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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jan 11, 1908
Page
2
A quirky collection of kitchen tips and recipes. Mixed instructions describe puddings from chest kitchen lore, with notes on custard like fillings, sauces, and baking methods. Several lines offer household shortcuts such as cleaning brushes and preserving stockings.
Secretary of War William H. Taft addressed a New York audience hosted by the People’s Institute, outlining the interdependence of capital and labor. He urged that wealth properly used benefits workers while misused wealth harms them, supported unionism when it serves the common good, and warned against drastic measures harming wages and industry.
Professor Albert A. Michelson, Nobel laureate in Physics, is profiled with details of his birthplace Streino Germany born ISS and education at Humboldt institutions. The fragmented text traces his career path from the United States Naval Academy to the University of Berlin Heidelberg Polytechnique Clark University and ongoing faculty links.
A twelve story Parker building on Fourth Avenue between East 14th and 19th Streets burned after a massive five alarm fire. Fire authorities report that four firemen died at the scene and thirty were injured as floors collapsed and walls fell. Engine Company No. 72 and Patrol No. 3 lost men, with Captain Wilson and Captain Garvin among the seriously hurt. Early estimates put damages at $1.5 million as the blaze raged through Manhattan.
President Roosevelt tells callers Taft will be nominated on the first ballot at Chicago. He claims Taft’s early gains will sweep delegates from the West and some Midwestern units, with major support from New York and New England in a party convention battle.
Fragmentary text reports a man killing his blind son and fatally shooting himself at his wife’s grave, with unclear surrounding details. The snippet mentions names and locations in garbled form, suggesting a tragic homicide suicide tied to a grave visitation.
The Associated Building Trades with 37 affiliated unions shows 138,950 idle workers in Chicago, higher than a year ago. Teamsters report around 7,000 to 8,000 idle men, indicating broader shortages across trades.
Willard H. Myers walked into police headquarters in January and surrendered. He returned stock valued at 2000, part of 11000 in securities he fled with from the National Safe Deposit Saving and Trust in March 1904. He said the remaining 9000 was spent evading authorities after a long pursuit. Pinner Point paymaster killed by a train in Norfolk. Captain Robert Dew, paymaster for Southern Railway, was hit by a moving engine and four cars and died instantly. He lived at Port Norse and was the father of Mrs. John Witte of New York.
Victoria British Columbia Jag reports Admiral Baren VY Ito of the supreme naval council, who commanded the Japanese navy in the war with China, has been dismissed from service amid a scandal involving him and his wife at Yokosuka navy lands.
In fiuntingdon Pennsylvania Jon Livingston a track foreman for the Pennsylvania Railroad was found frozen to death after a companion stopped briefly to urinate at Ardenheim. The companion drove away, apparently unaware of Livingston’s plight, leaving him behind in the freezing conditions.
A January incident recounts Wilkes-Bar Rann of To TER and Alpaugh of Brown involved in a misfire when a revolver discharged. Investigators state the shooter did not realize the weapon was loaded and the event was accidental.
Prices furnished by Frederick County Farmers Exchang. January 11 1903. Lists for grains hay feeds and staples with per bushel and per ton rates. Notable items include Red clover seed 92 to 95 cents, corn 65 cents per bushel, oats 85 cents, timothy hay 16.00 to 19.00, wheat 5.60 to 8.50 per bushel, bran 36.60 per ton, middlings 32.50 per ton, cotton seed meal 33 per ton. Say you saw it to The News.
The Postal Progress league plans to introduce in Congress a bill uniting the first third and fourth class mail with a single 1 cent rate for two ounces or fraction thereof. The proposal argues savings for the public, potential revenue shifts, and broader use of mail as population and business grow, citing historical rate changes and England as precedent.
The bitter cold continues across the Adirondacks with heavy snowfall. Plattsburgh records three degrees below zero while Seramac Lake hits eighteen below. woods report about two feet of snow and open country roughly two feet. Upper Chateaugay and Lake Pin see significant subzero readings.
An advertisement extols Doan's Kidney Pills as a permanent cure for kidney and urinary disorders. A Frederick reader testifies that a child recovered from infancy, praising the pills and urging other parents to use them, noting availability from Setter-Milburn Co in Buffalo as U.S. agents.
Public sale of the estate of Elizabeth Hontzabn, deceased, by administrator Farn Textanjeno, per Orphans Court order dated June 2, 1903. Sale includes the east side of North Market Street near Third, Frederick City, 36 feet by 120 feet, fronting North Market Street. Auction set for Thursday January 30 1903 at 11 a.m. at City Hotel, Frederick County.
FIN LASPs sole agent for the celebrated B and A LAMPS. The only exclusive coton cut glass fine lamp house in Frederice. Large stock to select from and finest goods on the market.
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