Electric Railroads Spur Regional Growth Plans
The Frederick and Middletown Electric Railroad’s success sparks talks of new lines. Rumors include a Gettysburg route via Frederick and Emmitsburg, a Baltimore Turnpike extension, connections to Myersville, and a possible Hagerstown link. Proponents tout freight and passenger benefits, closer town ties, better mail, schools, markets, and municipal progress. The movement signals awakening energy to realize electric railroads as rural development drivers.
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Frederick and Middletown
Saltimore Turnpike
Bubous City
Branawick
Middletown
Thursoch
Middletown Valley
Myersville
Frederick- Middletown
Hagerstown
Lines of rapid transit promise growth for county
Fragmentary remarks suggest rapid tram lines will eventually arrive, bringing benefits to residents. Advocates urge cooperation to support projects as electric travel attracts people from large cities to local convenience.
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Peuzie
Cape Etaily
Veracity Questions and Holiday Shadow in Town
The column discusses veracity between two figures Woyler and Macev eer, after Thanksgiving women and Congress shadows. Thomas Hardy rewrites his tale The Pursuit of the Well Beloved. France’s leading practical joker is reported dead amid claims of his many victims. Football casualties appear high versus Cuban war scales, provoking little protest over humanity.
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France
Public Opinion Highlights From Various Dailies
A collage of satirical notices and columns from the Florida Times Onion, Palimelphia Times, Washington Post, Savannah News, Chisago Times Herald, and Michigan preacher report. Items range from suffrage debates and football fans to relics of a Persian shah’s souvenirs and comic misstatements about gasoline fumes in women’s voices.
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Florida Times Onion
Chisago
Savannah News
Michigan
Local opinions and anecdotes from Frederick county readers
Expressions of people picked up by diligent reporters recount warm weather memories, a historic large tree near Jefferson, remarks on religion and charity at a Baltimore convention, lectures at the Y M C A, a poetry excerpt about assassins, a Christmas concert in Junior Hall, political loyalties for Bryan in 1900, and Middletown civic plans to extend the electric road.
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Frederick County
Zimmerman Farm
Jefferson
Middletown
Geo
Wm. Smith
Banner of Liberty Poem by Clara Barton
Fragmentary anti tyranny poem celebrating American independence and the call for liberty. Mentions Atlantic thunder, stars and stripes, Old World grasp, colonial battle imagery, and Clara Barton as Red Cross president.
Electric test probes 1550 miles of wire in Wilmington
In Wilmington New York a dramatic test linked Dr Sasser and Walter Herring via Long Distance and Destaphone lines using a Rheostat calibrated by Professor Fry. Arr idger L Miller and H E W Storm demonstrated a one tenth of one percent efficiency change with 81 000 ohms resistance claiming the Inter State Company phones could span 3000 miles.
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N.Y
Dr. Bamer
Market Street
Sneed & Co
H. E. W. Storm
Kastromoent Man
Arridger L. Miler
Inter Bia
Telephone and Telegraph Company
Dr. Sasser
Walter Herring
Storm
Professor Fry
E. 8. Greely Company
Nelther
Herting
Sasser
Uae
Inter State
Emmitaburg Personal Notes From the Chronicle
Mrs. Francis Lasobert travels to Baltimore for postholiday stay. Dr J Kay Wrigley of Altoona Pa visits. J O Soner and wife from Sylvan visit Pins Fox family. Thaddeus Zimmerman of Baltimore visiting his father E R Zaumerman. Ernest Adlesberger of Baltimore visiting brother F A Adlesberger. E R Zimmerman in Baltimore this week. John McDivitt of Baltimore seeks dispatch work. F A Diffeoda and A A Hack return home. Miss Bel en J Rowe of Samuel Ready School Baltimore visits her father N Rowe. William Speed of Baltimore visits A N McNair. Mrs Josephine McIntire of Frederick visits daughter at Penola Farm near town.
