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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Oct 10, 1905
Page
4
The independent news weekly offers subscriptions at 1.00 per year in advance with delivery in the city. Tax news office handles receipts and orders by mail or in person. Correspondence and business inquiries directed to THE NEWS in Frederick, Maryland.
Washington dispatch discusses funding the Panama Canal project through bonds and posterity. President Roosevelt weighs recommending the plan to Congress, arguing that future generations benefit from costly public works and should share the expense.
A string of editorials discusses American public opinion, political developments, and finance. The Baltimore American and Baltimore News reflect on fools, fortunes, civic governance, waterworks, and looming economic questions shaping voter sentiment.
A brief fragment presents a playful quote about life and wealth. The line attributed to a general speaker calls the company life itself among the richest things in the world. The source text reads as a whimsical aside.
A garbled page of quotations and phrases from various readers and captions. Names like Houston Post and Hogsten Post appear amid fractured lines about "majority rules" and remarks on sports and roses. The text is an unreadable collage with multiple incomplete phrases and attributions.
A miscellany from multiple papers discusses free press rights for Russians, youth war enthusiasm in Japan, and a social critique on American millionaires. It also comments on funerals’ costs, and argues cities grow by urban beauty and modern improvements.
Poem fragment describing autumn mood and vivid season imagery. Includes references to October’s bright weather, turning leaves, ripe apples, chestnuts, grapes, and wildflowers. Quasi-lyric lines evoke nature, love, and time, with displaced spellings and stylistic errors.
A special mayor and aldermen meeting approved macadamizing and curbing West Third Street with concrete curb and steel edge at 60 cents per foot and $1 per square yard for macadam. A Market Street sewer tapping ordinance sets $25 for a new tap, $15 for existing taps, and 50 cents for private-property taps, with permits required from the city register. Coryell notes West Third Street work totals $40 and a six inch curb with two foot brick gate. Work planned to start this week and finish in four days.
Obituaries report the death of Mr. Willem B. Merrick in Trappe Talbot county and Mrs. English widow of Samuel T. English dying suddenly in Rockville. Democratic nomination goes to Mr. David H Hahn for Carroll County House of Delegates seat replacing Milton A Zollicoffer. Havre de Grace considers a street trolley franchise tied to a Belair-Garrettsburg electric railway. Naval Academy says diphtheria among midshipmen has subsided and no further term delay is needed. 40 to 50 midshipmen affected. those on leave will report for duty Saturday.
BRIEF BITS recounts repainting at East Street homes of August Mehbring and Frank Tyerysr with workers Charles Wally and Caspar Killian. Also notes Bass caught at Harshman's Rock by J J A Filby and Harry Btone, ground broken for Solomon Zimmerman’s dwelling on East Third Street, and improvements to D F Davis coach shop on South Market Street. Includes illness updates, Presbyterian anniversary plans for November 21 22 23 1780 founded, and Young Men's Christian Association social for senior members. Local market prices for barley D and wheat No 3 red and other commodities. Also a ad and a note about Hall's Catarrh Cure with a Toledo testimonial and a silver watch found between Fourth and Patrick Streets offering reward.
The Washington Star reports Almas Temple of the Myrtie Shrine plans a bold visit to Frederick Maryland for the Imperial Council fair. Past Imperial Potentate Siegman says only the bravest deserve the fair as the group prepares a river excursion banquet and potentially a sizable parade. A long list of committee members is named to oversee arrangements for the event.
In a nerve wracking Saturday game at Adamstown the home club edged Point of Rocks 9 to 8. Remsberg starred behind the plate while Talbots hurled well for Adamstown, with strong support from the field and cheering ladies from Brookstown. Brunswick plans a return match at Adamstown this week.
Lewis H Keefer formerly of his city died at his Washington DC home 215 A street NW aged about 30. he leaves a widow and five children including Elmer Reefer Harry Frank Ella Kesfer and Nettie Neez. Christian Hershey a wealthy landowner of Comua Montgomery county died at his home aged 60. he is survived by a widow and son David Hershey.
A Frederick citizen describes constant back soreness and kidney discomfort that worsens with activity. He credits Dean's Kidney Pills from Clinton E. Main's drug store for relief, claiming the remedy fully meets its claims and citing Foster Milburn Co as the U S distributor.
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