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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1911
Page
6
The Frederick city government spends 1500 on expert water supply advice. A special meeting will review engineer plans to improve the water system amid ongoing scarcity. Citizens in high areas suffer from low pressure while large volumes go to waste in winter and spring, prompting calls to act promptly.
The piece discusses profitable wheat farming through large-scale, skilled cultivation and modern methods, contrasts smallholders using inferior tools, and cites civic reflection on the Fourth of July. It also covers decoration day tributes to Civil War veterans, and public health notes on fly breeding and auto speeding sentiments in the state.
The article recalls a country united by memory of the civil conflict. It honors fallen soldiers and notes Memorial Day as a living reminder of sacrifice and national growth, while veterans thin yet the observance endures for future generations.
A satirical piece from the New York Tribune cites a professor proposing stingless bees and other animal reform notions. The text humorously imagines sunrises with Rostand, nonbarking dogs, and silent birds as imagined benefits while noting animal nature’s defenses and quirks.
The Carroll Record notes broad opposition to lenient rules and urges stricter speed limits. It laments that prudent motorists are harmed as wealthier drivers buy faster cars, while reckless joy riders threaten public safety.
A collage of garbled quotes from Detroit Free Press and Houston Post items, mixing whimsical, odd dialogue about birds, autos that fly, and a Mutual Admiration Society meeting. The text parodies newspaper snippet style with stray lines about fashion and weather, ending with a wry misfit of phrases.
A whimsical piece recalls an afternoon picnic disrupted by buzzing insects and a damp dress, then shifts to a town board meeting on streets and water rise as a band plays Annie Laurie. Names like Clarence, Iva, Ethel, and Augustus Fitznoodle appear in playful vignette contrasts.
A memorial tribute recalls fallen servicemembers and flag honors at St. John's cemetery while a complaint reports graveyard desecration on East Third Street. Flowers stolen and stones damaged. threats of legal action if vandalism continues. Charles L. Stokes introduces an electric powered shoe repairing machine with stitcher and finisher at North Market Street.
Students from Boys High Middletown and Girls High Brunswick competed in the first annual Frederick County commercial departments contest. L A Rice Jr and Edna Schaeffer led with first honors in their grades. medals awarded to first place and certificates for second and third.
Richard W. Allnutt, accused in the March 4 murder of his sister Valeria Voirs and brutal assault on his 81 year old mother and Miss Jane Rollins, has the trial delayed to June 12 after the circuit court in Montgomery county at Rockville postponed due to missing witnesses notably Dr. Charles G. Fill the Baltimore alienist. The arraignment produced a not guilty plea and counsel requested the postponement.
Junior Hall books a boxing card to be staged on July nights featuring top boxers from Pittsburg Philadelphia and Baltimore with a hoseing canal venue arranged and financing in place.
Frederick notes recall of 20 years ago with memorial services at Mt Olivet Cemetery. The Sons of Veterans assisted by Major EY Goldsborough spared the address. Clara Zimmerman provided music. An old city map by Charles P Manning, C E, 1865, is mentioned. Dr William C Claude of Annapolis named surgeon of the First Regiment Mo N G with major rank, succeeding Major S. F Thomas of Frederick.
Y M C A baseball team travels by train to Hagerstown for the league opener against the Hagerstown club. Lineup listed with Creager catching and G. Myers at second, Carl Lease to pitch. Clark and Slaughter accompany the squad for the trip.
Public invited to visit our new banking rooms at Market and Church Streets during business hours to inspect facilities and learn of per cent interest offered.
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