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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1894
Page
2
The Daily News and Weekly News describe subscription rates and delivery options for the periodical. They advertise the World’s Fair Art Portfolio offered by The News as an official, complete panorama of the Columbian Exposition with six by eight inch photographs and accompanying text.
A column notes the Corbett-Mitchell fight stalls and tensions rise as Cole and Willis edge toward confrontation. It also wryly comments on social manners, women’s education at Harvard, and a Louisiana parish farmers’ push for strict economy to reach debt freedom.
Public opinion notes urge slower eating to aid digestion as stomach temperature sits near 96 degrees for proper digestion. Reports mention proposed Eastern Shore Insane Asylum likely to be raised before Maryland General Assembly. A Paris jury condemns two colored paupers as insane, prompting emphasis on jail placement due to full State Hospital capacity. Maryland counties seek immigration to aid settlement and uplift regional prospects.
A manuscript from the New York Ledger argues Aune Arundel county has untapped land enough for 2,000 families and that railways, waterways, and willing large landowners could draw settlers with affordable small farms. It urges a local intelligent commission to craft plans to attract newcomers, noting cash-free purchase possible with property improvement.
A jumble of local excerpts includes a Paris Reform League note complaining about postal service, a weather prophets jab, a rent dispute with clubs and hot water, and remarks by professors and columnists. Additional items reference Brunswick's incorporation and tax plans, climate comparisons, a Middletown joke about a wife keeping a demijohn in the cellar, and various letters from readers and editors.
Fragment from a dated verse piece reflecting on eyes, love, and memory. The narrator cites Gwen as a muse, praises eyes as constant yet changing, and laments time eroding happiness while recalling a lost dream and a deep personal loss. Poem closes with signature Fanni Forzes.
A church work convention at St. John's Reformed Church Woodsboro on January 16 17 18 featured sessions on church duties officers youth literature catechism and missions. The meetings inspired many and led to the formation of the Frederick County Ministerial Association chaired by Dr E R Eschbach with Rev A Conner as secretary and plans for bi monthly gatherings.
The News promotes daily coupons to obtain parts of the World’s Fair Art Portfolio. Three coupons plus a small payment grant a portfolio segment, with two parts delivered weekly on Saturdays if orders arrive by Wednesday. Mail orders need extra postage. A bound volume is offered for six fifty, including a year of The Daily News.
Miss Sallie Whalen died this morning at 2 in her family home on Essi Patrick Street after a long illness. The funeral is Thursday at 2 p.m. with interment at Olivet Cemetery. William Henry Maskell, aged 18, died in Baltimore January 21 1904. His funeral will be from his residence at 219 North Fallon Avenue Wednesday at 10 a.m.
Charles E. Delaughter of Wolfsville and Miss Sarah Hartle of Leitersburg were married on the 15th at Zion Reformed Church Ha gerstown by Rev J Spander Kiefer D D The notice ends with an advertisement for Hood's Sarsaparilla claiming reliability and cures.
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