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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Mar 27, 1913
Page
6
The Frederick News announces its semi weekly publication schedule and subscription terms. It lists management and offices, rates at one dollar yearly with advance payment, and asks subscribers to report missed deliveries. Availability noted at local hotels and stores.
Frederick pursues a motor truck factory site among cities including nearby Hagerstown. Prominent locals have visited Frederick to inspect sites, aiming for cheaper labor and freight costs, with broader growth prospects for the city and region.
The piece urges developing Frederick with new industries to raise community confidence and avoid a slump. It notes national disaster relief efforts and President Wilson's appeal, calling for prompt generous aid from all sectors. It also discusses bad manners as a home rooted issue and critiques reliance on schools to fix habits.
A collage of humorous quotes and snippets from various papers and times. Jokes about taxation expressions and social manners blend with parade of wry lines from London Sessions to Punch. The snippet showcases playful wordplay and cultural quirks of past eras.
The Knoxville Journal notes Julian Hawthorne’s conviction for using the mails in a Canadian mining scheme and reflects on money’s ruinous lure. It contrasts this with arguments on self-respect, dress, and prison reform, citing wardrobe choices in various penal institutions.
A verse about a landlord managing many tenants and creatures in a home, noting roving birds and lingering chores. The write up mentions an oriole, woodpecker, thrush, catbird, and orchard interruptions as a cozy, hopeful summer is anticipated in April.
Two women from Maryland are listed among the official state delegation to the Fourth American Peace Congress in St Louis May 1 2 and 8. Mrs BW Corkran of Roland Park and Mrs James Swann Frick of Baltimore join eight other Maryland delegates including Judge Walter J Dawkins John P Hall Davie Hutzler Eugene Levering Hon William H Maltbie AH S Post John T Stone and RL Williams, all of Baltimore.
John Dock of Baltimore aged 60 pleaded guilty to entering vacant summer cottages on South Mountain near Pen-Mar. He was sentenced at Chambersburg to a penitentiary term of not less than two and a half years nor more than three and a half years.
Columns from Tig Ninse Marea note Mrs. Catharine Z Auchel died at 91 in Frederick, Easter shopping drew crowds, and the Frederick County Historical Society planned to exhibit the original 1787 parchment commission to Franklin Chase and Carroll to urge peace with Canada and American colonies.
The city awarded a paving contract to Charles L. Klipp for ordinary paving blocks on Patrick to All Saints and from Saint to South streets using vitrified bricks on South Market. Klipp bid $2.20 per yard except where bricks require sand fill at $2.50. Brick paving favored by several property owners, with a paving line to be set on South Carroll Street to determine continuation to private property. Coal bids opened for the municipal lighting plant, J. M. Newman and Co. awarded at $3.24 per ton April-September and $3.40 rest of year. Other bids around $3.35 and $3.15. Directors organize Colt & Diamond Packing Co. with officers: John L. Johnson president, P. Merle Hireshew vice president, Guy K. Molter treasurer, William O. McCutcheon secretary and manager.
A vintage testimonial style advertisement urges Frederick readers to try Doan's Kidney Pills for back pain and kidney issues. It cites Mrs. Alt. Webster of Braddock, and urges asking for the same remedy at Harner's Drug Store. The ad notes renewed proof and a long history of local use by families.
Market round up of noon prices from Motler Bros Co Beuberg and Brokers listing rails coal cotton duck and power issues Seaboard Air Line United States Steel Western Maryland and misc utilities with notes on storms and Chicago Board of Trade wires and Houston Oil division totals
Open High Low and last prices for major railroads and shippers led by Atchison 102 and B&O 1004 with notable levels for Norfolk and Western 106 Northern Pacific 1168 117 and Reading 1574. Sales to Noon reported at 118100 shares.
A quiet wedding Saturday at the M P parsonage New Market joined Miss M Alice Stultz and Mr Joseph H Norwood both of near Ijamsville. The ceremony was by Rev B F Ruley with a quiet supper at the bride's home later due to the groom's mother's recent death. The Frederick Realty Co sold to Clarence A Tenney a Elm street house. Tenney, resident engineer of the Good Roads Commission, will occupy it. Adolphus Fearhake, deputy clerk, hosted a baked shad dinner for office staff at annual event.
For forty three years Dr. King's New Discovery has been listed as the most reliable remedy for coughs and colds. Over three million bottles were used last year and buyers are offered a money back guarantee if it fails to cure. A. J. Owens of Allendale reports decades of satisfaction, calling it the best remedy for throat and lung troubles with no equal.
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