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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Nov 13, 1920
Page
4
The piece highlights 1920s efforts to educate women on disease prevention and family health through Red Cross programs. It argues many families lack access to instruction and stresses membership support. It also extols town boosters promoting local growth and encourages women to read store ads to plan smart shopping.
A series of reader opinions weighs whether the presidential inauguration should move from March 4 to a different date, with responses from O C Sponsellor and others. The text also references a Baltimore police proposal, a sundial lament, and a vignette of a crime scene description, all hinting at broader public concerns of order and timing.
A brisk sequence of notes from Frederick recounts an Armistice parade dampened by rain, a bustling week with church pilgrimages, community events, and a Christmas season buildup. Local groups like the Sons of the American Revolution name a chapter, and the Red Cross renews memberships. Also included are wedding licenses, a health ad for Foley Cathartic Tablets, and various social and cultural mentions across Frederick and nearby towns.
Repulian supporters from Adams Franklin Frederick and Washington counties held a joint meeting at Monterey over McKinley’s election. Rev Osborne Ingle spoke at a missionary service in St John’s Church Hagerstown. The Frederick County Historical Society began winter sessions. Alexander Seals of Doubs received a $6 monthly pension. The Maryland Synod Lutheran Middle Conference met at Walkersville St Pauls Church. The C and O Canal moved thousands of tons of coal. The Good farm at Mt Pleasants sold for 20524 69 to Wilburn Duvall.
Qionel Baughman, automobile commissioner for Maryland, suggests stamping out auto theft by creating a state network. He envisions a centralized alarm system linked to counties via telephone and telegraph, effectively forming a state wide alert system to cover the entire state.
The Weather Bureau warns of continuing frost and freezing temperatures across the South Atlantic and Gulf states with wintry conditions in Frederick and Middletown Valley. Reports cite a 22 degree low, ice on yards, and the first season snow in Jefferson, as observers predict a 48 hour cold snap before a gradual warming then renewed chill after Thanksgiving.
From Flag it was announced today that $36.73 had been thrown into the American Flag carried by members of the American Legion in the Armistice May parade. Three dollars and seventy cents was also thrown into the flag carried by the Red Men, which they turned over to the Legion to help defray the expenses of the celebration. Other organizations which carried flags have not yet turned in their money.
In Sunbury Virginia near Northumberland County the body of 77 year old farmer William Wipe Barden was found along a road with a bullet wound in the eye. Luther Cather reports no noise prior. Inquest to be held. acting coroner said Barden was known locally but with unclear cause.
Late telegrams report Germany will not formalize an admission request to the League of Nations and will ignore the invitation to join, per Dr Herman Mucker, vice president of Germanys Reichstag Foreign Affairs Committee, in Geneva. Also noted is a pension commissioner appointment in Washington and a local monument destruction notification in Assels.
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