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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Nov 18, 1903
Page
4
Fragmented notice of advertising rates and distribution in Frederick Maryland. The issue mixes remarks on a murder, a planned King Leopold visit, Panama canal money, a Maryland senator and a primary law, plus a defense of football praising its educational value for college students and theologians. Frequent named entities include King Leopold, Maryland, Maryland Legislature, and Panama.
A garbled clipping notes criticism of Baltimore papers on national matters. It references Ohio Democrats backing Senator Gorman for president and hints at political fevers and indictments in Missouri. The piece mocks reform fervor and mentions Frederick citizens reacting to a lemon rumor involving economic tensions.
Hearty support from the pew charter commission shows the town awoke to urgent needs. A surface drainage system is being replaced by a sewerage network, eliminating old cobble streets and surface plagues. Frederick's charter was revised recently, guiding progressive municipal methods and signaling further growth.
A quirky collection of humorous exchanges shows wives and husbands trading jabs on diplomacy fashion and money. Quotes from the Chicago Tribune Boston Transcript Cleveland Plain Dealer and Chicago News illustrate domestic banter.
From the New York World a long investigation by US Labor Commissioner Garrett D Wright shows that thirteeen years ago 1896 had the lowest cost of living and 1902 the highest with average family needs 161 percent higher and 10.9 percent above the period average. Of 25 food groups prices fluctuated 16.4 percent retail and 87.3 percent wholesale. The 2 567 families studied had average income 527 19 and expenditure 768 51 with 326 for food, 5.31 persons per family, costing 61 69 per member per year and 145 per year for all expenses. The apparent $60 saving a year reflects thrift and is greatest in the West and least in the South. Wright notes higher prices reduce real prosperity unless earnings rise.
A Smart Set excerpt titled Moments With The Muse expresses a poet’s midnight dream of a beloved. The speaker longs for a dreamlike romance, cherishing hair, sunlit glow, and caresses as stars fade into dawn. Deft imagery conveys passion and unspoken memory.
A large Frederick congregation hosted a reception for Rev. Charles F. Steck and family at the Evangelical Lutheran church. About four to five hundred attendees enjoyed decorated rooms, refreshments, and music by the Frederick Select Orchestra, with seating and ushering by church members.
John Roberts, about 15, lost an eye and damaged another eye plus a hand in a dynamite explosion along the Potomac between Brunswick and Untactin yesterday afternoon. He is hospitalized in Frederick after being found unconscious in bushes by farmer Sanford Kilcott. Doctors fear one eye cannot be saved though the other may be. Roberts, a former B&O engineer from Baltimore, was staying in Brunswick recently and was reportedly intoxicated at the time of the blast.
Miss Osrrie Eugenia Rinehart becomes bride of James Pearre Wantz in Graos Lutheran Church Westminster yesterday afternoon. Rev P B Miner officiated. The couple will reside at 180 West Main Street Westminster after January 11 and received gold scarf pins as gifts.
Mrs Anna Crummitt widow of Walter Crummitt died at 76 years 1 month 22 days at her son Albert Crummitt’s home East Patrick Street after a complication of diseases. She leaves two sons O F Crummitt and Albert Crummitt and two daughters Mrs Laura Jacobs and Miss Alice Crummitt. Funeral at 9:30 Friday at the house, interment Pleasant Hill burying ground Monrovia. George Willis, youngest child of Mr and Mrs L O Willis, died at home in New Market aged nearly four. Body to Perryman’s Harford for interment in old family lot. Also a mention of Taxo Laxative Bromedine Tablets advertisement and a case of a child burned by a hot stove treated with Chamberlain’s Pain Balm restoring sleep. Mrs Ronannon of Bellar Va noted. Pain Balm advertised as a healing liniment.
Transfers of real estate and marriage licenses are listed for the week ended November 18, 1903, in Frederick County. Property deeds show multiple parcel transfers with prices. marriage licenses include Johnson Ross with Helen Stauffer and other couples. Orphans Court items cover inventories, sales of personal property, accounts of executors and administrators, and probate actions, with numerous estate names and amounts.
Governor Smith commissions hundreds of officials elected in the last election. Harford farmers sign petitions to the Legislature for the HAMAN bill. Cumberland sees Frank J Conway convicted of second degree murder for killing his wife. James Moore acquitted in Cumberland for insanity. Calvert county votes Captain J Briscoe Bunting for County Surveyor with one vote. Senate chambers lacking, await new meeting gear. Edward M Martin Jr sues Jesse Moore but case withdrawn in Anne Arundel Circuit Court as Moore acted within duty.
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