figures report from Wheeling convention and a public debate at Reading Circle. An accident injures William Devner near Morgans along the B and O line.
Representatives from P Z county fair groups urged the Finance Committee for a $10 000 appropriation drawn from race track revenue to support fair premiums and defer charges The push drew questions from committee members about racing and anti racing sentiment amid broader state tax concerns and potential bill outcomes
A near three thousand dollar hog sale at Mountain City Stock Barn east of Frederick featured 40 registered hogs and nine grade pigs selling for 31 to 50 dollars each. Purchasers spanned Frederick, Carroll, Montgomery, and Washington counties with W. C. Poole of Poolesville and George W. McComas of Browningsville among top buyers. total receipts reached 2,802 dollars.
February dates note events such as Robert Fulton’s steamboat Cher ment, Arizona’s organization on February 29 1862, emancipation measures via Congress on February 24 1864, a Worlds Fair award to Chicago in February, and U S troops sent to defend American interests on the Mexican border on February 24 1932.
The Frederick Hotel Co Building committee has awarded three contracts for the hotel project including electrical work to W G Cornell Co of New York City, ornamental and miscellaneous iron to York Pa firm Roger and Co, and stone to Mentzer Manufacturing Co of Harrisburg. Steel framing will begin soon with 55 of 81 piers completed and cranes loading steel from cars to trailers then to the site prior to foundation completion.
Benjamin Armstrong Richmond longtime Allegany county lawyer and former state's attorney died at his home after months of illness. A prominent Maryland figure, he moved to Cumberland in 1874, served as Western Maryland statewide official, chaired boards, and led local bar and association efforts. He belonged to an old Maryland family with roots tracing to 1690.
Edith Bradford frets about wedding cake and a dessert rumor as she learns how to make a creamy pudding from corn starch and milk. The scene on the porch reveals family banter, a joking mother, and the idea of homey desserts saving a celebration.
The Fredericxn National Bank urges opening an account for boys, issuing a bank book to start financial education now. The call invites guardians to begin lessons by saving early and fostering responsible money management for youths.
Public sale at Grinder farm on design road six miles south of Frederick and Bickeystown Station on Wednesday March 1 1922 at 9 00 a m. Livestock include six horses a gray mare a gray horse three sows and five cows plus two Holstein heifers a Holstein bull and more. Harness farm implements and household items offered with six month credit terms and cash for small sums. Auctioneers H Fulton Nicodemus and Wm K Darner. Huckstering privilege reserved.
The lawyer performed for Baltimore before the Maryland Court of Appeals in a key constitutional challenge to the act annexing part of Baltimore County to the city. He is survived by his wife Chrissie Sim and one daughter. His father was Fohfain Richmond, and a brother named Camphrance TL Richmond. He died in Toledo Ohio where he had been a retired U S Army officer who commanded a regiment in Manila during a war.
A vintage ad advises worried husbands about wives who are tired and irritable. It promotes Pepto Manzan as a tonic to restore vitality, claiming thirty physicians recommended the product as a premier building-up remedy. Sold by local druggists in liquid and tablet forms.
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