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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1911
Page
6
Trustees weigh turning over the Maryland School for Boys to the State as underpopulation and deficits strain the private corporation tied to Baltimore. Isolation of costs and a plan for a new power plant are proposed to stabilize finances, with recent reductions in staff and expenses.
U S ethnologists and Bureau of American Ethnology officials secure four Osage sacred bundles for the National Museum. One bundle yielded a mummified hawk body and a buckskin sheath with a head band, scalp adornments, and a vermilion painted idol. Another bundle contained Osage tattooing implements deemed sacred.
The relief department of the Western Maryland Railway plans to extend benefits to the entire Maryland division, adding about 8 000 employees including enginemen firemen conductors switchmen yardsmen and clerks. Membership is voluntary and the old West Virginia Central Relief Department name will be retained with a reorganized structure under a general committee.
Nearly 150 American cities adopt or consider the commission plan as a remedy to waste and graft in municipal administration. The article notes rising per capita expenditures, compares costs with London and Boston, and discusses potential outcomes, initiative and tax issues, and the role of unearned increment in public land values.
The annual Diocesan convention will begin with a memorial service for Bishop Par eton Thesdes at Em indtnel church Baltinare with luncheon in the parish hall. Rev bt Cotten chairs the arrangements committee. The eleventh prediocesan convention of the Berner ood of St Andrew also gathers in Washington DC at the Church of the Ascension on Twelfth Street. Nilipfers will represent the ante Pr ys ef sya ascent digesticty. Chamberlain's Tablets are pitched as a reliable indigestion remedy available from druggists.
Notes of News across the state report Calvert county tax fixed at 78 cents and various local items. The Western Conference Maryland Lutheran Synod meets at Keedysville, Hagerstown Lutherans attend General Reformed Synod in Canton Ohio, and the Francis Scott Key monument in Baltimore is unveiled. Pauline Simon, 15, fatally burned after clothing ignites at home in Baynesville. Fire at Sideling Hill, dedication of Monument to William Paca at Wye House, and a Waynesboro fire rescue story.
A US look at English accounting preface notes that adding machines and typewriters displaced the chalk and quill. It recalls tally sticks used from the Norman conquest to the American Revolution, with halves split as receipts. The sticks were burned in 1824, linked to the Lords fire, and forgery was nearly impossible.
Linus M. Wedges, a pioneer circus and museum manager who helped shape U S amusement industries, died last week at 65. He began his circus career with P T Barnum nearly fifty years ago and was famed for the whimsical white elephant hoax painted by Louis M. Hedges.
Market column lists prices for wheat, corn, rye, oats and feeds with varied per bushel and per ton values. Includes flour, meal, mill feed, seeds, hay, potatoes and a note urging advertising in the paper.
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