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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1902
Page
6
The Daily News Frederick Maryland announces subscription rates and delivery options for the date Saturday May 24 1902. It notes price structures for city and nationwide delivery, carriage by carrier and mail, advance payment terms, and mentions the Weekly News and telegraph connections. Includes address and publication details for The News office in Frederick.
A Philadelphia Ledger critique, echoed by Professor Marsaryk of Prague, warns that uncontrolled immigration threatens American institutions. The piece tracks historic immigrant contributions and argues Congress must curb low skilled inflows, while urging fair wages and citizenship rules to protect national prosperity. The editorial laments a drift toward distrust and calls for firm policy to preserve the nation’s labor standards and social fabric.
The letters ridicule official statements about Potts going to Berlin and mock claims of prestige in Annapolis. The writer notes Germany statues, President Palma, and foreign ship visits as curiosities while lampooning local pride and the ever-present gaze of the president in Annapolis.
A collage of quips and toasts from period papers features humor about Sam Sammy Snagga and a Sunday school teacher. Exchanges touch on gallows humor about flesh and graves and misheard lines about gambling drinking and baby care amid a stream of brief jests from Pittsburgh Chronicle Telegraph Boston Transcript and Atlantic Constitution.
The New York World features Senator Hoars spirited address on the Philippines issue. He warns imperialism threatens the republics core by treating brown peoples as outside the Constitution, contrasts Cuba and the Philippines, and questions what harms the Philippines may inflict on America if misgoverned.
A fragmented poem on discontent contrasts Reuben and Bigby Bonds with holiday prep and fashion shows. A garbled line references a congressman and Champ Clark’s reflection on overwork and vitality. The ad copy touts Electric Bitters as a cure, ending with a price and supplier claim.
Plans by architect Josias Pennington of Baltimore show a new wider addition to the Maryland State House at Annapolis. The interior chambers for the Legislature will be enclosed rooms with light from above and ventilation to be improved. Exterior will be larger, plain, and inexpensive, with most funds spent on a grand interior. Granite basement, multiple committee rooms, and two-story chambers with galleries. A marble portico will front the new building, and a grand marble stairway will replace the current rotunda stairs.
A reader describes the Old South versus the New South, noting white and black social shifts after the war, the Charleston exhibition with its state displays, and excursions by county visitors. The account praises polite visitors, the Battery waterfront scene, and the Atlantic breezes shaping a pleasant impression.
A letter from Wanrren Moorenean urges preservation of stone bone and clay Indian relics found in the region. He notes PhD Philedge Phillipes Academy Indover Mass has a department of archaeology and offers to pay express charges for boxes of specimens to study the antiquity of man and give donors credit. He invites correspondence from anyone with relics or artifacts to share and preserve.
A casual market column lists fresh strawberries, pineapples, and other fruits and vegetables with current prices and weather notes. It notes small berries, need for rain, and rising meat and poultry costs, plus detailed per item prices for eggs, dairy, fish, poultry, beef, pork, and produce.
Puzzled about hats draped with scarfs or veils. Locusts arrive in squads while some men seek fame. Weather policy may delay summer. Police Crouse has masons at Conner Street brick crossing. Graos Reformed church site torn down. workers remove steps and debris.
The Sick. Mrs Elizabeth Snyder is quite sick at the Home for the Aged. Mrs John T Worthington, who has been $11 at her home in Urbana, is much whores today. Mrs George Heinlein, who is il with PReamMonis, continues to impreve. Misa Adamsfer, West Patrick street, is quite sick.
Reading a dawn poem of woodland calm and bird song contrasts with a related report from May 24 about the United States core Leonidas 38 loading lumber in Norfolk for sheltering St Vincent disaster survivors. The vessel will sail to St Vincent via San Juan to unload coal at the naval station there.
Local church schedule lists sermons and Sunday school times for Benleysville Mission Grace Reformed All Saints Episcopal M E church South and others. Reports on the General Synod missions meeting in Baltimore discuss home and foreign efforts in Japan China and the need for funds and expansion plans.
A reader notes many suffer thefts of wealth, but more losses come from poor health. Hostetter's Stomach bitters is pitched as a cure for belching headaches indigestion and related ills. A local testimonial claims Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhea Remedy kept threshers working without losing time. Sold by AL Pearce Plymouth Oklahoma.
Obituary notices report the deaths of Ruth Mullinix aged six from scarlet fever at her parents home on South Market Street. Funeral 3:30 pm at the cemetery with Father Coleman officiating. Also noted are the deaths of Daniel H. Young, 71, from paralysis. Robert Handley, about 51, from cancer. Arthur A. Robinson, three months old, of pneumonia. Mrs Martha Beckner of Waynesboro Pa., age 52. Edgar Selden, 13, Richmond Va.. and John W. Lugenbeil, 85, Washington D C., with brief funeral details and survivors listed.
Jacob B. Tyson & Sons have accepted the agency for the Deering harvesting machines and will continue the business at Mrs. J. E. W. Hargett's warehouse for the present.
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