May 10 17th century battles and Napoleonic contrasts
Daily History notes summarize key events: Green Mountain Boys under Ethan Allen and Benedict Arnold capture Fort Ticonderoga and Lake George in a night raid. 1796 Napoleon earns title Little Corporal after the Lodi Bridge victory. 1803 Stonewall Jackson, Confederate general, is noted. 1015 a German airship is destroyed by Allied planes over Brussels with two enemy ships wrecked.
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Green Mountain Boys
Ethan Allen
Benedict Arnold
Fort Ticonderoga
Lake George
Napoleon
Lodi
Italy
Thomas Jonathan
Stonewall
Funerals for James Enright and others in local rites
Funeral services were held for James H. Enright, former Frederick Gas and Electric manager, at St. John's Church with Mass by Rev. Fr. Kane. Interment at Mt. Olivet followed. Also noted were funerals for George L. Schaeffer and Miss Mary Josephine Whorley, with services at family home and St. John's Church respectively, and burial at Mt. Olivet and St. John cemeteries. C Carty assisted with arrangements. In divorce news, Rosalie V. Summers filed for absolute divorce from Foster L. Summers on statutory grounds, seeking alimony pendente lite and a $25 counsel fee. court set payments starting June, with a May 20 deadline for any cause to be shown.
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James H. Enright
Frederick Gas and Electric
Hagerstown
E. C. Markell
R.R. Kemp
Mt. Olivyer Cemetery
T. P. Rice
George L. Schaeffer
John A. Schaeffer
R. L. Shipley
Buckeystown
D. Z. Padgett
Melville Cromwell
John Snoutrer
George D. Smith
Ernest Kindley
Tre. C .H. Conley
Mt. Olivet
C. C. Carty
Mary Josephine Whorley
St. John’s Charch
St. John’s Cemetery
Michael McCaffrey
Harry Dorsey
Raymond Ford
A. Michael
Fr. Collins
Rosalie V. Summers
L. Stoner
Foster L. Summers
Lillian Summers
Visitation Academy Announces Private Premium Distribution
Visitation Academy will hold its annual premium distribution privately on Tuesday June 6 with no graduates. The 70th annual Reunion of the Alumna Association will be held on Wednesday June 7. Arrangements for the reunion will be made at a Friday evening meeting of local officers.
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Visitation Academy
Reformed Ministers Gather in Emmitsburg
The Reformed Ministerial Association of Frederick County held its bi monthly meeting at Rev. Lewis Higbee’s home in Emmitsburg on Monday afternoon with ten members present and a dinner served at the Emmitsburg Hotel.
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Reformed
Reformed Ministerial Association
Frederick County
Lewis Higbee
Emmittsburg
Emmitsburg
Five Dollars For Speeding
Augustus D. Clemens of Baltimore was fined five dollars by Justice Eckstein for violating state speed laws on the Baltimore Frederick State road. The arrest was made by E Austin Gaughman, Commissioner of Motor Vehicles, who followed Clemens’ car.
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Augustus D. Clemens
Baltimore
Baltimore-Frederick State Road
Justice Eckstein
Motor Vehicles
E. Austin Gaughman
Clemens
Meeting of Heights Residents at Mrs Sehrback Home
A general meeting of Praddock Heights residents will be held at Mrs Sehrback's home tomorrow evening at 7 59. Two members of the State Board of Health will attend to discuss sanitary conditions at the Heights.
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Heights
Praddock Heights
Poultry Chief Named at Hagerstown Fair
President Thomas A. Poffenberger of the Hagerstown Inter-State Fair Association appoints Harry K. Beachley as superintendent of the poultry department, directing the fair’s poultry exhibits and activities.
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Thomas A. Poffenberger
Hagerstown Inter-State Fair Association
Harry K. Beachley
Poultry Department
Lighting expert to study city's needs in Frederick
An eminent street lighting expert, Mr. Nash of Schenectady and General Electric, arrived in Frederick at Manager Pooler of the Hagerstown and Frederick Railway Company invitation to study the city’s lighting system. He will advise on lamps and locations, with no stance on building a plant or buying current. President Coblentz wrote the Public Service Commission about Frederick’s plan for a new lighting plant and potential commercial involvement. Ox Fibre Brush Company protested the plan, urging a public vote and warning of tax burdens.
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Coblentz
Public Service Commission
Ox- Fibre Company
Frederick
Pooler
Hagerstown
United States
Nash
Philadelphia
Emory L. Coblentz
Hagerstown and Frederick Railway
Hagerstown and
Frederick City
Ox Fibre
Ox Fibre Brush Company
Fraley
J. K. Robinson, Jr
Te OxFibre
W C T U Elects Officers And Announces June Convention
On May 8 the Frederick Woman's Christian Temperance Union held its bi monthly meeting and annual officer election. Miss Janie DeLashmutt presided as officers and superintendents were mostly re elected. Changes include a June 16 County Convention at New Market. Shorthand team members named C Alonzo Rice G Wm Johnson Raymond E Morgan. Typewriting team to be led by Rice Johnson Doll and Morgan.
