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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jul 13, 1911
Page
6
The Maryland National Guard begins its biennial encampment near Frederick with tents pitched for ten days. Officials tout modern camp facilities, strict order and sanitation, and state pride as troops train and maneuver, promising gains in military readiness and a profitable, pleasant visit for the city and residents.
Shade trees are a valuable asset in residential areas and are especially appreciated during hot periods. They enhance beauty and property values, and the public should protect trees already growing in the city.
The article urges planting and preserving shade trees for beauty and long term value. It notes decades may pass to reach full foliage and calls local authorities to avoid removing the tree line during curb paving, seeking concessions to prevent sacrificing these trees and encouraging residents to invest in healthy trees for future returns.
The Pennsylvania Railroad launches a cost cutting experiment urging 123,000 east of Pittsburg and Buffalo employees to save at least 10 cents daily. By reducing waste in repairs, supplies, and stationery, the program aims to cut expenses and could boost hiring and wages, with broader lessons for U S employers.
A Baltimore News critique laments the suffrage quarrel as senseless meddling by a fool and urges end to the issue. Meanwhile a Baltimore American editorial warns pedestrians and drivers to heed grade crossing signals to prevent summer accidents. At Washington Square Methodist Church in Hagerstown the consecrated vote on venal conduct leads to mixed reactions and a lesson on conduct and propriety.
A Baltimore Star report discusses a New York entomologist finding a housefly with 100 000 bacteria on its sticky feet. It explains a single fertile fly could produce a nation of up to ten million offspring in five weeks, risking typhoid, infantile paralysis, and other diseases, underscoring why residents should swat flies day and night.
A collage of clipped jokes and witticisms from various papers. Light verses and puns touch on money, parrots, gooseberries, chauffeurs, algebra, and awkward social moments, reflecting humorous misreadings and misunderstandings amid early 20th century humor.
A fragment from a poem depicts a wan moon and pale stars as dawn rises behind the speaker. The speaker kneels before a roughly built altar of grey stones and green branches, vows to endure hunger and pain, renounce joy, and wear austere garb for warlike resolve. The tone mirrors old verse as the narrator confronts love, vows, and battles.
Witness Tartelsen and a doctors report a dangerous illness nearly killed a man. The patient received treatment at Georgetown and claims the remedy cured him completely. A free bottle offer is included with the claim of positive effects.
In Frederick a so called postal bank opens with a deposit of one quarter required to gain a story. the bank issues chrome certificates and targets local foreigners. Postmaster Hively and clerk J W Himbary assist as the public delays deposits, with three more deposits by afternoon and expectation of a busier evening.
New York stocks quotations show prices across multiple issues. The list includes Atchison Companies JUS Brook Abes and others with bid and ask figures and closing levels.
Corrected sale prices for many securities listed by Motter Bros. & Co Bankers and Brokers incl Anacostia & Potomac Chicago Ray Cotton Duck coal gas power and rail securities. Entries show multiple 5s and 4s issues with varying percentages and nominal values across utilities railroads and banks in a compact market update.
Mary E Walters aged 17 daughter of Chas B Walters appeared before Justice C J Eckstein on a charge of being incorrigible and beyond the control of her parents. She was committed to the Female House of Refuge in Baltimore. She was taken there this morning by Sheriff Win G Grimes.
Chicago grain market updates show July wheat at 88 and 80 cents, Sept wheat around 90 cents, with development around 84 percent. Corn futures steady near 66.5 with summarized bid figures and minor shifts in wheat and corn prices.
Fragmented relics recount events from Frederick twenty years past. A farm incident notes Mr. Punk’s property where a man killed a copperhead and found silk. a gas works incident left a man overcome by gas. a well cleaning at a factory spilled refuse. Frank Rhodes joins a lightning drum outfit. detectives detain youths returning home with guardians.
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