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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Feb 28, 1903
Page
6
The News offers home delivery and mail subscriptions to the United States at $1.00 per week with prepaid options. The office is connected to the telephone exchange and handles advertisements, orders, and correspondence seeking countrywide information.
The piece notes ongoing turmoil in Oorgresa and a root resignation rumor, questions Senator Quay about stock ownership, and discusses how Central American events tie to wartime sentiment. It criticizes Pennsylvania’s rejection of direct senatorial election and argues that state legislature selection favors political bosses over the people, warning about the practical consequences of changing to popular election.
Contemporary comment suggests Senator Louis E. McComas had no role in the naming. The Baltimore World mocks the claim as preposterous while the Cumberland News notes the ongoing, persistent search by Baltimoreans for a glimpse of a uniformed street cleaner and discusses possible convention endorsements for Bryan.
A garbled excerpt quotes Congress and destiny, attributed to the Baltimore American. The legible portion references phrases about hands around destiny on a platter and mentions pharma and nation in a distorted form.
The excerpt compiles humorous exchanges among characters and captions from periodicals. It features exaggerated banter about milk, water, hay, and imagined elopements, with brief interactions involving Miss Canatique Miss Fetlos and Miss Prettiface. The tone imitates light satire found in old newspapers.
Mrs Newell Dwight Hillis spoke to a women’s club on simplicity of living and anti extravagance. She contrasted modern woman’s burdens with New England examples of self sufficiency and leisure for reading. A guest story described a woman who cut servants from four to one and entertained simply at home.
Fragmented verse notes longing and unanswered questions about seeking comfort and signs from far places. It compares spring and autumn, dream and reality, with lines about waiting, fear, and a distant guidance. Poem excerpts appear from The Silence and Keep A-Goin style verses.
Special correspondence from Paris describes a city of wooden stalls along Boulevards Sebastopol and Saint Michel during the Jour de Vao. Shops offered toys, jewelry, printing setups, photography, and countless knickknacks while theatres and markets overflowed. The Rag Fait sparked gaiety with carrousels and a tiny infant merry-go-round. The famed La Villette abattoir operates with twenty courts and vast daily slaughter, observed by many women workers and conducted with crude methods. The wooden city vanishes after January 15, then returns as the fair moves between Versailles and Saint Denis before reappearing in Paris.
A visitor describes the abattoire complex with extensive docks and three pavilions covering temacros that can hold over five thousand cattle, six thousand hogs, and thirty two thousand sheep. The yards source livestock from Normandy, Anjou, Poitou, Isle of France, Champigne, Maine and Brittany, and sheep herding dogs actively manage the flocks in intricate aisles.
An expert butcher named Wn. T. Curry of Medford, Carro's county, dressed a steer at John Fohrman's near the Pennsylvania line in 19 minutes and 80 seconds. He claimed he could not work efficiently while the animal suffered and kicked, yet produced a notably good job and a large quantity of meat.
Eminent English actor Mr E. Willard appears at the Academy of Manio Ballimore in a repertoire program beginning Monday in The Optimist a translation of La Chatelaine. He also stars as Andre Jossan in a melodrama of romance and money fortune and love with frequent plot twists. Performances schedule includes The Middleman The Professor's Love Story The Cardinal David Garrick Tom Pinch with matinees on Wednesday and Saturday.
Four act realist melodrama by James M. Martin to be staged at City Opera House on Wednesday March 4. Production features strong heart interest, complex situations, and a company with special scenery and electromechanical effects. Also includes testimonial on Electric Bitters as a health tonic for women and general well being with endorsement from Lancanes, N. The ad promises high attendance and declares the play among season’s strongest attractions.
Public roads remain blocked by snow drifts and Rural Free Delivery mail runs were halved due to drifted routes. Local notables and families report illnesses including whooping cough and grip, with social events and farm plans noted, such as lime burning trials and orchard work in Mountaindale and nearby Daveville communities.
The Belles Lettres Literary Society met in the afternoon with President Hailing presiding. A program of recitations and a debate on the value of classical versus mathematical studies followed, ending in an affirmative win by 2 to 1.
Suffering residents near Mg Airy prepare to rebuild after a blaze. Byron Dance, Ray mond Bernes, W. B. Smith, and Mr. Bederi urge immediate action. The post office will be located there for the present. The incident warns of dangers from sparks, brakes, and burns. A. L. Pearre advertises remedies for burns and ulcers and promotes Victor Liver Syrup as aiding digestion with proper care.
News of the state reports several notable deaths including Brother Elliian aged 77 at Quin Rend Monastery and John A. Howard, veteran hotel man, aged 79 at Flintstone Allegany County. Annapolis glassworks resume, employing 41 glass blowers and 61 assistants. Miss Anos Morris Nelson burned to death near Bulmar. Ship Head Bacfon couple Charles Mullikin celebrated 44th anniversary. Mrs Margaret Pennington of Baltimore remarries Baltimore actor J Randolph Mordecai Jr. Havre de Grace electric dispute settled. new contract to fight Havre de Grace to be ratified. Cumberland fire damages Senator Wellington's kitchen. no injuries. Austro-Hungarian consul Charles A. Martin dies falling down elevator shaft in Baltimore.
Mrs Beulah Gilbert Strayer wife of Rev Paul M Strayer died yesterday in South Norwalk Ohio where he pastors a Congregational church. She was daughter of Jarrett N Gilbert of Baltimore taught elocution at Randolph Harrison and Western Maryland College before marriage four years ago. Survived by a two week old child. Also reported are the death of a two year old child of Roy Himes’ family from diphtheria in Canterville with burial at Lutheran cemetery Jefferson officiated by Rev Miller and the death of colored infant Roy I Hall aged 11 months from measles at 26 East Street with funeral by A T Rice & Sons and interment at Laboring Sons cemetery.
Larkins and Patterson present a two season colored musical comedy at the Oley Opera House. The show titled A Trip to the Jongles features 26 performers with bright dialogue catchy music and lively dancing. A special children’s matinee runs at 10 and 20 cents, evening seats 25 35 and 50 cents.
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