Frederick Clean-Up Day Urges Citywide Effort May 18
The Independent reports a citywide Clean Up Week initiative led by the Woman's Civic Club and the Associated Boards of Trade of Maryland. Frederick aims to complete municipal spring cleaning in one day May 18, seeking strong public cooperation to prevent disease and boost public health. A dead man’s appointment to New York’s peace conference is noted as a curious incident.
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Fragments From a Historic Paper on Names and Crimes
A secretary's letter to Rutherford B. Hayes invites a national association convention two or three years after Hayes death. Commentary contrasts simple murder with dynamite killings. A veteran cites a twenty one day fast that cured years of rheumatism, while urging action against mosquitoes and stagnant water.
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LowUbie
Voice of the Press Opening the Mass Nation Season
The Washington Herald notes baseball as the national game with broad public appeal. The piece lauds the sport for its honesty and wide outdoor popularity, warning against trades or jockeying that could ruin its standing.
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Washington Herald
United States
Jack
Iniseball
Municipal elections and national forest reserves discussed
The Baltimore press argues local elections should be nonpartisan and focused on governance as a business matter. The Supreme Court upholds Congress’s power to create forest reserves, ruling public lands are held in trust for all, not for private or local use. It notes federal finance shows a shrinking deficit and large gold holdings at the Treasury.
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Baltimore Sun
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Monetary circulation and gold in the United States
The article notes a national banking system with 7 271 banks and a monetary circulation totaling over 2 900 000 600. It highlights ongoing increases in gold in circulation with more than 3 400 000 in bars added last month and national gold coinage exceeding 100 000 annually. It also mentions substantial inflows of Mexican and South American gold for coinage through Baltimore.
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United States
Baltimore
Merriness Minutes and City Snippets From Old Papers
A compact collage of quirky lines and social snippets. The piece blends a fever dream line about waking beside a beloved figure with a Toledo Blade quip on busy shop hours and a sly joke about keeping tramps away. It also stitches in brief vignettes from Philadelphia Record and Black and White, ending with a wry roatan Tranggeript misprint about second husbands.
Taken Sick On Road Heart Attack Fatal For George Long
George W Long of New Midway died after suffering a heart attack while returning home by bicycle from Woodsboro. He had visited Frederick on business earlier and was reported in good health until fatigue caused his collapse on a hill. He leaves a widow and two children and was a Lutheran church member at Woodsboro. Funeral arrangements were set for Saturday at 9 AM with burial at Nocky Ridge.
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George W. Long
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Woodsboro
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P.O. 8
Potfinberger
Sharetts and Powell
Dust and Lies in a Dusty City Tale
A quirky, fragmentary verse piece questions dust and perception in a dusty city scene. The narrator riffs on eyes, protection, and belief, urging readers to trust their senses while weaving in archaic style and curious imagery about dirt, pavement, and a kitchen of cooks.
New York Stocks Quotations From Motter Bros Co
Today's quotations furnished by Motter Bros Co show varied movements across the market with gains in select industrials and declines in others. Investors watched volume inch higher as traders assessed early results and the week’s earnings prospects.
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Baltimore Stocks Market May Wheat and Corn Quotations
Baltimore market notes show May Wheat at 94.0, July Wheat at 8814, September Wheat at 874, July Corn at 23, and September Corn at 0. The report lists bid prices and futures points for wheat and corn across the spring and later contracts.
Moments with the Muse April poem and ad prose
A fragmented April poem arrives with references to Irish identity and emotion, interwoven with garbled product copy about digestion aids, Chamberlain’s Tablets, and a druggist sale. The piece blends literary lines from Tom Day with unrelated commercial jargon and misread OCR text.
Deaf Mutes to Play Maryland School Team Clash
The baseball teams of the Maryland School and the Deaf Mute School from Romney West Virginia will meet in a game on Saturday May 27 in Martinsburg West Virginia.
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Romney
W. Va
Martinsburg
Frederick Twenty Years Ago Today News Roundup
A Frederick column recalls events from twenty years ago including a Baltimore engineer recommending a large receiving reservoir to ease water shortages. The city flags were raised after arrival of corneline troops, with ceremonies planned. A runaway accident broke Mr. W Scott Kefauver's leg near Burkinsville. In the Ennisburg annual election William G Blair became burgess and commissioners elected included James A Elder James Hoppe Oscar Fraley Albert Patterson Samuel Grinder and J Thomas Gelwicks.
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James A. Elder
James Hoppe
Oscar J. Fraley
Albert Patterson
Samuel R. Grinder
J. Thomas Gelwicks
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