Silver lantern contest nets nearly four hundred at Bruns wick fair
Brief notes from the Bruns wick Catholic fair report a nearly four hundred dollar result for a silver lantern contest. Other items note British army births by region, a Hagerstown official’s travel limits, the Chinese Encyclopedia holdings, ex Secretary Tracy’s cost of cabinet life, urban behavior warnings, upcoming meetings, a pink cactus with many blooms, an West Virginia National Guards encampment, and a moon replacing street lights. A boy’s high school graduation in Thurmont, a Sophomore elocution contest at Western Maryland College, and rapid transit fatalities are mentioned along with local market hearsay and a proposed Chambersburg bicycl e meet. A three year old horse belonging to Beverly Buxton was killed jumping a fence.
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Brunswick
England
Scotland
Ireland
Hagerstown
Hancock
Wolfs le
West Virginia National Guards
Martinsburg
Milburn
Tom Reed
Thurmont
Mae G. Shck
Western Maryland College
Westminster
Zingeralla
Georgia W. Strayer
Bucheystown
Frederick County
Potomac
Lightning's Deadly Work on Frederick Storm
A severe afternoon storm with vivid lightning struck near Seventh Street, instantly killing Addison Barry, a Brunswick railroad worker. The fatal strike occurred on the Poesumtown Pike while Barry walked home, his clothing burned and his watch stopped at 5:36. Undertaker F Schroeder prepared the body for burial as the storm damaged nearby property and slightly affected Ephraim Eyler at a West Patrick Street bottling plant.
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Seventh Street
Barry
Brunswick
Wm. Horner
Wble
Lifetesa
Ephraim Eyler
Eyler
Wm. Worman
Frederick
Chas. Hahn
North Market Street
Market Street
Commencement and Closing Exercises in Various Institutions
Notices announce commencement or closing exercises at Frederick Academy St Johns College Female and Male High schools and Academy of Visitation B V M with dates and venues including City Opera House. A jail break attempt by inmates at Penn Indiana used a rubber hose and heated water to breach a wall but was halted before escape.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frederick Academy
St John’s College
City Opera House
Academy of Visitation, B. V. M
Penn
Ind
The Fruit Market Slashes Prices on Fresh Berries
The small fruit market shows an abundant morning supply with cherries at 6 to 8 cents per quart and strawberries at 10 cents. Gooseberries cost 5 cents, currants 6 to 12, raspberries 8 to 10, mulberries 5, while bananas lemons oranges and pineapples are plentiful though green apples of June are not yet available.
Coxey's March to Washington song released in South Bend
The Happy Home Publishing Co. of South Bend Indiana issues Coxey's March to Washington as popular sheet music. The words are apt and the music catchy and of high order, and the sheet music is for sale at local music stores.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Coxey
Washington
Happy Home Publishing Co
South Bend
Ind
Stranger Falls Into Cellar on West Patrick Street
A man resembling a tramp and possibly intoxicated tumbled into a cellar on West Patrick Street between 2 square corner and City Hotel yesterday afternoon. Nearby residents aided him and he was eventually brought out with no serious injuries reported.
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McGinty
West Patrick Street
2 Square Corner
City Hotel
California Fig Syrup Co Laxative Ad
The ladies may safely use the Syrup of Figs under all conditions and regard it as their favorite remedy. To get the true article, look for the name of the Califor nia Fig Syrup Co printed near the bottom of the package.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
California
California Fig Syrup Co
Insect Threat Affects Carroll Wheat Crop News
Carroll County reader Eddie J Sawyer sent wheat pests to Washington entomologist. The common grab plant louse is blamed on wet spring conditions. dry weather may suppress it. Ahn pages 348 to 355 in 1889 report cover wheat plant disease and leation. Isaac Forrest reports hail damage near Stone Chapel. new shoots and potential harvest by mid July. Lunatic pauper Virginia Gardner of Sandy Ville confined to Maryland Hospital for the Insane by order of Judge Roberts. John Wilson of Middleburg dies at about seventy.
