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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Sep 23, 1901
Page
4
A collection of editorials critiques the grand jury witness system and Roosevelt era politics while urging stricter laws against concealed weapons. It argues revolvers fuel crime, notes a public anger toward perceived slander, and emphasizes severe penalties for carrying concealed arms, urging caution with a drunk black man who mishandled a revolver.
A collage of editorials praises Admiral Howison and Admiral Schley, condemns The New York Sun for its prosecuting witnesses, and lauds Theodore Roosevelt’s integrity. It notes Maryland’s public schools debating nine to seven month terms, urging improvements in institutions and community celebration.
Fragmentary OCR mentions nurseries of virtue and learning likened to schools and notes a public emphasis on age and State responsibilities. The readable text is incomplete, offering only a vague sense of civic education and governance without clear names, dates, or places.
A collage of quoted lines and quick exchanges from multiple papers. Snippets include a Gildersleeve remark on a disappearance, a romantic exchange about marriage prospects, a labor and capital digression, a hobo’s comment at a gate, and a boast about a financier’s wealth, all from Detroit Free Press Boston Post Indianapolis News.
The piece surveys anniversaries of presidents and national sentiment on September 19, 1881 and 1901, noting Garfield and McKinley deaths and burials. It quotes editorials from the Philadelphia Inquirer Washington Star and Atlanta Constitution, praising unity, resilience, and Roosevelt’s era promises.
A mixed notes page features verse lines about night, sea, wind, and love with references to Longman’s Magazine. It shifts to verses about walking through woods, wooing, and nature’s signs with a rural, lyrical tone. An advertisement promotes Green's August Flower as a brain and digestion tonic with claims of health benefits and a drugstore listing.
Washington report notes President Roosevelt has chosen Grace Reformed Chapel at the corner of 3rd and O streets NW as his Washington church. Rev. John H Schick explains the Dutch Reformed affiliation and recounts how the President and Vice President attended services following the inauguration. The chapel plans a new 50 by 100 foot building to seat 600, with estimated cost $30,000 and pledges already made.
As early as 1663 coffee faced sharp satire across lands with invective from press and pulpit. A preacher cursed drinkers as using a beverage “a strop of soot and essence of old shoes” while a divine called it “a poison God made black.” Women also joined the critique, taking up the cudgels against it.
The piece discusses Dutch folding linen as a skilled domestic art with fine fabrics crafted into birds, animals, and flowers. It notes linen closets are proudly displayed and contrasts courting days with married life, while mentioning global tastes and historical notes on women in government work in 1862.
The circuit court opened at noon with Chief Judge McSherry and Associate Judge Motter. Italians Nazzarine Polacha and Stephano Valencio faced a jury for aiding and abetting Ginatin Deberdino in fatally wounding Giovenni Biondi on September 5. Testimony needed an interpreter. Deberdino fled. Jury list included Fox, Hitzeleberger, Valentine, Morrison, Fox, Eyler, Fromke, Barrick, Cutler, Miller, Gaither, Mercer. Also, Wm. T. Hall pled guilty to threatening mail extortion and was fined, and William Dopping admitted larceny of three chickens and received six months in the House of Corrections.
Funeral notices for Louisa Catherine Moore of Taneytown and Frederic G. Andrew of La Porte are reported along with obituaries for Cyrus H. Doub of Middletown, Peter Kline of Schleysville, Susan Makell of West All Saints street, and Eliza Hahn of Littlestown. Details include birth years, survivors, travel deaths, funeral times and locations, and burial plans.
The Woman's Christian Temperance Union of Maryland meets in Westminster October 1. Cumberland sees a new pastor at Trinity Lutheran, while the Maryland Agricultural College reopens with extended classes. Baltimore and Ohio lines merge under one management and a trust mill closure near Cumberland is reversed. Passenger rail projects target December 1 operation. A trolley fatality in Sharon Hill, Pa. and a 14.20 fine for dynamiting fish in Town Creek are reported, alongside political nominations and local quarrels over construction contracts.
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