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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1903
Page
4
A jumble of 19th century political rumors touches on Parker’s boom, Cleveland’s reluctance to seek a fourth term, and press rumors. The main readable note reports Kentucky’s pursuit of justice after the Marcum murder, with the Courier Journal urging action against feudists and lawlessness.
A fragment argues that only local stations handle reform, condemning both Republicans and Democrats for failing to end crime. The piece claims long-tstanding state submission to petty feuds has made the state appear respectable only superficially, with no serious effort from administrations to curb crime.
Contemporary comment notes Warfield as the sole announced Democratic governor candidate with expected support from statewide papers and county allies. It forecasts a spirited fall campaign in Carroll and Baltimore, with party balance and competition shaping the race as primaries set the pace and the best candidates emerge.
A collage of brief quips and lines from various newspapers in which characters discuss marriage folly intoxication domestic quarrels fashion doubts and community schemes. Notable exchanges include a Chicago Post quotation about foolish marriage and a Cleveland Plain Dealer joke about a man cutting kindling with a lawn mower in the cellar.
President Roosevelt made several appointments and reappointments in the consular service, mainly among colored incumbents, while retaining most McKinley appointees. The foreign service change noted is John R. A. Crossland of Missouri becoming minister to Liberia, succeeding Rev. Mr. Swith, appointed January 1902.
A mixed Maryland scene reports the National Geographic Society visiting Annapolis and Mayor Seth Law of New York vacationing aboard his yachts in Annapolis harbor. DC National Guard encampment near Laurel is noted, while John Hay withdraws a $10,000 offer for a Calvert property. A drowning in the Nanticoke river and a near-fatal incident aboard a freight train are recorded, alongside a small-boat fatality near Martinsburg. Miss Marguerite Mason Porter wed Prof. Carlos Valerisa Casadhas in Annapolis, and the body of ex consul John Howell Carroll arrives in Baltimore. An Elkton jail arrest, a shooting in Havre de Grace, and railway repair labor near Cumberland to Grafton are listed, with social notes on a local figure, Miss Brown, and a potential fortress engagement question in Georgia.
A fragmented poem fragment presents two songs, one about the reaper’s song and the housewife’s cradle song with archaic phrasing, followed by a brief reflection on life and time. The text attributes lines to ERNestine Wardwell and Frane L Stamos in a historical newspaper style, preserving period voice.
Obituary notices summarize the deaths of Mrs Mary M Zimmerman at 275 North Market Street aged 72. Also reported are Mrs Martha Beeler of Rohreraville district Washington county aged 86, Clinton Nicholson 19 of Mount Ephraim Typhoid, and Benry Croseu 38 near Ridgeville who died in Baltimore after illness. Funeral details and survivors listed.
The piece contrasts civic pride with constructive reform and surveys the history of African American appointments to federal offices from Grant to McKinley. It notes Harrison and Cleveland as early movers with several posts in diplomacy and district roles, and highlights McKinley’s expansions across customs, post offices, revenue, interior, and military volunteers.
Fred B. Eceleth Sr of Lewiston Missouri praises Father Jobo’s Medicines claiming twelve years of catarial trouble cured after two medical exams. He says grip left him weak, gained thirty pounds, and credits Victor Liver Strap and In finner Relief with guaranteed cures or refunds.
An old advertisement from Greenville promotes Chamberlain's Cough Remedy and other medicines as life saving, claims a cure after two bottles, and urges keeping remedies on hand. It lists goods from Hull & Reigh, Tabard Inn Library Station at 12 North Market Street, including stationery, hats, balls, sports gear, hammocks, pens, and a Wellsston Typewriter.
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