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Carroll Coesty
Eddie J. Sawyer
Carroll County
Agricultural Department
Washington
Son
Isaac Forrest
Stone Chapel
Forrest
Jury de Lunatico Inquirendo
Virginia Gardner
Sandy Ville
Roberts
Maryland Hospital
John Wilson
Middleburg
Work of Death Claims Mrs Riefsnider and Danner
Obituaries report the deaths of Mrs Honoria Elizabeth Riefsnider aged 77 at her East Patrick Street home after a paralytic stroke, and Mrs Martha Danner widow of Joseph Danner, aged 92 years 2 months 8 days, at her son-in-law Samuel Gamble’s house near Emmitsburg. Riefsnider leaves six children and multiple relatives. Danner had nine children with seventeen grandchildren and seventeen great grandchildren, with funeral services held at Emmitsburg Presbyterian Church.
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Riefsnider
East Patrick Street
Honoria Elizabeth Riefanider
Afra. Riefauider
Kitzmiller
Pennsylvania
Martha Danner
Joseph Danner
Samuel Gamble
Morelands Town
Exitillsburg
Danner
Moritz's
Freedom Township
Adame County
John Agnew
Emmitsburg
Tas
David Gamble
Bince
Emma
James Agnew
Charles Bingham
D. ©. Danner
Mount Hook
Putnam Danner
Shenandoah
Town
J. W. Danner
Dallas
Renae
Harry K. Danner
York
Wim. Simonton
D. D
Presbyterian Burying
Remarkable adiposity of Mount Eagle resident dies
Squire J. Irvin Bimmer of Hagerstown received word of the death of his cousin J. B. Leathers a notable Mount Eagle Pa citizen famed for extreme weight. Leathers weighed over 300 pounds yet served a busy life. His mother weighed 550 pounds and his father over 300 pounds. The coffin was so large it could not fit in the house and the grave sides caved in. The family traveled in a tandem carriage built for them.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Squire J. Irvin Bimmer
Hagerstoen
J. B. Leathers
Mount Eagle
Wheat sample and grain count by Mr J B Phleeger
Feagaville resident J B Phleeger presented four acres of wheat with five inch heads and an average of about 33 grains per head at the local office this morning. The note ends with an advertisement claim for Hood's cures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J.B. Phleeger
Feagaville
County Notes on Visits and School Exercises Across Town
County correspondence details visitors from Virginia City and Washington to local families, church events, and the closing exercises of Fair View Seminary with medals and diplomas. Utica hosts a vivid Children’s Day program with baptisms, readings, songs, and a pastor’s address celebrating the children’s role in church and nation.
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Nettle Tighman
Baltimore
Fair View
Marion Jones
Claude Allontt
Missea Iden
Pindell
Allontt
Hich
Miss White
Saint Story
Cora Pindell
Waters
Jones
Emerson
Jesus Aay
B. Perry
Virgie Broome
Leo Hunter
Laraner Mannakee
Rondo
L. Waters
L. Dalton
F. Wiliams
Mugic
Ballard W. Morris
Home Sweet Home
Local notes and projects brighten Frederick area news
Frederick region items report progress on a dancing pavilion and observatory atop Catoctin mountain by Smith and Kefauver, with contractor G W Perry starting work. Other notes cover repairs by Charles A Poole, poultry yields by Edward Mercer, cantaloupe planting by W C Kauffman, harvest hopes, and a local wedding at Pure Delight. Plus school duties, memorial stone, religious events, and an upcoming New York excursion fare.
