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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Nov 04, 1897
Page
4
The cake walk originated among French Louisiana African Americans over a century ago and spread from New Orleans across the South. It evolved from plantation life ceremonies as a public wooing or marriage form, contrasting with formal licensed weddings. Today it remains a pantomime dance with less emphasis on prize rewards.
Samuel Walters of the United States, eight H Cartier, and Baocock were walking toward the post office Monday morning when a stray dog bit Walter on the hand. The animal chased through town biting several dogs before being killed by bystanders. Dr. P. L. Elwood Stigera treated Walter’s wounds.
A garbled rural vignette from Cumberland News hints at a rough countryside incident near Hancock with a girl’s ear injury after a church outing. The page floods with ads for patent medicines and remedies from numerous vendors, touting cures for biliousness, nerve issues, rheumatism, and digestive ailments, all pitched in a late 19th century patter.
Yesterday and today note events from Baltimore and nearby areas. Mayoral induction for William T. Messer is planned in Baltimore in November. Samuel Walters of Han cock postal route reports dog bite. Deaths include Mrs Josephine Reeder near Leosad town and Mr J Fred Adams of Adamsa builders in Baltimore. A fatal shooting occurs near Oakland West Virginia involving John Cositank and Caria Bolyard. The chrysanthemum show advances in Hagerstown by the Washington County Floricultural Society. Thomas B. Schall, head of Schall Packing, dies by self-inflicted action at 116 East Pratt Street. Maryland Trust issues a mortgage deed for 1.25 million dollars of five percent bonds.
The piece notes railroad workers fear a cycle of accidents after one incident and cites Maryland cases. A man due to dispute with his wife killed himself by stepping in front of a train, causing a fatal clash when a brakeman misread signals. Another event involved an air blast misdirecting a train, leading to a deadly collision.
Work begins on a new electric railway encircling South Mountain near Pen-Mar and extending toward Waynesboro. A power house is being built near Germantown bridge, with a switch to the Western Maryland Rail Road and water access noted. Two proposed routes are described, one toward Bye Ridge Summit and Monterey area, the other from Pen-Mar toward Blue Mountain and High Rock before returning.
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