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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jan 24, 1891
Page
4
A fragmentary newspaper ad page lists vendors including G J Dol & Son Local, Robinson Parker & Co Local Finest Oysters, J H Gambrill's Roller Buckwheat, and Malaga Grapes in a miscellany of local notices.
Tus News announces a smaller eight page Saturday edition this year and offers a reduced subscription rate for monthly patrons who pay in advance. The old year and four month rates apply for in advance payments. arrears must be cleared at old credit rates before access to the advance yearly rate. February 1 deadline enforces the new 30 cent monthly rate.
Purely personal items list residents visiting friends in the city and returning home. Misses Bertie and Florence Lowe of Hagerstown die on a week's visit. Miss Katie Cook returned to Baltimore from a county visit. Several locals, including Miss Hattie Wilcoxon and Miss Shaeffer, are mentioned with hosts in the area. Local officials and residents such as Judge J A Lynch and Rev A J Gill return from duties. A funeral for Richard P. Johnson is noted for this afternoon with accompanying pallbearers named. Oysters offered at 30 cents a dozen at a local raw bar.
A fragmentary essay recalls Henry Clay receiving a broadcloth coat made in Frederick in 1944. The text notes the coat fit precisely and was made from American materials, reflects on Clay’s era and the Missouri Compromise, and ponders the private life behind the statesman’s public duties.
A meeting of the MLC U is scheduled for tomorrow evening at o'clock in their rooms on East Second Street. The notice also advertises the finest oysters in the city at 30 cents a dozen at the raw box of C. E. Hal 7s Greta House restaurant.
A committee meeting discussed arrangements for the entertainment of women delegates. The group plans to coordinate events during the university assembly, with focus on hospitality, schedules, and appropriate venues for the visiting delegates.
A jumble of local items covers social news, town happenings, church services and sick lists. The piece mentions upcoming bazaar plans, home improvements, piano factory talk, and varied personalities like Lewis Rice and Johnnie Reaver. It reports Rev Beale's pulpit duties, Young People meetings, and several illness updates.
In this lively note from a market column, prices surge as potatoes become scarce due to partial crop failures across Europe and the United States. The piece mixes satirical items about social events with a long, mock-epistolary letter and lists current prices for butter, meat, fruit, and fish, reflecting a bustling rural market scene.
A fragmented OCR item mentions a lane deletion action affecting three beets and related terms. No clear names, places, or dates readable. The fragment suggests a minor traffic or lane change note with technical terms and potential errors.
An accident at a curve on a road crossing led to two fatalities as a passing engine struck a crossing party. A coroner's inquest blamed lack of gates and warning as the cause, with the engineer exonerated. The victims were identified as Abeout and others. witnesses described the scene at the South Brookland crossing and the morgue proceedings. The report also covers the inquest, Conwell’s biography, and an assault in Westminster, Maryland.
Magistrate West yesterday committed Warner Gar ter colored of Petersville to jail for court on a bastardy charge. Constable Hightman of Barkittsville delivered the prisoner to Sheriff Gaver for custody.
The EB A Shriner Milling Company markets Self Rising Flour as the best for family use, claiming purity health benefits and superior performance for hot cakes. Available through all reputable dealers.
An escaped team in a mountain chase caused a wagon to be run off balance. Mr Coblentz avoided the wreck, guiding his horses to safety as the runaway plowed past, the wagon tongue breaking and a horse dying next morning. The incident, heard for miles, spooked the region.
A colored preacher, claiming Baptist ties, stays with Ephraim Mash and tries to organize services at a local church but is met with objection. He borrows money and heads toward Frederick to claim a trunk, then vanishes. Baltimore market reports, and a stray incident of a difficult colt in Mt. Pleasant ends with bystander aid.
Grecian shop Mulliniz and Kemp introduces Marsailes and Crochet Quilts plus Marsailes Crib Quilts described as the prettiest and cheapest shown in the city. Fine suspenders have been selling briskly. Act quickly to make a selection before it is too late.
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