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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Sep 04, 1911
Page
4
The Daily News announces ownership and staff details for Frederick Maryland with publishing by Great Southern Printing. It lists circulation options, subscription rates, mailing practices, and contact avenues for news, advertising, and correspondence. Local and national submissions are solicited.
Monday September 4 1911 notice urging subscribers who miss papers to report to the office. Lists sale outlets including New City Hotel Buckey's Cigar Store Market Street Central Restaurant F K Schmidt's Cigar Store W Patrick Street Arlington Hotel and asks for service improvement.
A civic editorial warns that crowded theatres provoke panic and unnecessary deaths. It urges clear aisles, enforced crowding limits, and fire drills in schools. It cites Canonsburg's theatre scare and commends City Opera House management for keeping passages open. A Colorado woman’s storm journey is noted as part of cautionary examples.
A fragmentary column mocks conditions of a house without private baths prompting a 115 mile trip to a nearby town. A New Jersey man living across a town line debates voting locally. A Denver man with asthma needed a permit to cough on the streets. The piece notes suffragettes and a hymn spelling debate.
A dialogue filled with rustic slang shows Willie Jones teased about a tall hairstyle and a playful threat. Jack and Jen discuss news about a potential marriage to May Pretty Tant, noting she had already asked to be bridesmaid, highlighted by a Catholic Standard and Times frame.
A comic verse satire shows Files on Parade and the Color Sergeant debating the success of Doctor Wiley against microbes. They celebrate vaccines and canned goods as morale rises, with mock percussion of germs and doctors in a playful, protestant tone.
The Maryland fairs in York Germantown Frederick and Annapolis showcase agricultural abundance and stock exchange while oysters face declining yields and calls grow for stronger oyster advocacy ahead of January legislature. The column also defends the primary system as essential for good government and party competition in Maryland.
A dialogic fragment features a grandfather voice recalling a mortgage on an unpaid place. The exchange shifts to domestic jabs about a wife, a dinner, and a mother figure. The tone imitates salon gossip with letters of complaint and light mockery.
Rev Wayne Bowers, pastor of the Reformed church at Jefferson, resigns and will become pastor of the Maple Avenue Reformed church in St Louis. His resignation takes effect October 10 with his new post to begin the first Sunday in November after he starts work in June. A censistory meeting at Jefferson was planned to review the resignation.
Twenty years ago to day in Frederick reports the Palmetto Fiber Company factory would soon finish interior work. Charles Smallwood buys John Green’s cigar store on South Market street. City water works committee inspects reservoir site in the mountain. A gathering forms an Old Maid's Club.
A crowd of about 900 at the Opera House on DHLUT easy McLbee patton elk ew rushed for exits after a scream and a shout of fire. Richard Mahoney sixteen and another man were arrested for starting the panic. Mahoney fined ten dollars and jailed 60 days in default. No injuries reported. orchestra leader William Fisher helped calm the audience as guards restored order.
The document describes a theater policy allowing stage and audience to evacuate calmly if danger arises. It notes a centralized call system from the theater office connected to all parts of the building and a one minute update after any alarm to confirm no incident elsewhere in the house.
Grant Doulon Ponton of Buckeystown was committed to the Maryland School for Boys for three years after a Saturday incident in which he tried to obtain his money, threatened to kill his father with a loaded revolver, and threatened to burn the house. Deputy Sheriff Haover helped arrest him and Justice Keller ordered the commitment.
Auctioneer Harvey R. Lease conducts a public sale on the premises of a 21E acre farm in Montgomery county near Tourston. Justice J. Francis Smith acting for his mother Mrs IF F Smith Jr. realized $41 per acre, and the property was bought by George Nicholson who resides on the farm.
Thomas Biggs an employee of Messrs A A Lough and Son was seized by a spasm on the street near C and Cline's store shortly before one o'clock. He was carried into the store and revived after about fifteen minutes, then resumed his journey to work.
The Rev H Thimmelbaugh will officiate at the funeral of Charles Blessing in North York. Blessing was killed Saturday after falling from a three story hotel he was decorating for the firemen's convention. Sheriff E B Kettering returned with Charles H Clark, now confined for safety. An annual picnic is held by Frederick City Packing Company at Worthington springs. Baltimore excursion brought 106 visitors to Frederick.
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