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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1894
Page
4
The Maryland National Guard encampment committee reports success in securing the site and appeals for financial aid from Frederick business leaders and residents. The News promises a reader friendly issue with stories on Revolution heroes, city paving, fashion, signal lights, and local culture to accompany the day’s coal and cereal news.
Excerpt discusses Ireland’s limited iron industries and the need to improve crafts. The Arts and Crafts Society of Ireland seeks to raise the craftsman's artistic level and aims to hold an Irish arts and crafts exhibition in Dublin during autumn 1895 to promote automatic workmanship across production.
A collage of letters and verse from Frederick readers notes a slow fishing season, promise of bicycle rides at six, and satire on urban cobbles. It records humor, health praise for cycling, a gun club cartridge anecdote, and poetic reflections on countryside life and old tunes.
A brief opinion piece notes a quirky mood of the times with no rain. It mentions slow progress on electric railways and offers a home remedy of camphor on a handkerchief for nasal relief when congested.
News of the churches notes holy communion and services across Oley and nearby towns. It mentions All Bass Episcopal Church, Reformed Church of the Inner stance in Emmitsburg, Walkersville United Brethren, Lime Kiln Methodist, German Baptist Church, and M E Church South with various times and sermon topics. The piece highlights summer Sunday school start times and events like the Trinity Epworth League and Father Beale’s preaching with paintings. It also lists clergymen from local parishes at the Episcopal Convention in Baltimore and notes observances for the Apostleship of Prayer at St John’s.
Several clerks at the Court House earned praise for mowing. Edward Bader displayed a large egg with a perfectly formed second egg inside. Cumberland seeks a public library, as does Frederick. Stores will close at 6 pm starting Monday, with Saturdays excepted. Early closing begins in Frederick from Monday to Sept 1. Mrs Hibarger of Brownsville picked an 8 inch circumference strawberry. Wm G. Baker of Buckeystown is valedictorian at Western Maryland College. Murray Brish and Tom Eisenhauer rode to Frederick in 31 minutes in drizzle. Cecelia Hendrickson, Frederick, trained nurse at Johns Hopkins. Water works chief Ty ergar has crews leveling banks for grass seed. Music dealers and store groups will close at 8 pm daily starting Monday. John M Grah of Bresthedvilis attends June 8 Paine anniversary in Pack Ridge. Emmitsburg fountain repaired and turned on first time this summer. Cumberland residents have raised nearly 800 dollars to send firemen to the Hagerstown event.
Ferdinand Wists of Cumberland is mentioned as a Democratic candidate for Congress in the sixth district in the Cumberland Independent this week, assuming McKaig does not seek re election. The Pittsburg Post announces a price change to one cent per copy or three dollars yearly and a six cent weekly delivery by Adr.
In Knoxviile a wedding planned for Jennie E Frame and George Pleasants at Mt Zion AME Church was postponed after the groom failed to appear. A telegram reported the groom’s accident, delaying the ceremony to June 12. Friends expressed sympathy for the bride and her family amid the disappointment.
News items from the state report deaths in Washington and Anne Arundel, population clubs rising in Montgomery, 700 Common wealths at Bladensburg, tax rise in Washington County, Epworth League convention at Easton, Confederate Memoirs Day planned, railway work continuing, school closing exercises at Western Maryland College, a relic ring found in Westminster, mine strikes and town politics in Allegany and Elkton, Boonsboro debates electric railroad aid, Nancy Jackson arrested in Talbot, hailstorm aftermath in Thurmont, Frederick Bicycle Club run to Ridgeville, and The Pittsburg Post price and ad copy notes.
The advertisement urges Paine's celery compound as a strength giver for stressed men and exhausted women. It claims to clear impure blood, nourish nerves, and steady bodily functions to prevent nervous prostration, with testimonials from Nathan W. Kennedy and others praising improved sleep, appetite, and overall health.
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