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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Oct 12, 1914
Page
4
Frederick News subscribers missing issues are asked to report the problem to the office. The paper states it is taking steps to fix delivery and asks for timely notification to improve service.
The Great Frederick Fair nears its fifty fourth edition with three weeks to go and major plans underway. The Agricultural Society hopes for favorable weather and strong local participation across all competitions from iron raising to needlework, aiming for a high standard display of Frederick county resources and achievements.
A petition by many thousand real merchants seeks to tax mail order houses as a war tax measure. The piece argues door to door peddlers avoid local tax, skewing competition and harming taxable support for local government. It frames the issue as rivalry shaping fiscal policy.
The article argues retail merchants keep visible stock paying local taxes while mail order houses pay in distant cities, reducing local tax baselines. It claims catalog sales reach across many states, suggesting a fair local tax on tangible property should reflect the business’s local footprint. The piece stresses the inequity of shifting tax burdens away from physically present inventories.
The New York World reports Dr Simon Flexner announced at Johns Hopkins that he identified the germ causing infantile paralysis in an animal, noting infection via mouth nose and lungs membranes rather than insects. He cites Scandinavian endemic cases and hopes antitoxin will aid prevention, comparing to typhoid and diphtheria declines with inoculation and antitoxin.
Sixteen persons traveled to Baltimore by excursion over the B and C lines yesterday. A large crowd from Baltimore visited this city to enjoy the flag festivities. An excursion to Mt Gretna over the Northern Central from this city carried six travelers who enjoyed the almond leaf outing to that place.
Local items recount a painful accident near Frederick with William Ramsy losing the index finger after a cutting machine incident. Miss Kittie Rhoadex performs An Old Man's Darling at City Opera House. Charles E. Malley shows off large eggs from Plymouth Rock and Dominica hen. Frederick Fair draws crowds. Hagerstown hand serenades the fair board. The annual fair dance at Junior Hall features chaperones Mrs. W Keller Mrs. Charles B Trail Mrs. J U Market Mrs. Marks WL Rosa Mrs. Thod Yer Page Mrs Frank HH Marketl and Mrs. B C McSherry.
The Visitation Academy School of Music opens with an April large enrollment and introduces Miss J Helen Feather as vocal teacher from the International Conservatory of Music Baltimore. Feather, a graduate pupil of Meme Madge Elvey London, brings modern methods and acclaimed professional experience to harp violin and piano instruction. The vocal department begins regular work October 14 under Feather with high expectations for a landmark year.
Obituaries report the deaths of Mrs. Susan A. Waltz of Baltimore aged 63 and John Michael Holbruner of Woodsboro aged 78 with lists of survivors. Funeral details include churches, times, and directors. The horticultural society notes academic essays and a Mary land school contest. A cycling club plans a Baltimore run from Frederick to Baltimore with a return trip. Delavan's comet visible near Arcturus. Public interest notices include house painting advice and local advertisements.
The State Tax Commission seeks detailed transfer data and precise land and building descriptions from county assessors. Many records from 1910 lack separate land and building values, exact addresses, and true consideration in transfers, slowing statewide assessment reviews in Frederick County and beyond.
Henry Hall, colored, was arrested by Constable Deeter on Saturday night for cutting Robert Murray, also colored, with a beer bottle on the corner of All Saints and Market streets. Murray sustained a deep head wound needing several stitches. Hall faces a hearing before Justice Dennis at Police headquarters this evening.
Meredith Herper of East Street and several neighbors are reported ill but improving. Richard Anderson of East Church Street and Miss Jenaie Renner of East South Street have been sick. both are able to be out or return home. Mrs. William C Martin of North Market Street, previously bedbound, is now able to move about. Esther McCarthy of Hood College remains confined with a sprained ankle. A group including Mr Edwin Zimmerman and wife, Mr Curfman and wife, and John FE. Fleming and wife were on an anti moblie trip to Hagerstown yesterday to visit Earl Munson and family.
The Rhodes family Frank B Rhodes wife and children Frank Jr and Winifred travel as the Four Palettes. Recently at the Hippodrome Huntington W Va they received a cordial reception for a refined novelty act with scenery painted by Frank Sr. The Boy Scouts honored Frank Rhodes Jr who was featured in a leading act.
The Frederick City Post Office census of October 14 1914 lists advertised letters. To obtain them call for Advertised Letters within two weeks or they go to the dead letter office. Gentlemen's List includes Benj Frankel James E Fogle Kessler and House Nora B Smith John Thwaite Dab ney Trice. Ladies List lists Miss Mary Carmack Miss Florence Lyne Mrs Fannie Miller Mrs BE Mickle Mrs Laura Thomas.
Frederick county teachers will get their first pay of the year on Wednesday or Thursday. Superintendent Palmer stated that while many salaries were raised the commissioners did not fully follow the salary law passed by the recent legislature. The emphasis was on efficiency in raising salaries rather than years of service.
An advertisement claims deafness caused by inflammation of the Eustachian tube and catarrh can be cured only by constitutional remedies. It offers one hundred dollars for any case of deafness due to catarrh that Hall's Catarrh Cure cannot cure, and promotes Hall's Factory Pills for constipation.
In the Circuit Court for Frederick County sitting in equit y the case Auditor's Report in the matter of Albert Maynard Emma Maynard and Thomas B Maynard versus Alice Maynard Tucker Philip Davis Tucker et al. The court orders action on the Auditor's Report on November 2, 1914 unless caused shown to the contrary, with publication in Frederick County newspapers for two consecutive weeks. True copy by Clerk Frank C Norwood.
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