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Jerusalem
Juse
G. W. Perry
Braddock
Catoctin Mountain
Smith & Kefauver
Frederick Courty
Pen-Mar
Perryn
Charles A. Poole
Frederick City
T. McCleary Wiles
Edward Mercer
Wiliam C. Kauffman
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Blaise Pascal
Dorn
Nathaniel Greene
Malverry Grove
Richard Henry Lee
Gig
John Banks
Royal Society
HC. Spurgeon
City
Mexico
Viemits
Bertie
Alahbama
Cherbourg
Frances
Othar
Queretaro
Isz
Auguste
Charles Hobart
Hubert Pasha
Milan
New York
Tam Zum Tum
Secial
Washineton, D.C
M. W. Hamerneton
Weather Bureau
Stat Fame
Drews
New Prompt
Bella
D. EL Best
Gentral Wat’s Bank
Wetual Aid Society
Tracy
Committee On
Board of Aldermen
E. L. Nust
East Third Street
Chambersburg
Carlisle
Harrigburg
Boree
Beverly Buxton
Catoctin
Nace
Buxton
Hood
Dawsony, Mle
H.C. Ut
Land Office
Annapolis
D. H. Dawson
Virginia City
Seneca
J. B. Byrd
Margaret Rawlins
Darnestown
Brown
Washington, D. C
Eviyn Dawnon
Bristly Seminary
Poolesville
Utica
JCNE
William Miller
Sandsy School
Elsie K. Snook
Charles Ramsburg
Hench
Roy Sheeley
Katie Harper
Jesus Is Love
Hattie Gaver
Glory Girls
Mattie Axper
Carle Messel
Mary Isanogle
Paris
M. Warrenfeltz
RL. Beach
Ells
Jesus
Peter Biser
Harry Lambert
Shriner Milling
Robert T. Danner
Jeresville
Father
Servier Milling CO
Ludice
Misa Virgie Palmer
Grace Palmer
Pica
William A. Brown
William C. Kaaffman
T. McCleary
Rocky Ride
Effie Miller
State Normal School
Rocky Ridge
Wm. H. Hoke
Susan Crise
Geo. W. Barrick
God's Acre
Barb
EK. Yaod
Jane
Rocky Hidge
Wyand
James Smith
Woodsboro
Charles and
Ross
Barracke
Setbel
Jone
Biser
Bethel Lutheran Church
M. Hey
J. A. Asper
St. Paul's Missionary Society
Pleasant Hill
Mary O. Rice
Messrs
Homer and
Baker
Joseph Ranke
Point OF Rocks
Tom Compher
Elmer
Page
Eklcfol
Colbert
Beasie Diggs
Loudoun County
W. E. Mercier
Daisie Mercier
Baltimore City
Cora Culler
Emma Hargett
Roy Culler
Florida
St RicCardell's
B &O.B.R Co
Mulliniz & Kemp
Gale
Moiour & Kauc
SC. Lisle
F. W
Kodiak Island
Chileat
Minnis
Nova Scotia
Matchison
Prince Edward Island
Strobridge
Baltimore Mutual Aid Society
Bir
Rebecca Zedrick
Horr
J. A. Tyson
East Pathrick Street
Rambler
Railing Grocery Co's
N. Market
James E. Walker & CO
E. Walker & CO
Tameseb
Walker & CO
Rodooe
Eid
Jrovocr
Neidig
Feda
Jon
Tay
Ton
Bodoce & Neidig
A. T. Rice & Bons
A. T. Rice & Sora
Harley L. Harley
Rechart Llu
Zechant Ailor
R. L. Harley
NO. 15
South Market St. FreDeRick
John A. Kennedy
NEW Spring Goods
W. C. Eldridge
Jobn A. Kennedy
Market SP
W. G. Eldridge
ECRU
Wow. C
B. BH. Blageston
Cell
Evers
B. H. Biaczston
N. Market Street
W. 8. Miller & CO
Misrco
P. A. Pylars City Coal
Amr
Cumberland
Baltimore Vein
Syren
Valle
George's
Orrer
A. Fm Shriner
WM. S. Miller
Offee
East
Patrick Street
Water Street Depot
JOB Printing Office
Alu Bing
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