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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Oct 30, 1919
Page
9
Odd questions mock intelligence testing in Virginia pupil assessments. The piece notes absurd prompts about oxygen paving and insects with brains, warning such "pay chysical" puzzles waste time while praising practical tests.
October 30 1919 report urges Frederick city and county residents to join the third annual Red Cross Roll Call opening Sunday and ending Armistice Day. Emphasizes ongoing services to veterans families and health programs, and appeals for donations to support disaster relief and universal human needs.
The Democratic campaign stage reaches Frederick with a City Opera House rally featuring Albert C. Ritehe for governor and other candidates. A parade forms in front of the New City Hotel, the Moose band leads, and a mass meeting closes in Burkhart's Hall with county candidates.
The notice lists multiple property transfers in the county from owners such as George W Runkles, Charles G Waters, Douglass Williams, Calvin D Staub, Clinton Cramer, Jesse W Brown, C Lynne Wood, and others with nominal sums. Marriage licenses reported include William Carson Motz and Ruth Easterday, Edgar A Snively and Madélie Motten, Bradley M Moore and Loufan M Harrison, Elina Wastler and Marie M Bair, Arthur J Waters and Elle Patterson, detailing ages and home counties.
Eight Frederick County banks appear on the state roll of honor for surplus and undivided profits over capital stock. The listings include Woodsboro Savings, Myersville Savings, Walkersville Savings, Valley Savings Middletown, Citizens Savings Thomont Thurmont, Fredericktown Savings Institution, and Central Trust Company of Maryland Frederick. Carroll County institutions also on the list: Manchester Bank Union Mills Savings Taneytown Savings Westminster Deposit and Trust Union Bridge Banking and Trust Hampstead Bank of Carroll and Carroll County Savings Link Uniontown. There are 140 state banks and trust companies, with 65 earning roll honors.
Secretary of War Baker announced that National Guard units may be formed beyond a fixed per senator and representative cap during the current fiscal year. He said pay availability and on hand clothing and equipment determine unit size, with new formations to be allocated to blend into existing units where possible. Noah E. Cramer and Son sold Mrs Emma V. Saylor's real estate near Walkersville, including a two and a half story dwelling, to S. C. Cramer on private terms.
Frederick pupils will view the Roosevelt moving picture free of charge at the City Opera House tomorrow. The Roosevelt Memorial committee arranged the screening for parochial and public schools with showings at 10:00, 1:30, and 3:30 p.m. The program includes Hood College Maryland School for the Deaf and local public and parochial schools.
Ralston Goldsborough of Cutton Maryland objects to a garbled citation in the October 27 issue titled Land lord and Tenant Quarrel. He requests future inquiries use his interview rather than published misstatements and signs off with his concern.
In the Albany Knickerbocker edition a note reports efficiency tests starting with a preliminary phase. The item highlights the plan, timing, and potential impact on operations, framed as a civic briefing.
An old ad-style note touts Pape's Cold Compound as a fast cure for colds claiming relief from nasal congestion headache and fever with a dose every two hours until three are taken. It emphasizes instant opening of stuffed nostrils and insists the product costs only a few cents and contains no quinine.
Readers glimpse Frederick area items from October 30 1899 including a Woodsboro burglary attempt at Catshall and Fogte with a $250 cash stash targeted, a Walkersville 140 acre farm sale at 102 per acre to Edward Shrimer, Utica Mills tournament won by Robert Mercer, candidate speeches by Buckey Rohrback Wood and Snouffer, and a vestry meeting at All Saints Episcopal Church to raise funds for a new organ.
Frederick County residents prepare for Halloween festivities with paries dances and gatherings. The piece notes playful ceremonies, future marriages, pumpkin pies, marshmallows by fires, and confetti on streets, while recalling past mischief and a ban on corn throwing. It mentions large farm listings including 12, 1160, and 70 acre properties.
Purely personal item notes Mr Howat Kusamani of Roanoke Virginia and Mr Paul Kussmaul of Akron Ohio have returned home after spending a few days with their aunt and uncle Mr and Mrs George Lochner.
Mrs. Lewis Lee of South Carroll Street has recovered enough from an operation at St Joseph's Hospital Baltimore to return home and improve. Mrs Calvin Purdum of Bartholong is critically ill at City Hospital while Mrs Alvie Main near Buckeystown remains quite ill at home.
Hagerstown native H C Koehler died at 9 30 after a three day illness from pneumonia aged 84 born in Frederick on September 29 1835 he moved to Hagerstown in 1874 and represented the W Md Railroad He was a lay estimator at St Johns Protestant Episcopal Church since 1866 survived by his daughter Mrs Charles Johnston Summer and two sons Reginald Stafford and C Victor Grove Lime Company bid Middletown Harp Hill road contract lowest offer 59500 by M S Grove Lime Co bid beaten by previous offers
Bayer insists on Bayer Tablets of Aspirin in Bayer package with proper directions for colds pain headaches neuralgia rheumatism. Genuine Aspirin prescribed by physicians for nineteen years in handy tin boxes of 12 tablets costing a few cents. Trade mark of Bayer Manufacture of Monoacetic acid ester of Salicylic.
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