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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Sep 05, 1908
Page
6
The Newb newspaper offers postal service details and reader correspondence while railing at recent political rhetoric. It questions whether the African American vote will join Taft, notes Atlantic City police acting as a press agent for a mystery show, and critiques Eastern Shore election reform efforts as needing practice.
BF Yoakum asserts American railroads move freight faster and farther per ton mile at far lower cost than Europe. He cites U S figures showing 7 cents per ton mile vs 14 cents in Germany and France and 24 cents in Great Britain, plus longer reach per dollar. Critics note local European charges and added services.
The article notes American firemen earn 315 while European firemen earn 765, section hands 108 more than conductors, and 123 more than locomotive frame wages. It credits American management for higher pay and cheaper service but cautions that casualty and loss of life are greater on American railways, suggesting safety improvements from European practice.
A local leader questions witnesses and the Boardwalk case draws renewed attention. The Cumberland News notes the principal witness and a chain of investigative leads emerge from varied local press excerpts.
A playful collage of clipped phrases from Washington Herald Philadelphia Ledger and Chicago News snippets. Characters trade wry lines about dogs gas flames and rural misreadings while a nameless narrator notes a slow resort and a tense joke about a cradle and a bucket.
A Washington Herald piece cites the Thaw murder case as a stark example of money buying mercy. It notes two justices ruling insanus, yet criticism centers on Dudican County prison comforts, hotel meals, and trials funded by the defendant’s wealthy circle. Reverend Hene S. Joes of the Oldest Men’s Societies spoke at Woodstock College on December 2.
The Braddock Veighta Band directed by Mr Irvings forms a key local ensemble at Braddock Heights, performing standard concert music every Sunday and for special gatherings. Eight members form the Braddock Heights Orchestra, with notable personnel listed. The group, employed by Frederick Enter-Urban Railroad Co., is a community favorite praised for its dance music and consistent high quality.
A fragment from a verse piece recounting a deserter who abandons battle when bugles sound and cannons fire He fears cowardice branding forever The poem contrasts the strongest and weakest elements of the universe and laments a heart overwhelmed by doom and despair while recalling spring and past happiness.
Tonight at City Opera House the feature Tales the Searchlight fold promises amusement and scenery. Si Slocum, visiting Coney Island, climbs the observation tower and views beach antics by a lively searchlight operator. A vivid panorama of Coney Isle unfolds before the mishap ends with the operator clinging to a piling as water deepens.
A new lot on West Third street extension was staked for cellar excavation of a brick dwelling for Mr. Ka Miller. Plans by Haanne Iber of York PA, contractor Lloyd Culler. Sixth change started on the extension.
A local humorist notes that Germany recognizing the rebel Mulai Hafid as Sultan may likely distress Abdul Aziz, implying a harsher fate for the ruler amid shifting power in Morocco.
The newspaper ad promotes Mall's Catarrh Cure as the only known cure for catarrh, touting internal use to affect blood and mucous membranes. It offers one hundred dollars for any case it fails to cure and lists Cheney & Co as the sellers with a family remedy for constipation also advertised.
The Woman's College will reopen for its sixteenth year under the present administration on Wednesday September 16 with enrollment in the college library. Chapel exercises Thursday morning precede regular recitations. The campus and buildings have been refreshed with paint and repairs. New quarters and expanded facilities join the Domestic Science and Art department under Miss Young, including a permanent athletic field. The science and English departments expand with new staff, while the Art, Expression, and Music faculties begin their sixteenth, twelfth, and eleventh years respectively. Enrollment covers nine states and the college notes its fifteenth commencement anniversary.
Daniel C. Miller a respected Middletown farmer dies at 71 from general debility his funeral set for 2 pm at the Lutheran church with interment in the Lutheran cemetery He is survived by his widow five children including Lewis P Miller and Mrs Charles C River Grant C Wachter dies near Gettysburg gastritis at 42 with five children and multiple siblings funeral at Utica church Monday followed by Utica Cemetery services.
The funeral for Susan M. Putman was at St Luke's Vongaville at 1.30 PM with interment in St Luke's cemetery. She leaves two sons and three daughters. The late Harry C Koontz was bid farewell in a North Bentz Street home Mass at St John's at 9.30 AM. Fr. W J Kane officiated as Eagles members attended and pallbearers listed. Interment followed at Mount Olivet. W H Etchison handled arrangements.
The Sick Mr F W Sehleigh is ill at his daughter Mrs Charles Mobberly's home in Dillavenge. Mrs Clifford Snyder in Sills stays with her parents Mr and Mrs Win A Hahn East street. Louisa Moberly on West South street ill with fever but able to be out. Mrs Molny confined by sickness. Edward Ritchie and family at City Hospital with typhoid fever improving after critical stage. Wim Gaylor injured at the power house by a falling scaffold, no bones broken, no internal injuries suspected.
News items report the Peabody Institute opening for the season, a light frost in Washington county lowlands, the death of Mrs. Sarah M. Stoner near Uniontown Carroll county, and the guilty plea and $5000 fine of Victor G Blocde of Baltimore for conspiring to defraud the government in ink contracts. The body of Rev Dr Henry C Cush ing was moved to Westminster for lying in state and funeral.
At a special 4 PM meeting of the Junior Fire Company Merars Francia B Sapping ton Edward A Gittinger and Grover Jacobs were named to draft suitable resolutions on the death of the late Harry C Koontz. Frank Crebs of the New City Hotel is home ill with rheumatism. Dr William D Willard of Norfolk Va visiting his brother Clinton B Willard in Frederick on his first Freder ick visit in fourteen years.
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