Maryland and national news in The Weekly News
A compact review covers Frederick and Maryland affairs from wood street paving praise to the Maryland Geological Survey prizes at Charleston and Buffalo Expositions. It discusses Mudd's push to block Maclay’s history from Navy use and Secretary Long and Roosevelt positions, urging congressional action and highlighting naval library concerns.
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Maryland Geological Survey
Buffalo
Maryland
Edgar Stanton Macclay
Sydney E. Mudd
Mudd
Epsech
House of Representatives
Naval
Navy
Maclay
Naval Academy
Naval Establishment
United States
Representative Mudd
Congress
Admiral Schlay
Sctly
Controversy Over Historians Shapes Navy War Debate
The passage argues against partisan rewriting of the Spanish American War history. It condemns Maclay's portrayals as misrepresentations while asserting that Admiral Schley deserves fair treatment free from political manipulation. It reflects tensions between memory and accountability in wartime narration.
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Caribbean
Admiral Schley
Nod Ashe
Spain
Maclay
Reflections on republics and banks in a mixed view
A Baltimore American note questions ungrateful republics while Cumberland News ponders Denmark selling West Indian colonies to the United States. A Hagerstown Herald tribute honors rapid charitable relief after a major disaster. The Baltimore Sun comments that Southern banks meet local needs better than Western small national banks, who hoard currency for profit.
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Mason
Baltimore American
Denmark
United States
Cumberland News. A
Haltimore Sun
Minutes of Merriness and Silly Exchanges
A collage of brief humorous exchanges from newspapers. A sad-eyed man asks a doctor about his wife’s kleptomania and vaccination as a cure. Bits cover a sobbing widow, a love-struck dog, a grandma scolding a gum chewer, and a quip about baseball causing numerous office boy deaths.
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Philadelphia
The Voice of the Press on American Highways
From the Philadelphia Record a Virginia congressman's plea for national good roads policy. Rail freight costs cited against public highways and the need to speed intercity and international commerce. The piece argues private interests neglect road building and urges persistent advocacy for improved roads nationally.
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Philadelphia
Otey
Sixth Congress
Virginia
House
New Jersey
New Eingland
Europa
United Kingdom
Fairmont Park
Pews Fetch High Prices at St John’s Church Auction
In Washington DC, pews from St John’s Protestant Episcopal church sold for 2759 and 1900 dollars. Bidding was lively from the start and prices were unusually strong for church holdings. Pews are typically preserved for family use or death or relocation situations.
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St. John's Protestant Episcopal Church
Washington
D. C
St John's
Moments With The Muse The Bid Low
A fragmented literary fragment reflects on love across years and the idea of two enduring loves. It contrasts poetic devotion with simple country friendliness as a social cue in messaging and greeting. The piece blends romantic nostalgia with a social portrait.
Address by Prof Apple at Waynesboro High School
Professor Apple president of the Woman's College spoke to the Waynesboro High School graduates on the theme Wanted Man His biographical sketch noted his Pennsylvania roots and early teaching work at Clarion and Mercersburg College The piece outlines the Woman's College at Frederick its founding ties to the Potomac Synod and its growth since 1893 Also mentioned are Miss Maude Forthman a local graduate and Apples family details A separate note covers planting a living monument a Sequoia gigantea in Mountain View Oakland using earth from South Mountain Battlefield to honor McKinley with Earth transported by local officials and supporters
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Apple
Woman’s College
Waynesboro, Paw
Joseph A. Apple
Pennsylvania
Clarion County
Land Osslar Sod Merosraburg
Theodore
Thomas
Joseph H. Apple
Hig Church
Clarion Collegiate Institute
Rimersborg
Woman’s College At
Frederick
Potomec Synod
The
Reformed Church
Mercarsburg College
Frederick Female Seminary
Waraw’s College
Conservatory of Music
Art and of Expression
Maude Forthman
Ford Forthman
School of Expression
Rcsor
William Harner
Xenia
Ohio
Hass
South Mountain Battlefield
California
Mountain View
Oakland
Oss
McKinley
Young
McKinley Mountain Tree Comitites
South Mountain
Rock Hill College Alumni Banquet Readout and Plans
A summary of local events notes the Rock Hill College Alumni Association holding a reunion and banquet. The Statehouse Annex Commission approves Architect Pennington's plans. Hagerstown City Council keeps rejecting mayoral nominations. Representative Jackson discusses patronage with President Roosevelt. The body of Thomas Parker, missing for two months, found in Prince Georges County. Gilbert Waters pleads guilty in Baltimore to attempting to burglarize the Baker Glass Company, sentenced to five years. Louis Noot seeks a receiver for Washington and Baltimore Building and Loan Association over alleged insolvency. Unknown men dynamite Voughts Run, near the Casselman River, killing fish. derailed ten cars on the Western Maryland railroad at Zombro Station. Maryland Agricultural College board votes on special appropriation and mortgage terms. Debate arises if a majority is required to accept conditions of the trust.
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Rock Hill College
Anso I Satan
Statehouse Annex Commission
Pennington
Hagerstown
Jackson
Roosevelt
Thomas Parker
Prince Georges County
Gilbert Waters
Baltimore
Baker Glass Company
Hitchis
Louis Noot
Samuel J. Harman
Joseph N. Uiman
Washington and Baltimore Building and Loan Association
Vought
Casselman River
Garrett
Sommerset
Western Maryland
Zombro
Altenwald
Maryland Agricultural College
Well kept turnpike shown by Hargett tour
Frederick and Jefferson Turnpike Company president Douglass H Hargett guided a News rep along the eight mile road noting modern grading and iron bridges replacing wood. Four miles of wire fences cut deep snow drifts with a toll rate about 1 cent per mile and 20 percent discount on toll tickets while a 5 percent dividend is paid. Samuel Douglas of Douglas Bros contracts with Wabash Railroad to build new roadbed and track, removing 335000 cubic feet of earth and erecting 28000 cubic feet of masonry over eighteen months.
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Frederick-Jefferson Road
Douglass H. Hargett
Frederick and Jefferson
Hargott
Hargett
Samuel Douglas
Douglas Bros , Contractors
Stanbenaville
Ohio
Wabash Railroad Company
Douglas
Goosebone Prophet Jubilant Over Predictions
Elias Bartz the Reading weather prophet, praises his goose bone forecast predicting late spring and heavy frosts ahead. He warns corn planted may rot from cold and notes the bone indicated a prolonged dark period through to the end.
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Elias Bartz
Baltimore clergyman to start cookology school this fall
Rev. Dr. Madison C. Peters, pastor of Tomadoel Baptist in Baltimore, plans a fall school for cookery and related home arts in connection with missionary work at the tabernacle. He argues better home skills uplift families and church life, urging cooking courses in Girls' Grammar and High Schools and a shift to domestic dignity as a profession.
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Baltimore
Madison C. Peters
Tomadoel Baptist Church
Tabernacle
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