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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1916
Page
6
The item lists subscription rates for the Daily News and mini Weekly News and notes USPS mailing options. It shows price points for printers city editions, subscription terms, and where The News is available for sale in Frederick Maryland with office contact addresses and store locations.
The author laments the difficulty for capable business and professional men to enter politics. Honest, average men face low salaries and pressure to bow to local powers. Superior talent can overcome machine politics, but many worthy individuals decline public service to protect business interests, risking governance quality and community progress.
In a noted piece on the New York traction strike tone, the article argues that bitterness signals looming problems between labor and capital. It warns against simplistic views of each side and stresses the real struggles to secure decent living conditions amid high costs, predicting ongoing conflict unless mutual understanding improves.
The speaker argues for engaged capital and improved worker conditions, urging owners to visit homes of workers, offer healthful conditions, and share profits via bonuses. It warns against socialism and government substitutes, praising private ownership for energy and cheaper goods, and notes strikes are often deterred by cooperation and goodwill.
A summary of Ella Anker’s article on Norway’s women's movement, tracing three stages from Camilla Collett’s influence through access to professions, to eventual voting rights. It notes Ebsen and Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson shaping early thought, Krog’s role in opening schools and careers, and the 1907 limited vote followed by universal suffrage, with cabinet eligibility now debated in Parliament.
A poem style meditation on the factory thinker guiding iron and steam. It places the Thinker as the unseen brain behind plows, sabers, boilers, and cranes, shaping work with vision. The piece links industrial progress to human intellect and dreamers who drive invention.
Purely Personal notes list numerous local visitors and travelers from Ingerstown to Frederick and beyond. It also covers a school boycott at Annandale and minor disruptions at Prospect School, plus appointments for a bank examiner and plans for 1917 auto license tags to be manufactured in New York.
Mrs. J. FE. Frook of South Market Street has been ill with pleurisy and bronchial trouble but is improving. Mrs. Guy L. Fout, also of South Market Street, was operated on at Frederick City Hospital on Monday and is improving and getting along nicely.
Rev. Dr. F. H. Havener, pastor of Den Methodist Episcopal Church Westminster, died suddenly of a heart attack. Havener preached Sunday and went about the city as usual Monday before his death, despite recent heart troubles.
Local EMS from The News columns recall a thunderstorm Friday night causing injuries and property issues. officers note patrols and a candidate for president plans future operations, while veterans’ qualification registrations occur across county districts.
Hood College begins its twenty fourth year with a 9 30 opening in Brodbeck Hall addressed by Dr J A McCuaig of New York. Enrollment of day students rose with many hoarding students due to arrive. the faculty met yesterday to map plans. the board of directors meets Friday. prep and seminary groups host receptions and joint services.
Funeral services were held for Dr George H Reena director of the Skin and Cancer Wing at Mt Olivet Baltimore with hundreds present. The paper lists active and honorary pallbearers and notes a future renaming of the hospital as Everhart Skin and Cancer Hospital. Other funerals include Mrs Frank Suman James C Kol James W Ham and Thomas Voorhees with services at Mt Olivet and Greenmount cemeteries. a colored man died at 71. No Saloon On Fair Ground references given.
Frederick County banks publish detailed statements of resources and liabilities for September 1916. Figures show loans, deposits, reserves, and bank stock across Frederick County institutions including Frederick National Bank Walkersville Savings Bank and other local banks with per bank totals and signatories.
Hood Seminary announces reopening with College Preparatory and General Course options. Native-language instruction in German French and Spanish for older students, Conservatory of Music, School of Art with drawing and painting, School of Expression for elocution and drama, and a Normal Class for children. Hood College invites day students September 19 and boarding for 20 with the thirty fourth year starting September 21 at 9 30 a m.
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