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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1922
Page
7
Fragments show masthead style and policy notes from The Daily News Frederick Maryland including Associated Press credit rules and consent instructions for byline publications. The page appears as editorial boilerplate about printing policy and letter submissions.
The article notes that vacations often leave people with flat pocket books and tired bodies yet generally content. It adds that travel can renew ideas, break routine, and inspire workers, especially women, to view tasks anew. Many cannot travel again, so nearby camps offer rest in different surroundings.
New York reports strong demand for higher priced women’s dresses, better than last fall, suggesting improved conditions and potential to expand ventures with public support. Yet questions linger about profitability if fashion shifts force rapid wardrobe changes and women discard quality garments.
Property transfers show Charles Mec Mathias to John V Nicodemus for 10 dollars in Walkersville and other deeds including Adessa Stupp to Carl Davis for 160 dollars. Marriage licenses issued for Abraham Robinson and Ida Chase, Thomas W Clevenger and Melvie L Baker, Captain John H Charen and Recina S Hailer, with ages and counties noted.
Fragmentary notes recount events tied to American history including attacks by Indigenous peoples on September 1 1675 and other dated items such as Aaron Burr acquittal on September 3 and exploration claims. The legible entries are sparse and dispersed across locations and dates.
Answers from readers vary from no special exercise to regular yard and house routines. Guy Cramer says he works hard, Philip Beard plays baseball when able, T L Williams exercises whenever possible, W Roylston Krers relies on hard work, and Prof E P Gale keeps fit with household and yard activity.
The African Methodist Episcopal session condemned the Ku Klux Klan and urged passage of the Dyer Anti Lynching Bill. Ministers urged crime suppression and churches thanked the Frederick hospitality as the meeting adopted resolutions. The next session will meet in Baltimore at Tyson Church West Ioland Park. Local ministers read papers on topics and Rev J Gaines addressed the outlook for the denomination. Delegates to Louisville May gathering were urged. The Sunday school auxiliary advance guard arrived, with orders to begin the morning session.
A compact feature from The Biggest Little Paper In The World presents The Old Home Town, a column by Stanley that reflects small town life with affection and wry humor. This snippet captures the paper’s classic community voice and its aging editorial tradition.
Mr and Mrs John Kilpp Sr of near Braddock Heights hosted relatives on Sunday August 27 honoring Mrs Kilpps brother Charles Hart and family from Springfield Ohio who visited. Eighty three year old Mrs Julia Hanshew Abbott celebrated a birthday with friends, sharing reminiscences of Frederick and Barbara Fritchie. The note includes light humor about golf etiquette.
Geneva faces strain from her father over behavior and rumors about her mother. After overheard gossip, she confronts him by returning his slippers, and he holds her close, signaling emotional reconciliation and understanding between them.
Professor E B Jones explains archery basics for youths and beginners. He describes targets, scoring by color rings, and progression from forty feet to sixty yards. He notes better sportsmanship hunting with bow and arrow and outlines the American Round contest format with ends of six arrows.
Testimony concluded as Orphans Court prepares to hear arguments Monday in a dispute over the estate of the late Cordelia A. Cramer. Petitioners Minnie Culler and Elsie Shafer claim administrator William E. Cramer of Walkersville failed to provide complete asset returns amid a multi thousand dollar estate. Lawyers for both sides questioned witnesses yesterday.
Twenty years ago Frederick reports its largest first day enrollment in five years at Frederick College under President Cates. Other items note Pawid Gossard’s death with a large lineage, Junior Steam Fire Company planning for a State meeting, bids for a new steam heating plant deferred, a lightning strike damaging Beddeck Heights observatory with about 54 loss, and George M. Gittinger building plans near Braddock Weights with a mention of a questionable foundation.
The Maryland Coal Distribution Committee will not disappear on Saturday but will be filed away by Governor Ritchie for future reference. The coal situation remains muddled as the National Administration seeks legislation for government price fixing and control of the industry. Governor Ritchie may call a special session to enact price fixing while the Interstate Commerce Commission may continue scheduling railroad cars on priority.
Lige Bentley visited town and reportedly knocked loose a tooth in a fall while in Tell Rinkiey. A rare photographic portrait of Pauline Batcheter in a dress is noted among the collection.
Farmers on the Scottsbluff reclamation district adopt chicken-based grasshopper control as effective and profitable. A quarter-section farmer kept 500 chickens in colonies on 80 acres, cutting pest numbers by about 71 percent on pastured fields. He expanded to 1060 chickens this year, using poultry as pest insurance and showing better results than poison methods. The New York Times reports the approach as the latest farmer idea amid widespread hopper damage.
The two-cent stamp becomes a postal passport for the western hemisphere allowing a one-ounce letter to about 400 countries via 30,000 U.S. post offices. By March 1 Bermuda and Haiti joined, in May Spain and colonies joined, expanding rates to Argentina, Brazil, Jamaica, Costa Rica and more while Americans may overpay with five-cent stamps.
The Commissioner of the Land Office shall collect arrange classify and safeguard all papers records relics and other memorials connected with Maryland's early history that do not belong to another office.
Bible verse quoted from John 11 25 appears in an old classified ad in Thy News promising results. The ad frames belief in Jesus as life after death and links spiritual truth to reader inquiries.
In 1877 Thomas A. Edison spoke into a phonograph mouthpiece reciting a nursery line. Indentations appeared on tinfoil, the cylinder produced a voice though the recitation was incomplete, and the phonograph was born.
Postal workers must separate bundles of stuck letters since machines cancel one at a time. The process risks tearing addresses or misplacing sheets as mail is sorted and run again.
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