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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Sep 23, 1909
Page
4
Frederick Maryland brief item notes local happenings with brief mentions of events and dates. No clear names or actions readable from the fragment.
Citizens debate reform as Warren and Weilman question hard luck stories’ appeal. Philadelphia residents again push governance changes amid skepticism that truth and persistence guarantee audience sympathy.
The National Blackman and Farmer endorses farm land investments as profitable nationwide over the past decade and argues city farmers can profit with knowledge. It highlights improving productive land, downsizing large tracts near markets, and small country homes as growth paths for farmers and investors.
A Baltimore News item reflects on city life discussing varied topics and social observations. The piece mentions equinox, local events, and questions about racial tensions and community dynamics amid urban growth.
Fragmentary excerpts from humorous and social notes in the Kansas City Journal and Cleveland Leader feature parodies and remarks. A line about a cab driver, fashion hats, and a romantic girl reflects light social humor from the era.
A Washington Herald column criticizes contemporary women’s attire, arguing that fashion trends such as peekaboo gowns and Mary Jane styles undermine womanly virtue. The piece urges women to reject bold, immodest dress to preserve dignity and appeal to men.
An archaic verse meditation on human development through the threefold plan of soul, mind, and body. It speaks of instinct, vision, and action shaping truth, beauty, and virtue through energy, time, and effort in a striving toward harmony of religion, science, and art.
A National Association report shows twenty eight state legislatures approving over 4 million dollars for tuberculosis suppression in the last year. Many states fund new sanatoria or hospital capacities while others tighten posting and registration, education and prevention efforts.
The Virginian reports a tale from M Lake of Higginaville Missouri claiming Albin Wayne from Fauquier County and a circle of medical students struck Billy Patterson in Richmond around seventy five years ago. Patterson, a big drinker and fighter, was left on the sidewalk after a single blow, with the students denying involvement to avoid notoriety. Payne, who later became a noted Virginia physician and writer as Nicholas Spicer, reportedly fled rumors to escape public attention.
The article outlines profitable beekeeping with urban roofs in New York and Cincinnati, noting yields of thirty to forty pounds per colony annually. It lists favorable nectar sources such as Filbert, Rape, Apricot, peach, pear, plum, cherry, apple, currant, gooseberry, and tree species like locust, poplar, and horse chestnut providing pollen and honey in spring May.
Mr and Mrs J A Vogt of the City hotel hosted a chicken and walle supper in the private dining room Tuesday for their guest Miss Oliva Amon of York. The table was decorated with ferns and asters. Attending were Miss Nina Warfield Mrs Leonard Nickel Miss Genevieve Warfield Miss Fannie Warfield Miss Olive Amon and Mrs J A Vogt. Menu prepared by steward Mr Leonard Nickel.
The wedding of Theodore HH Weaver and Miss Nore Harbaugh took place on September 22 in the MReformed parsonage at Adamstown, Funkstown, Maryland. The ceremony was conducted by the bride’s uncle, Rev. Alvill Conner, at the local parish.
Mr Millard I Lesse of North Market etrest tends a four year old quince tree that bore for the first time this year producing 74 quinces. The largest fruit weighed 2 ounces.
Quotations furnished September 23 1909 show Wheat No 2 red at 1.08, Yellow Ear Corn 3.70 per barrel, White Ear Corn 3.70 per barrel, Shelled corn 0.72 6 per bushel, Barley 0.50 0.60 per bushel. Hay timothy No 1 13 14, No 2 18 19, mixed 10 12, Clover 8 9, Straw baled wheat oats 10 12 per ton. Flour Winter wheat 5 6 per barrel, Spring wheel 6 7 per barrel. Cornmeal 1.35 1.75 per 100 pounds. Middlings 29 per ton, Red Dog 2.36 2.36, Cotton Seed Meal 38 0 per ton. Timothy 2 2 1 per bushel, Clover 5 6 5 per bushel.
A scrambled OCR fragment shows Baltimore stock market notes and a Maryland bank statement headed by CENTRAL NATIONAL BANK with items on overdrafts bonds deposits and due from other banks. The text mentions Lowenstein Wertheimer and a tram wreck anecdote but is largely garbled.
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