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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1943
Page
4
This item appears as a damaged public notice from Fredericton with offhanded lines about newspaper distribution and local office filing. It includes stray fragments like dates and locations but lacks complete context or actionable details.
Voters in Frederick face two acts from the Maryland General Assembly on the Sunday observance issue. The measures would legalize motion pictures and commercial activities with specific hours, inviting arguments on tradition versus liberalization and spiritual values for the city’s families.
A reader argues against proposed June referendum changes to allow Sunday mercantile activity in Frederick. The letter warns desecrating the Sabbath would alter the community’s character and jeopardize youth with wider moral decline, urging readers to vote against the amendments.
A letter to the editor from Adamstown reflects on a Promist with a master mind insight. The minister urges the city’s voters to consider Sunday bills and a duty to act, invoking religious phrasing and concerns about guidance.
A war era tale of a Great Prince and his stamp collecting rivaling the speed of a Stratu liner. An ex-ambassador postman carries a stamp charged letter to Muscovy and returns with a reply that enriches the Great Prince's album.
A June 2 letter from Rev Morgan W Andreas of Adamstown appeals Frederick City readers to vote against open Sunday activities. The editor laments moral decay and stresses church guidance, urging elders to influence the vote. The piece links Sabbath keeping to civic safety amid war times.
In a letter N A Lufburrow criticizes week by week tax debates as endless, insisting rates must be set soon. The column notes no progress after months of rhetoric. Separately, Miss Ruth W Gale returns home to Clarke Place after teaching in Williamsburg Pennsylvania for the past year.
The column notes Brunswick railroad offers free stone for street work if broken by the corporation. Cherry crop forecast poor. John Hershberger receives a new delivery wagon with a gong on its rear axle. One hundred shares of Farmers and Mechanics National Bank sold at the City Hotel for 32.40 to 34.00. Seven carloads of bridge iron unloaded for Potomac bridge with about 18 more to follow. Bridge to be 12 feet higher than old piers with 18 iron trusses two to a pier.
Local notes report Ernest W. Brindle of Wesborn Pa ordained to the ministry in the Testu Reformed church at Adams town and installed as pastor of Manor charge. A severe fire on a farm near Adamstown destroyed a large bank barn hay shed and cattle, with losses around 8 dollars. Fire also damaged a house on East Fifth street and a wildfire swept 300 to 400 acres in the Catoctin Mountains near Thurmont.
War analysis notes Italian fleet largely silent as British and American air power dominate the Mediterranean. It argues Mussolini may hide in base shells and that only a few ships could be risked, while Allied bombers threaten Spezia and Leghorn. Admiral Cunningham's forces maintain control of crucial sea lanes.
Earl L. Douglass argues reputation is hard to shake whether bad or good. Public opinion misjudges sinners and saints, while most people harbor both faults and capacity for good. The piece urges temperance, careful speech, and steady growth to merit a lasting, true estimate.
A reflective verse excerpt contrasts peace in the Lord with self-critique. It discusses fault-finding in others and urges inward scrutiny, citing Zephaniah 1:7 and a Gay quotation about sight and blemish. The tone is devotional and moralizing.
Washington dispatch critiques how government actions during the coal mine dispute bolster John L Lewis and his miners. It argues the War Labor Board limits bargaining, while the administration mishandles authority by seeking to order work without a law, urging Congress to pass a no strike law to end interruptions.
Dr Thomas D Masters explains that in children a sore throat may start with vague indisposition fever or nausea rather than a throat pain. He notes neck lymph glands swelling and describes infection origins and treatment including rest salt mouthwash and possible sulfonamides. Navy trade-school completion figure included.
A compact digest lists anniversaries of notable figures born or died in the 18th and 19th centuries including Jeremy Belknap Regis Denis de Trobriand Eckley B Coxe Robert Fitzsimmons and others with dates of death. It also records historical events from 1812 to 1942 and birth notes for Dr James P Leake Fountaine Fox Jr George W McCoy Frank N Buchman Nora Wain and William J Patterson with ages.
Today's natives will be active and strong, but crafty and restless with a wandering tendency. Those born in the night-time will have better chances of success as the sun is out of the way and the major planet aspects influence outcomes.
A series of trivia styled Q and A covers bridge honors in trump, German dam breaches, lacrosse cradling motion, a Japanese submarine attack labeled limitless savagery, and chlorine gas produced when electricity passes through salt water.
Acclamation is defined as a shout of approbation and loud applause. The note highlights correct uses and common mispronunciations and offers guidance for expanding vocabulary daily. Franklin W. Widmann of Frederick graduated from Drexel Institute with high scholastic standing.
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