The Frederick News Semi Weekly Adopts 1 Dollar Year Rate
The Independent Frederick line announces The Semi-Weekly News published twice weekly, mailed nationally at 1.00 per year in advance. It invites club subscriptions and cash accompany orders, notes post office entry as second class mail, and requests subscribers report missed issues to improve service.
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Frederick
United States
Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Exchange
Frederick News
Air Rifles Must Go City Ordinance Targeting Air Gun Use
At a city board meeting officials moved to draft an ordinance banning shooting air guns and cat rifles within the city limits. Residents complain of annual disturbances from youths firing at birds and risking bystanders. Enforcement and clear provisions urged to make the rule effective. The note mentions broader postal and telegraph themes as context.
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Board of Aldermen
Frederick
Government ownership of telegraphs studied by others
The piece notes Wanamaker’s past advocacy and contrasts it with current policy. It states the administration will not support Hitchcock’s proposal and Congress is unlikely to act now. The aim is to spark public consideration and scrutiny of government ownership of telegraphs in other countries.
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Fostmaster
Hitchtock Ierailxs
Post Ofice Department
Europe
John Wanamaker
Hitchcock
Congress
Baltimore
Dr. Wiley
Washington
Baltimore Evening Sun
Press Opinion on Living Costs and Capital Punishment
The Philadelphia Record argues excess food supply keeps living costs down while farm labor shifts to machinery. It critiques capital punishment as barbaric yet notes murder risks and social reactions to death penalties. It also cites St Paul Pioneer Press on the lack of men teachers and the pay gap deterring male educators.
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St. Paul Pioneer Press
Wreck on the Illinois Central Claims Four in Wooden Car
Report from the Baltimore Sun notes a collision on the Illinois Central line. The single wooden car carried four railroad officials who were killed in the wreck. The article details the fatality count and location surrounding the incident.
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iNinas Central
Baltimore Sun
Iinois Central
Steel-Car Advancements Prompt Railroads to Test All-Steel Design
A Baltimore News summary notes the steel car’s greater resistance to collision, with the wooden car reduced to kindling while the Pullman ahead endures. Railroads increasingly adopt steel cars, and authorities urge testing to confirm the all-steel model’s safety benefits. Government timing on all-steel adoption remains debated amid calls for practical trials.
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Baltimore News
Quotes on criticism and imagination in newspaper chatter
A collage of quotes from major papers on how writers face criticism and audience needs. Notable lines note Dreiser on criticism and a theatre lobby quip about a critic’s sharp remark to a playwright. It reflects mid century discussions of literary taste and public reception.
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Theodore Dreiser
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Tuscarora in the Valley of Yesterday Dreams
An evocative poem recalls Tuscarora and the past, with imagery of whitewashed walls, Indian maidens, wigwams, and Conestoga waits, while a later vision shifts to McClellan’s army moving toward Sharpsburg under a fading western horizon in the national march.
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Catoctine
Prind
Fire destroys Etzler barn on Liberty turnpike farm
Fire last night consumed the large barn on the Etzler farm along the Liberty turnpike two miles east of Mt Pleasant. Origin not known. about $2,500 damage covered by insurance. Six horses saved by neighbors as part of the stock burned. dairy and machinery also lost. Authorities note possible arson or accidental origin. Alaska lecture to follow by Miss Emma R. Steiner at College Hall. Police Justice Harry Hull applies for appointment as local magistrate.
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John H. Etzler
Liberty Turnpike
Mt. Pleasant
Alvey H. Etzler
George Nusbaum
Walter Wentzel
Etzgler
Alaska
Frederick
New York Stocks Quotations Reported For Motter Bros Co
Stocks in New York showed quotations for Motter Bros & Co with trading activity noted. Market activity and price movement details are limited in the fragment, but the entry records a contemporaneous financial quotation for the company.
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Suitahea
Motter Bros. & Co
Gist
Moser's
North Market
Baltimore Markets and Transport Stocks Snapshot
Prices of fats and various railroad and bank shares listed through noon today. Commodities include Cotton Duck and coal values at Sparrows Point, Seaboard lines, United Railways certificates, Continental Crust assets, and Mercantile Trust deposits. Names of companies include Maryland Electric Railway and Western Maryland, with Anacostia and Potomac and Citizens Bank prominent in the listings.
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Anacostia
Potomac
Norf
Portmouth
United
United Rys
Western Maryland
MD. Trust
Anacostia & Potomac
Citizens
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Mercantile Trust
Chicago Railways
Chicago Grain Market Briefs Show May and July Wheat and Corn Quotes
The Chicago grain page lists May Wheat at 10134 to 102% with 1013 1019 figures and July Wheat around 95% to 9555. May Corn trades near 167% with 67% 66% 6734 and July Corn around 66% to 6714. Market quotes reflect fluctuating prices in a compact session summary.
Twenty Years Ago Today in Frederick
Local items from one column of the News dated January 25 reveal stockholders of the Hyleu Company elected officers Lewy Harnett FeNdaAley Cop Trail Metter Smith De Dequay Underk at Cumberland Stalls. Frederick College held a meeting to draft a constitution for graduates with Sakeen chairman and several named attendees.
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Metter
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Poederick College
Aoseourden
Br Fol
Sakeen
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M. Rass. Weind S. Bieherberges
PAL
Henry BR. Steiner
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