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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1911
Page
6
The Independent Newspaper is issued by the Great Southern Printing and Iron Manufacturing Company, reflecting the era's regional press network and the firms that sustained local journalism through print production.
The Civ Club led a successful cleanup ending yesterday and urges annual citywide efforts. The effort boosts cleanliness, pride in Frederick, and disease risk reduction, with praise for all supporters and a call to keep Frederick spotless year round.
Tonight and Saturday edition highlights a feature on a local enterprise with illustrations. Baron Cave-Brown Cave, who sought a title in America, has taken a janitor job at a Salvation Army barracks in Brooklyn.
A Salvation lassie seeks a suitor while Congressman Victor Berger of Milwaukee criticizes the U S Constitution as venerable yet worn. Eldwin Markham notes twelve years of poetry income and mounting debt. The piece also discusses Spanish pronunciation of Mexico, and debates over how to say May-hee-co.
National business groups press Congress to cut letter postage from two cents to one cent arguing current rates tax business. Profit from stamps cited at over 360,000 annually. Critics note road tolls burden motorists and may deter travel and local commerce. call for fair, definite toll schedules.
The Baltimore News argues against jail or fines for traffic offenses. It supports Commissioner George using his license revocation power to remove dangerous drivers. The paper claims revocation better serves the public than imprisonment, noting licensed drivers must meet driving standards.
A jumble of quips from various papers mocks social pretenses and signatures. The lighthearted crosstalk covers a bartender pledge forgery handwriting and professors’ drinking amid a public reading scene. The style mimics a collage column.
A police commissioner order limits exposing food for sale on city streets this summer. The reform follows long urging and aims to improve public health and street cleanliness across New York.
Silas Flint and John Alint discuss wartime memories and current issues outside the smokeshop in Fredericktown. They debate paving the courthouse, water storage, finances, and roles for women, mixing humor with cautions about Providence and practicality.
The Civic Club led a city wide cleanup with 25 carts hauling about 250 to 260 loads of refuse to the dump. Scouts and students aided, gutters were flushed, and whitewash added at the South Street School. Mayor Schell and Board of Trade leaders praised the effort as a model for future city reforms and epidemic prevention.
Today's stock quotations provided by Motter Bron. & Co. summarize market activity across major exchanges with emphasis on price changes, gains and losses, and notable movements in leading issues. The report highlights totals, indices, and sector directions for traders.
A fragment-poem reflects on earthly costs and spiritual price. It contrasts taxation and death with salvation, noting life’s burdens and the claim that heaven remains priceless while worldly goods are bought. Lowell tone appears in archaic diction and moral inquiry.
Pen Mar gatherings this season include Reformed July 20 Lutheran July 27 0 Presbyterian August 3. Odd Fellows ace not included in the listed dates.
Fragmentary OCR notes indicate May Wheat Stile heroes, July Wheat BA, 8SAQ SRI, Sept Wheat STA and July Corn with stray phrases about a suffragette wife and an extra innings supper. The readable bits suggest a newspaper snippet from the Yellow Free Press with disjointed market references and a quoted line about a wife.
A retrospective note from The News Ledger recalls a 25th pastorate anniversary at Saint Osw. Osborne Ingle was honored with a grand reception for about five hundred guests. The stateball league is expanding to include Cumberland Frederick Hagerstown Westminster Chambersburg Martinsburg and Winchester. Chaston Russell succeeds Charles R. Tyson as US Mail Route Agent between Frederick and Lancaster.
Motter Bros. & Co. Bankers and Brokers report noon prices for a wide range of securities on May 17 1911. Listings include Cons 4s Cotton Duck Georgia Alabama Seaboard Air Line United Rys Western Maryland and several coal and electric utilities with varied bid figures and par values.
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