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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Oct 11, 1902
Page
6
The Daily News and The Weekly News announce subscription and advertisement rates. Mail and carrier delivery options are offered in Frederick Maryland with annual prices and discounts. A 1902 notice outlines subscription prices, advance payments, and order handling for city and United States deliveries.
The passage shows operators declining to acknowledge a group called the wolan and facing resistance from Beets strength. It hints at a large undertaking involving public coins and political talk, with vague references to protection, winter exits, and an effort to organize a large Echlay nation.
A contentious dispute pits railroad coal companies and labor leaders against public authority. Critics argue coal road presidents violate Sabbath or constitutional norms by exploiting corporate structures to mine coal while opposing labor action. The Washington conference and presidential stance frame a broader debate over legality, ethics, and the balance of power between capital and labor.
Contemporaries note coal operators resist higher costs while political figures argue over how to keep the coal strike at bay. The Baltimore World and Baltimore American discuss Baer’s view on keeping politicos out of coal work and the potential impact of leadership on the ongoing labor dispute.
Maryland health authorities outline state rules for handling bodies of persons who died from contagious diseases. The regulations require undertakers to manage the body and govern funeral conduct, with private funeral rites and burial within twenty four hours. Local boards often issued such rules, but statewide adoption aligns Maryland with leading public health practice.
A collage of comic snippets and overheard exchanges from rural life. Dialogues touch on love, polemics, and social fashion with quips about North Pole, automobiliete, and local mispronunciations. The pieces reflect early 20th century small town humor and character portraits.
A Philadelphia Telegram piece condemns ex Secretary Alger for his War Department record and criticizes Governor of Michigan for backing him. It cites public indignation at such an appointment and notes KeKinley’s removal of Alger, sending him back to Washington. The piece contrasts with a separate Atlanta Journal report on record bank deposits in the United States.
A jumble of old verse lines and product promotions appears, mentioning rhymes for a muse, a lady and a glass, then a dreamlike travel path to wealth and wisdom, followed by an ad for Devoe Lead and Zinc Paint and Liver life remedies.
C F Marsets of Zurich reports a Swiss to Luzerne visit in 1902. He describes Lugerne as a premier water resort with American and English visitors spending about thirty million dollars a season and highlights landmarks like Thorvaldsen’s lion bridges and Jacustring floods. He remarks on evangelical hotel management and ancient lake dwellings near Zuriah.
The account describes a glacier garden with large potholes and grinding stones, a glacier-era landscape near Lucerne, and a voyage through Tell’s chapel and Axenstrasse. Zurich impresses with its architecture, universities, markets, and quirky local terms while Swiss city life reveals bustling streets and distinctive transport. A Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia circular seeks help to locate a thief who vanished with a horse and buggy in Frederick in October 1909.
Last night a preliminary committee was appointed at the court house to devise plans and nominate officers for Auxiliary No.4 a branch of the Schley Triumphal Arch Association Baltimore. Milton G Urner chaired the meeting with W H Hinks and J Clarke Kieffer among the members. The movement aims to raise funds for the arch locally then go national and include the entire county with district vice presidents to organize and fund raise. The committee adjourned at 10 18 pm to reconvene October 14 at Mr Urner's office.
A dispatch from Harpers Ferry traces John Day or Arthur Spenser, born near the Potomac in Sandy Hook Maryland to Lucy Piper, a light mulatto woman, and John Spenser. He later attended Storer Normal School and kept ties with its early students, including a Maine newspaper proprietor, before moving with his brother to Martinsburg and later returning to visit his old school.
Morning market chatter notes a chill air as locals discuss coal, wood, and stove choices while listing fresh produce and prices. Columns highlight sausages, eggs, butter, poultry, apples, pears, grapes, and a wide range of vegetables with rates per dozen or per basket, capturing a rural paper’s brisk market mood.
State's Attorney Worthington said Spenser, confined in jail, wrote a letter to Mrs Looy Ep No 78 Alley E Whosling, W 2. A liberal reward will be given for the apprehension of the man and returning him and the stolen property to Frederick county authorities. Mr Myers searched Littlestown Pa for the missing horses and buggy.
Henderson Grimott of this place was stricken with partial paralysis and loss of use of limbs. After two bottles of Coast Relief’s Pain Balm, prescribed by a physician, he fully recovered. The remedy is advertised by A. L. Pearra in this issue.
At a Business Men's Association meeting the transportation committee seeks railroad arrangements for daily carloads of soft coal into Frederick. Cambrian coal is available but railroad limitations hinder meeting city demand.
Col B F M Barley of Hagerstown will write twelve historical papers on the old National turnpike from Frederick to Wheeling for a leading New York magazine. He plans to begin November first, traveling overland to Ohio for data, with Br Hursy visiting points of interest in collaboration with the historical association. A stenographer will record dictated material for monthly installments, and the work will be copyrighted.
Roscoe O White returns from the Sons of Veterans commanders in chief meeting in Washington where no ritual changes were made a committee was appointed to revise it and report next year in San Francisco The GA BR proposition to admit Sons of Veterans to their meetings was defeated delegates to the Washington meeting will report at the lost chapter meeting Monday night
C R Larson of Bay Wills Sundays River Cape Colony runs a South African style store nine miles from a railway and twenty from the nearest town. He notes farmers within thirty miles commonly patronize, with Chamieldain’s remedies and a Sherorest line praised for safety. The store serves a population of about sixty, recent twelve months showing fourteen disturbed by Chambers Corch Remedy.
Managers of the Great Frederick Fair and the York and Rockville Montgomery county fairs anticipate a robust event with double the value in special features from last year. A new dog building is completed under Manager J Rogar McSherry.
The notice warns travelers of illness from travel and diet and recommends carrying a bottle of Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhea Remedy. It cites A L Peatre as a local seller and mentions the ill person Lewis Markell at West Patrick Street.
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