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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1911
Page
6
The Daily News notes an advertisement for a Frederick Maryland manufacturing company. It lists sale locations including New City Hotel Buckey's Cigar Store Market Street General Restaurant F K Schmidt's Cigar Store W Patrick Street Artington Hotel.
The article contrasts estate gardens with small plots, noting the health value and pride of cultivating vegetables. It urges urban dwellers to value gardens, recalls the pleasure of fresh radishes and corn, and mentions gardeners’ early planting and frost risks. In Montclair, New Jersey, property owners face a $10 fine and trimming for stagnant water on premises.
The Jersey Skeeter thrives in stagnant pools and rain barrels attract it. Congressman Macon of Arkansas criticizes futures trading, urging it to fade from the scene, signaling a broader move to curb perceived speculative practices.
The article criticizes Postmaster General Hitchcock for claiming fiscal improvement at the Postal Service without clear efficiency gains and urges establishing a modern parcels post to curb absurd shipping costs. It also reports New York Times coverage of a proposed $60,000 Bureau of Domestic Science to study home economics and extend scientific methods into households and schools.
A Baltimore Sun editorial notes Maryland strawberries awakening as warm sun and rain bring formations of fruit. The piece mentions growing quantities, late-season ripening, and the allure of fresh berries for lovers of the diet. It references political discourse alongside civic issues, indicating a mixed page of commentary and public affairs.
A home paper squib notes readers should trust their conscience over the editor. It warns stray shots can backfire, citing Carroll Ree ford as an example of unintended consequences from careless remarks.
A collage of snippets from various papers spoofs social mores and mischief. Quotations touch on a poet's epic stolen to light a study fire, a mayoral style vow to jail lawbreakers, and light dialogue about wages, secrets, and manners across cities including London, Chicago, Cleveland, Louisville, St. Louis and Topeka.
A playful verse blends classic myth with a math puzzle about teeth. Two old dangers loom as a riddle speaks of a cool man and a fee man at the door. The speaker notes thirty two teeth to keep busy solving the problem, inviting deduction.
A poetic meditation on crossing life’s rivers, urging endurance, faith, and effort to reach worthy prizes. It emphasizes perseverance despite obstacles and the call to fulfill duties with courage and trust in guidance.
The April 1916 weather record shows seven days at or below freezing and about three inches of rain, cooler than April 1910's four and a half inches. May is expected to bring plentiful rain and sunshine, aiding crops as farmers anticipate favorable harvests.
During April the clerk's office recorded 404 instruments including 200 decils and $1 mortgages with three chattel mortgages, 12 bills of sale, 2 releases, 2 articles of incorporation, 1 power of attorney, 1 lease, 1 herd of trust, and 1 assignment of mortgage. Forty seven marriage licenses issued with four marked don't publish. Twelve licenses lacking ministers' certificates. One certificate of Nanns filed. Five suits of equity filed including applications for divorce.
May wheat and corn futures quotes are listed for Chicago trading. May wheat, Sept wheat, May corn, and July corn show price activity in the grain market segment.
Twenty years ago today in Frederick items include submitted proposals by George Kohlenbure for a new motorway from Adamstown to the Frederick and Nolan roads. Mr C G Thomas woke from sleep after a fishing trip to learn he had lain on a three foot snake. Charles Lawrence qualified as a deputy in the office of the Register of Will. Articles of incorporation for St Euphemia's School Emmitsburg filed to establish a religious and secular school for youth.
Motter Bros. & Co furnishes today’s stock quotations for New York, detailing price movements across leading issues and notable gains. Traders monitor shifts in industrials and rails as market activity remains active.
Malter Bros. & Co. reports corrected prices on a range of securities as of noon May 1 111. The listing includes various bonds and stocks from Seaboard Air Line United Rys Western Maryland and others with percentages and par values noted. Strong emphasis on local banking broker offerings and railroad securities.
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