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Frederick Woman's Chietian ‘Temperance Union
Janie DeLashiutt
Miss Keller
K. M. Bartgis
Emma Garrett
White Ribbon Herald
Union Signal
Radcliff
Laura Ramsburg
DeLashmutt
New Market
S. Fenton Harris
Comercial
Boys’ High School
C. Alonzo Rice
Cap't. G. Wm. Johnson
Raymond E. Morgan
Cap’t
Arthur H. Doll
Raymond FE
Morgan
Twin Suffragettes Arrive in Roland Park Home
Yesterday two young suffragists arrived at the residence of Mrs. Donald R. Hooker in Roland Park. Mrs Hooker leads Maryland suffragists and welcomed the visitors to the influential local circle.
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Donald R. Hooker
Roland Park
Hooker
Maryland Suffragista
Primary election gratitude from Clifford H. Doll
Clifford H. Doll thanks voters for a free primary, praises Ernest M. Fox and his supporters, and pledges to advocate for Fox’s loyalty. He emphasizes the primary law’s intent of open, untrammeled ballots and clean contest.
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Ernest M. Fox
Mr. Fox
Clifford H. Doll
City Register
Special service and flower promotions at local church and stores
Presbyterian Church holds a May 14 evening service with Dr. T. F. Dixon sermon "Ask Seek Knock." Flowers for Mothers Day urged with orders via Charles Hermann & Son. Blue Ribbon Grocery advertises Mother’s Day gifts and bakery items. Community notices include a Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals meeting May 11, a Frederick baseball season parade May 14, and gas electric bill discounts through the 10th. Local grocery listings, a fire company meeting May 14, and an illustrated travel lecture April 12, plus a hog auction May 11, are announced with times and locations.
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Charles Hermann & Son
South Street
Society For the Prevention of Cruelty To Animals
Federated Charities
Bertha Trail
North Market Street
Evangelical Reformed Church
Independent
United Companies
A. Kemp Keefer
Prevident
Doctor Donsife Dies After Bath Injury at Montevue Hospital
Dr HL L Donsife a prominent county physician died at Montevue Hospital after being scalded in a bath yesterday afternoon. Officials are unsure if the death was accidental or intentional amid questions about his habit of bathing alone. He was 74, with a large family and survived by two brothers. Funeral arrangements to be announced. The report also notes hospital board meeting outcomes and an expected change in leadership at the State Normal School.
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HL. L. Donsife
Montevue Hospital
Donsife
Montevue
W. G. McComas
L. C. Powell
Walkersville
Donsite
Woodsboro
Otho
Genoa Donsife
Democratic precinct primaries and alderman nominations set
Precinct primaries will be held on Wednesday night May 10 1916 at listed locations to nominate Democratic candidates for Alderman per precinct and at large, with a precinct chairman to appoint delegates to the Democratic City Convention at the Court House Basement May 12 1916. Also notes on mower sharpening service, dahlia roots for sale, cemetery reward for vandalism culprits, auto repair service, and a millinery sale at Frederick Maryland.
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Ebert's Carriage Repository
West Patrick Street
City Hall Building
Court House
B. F. Grove
Green
N. Market St
John Francis Smith
Joseph F. Eisenhauer
Report of TMI condition of Citizens National Bank Frederick Md
Bank report lists resources loans and discounts unsecured overdrafts and pledged securities with totals, noting assets and liabilities as of May 1 1918. The article transitions to a retail line promising ready stock of fabrics and accessories including laces gloves fans and corsets with prices and styles for the season.
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Onda Giet
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Markey’s Star
Raffie
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Hermanns
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Clifford H. Toil
Presbyterian Church
Mr. Nash
Blue Ribbon Grocery
Court
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East Patrick Street
Bartholow
Fred'k. Co
Gittinger's Grocery
Grace Reformed Sunday School
William G. Greenawalt
Haugh's Blacksmith Shop
L. R. Osborne
H. L. Donsife
County
Norma School
Sarah E. Richmond
State Board of Education
Rennett
Frank James. Jr
Fifth St
Allen G. Quynn & CO
Mount Olivet
Briscoe
Briscoe & Ragal
D. E. Kefauver
Mullinix
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BP. L. Hargett
H. D. Baker
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John Kidd
Frederick Junction
Georgetown Pike
RR. BR
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Fire Insurance
College Park
Rosemont Addition
Villa Estates
N. Market St. Ext
BE. Seventh St
Hamilton Street
Braddock Heights
Automobile Insurance
John D. Hendrickson
Algoria
Organdie
J. D. Hendrickson
Neidig & Miller
Sweet
Thompson
Senator, JR
Buttonwood Stock Farm
Biaven
Senaton Jr
Tenn's Bath
Lewis
Furger
Rhone
Aotledl
Zmone
Potts & Griffin
Frederick and
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Grayson E. Staley
Grayson H. Staley
Dill Avenue
Celve Nam
Dill Ave
Faciag Eum
N. Market Street
Trail Avenue
Neie
Ner
Qratson H. Staley
Insurance
Frederick, MD
Cramer & Stauffer, Court Strewe
Thomas P. Rice
Markwood D, Harp
Annapolis Junction
Weekington
Penn
Walla
Patuxent
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HARP
Coste Balding
Albaugh & Harrington
Court Bt
Atorg
Lane
Ave
Remington
Waitasite Ltr
Monarch
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