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Emmitaburg Chronicle
Francis Lasobert
Baltimore
J. Kay Wrigley
Altoont
J.0
Soner
Sylvan
Pes
Pins Fox
Thaddeus Zimmerman
E. R. 2Aumerman
Ernest Adlesberger
F. A. Adlesberger
E. R. Zimmerman
John McDivitt
F. A. Diffeoda
A. A. Hack
Belen J. Rowe
Samuel Ready School
N. Rowe
Wm. Speed
A. N. McNairs
Josephine McIntire
Frederick
FP. A. Welty
Penola Fann
Town
Prof Ernest Lagarde Illness Recovery Report in New Orleans
Friends in New Orleans await Professor Ernest Lagarde of St Marys Mit Emmitaborg to recover from a month long illness. His youngest son John B Lagarde has stayed at his bedside and will accompany him to New Orleans when travel is possible, likely in early December. Lagarde will stay with his son Louis Lagarde at his Esplanade avenue home during the Crescent City visit.
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Erne Lagarce
New Orleans
Wil
Professor Lagerde
Professor Lagarde
Crescent City
Hls Sons
Louis Lagarde
Eaplanude Avenue
Miss Jeanie Turner Wins Indies Gold Watch at Brunswick Fair
The Brunswick band fair closed on Wednesday night November 25 with Miss Jeanie Turner winning the Indies gold watch. Her father Captain A Turner, a conductor on the B U, is noted. The purse totaled 9138, with the winner receiving 7638 and her competitor 15. Hood's Sarsaparilla is praised for cures.
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Jeanie Turner
A. Turner
Westminster Dedication Parade Marks Town Clock Gift
A town clock was dedicated to Westminster by Mrs. Margaret Cassell Bailey in memory of her deceased husband Henry Balla. The event featured a parade with Carroll County Band, Westminster fire department, schoolboys, and marching groups including Democratic and Republican clubs, a chorus, and speeches by Senator J. W. Hering and Rev. Joel Brown. The day drew many visitors as residences and businesses were decorated.
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Weetmitmacee
Westminster Lire
Grawe
Democraie Diem Corps
Maschester Banc
Maschester Gee Company
Repadican
Westminster Fire Department
Of'y
J. J. Stomp
Ofgrscce Assects Mos
Charles A. Myers
Assessing the New Assessment Law Faces Court Challenge
Hagerstown lawyers believe the new assessment law may be struck down by the Court of Appeals. They contend the board’s valuation power could be unconstitutional and that high assessments leave taxpayers with no remedy, prompting court involvement. The piece also notes a journal article on Rov Thomas Bray and his American libraries, highlighting colonial lending ventures and related societies.
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Marmora
England
Assalla
Hagersown
Court of Appeals
Board of Control and Review
Circuit Court
Board of Control
American Aratorical Review
McMillan & Co
New York
Bernard 0
Steiner
Fredatick
Thomas Bray
Bray
Oxford
Mary- Isud
Society For
Society
Union
Hymeneal notes for Stovler and Fiary wedding
Miss Ora Bells Fiary became Mrs Moses L Stovler at her home Wilow Grove Milk with about one hundred guests. Beav er Creek’s John Leighman served as beat man and Sadie Garver of Burkittevville was bridesmaid. The couple left for a wedding tour to Frederick, Kirkhityile and Middletown after the ceremony.
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Fibey
Ora Bells Fiary
Wilow Grove Milk
Moses L. Stovler
C. A. Hoy
Funkstown
John Leighman
Beaver Creek
Sadie Garver
Burkitteville
J. M. Steck
Smithsburg
Frederick
Tirkhitayile
Middletown
CO. T. Ramabarg
Lilite R
Horace B. Coblentz
Washington
Pequea
Augustus A. Obenderfer
Izzle Gerlack
Bsltimore
Education in Maryland statistical report by Professor Prettyman
Maryland education is reviewed as the School Commissioners begin their annual meeting at the State Normal School in Baltimore. Totals show 219 362 public school pupils, 146 610 in counties, with a rise of 1 468 from last year. County daily attendance averages 72 547, 2204 county schools, 56 new schools, 4616 county teachers with salaries totaling 1 790 7309.83, of which 535 400 23 goes to county teachers. Advertised letters list from Frederick City post office dated November 23 1856 and a football accident at remote Midland Institute where Howard M. Johnson breaks a leg, leading to possible football bans.
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E Prettyman
State Normal School
Baltimore
Frederick City
Itu
Geor Lewis
W H. Sane Toes
Thos &. Dinreeman
Charies Barry B.C. Felnour
3. Hubbard
Charles Kimmel
FJ Matier
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