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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1911
Page
4
The item reports stock quotations in New York as supplied by Motter Brothers & Co. The bulletin lists prevailing prices and movements for major securities, reflecting market activity and investor sentiment. Data include share values, daily changes, and notable movers across key exchanges.
Motter Bros. & Co. report noon prices for the Baltimore market on July 7 1911 across multiple listed issues including Georgia Alabama Houston Oil Con coal and related bonds. Notable values include Seaboard Air Line Seaboard Company United Railways and Western Maryland equities with varied yields and certificates.
Chicago grain market reports July Wheat at 88 percent. Sept Wheat 90 percent. Dec Wheat 93 percent. July Corn 63.14 percent. Sept Corn 64 percent.
Frederick County National Bank reports capital stock of 150000 dollars with surplus and profits totaling 165000 dollars. The figures reflect the bank's financial standing in its latest record.
An independent Frederick newspaper announces the July 7 1911 issue published by a Great Southern Printing and Manufacturing Company. It requests subscribers who do not receive their paper regularly to report the issue and notes sales locations including New City Hotel Buckey's Cigar Store S Market Street Central Restaurant F K Schmidt's Cigar Store W Patrick Street and Arlington Hotel.
The Frederick Railroad faced several days of service crippling mishaps. Officials announce a reserve boiler for the power house and urge public trust in dependable service while plans for a union power plant with Hagerstown and Frederick electric railroads proceed to reduce future cripples.
The nation notes a lower Fourth of July death rate due to safer celebrations and sane methods. The Baltimore Sun cites 21 deaths and 881 injuries this year versus higher counts last year, with calls for continued moderate enthusiasm and joy.
The article comments on extreme heat and the differing preparations in various regions. It urges readers to adapt housing, clothing, and business practices to cope and warns against risking health or efficiency. It promotes reading tomorrow for town, state, and national news and encourages visiting the local pauper when major issues arise.
Uncle Sam closes fiscal year with a surplus and notes 7 million dollars due on corporation tax. A 46 million dollar Canal expenditure appears not in the expense account. Ordinary receipts near 885 million, postal receipts push totals to about 1 billion. Cash balances exceed 10 million, with potential no new canal bonds this year unless Congress spends the surplus. Treasury would be 40 million richer once bond funds arrive.
The article argues that high summer heat and humidity reveal the need for better personal care and climate-aware living in America. It criticizes fixed ideas on attire and daily schedules, noting European practices like siestas and flexible hours as models for comfort, urging adaptation for healthier living.
A collage of old time quips and wry lines about death, bank closings, authors, dances, mock heirs, and a dying man with smallpox. The pieces hint at social woes, humor, and hardship across generations in a dated, fragmentary mood.
A verse warns residents to conserve water as drought bites. It urges shutting off hoses and sprinklers, warns of dying crops and thirsty residents, and recalls the mayor’s duty without extra spending. The poem playfully contemplates thirst and rain in a rural town.
An excerpt blends verse on reconciliation with a plea to end feuds before death. It contrasts forgiveness with the still face of a foe and urges peace before ultimate separation. The fragment references mortality, war, and the desire for harmony across time and memory.
Amid record heat the Weather Bureau promised a drop that failed to materialize. Thermometers soared with 102 degrees in the afternoon and 78 at midnight, streams ran low, ice scarce, and farmers cut milk shipments as pastures withered. A Denton Baptist minister urged prayer for rain while laborer John Dikes fell ill from the heat and needed medical aid.
Local notes recount a near fatal gun discharge when Gears Lakin of Yellow Springs narrowly escaped death as a weapon hung fire on his father’s porch. The item also mentions a envisioned large summer hotel on Frederick’s outskirts and a Lutheran church organization meeting at T. S. Albaugh’s to adopt a constitution with Walkersville members.
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