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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1901
Page
4
The piece blends notes on lunar phases, political discourse, Virginia budget talks, a canal decline, and military mule use. It quotes a demand for openness amid the Bobley inquiry, praises a public fountain gift, and muses on art, virtue, and inspiration in a local Maryland exchange.
A short note reflects on honoring memory and the passage of time as a work concludes after three days to let posterity admire and ages revere the effort before rest and renewal.
Contemporaries in Baltimore newspapers debate Admiral Schley and Admiral Cervera during the Spanish American War. Commentators praise or question leadership, with mentions of historians Maclay and Sydney Mudd, and discussions of potential testimony by Cervera in the Schley court of inquiry.
A collage of humorous quips about writing and fame from newspapers and cartoons. Jests touch on writers earning a living, editors and humor departments, and barber gags with playful wordplay from Punch style humor and theatrical banter.
The Chicago Record Horald reviews patronage in Congress as spoils distributed by dominant statemakers and praises legal punishment. The Chicago Chronicle supports Italian government pursuit of lynching investigations, stressing trials by law and indemnity for victims’ families while condemning mob violence.
Officers of the Grand Commandery of Maryland and a large Maryland delegation will depart Saturday, August 24, for the twenty-eighth triennial Knights Templar Conclave in Louisville, Kentucky, August 27 to 30. More than 20,000 Knights are expected with many accompanying families. a special Baltimore and Ohio line train will carry delegates to the Louisville Hotel, the Maryland group’s main HQ. Side excursions to Mammoth Cave and the Buffalo Exhibition are planned.
A fragment from a Philadelphia Press poem about Helen in mythic imagery contrasts with a grieving speaker in Chicago Record-Herald. The verse passages describe Helen’s hair eyes and lips as ideals, then shift to a bereaved parent recalling a dead child, keeping memory and a child’s prayer central to the elegy.
A Virginia Constitutional Convention member quoted a novel suffrage plan attributed to a Harrisonburg woman. It would tax men 35 to 60 for education and voting rights, require reading the state constitution and $100 real estate or bonds, and extend voting to wives using marital property. Exemptions for wartime servicemen and their sons would end in 1927. The plan also taxes superfluities to fund elections.
Joseph A. Bingham, famed as the laziest man in Connecticut, is dead at age fifty after a lifetime of relying on wealth and charity. He reportedly refused basic tasks, and after finally seeing his reflection, he walked into an oncoming train. A second portion notes calamities in India and promotes Heistetter's Stomach Binders as a medicine for digestive ailments.
Maryland State Live Stock Sanitary Board and the veterinary board monitor anthrax conditions in Delaware. No current cases in Maryland. concern centers on Kent County Delaware where the disease is spreading. Experts explain transmission, human risk, and the limits of prevention through vaccination and hygiene measures.
A trust combining the largest trap rock lime and sandstone interests along the Pennsylvania Reading and Baltimore & Ohio rail corridors is nearly set. A new company with 5 million dollars capital will take over the quarries, consolidate sales, and supply concrete foundation markets. John W Boilean spearheads the scheme and plans to issue cash payments or stock to owners. The consolidating firm will adopt a charter and expand its capital to fit the takeover.
James Starr arrested by Officer Simpson on assault and battery. Starr waived hearing, held in 31 by Justice Smith awaiting grand jury action. Richard Dane arrested by Officer Crouse on disorderly conduct, jailed 2 days for default of fine of 0.
The funeral for Jacob Hartman was held at 9 o clock this morning from St John’s Catholic Church with Rev Father Coleman officiating. Pallbearers were Joseph F Lisenbauer Elmer Stup George I Wilson John Geitner Henry Dole and Peter Haydock. Interment followed at St John’s cemetery. Carty was the funeral director. So be operated upon. Dr William G McGomas will take Mrs Charles B Gaver to Hannemann Hospital Philadelphia for an operation this morning.
Mr and Mrs H W Suill and their daughters and several neighbors are noted in county correspondence. James Ogle of Rocky Ridge is mentioned. Charles Delaplane mourns a horse death. Wells and Welty hosted visitors from Lewistown and Thurmont. Local visits include Roddy and Woodsboro travelers sharing time with Trout residents.
A distillery project is reportedly being organized at OComus in Montgomery County with a syndicate of New York and Washington capitalists prepared to finance the construction. Work on buildings may start soon as discussions proceed. Public sale scheduled in Fredericks on August 6 1901 at 10 o'clock a m features household goods including wardrobes bedroom suites walnut extension table chairs stove refrigerator carpet and more. Cash terms.
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