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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1897
Page
4
Market notes describe plentiful eggs at 8 canta per dozen and strawberries at 20 cents per box. Floral items include wild honeycrisp honey and beautiful ferns. Community updates mention Frncts Scott Key Council membership drives, a smoker event, and Rockville wheelmen urging Frederick to host the LA W fate meet. Advertisements tout kidney health remedies, tonics, ointments, and German-root cures with local shop names in Frederick Maryland.
Nelson Gilbert elected mayor of Westminster. Snow Hill reelects its council. Capt Bartholomew Clark dies aged ninety in Anne Arundel. A new Hollendera colony likely in Caroline. James A Bond dies in Calvert at eighty five. A four story warehouse to be built at 226 North Howard Baltimore. Town improvement ticket in Kearington Montgomery. Baltimore Conference AME Church continued. Elections in Smithsburg Keedysville Falkstown Washington county. Thomas Brighouse drowns after falling from steamer Montace pier at Canton. Potomac rises with damage to Dam No 6 on C and O canal. Freeburg schoolkeeper James Rankin on murder trial. Marylanders to attend Southern Baptist convention in Wilmington NC. Charles Harr commits suicide at 1425 Pennsylvania Ave Baltimore. Baltimore Merchants and Manufacturers oppose bankruptcy bill in Congress. Easton Talbot elects town commissioner. Hyattsville election for effzcoe ticket. New Windsor hog keeping ticket wins. Carroll county towns Hampsend Taneytown vote. Maryland Steel plant still storing Dom psey. rail and Beasemer mills closed after accident.
Property transfers include George T. Kline to P. Mebrie Hitcshew for $500 and multiacre parcels to William T. Roe and Uriah Warrenfeld with several thousand dollars. In Ellicott City a Dayton wagon rolled down a hill into the river bank, tipping carriage and nurse into water but no serious injuries to the infant and other occupants.
X-ray photographs taken in City Opera House are being developed in Baltimore and will be returned to Frederick Wednesday or Thursday this week. The arrival of the photographs is awaited with much interest.
The twenty fourth Annual Convention of the Maryland State Temperance League will be held at St John's M. E. Church on Liberty Street in Baltimore from May 1 to May 18, 1887. Delegates from churches and societies across Maryland assemble, with six delegates per church, plus ministers and officers, to plan anti-saloon reform efforts and sustain the league's objectives, while accommodations and reduced railroad rates are arranged for attendees. An earthquake scare is noted in Virginia towns, and ads trumpet King’s New Discovery for coughs and related reliefs with a free trial offer.
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