14 Jan 1884
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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jan 14, 1884
Page
1
A partial line from a periodical hints at a feature on meat offerings and a secure method for transferring funds. The text mentions a First-Class Family Journal and references a safe money transmission method. Further details are unreadable in the fragment.
A Hutchinson Kansas man credits a trial bottle of Dr King’s New Discovery for consumption with saving his life. He later bought a large bottle after doctors and climate changes failed. The ad claims cures for asthma bronchitis hoarseness and throat and lung issues and offers a free trial at Garrett Steele’s Drug Store.
An advertisement promotes Crosta Senna Fis fruit laxative made from sliced prunes figs cranberries and lemons with sugar powdered senna sulfur soda and aromatics. Endorsed by physicians, it claims to ease constipation and related ailments. The product is sold in twelve equal portions for 35 cents.
The Young Men's Bible Society marked its sixty third anniversary at the Evan Quatheran church with Rev. Killgore delivering the address. Afterward, a slate of directors for the year was elected, and a long report praised fundraising, distribution of Bibles and testaments, and the work of the county colporter, urging further donations to close a small deficit and expand outreach.
John F A Fox prominent restaurateur died at his South Market street residence this morning at about 6 15 from heart failure. Aged about 31 he began as a clerk at the Gem Restaurant in 1871 later joined Marmon and Fox on South Market street. He was a member of the Independent Fire Company and left a wife. Funeral at Mt Olivet Cemetery tomorrow at 3 PM.
In Dorndorff Saxony an ancient bronze communion service, likely five centuries old and dating to before the Reformation, was shown at a Lutheran service. The relic, worn gold plated and now owned by Rev. Geo Zacharias, honors the village’s Lutheran heritage and its former Protestant congregation. A separate store incident follows where a young man unknowingly buys a coat with a stolen pocket book, paying twenty dollars for a ten dollar item.
A list of letters remaining in the Frederick City Post Office on Saturday January 12 1884 with instructions to call for advertised letters. Unclaimed items within one month are to be sent to the dead letter office. Names include Mrs T F Jackson Miss Annie Adams Mrs Rebecca Brighton Miss Clara Lightner Julia Buckes Miss Rose G Brown Miss Ida Ceasar Mrs Estelle Ogleton Mrs EB Carter Miss Alice Richards Mrs Nettie Diggs Mrs Mary Strailman Miss May Wachter Miss Annie Hillman Miss Emma Johnson Miss Mollie Warner and many others among ladies and gentlemen.
A Roanoke meeting adopted a resolution to invite the Valley Railroad to connect with the Norfolk and Western at Roanoke. A committee will visit Baltimore to discuss the link and a second committee will invite the national foundry site committee to Roanoke to review ordnance manufacture facilities. Prominent Northern capitalists invested in Roanoke joined both committees.
A fragmented sentence references Croft and Steiner Bret and a tie by someone named Steiner. Details are unreadable, leaving unclear event, date, or competition context.
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