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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1916
Page
4
The Frederick news announces subscription rates for the Semi Weekly News and Daily News with mail options. It lists the publishing details and office locations in Brunswick and Frederick, Maryland, including sale points and contact numbers. May 28 1916 is the issue date.
The creed asserts journalism as a public trust with duties of accuracy fairness and independence. It demands clear thinking, truth, and a refusal of bribery, while upholding responsibility to readers, patriotism, and universal human dignity in serving today’s world.
The piece reflects on militia mobilization for border service, noting enthusiasm but also sober risks. It highlights married soldiers, families dependent on them, and the tension between youth’s craving for adventure and the dangers of desert campaigns under a lawless enemy.
A reflective essay contrasts American youth venturing across states with a civic duty view of journalism. It cites Don C. Seitz urging small papers to clean up abuses by printing facts persistently, and argues that the press, in daily “light,” informs public policy, business, and civic betterment while upholding public confidence.
A period editorial warns of rising tension as American troops move in Mexico. It cautions leaders on both sides to avoid rash actions that could spark a war and notes that discipline and caution are essential on scouting missions amid fragile peace rules.
Twenty years ago today in Frederick the Frederick College finished its ninety ninth year with exercises. The program listed names of students and directors, Lee Hanshew directed the Frederick Select Orchestra, and professors and reverends appeared on stage. The enumerated details include tax rate at 87 cents per hundred dollars and the first Frederick and Middetown Electric Railroad consignment expected mid month.
G H Knode, former Freder ick resident, argues that industrial readiness is vital alongside military prep. He cites Westinghouse in Pittsburgh turning out shells for Britain, plus over four million dollars monthly in electrical output. He notes plants could switch to war production in two months and urges government use of these facilities.
Miss Nick Tabitha Yingling of Adamstown to Morgan Lee Trail, high school graduate. Yingling, a noted musician and granddaughter of the late L. G. King, with July wedding planned. War hastens wedding as Lieut J Clarence Lane wed Sophia Forrest in Hagerstown at St John’s Church.
Gordon Bready, driving a Virginia tagged car, was slightly injured when his auto overturned on Braddock pike and caught fire. He was taken to City Hospital with a fractured wrist. Dr. Ira J. McCurdy attended him. The vehicle was damaged badly and sent to Ideal Garage for repairs. Bready left the hospital this morning, and he is deemed lucky to survive.
The county commissioners awarded contracts for three months to várias suppliers including N. OM. Zentz for flour and feed, George T. Phebus for hides and tallow, David Cramer for beef cattle, Jacob Notnagle for meat for jail, Hybera Ice and Coal Co. for jail coal, Isanogle and Shafer for hard coal, FL V Stauh for soft coal, Putman Miller Co. for tobacco, B. Rosenour and Sons for groceries, and John P. Hendrickson for shoes, with C. Thomas Kemp handling dry goods. Also noted are Messrs E. Princeton Clemson and Bernard Weaver from Walkersville spending a few weeks at Atlantic City.
Six years after a Frederick man praised Doan's Kidney Pills for frequent painful kidney secretions he reaffirmed their benefit. John T. Webster says the remedy, bought at Harner's Drug Store, relieved pain from the start and continues to prove its value. FosterMilburn Co. Buffalo, N.
The Woman's Missionary Society held a regular meeting at Grace Reformed Church yesterday afternoon in the Sunday school room. Mrs Elmer Ivon led a program including music, responsive reading, prayer, and a lesson task by Mrs Dixon on the month’s subject Japan. The session closed with prayer and hymn Send the Light, and one new member was welcomed to the society.
Purely personal notes list Mr R E Delaphine on a business trip to New York. Miss Marie Hemp of Jefferson visited friends near Frederick. Benjamin Rosenstock leaves for a boys summer camp at South Schroon New York. Jamieson Parker of Portland Ore guest of J Hunt Hendrickson in the city. Parker solo student at University of Pennsylvania en route home for summer. C Frank Coblents moves to 226 Dill avenue. William Mehrling returns after tending his father. Mingg Anna Book visiting Dorothy Filler. Amos Gibbs and family return from Penn Grove after visiting Sheridan Blentlinger. Harvey Zimmerman and family guests of Mrs Harvey Stockman. Rachel Dutrow visiting Mrs William U Filler. George Mehrling returns from Yellow Springs after bedside visit. May Kemp confined to house by sickness. Mrs Wm Abrecht, children and Nellie Kline motor to Camp Harrington. James A Brown visits relatives from Florida. Charles and Marianna Doll return from trip to Asbury Park and Atlantic City. Mrs O P Bennett and Miss Genevieve Smith go to Atlantic City.
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