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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Nov 26, 1927
Page
4
In a humorous look at 927 era habits the piece notes Sunday roasts dominate meals for housewives easing weekday cooking. It portrays roasts as a test of culinary skill and household harmony with dishes carried into Monday and Tuesday and the domestic balance of power reflected in who carves and manages the table.
An author claims Santa is constantly busy making Christmas toys for children. The narrator asserts proof from a store journey showing toys for sale and implies Santa governs toy making year round. The piece closes with a signer named N. A. Lyfberrow.
A brief verse recalls a train approaching a road collision and a junked vehicle. The lines suggest a chaotic scene with a crash turning into a pile of wreckage and discarded parts. The tune hints at a roadside mishap and the resulting broken machinery.
Taneytown and nearby residents are listed in a dense social notices page. Names include Edward Flene and daughter Fannie, Agnes Murrhy, Frank Valentine and children, Chanton and Betty, plus many visitors and callers from Hanover, Westminster, and Emuinhshire. The item records church services, dinners, and visits at homes around Taneytown and Pleasant Valley.
Mr. Earl Webb slipped and dislocated his knee at Mt Airy on November 26 and was taken to Frederick City hospital. Miss Mary Lee Browning Miss Thelma Hobbs and Chester Davia students at Maryland State Normal School Towson are spending Thanksgiving at their homes. Mrs Veale Murphy and family visited her daughter Mrs Dorsey foxler on Sunday. Dr Wo Harkins spent a few days in Baltimore. J L Burdette and wife spent Thanksgiving in Washington D C. The card club met at Elizabeth Molesworth home. Richard Kleeny son of Prof and Mrs Kleeny Middleton, has left the University of Virginia due to ill health.
Twenty Years Ago Today In Frederick features scattered notes from The News dated Nov 26 1897. The column lists residents moving names such as Singleton Tr Stull and Fatale leaving Diafens and John Furgeson while David Taylor Robert Wilson and W actel E4nherst visit for an annual celebration with Secor Caferes Ansie and other offices noted.
Fragmented obituary style notes detail Frederick residents with mixed data on birth in Beruuhissite Jefferson County, early employment in city finance, 1915 work at Hoffman Sted Bedford, then Ameries Steel and Wire Pittsburgh, arrival April 18 1922 with Walter Arnold to build Francis Scott Key hotel, service as night clerk and room clerk, association with Ross Ver a and others, marriage to Louise Nelson, and later hotel duties and parish roles at an Episcopalian church.
A compact etiquette note discusses Christmas gifts to employers and the proper way to remember bosses during holidays or anniversaries. It weighs who should initiate gift exchanges and whether business relations should become personal, advising caution in mixing work and personal gestures.
Daily English lessons by W L Gorpox discuss common mistakes with words like Herth birth and Caribbean Say accent. The text urges careful word study and using one new word daily while noting a sentence about an imminent threat and an accident seen.
Fragmentary note hints at voters named Abe Mardin Saver who are shot or nearly shot after voting. The text mentions Hoosiers remaining Democrats but not hiding party allegiance and references a service or copyright note from Nation2 Newspaper.
Mr and Mrs Gerson Stonesifer hosted a Sunday gathering with relatives including Mr and Mrs Wim Cecely Mr and Mrs John Whistler from Littletown and Ciara Stonesifer from Moarterea Station Also noted were Mr Russell Tialaes of Riverdale and extended family members at the event.
The Saturday edition highlights holiday prep, charity drives, and community updates. It notes a Salvation Army fund drive, Knights of Columbus membership push, Red Cross and tuberculosis efforts, and teachers’ meeting with Sir Wilfred Grenfell in Baltimore. Local interests include a Mt. Airy note and plans for Thanksgiving and Christmas cheer.
Poem fragment recounts three fishermen sailing away as the town watches. Women mourn, children gaze, and the harbor bar moans. Refrains on work and weeping echo the sea’s toll, with corroded lines about those who will never return.
County Health Officer urges expanded fight as 1926 Maryland tally shows eighteen hundred eight deaths from tuberculosis statewide and thirty eight in Frederick County. State health officials and the Maryland Tuberculosis Association promote Christmas Seal sales to fund county health work.
A retrospective column lists events and births from various years including the Eddystone lighthouse destruction in 1703, Dr. Mary Walker born 1832, Myron H. McCord 1804 birth, and King Rama VI death 1925. It notes anniversaries, birthdays such as Queen Maud and Pat M Neff, and upcoming events like Four-H congress in Chicago and a Virginia-North Carolina highway dedication. Also mentions a Washington wedding and naval personnel planning a Yankee Stadium appearance.
Puzzle feature describing letter golf rules and example progress from COW to HEN. Steps must form valid words with one letter change at a time. The piece explains stroke counting and requirement for common usage words.
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