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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1902
Page
4
A columnist mocks a bungled quotation about Roosevelt and parries fanciful superstition about Friday travel. The piece argues for nonpartisan tariff study and cites Roosevelt’s Logansport trip as support for expert commissions to shape tariff policy without party bias.
The United States press voices support for the President to press the Cuban tariff matter. Editors argue a bold stance will shape Congress when it reconvenes, urging action in the national interest and prompting a decisive response to ensure justice and policy reform.
A selection of humorous exchanges and quips from parcelled joke items. The notes include exchange between a child and parent about eclipses, a comedian calling out honesty in positions, a teacher recounting a deluge, a blondes versus brunettes joke, and a picnic inquiry with an umbrella punchline.
The letter page urges that miners and operators stop wrangling and settle through a court, denouncing the public as the harmed third party. It critiques public officials, questions rights, and argues for lawful resolution amid winter coal fears. It highlights reformist calls against coercive arbitration and stresses the public’s need for steady coal supply.
Consumers weary of the coal dispute call for recognition and fair treatment from operators and miners. They condemn attempts to break arbitration, note operators’ fallen dividends and public pressure, and urge Mitchell and unions to concede for the public good before harsher consequences affect households in cold weather.
A fragmented verse item quotes hopeful lines from Washington Star and Florence Earce Coates praising love of justice and truth. It laments fleeting memory and urges honoring a hero’s name while life flows like a restless river.
The Woman's Home Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal church met at Mrs. Willer's home on Ent Third Street. The program featured concert lessons and readings by Miss Morsell Miss Wickham Mrs. Harley and Mrs. Hendrickson with music by Miss Mary Filler. Refreshments followed and the meeting adjourned.
The Sick Miss John Young on South Market Street has improved. Philip Seeger of East Patrick Street and Miss Lena Seeger are listed as ill. Miss Ann Rebecca Fout has been moved to Frederick City Hospital for treatment and is doing well. Mr L M Nixdorf confined to his room at Coastalpin Cottage Braddock Heights is able to be downstairs. Mrs Louis Markell of West Patrick Street is quite ailing.
Invitations issued by Dr and Mrs George Troxsli Motter Taneytown Md for daughter Virginia Rudi sel to Wirt Henry Totwiler. Ceremony October eighth at Trinity Lutheran Taneytown. Motter niece of Judge John Co Motter. Ad copy promotes Hostetter Stomach Bitters and Dr Birg s New Life Pills with testimonials and medical claims.
Baltimore officials formed a subcommittee to advise on substitutes for anthracite coal amid a coal famine. The report lists crushed coke, oil, gas, wood, and fuel stove options with cost estimates, heat output, and installation notes, noting safety and suitability for existing coal-fired furnaces and stoves. It warns of smoke and bulk issues, but highlights potential for lower fuel costs and broader accessibility if production scales up.
A collage of pithy lines and quips on aging, marriage, and daily lighthearted troubles. It mixes wry reflections on aging and social norms with a few local notices such as a furniture sale at 47 South Market Street and a bridge company meeting. A testimonial extols a dysentery remedy, touting quick relief.
Various Maryland items including bank building work at Chesapeake City Cecil county. Talks of mayoral recount in Cumberland. Miss Kite Maddox admitted to practice in Baltimore. Weavers strike at Baldwin Manufacturing in Bank continues. New long distance link Chesapeake and Potomac telephones completed. Accidents in Carroll and Cecil counties. Richard B. Pentoney arrested in Washington county. Venable mayoral nomination movement in Baltimore. Democratic campaign committee in First District favors Ellegood. Isidor Rayner to file suit in Baltimore for FimHoo Club property sale. Opinion on public roads right to tax. Morrison sisters acquitted in Cecil case. Keen vs Havre de Grace damage case. Mandamus case in Anne Arundel County.
Market notes describe rain yielding crowded attendance and inside vendors. Peaches abundant but prices higher, baskets from 10 to 80 cents. Good cling peaches two baskets for a quarter. Pears cantaloupes grapes apples and tomatoes plentiful with red tomatoes at 40 cents per bushel and large yellow tomatoes plus pickling greens. Cucumbers in good condition and peppers plentiful.
Jonathan O Main died at his home 53 East Fourth street yesterday afternoon at 5 o clock of typhoid pneumonia aged 75 years 10 months and 1 day He leaves a widow two sons Maurice near High Knob and Jonathan near the city and a daughter Mrs Maurice Holter near Braddock Funeral Friday at 1045 from here to Middletown for services at Reformed church at 1 o'clock Interment in Reformed Cemetery Also notice of Chamberlains Pain Balm praised by Josh Westhafer of Loorootee Ind as a cure for stiff joints and rheumatic pains sold by A L Pearre
W A Greer of McConnshsville QC writes about his experience with piles and fistula. After treatment by a skilled physician his condition improved, and Buckien's Antica Salve reportedly cured him in two weeks. Classified-style notices follow for cooks, millinery, salesladies, and a large Baltimore department job.
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