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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 1914
Page
4
The Frederick News outlines subscription rates and delivery options with mail and carrier service. Rates shown include 26 cents monthly, 1.00 for four weeks, 1.60 for six months, and 2.00 for two months. The newspaper office is connected to the telephone, accepts ads by mail, and solicits news from across the country. Distribution includes city carriers and postal service within the United States and possessions.
The Student Government Association selects officers for the year and promotes a college wide honor system. The pledge enforces honesty in academics and athletics, with student self governance under faculty harmony.
A local warning outlines repeated fraud by various agents who prey on residents. It urges caution against solicitors and offers advice on avoiding advances and financial loss, urging readers to stay informed and vigilant.
A voice warns readers to beware swindlers who solicit money for goods not delivered. It notes many legitimate agents exist, but a few crooks spoil trust. It urges buying from local home stores and supporting home enterprise to ensure fair dealing and reliable service.
German industry shifts to warm clothing as soldiers prepare for winter. Officers receive 150000 fur coats while 2,000,900 lamb and sheep skins are bought for enlisted men. Workers from glove making move to fur work. An accident on West All Saints Street involved a two-horse team colliding with a wagon, breaking a couping rod and sending horses running through Market Street.
A fishing trip yielded five and nine fish for Austin ium. The Missen Beck Iey property on South Market Street is being repainted by a crew led by Henrys R. Lampe. The Henderson case, charged with attempted assault on Mrs. Jacob Geisinger, was postponed again with no hearing date set.
Twenty years ago in Frederick a new Reformed Sunday School Chapel at Burkittsville was set to be dedicated with services on October 14. Reported thefts included raisins and goods from Walkersville station and warehouse of the Pennsylvania Railroad. Light arrangements for the fair were approved despite the moon schedule, and a Philomathean Society meeting was planned for October 14. Notes mention James C. Ferrer of Petersville and banking deposits across Frederick’s five national banks totaling 1 58044 dollars.
Henry Myers, once confined at Shephard and Pratt Baltimore, was found atop his hat and taken to Montevue hospital. He regained sense the next morning and is now able to converse though previously mute. He recalls Frederick residents and said prior work with Baltimore and Ohio railroad. case described as queer. He carried $24 and appeared refined.
Mrs Fannie B Leather filed a petition for appeal to the Court of Appeals this morning. The suit seeks 15000 damages over her husband’s 1912 death, with negligence alleged against Morrix Iron Company. Separate cases include a 5000 dollar assault suit by Chester Wiles and a jury award of 207 dollars in a wheat dispute. Local criminal docket opened with George Hughes charged with assault with intent to murder. A relay test by Junior and United Fire Companies was planned on North Bentz Street, followed by a large hose line test on South Market Street. A Company A dance was set for 9 pm in the armory with music by the Badcock Hearts Orchestra.
Frederick resident Mrs. AT Webster testifies that Doan's Kidney Pills ease backache and kidney discomfort after family use. The ad from Foster Milburn Co. promotes the pill as single purpose relief with price five cents and urges asking for Doan's by name at local drugstores.
A three month old laboratory at Frederick City Hospital, funded by local friends, speeds diagnoses by enabling blood. urine and sputum tests on site. Dr Edward L Bowlus supervised the setup with a centrifuge, sterilizers, and a microtome to produce tissue sections.
An advertisement testimonial from Noberta, Homer City, Pa, praising a cough remedy as consistently effective over years. It notes the product is for sale by all dealers.
The Frederick Water Committee met in the City Regulator's office to review a liquid chlorine purification plant intended for city reservoirs. Officials planned to install the system to treat all water supply, but an expert from New York warned insufficient pressure at Indian Springs could delay completion.
A French peasant household remedy of pure vegetable alcohol is promoted by Chicago druggist George H. Mayr as a cure for stomach liver and intestinal troubles. The ad claims rapid relief from a single dose and notes availability at Williamson’s drugstore 40 North Market Frederick Md.
Public sale conducted under mortgage from William E. and Dora B. Riddlemoser to Franklin Savings Bank. Auction to be held October 16, 1914 at the Frederick County Courthouse, featuring Lots 29 and 31 on Seventh Street and a new two story brick dwelling at No. 228 Seventh Street with improvements and a vacant lot. Cash terms, $300.90 deposit, conveyance at purchaser’s expense. Auctioneer H R Lease. attorney George W Heinlein named in mortgage.
In the Circuit Court Frederick Counts sitting in inquiry Norman L Routzaghn Assignee of Mort ram Wiliam bE riddlemoaer Dora St Kiddiemoyer wife Middletown Sasinga Bek of Frederick County on Petiten September Term 1914 on October 16 194 the Court will proceed to get upon the report of sales of Real Estate reported by Herman L Neutzahn Assignee in the above case and file the report of amounts due the court a copy of this offer to be printed in a Frederick County news paper for three successive weeks prior to the report date. The clerk Harry W Bowers certifies.
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