Fifty Years Ago News-Post Highlights Sept 26 1911
A column recalls 1911 events in Frederick with water pumping costs, Market Street congestion, a grandstand box auction, a fatal case of infantile paralysis, YMCA pool work, a near accident involving a child and a horse, a 38 to 0 loss for the YMCA football team, and a water main ditch accident injuring three riders.
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News-Post
Market Street
Brengle
J. E. Shell
John Lipps
Wesley Kindley
Allen Bruner
Washington
Caren
Frederick
Viola Lowman
Mt. Airy
Miss Lowman
Y.M.C.A
Clark
Harry Zeigler
Rosalie Hoffman
Ezra D. Hoffman
West South Street
Rurn
Alfred Kemp
Dorsey Riddiemoser
Kemp
M.C.A
Western Maryland College
Independent Hose CO
Howe Engine Co
Indianapolis
Ray Morgan
Council Street
Court
Council Streets
Willard
Joe Walter Smith
Urbana
Herbert Thomas
W. Clinton McSherry
Gasoline Rationing Concerns Freder ick Area Amid Short Stocks
Twenty Years Ago from the News-Post notes fuel limits loom as Frederick city and county dealers stretch dwindling stocks until October quotas arrive. War news includes Soviet-Nazi toll near Leningrad and six Navy ship launches in five days.
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Frederick City
Char Williams
NEA
Leningrad
NAVY
28Th Infantry
Birth of third child Gine Lynn at Providence Hospital
Mr and Mrs Harold H Roberson announce the birth Monday evening of their third child and first daughter Gine Lynn at Providence Hospital Washington. Evelyn Howard and Evelyn Barnes are noted as relatives and travel plans to Yuma California and Mexico are mentioned along with others visiting Skyline Caverns in Front Royal Virginia.
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Harold H. Roberson
Silver Spring
Gine Lynn
Providence Hospital
Washington
Moser
Westminster
Evelyn Barnes
Mt. Airy
Yuma
Ariz
California
Mexico
Dern
Arizona
Wayne Keeney
Robert S. Keeney
RFD 6
Washington College
Chestertown
Skyline Caverns
Front Royal
Harry Conner
Bennie May
Virginia Rawlings
Clarke Rawlings
Ginger
Alice Wood
Funeral notices for Bangs Brown and Culler in Jefferson area
Funeral services were held for Mrs Net tie Roslein Bangs at Union Bridge funeral home with interment in Pipe Creek cemetery. Chester Wright Brown died at Frederick Memorial Hospital and was buried in St. Pauls cemetery Jefferson. Julia Kefauver Culler died at Frederick Memorial Hospital and was interred in St. Lukes cemetery Feagaville.
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Nettie Roslein Bangs
Harry H. Bangs
Mercy Hospital
Baltimore
Union Bridge
D. D. Hartzler
Great Frederick Fair Opens for 99th Year
The Great Frederick Fair opens its doors for one of the best farm and home exhibits, showcasing livestock, garden produce, and home skills. The piece reflects on a century of agricultural life in Frederick County and anticipates a keen competition as the fair enters its 100th year next year.
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Frederick
Frederick County
Homeskills
Cooling Off Ends Maritime Strike Across Nation
The Taft Hartley cooling off period ended last week after a 180 day national maritime strike. Most workers returned to duties under interim pacts as disputes remain limited. West Coast talks drag, East Gulf Coast dispute centers on Alcoa Steamship Co and Seafarers International Union. ships remain at sea as negotiations continue.
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Gulf
Alcoa Steamship Co
U.S
Seafarers International Union
Letter thanks editor for coverage of concert association
A Frederick Community Concert Association executive secretary Francis W. Bush Sr. thanks The Frederick News-Post for promoting their twenty fifth season and applauds early sellouts and public-spirited efforts. Audrey E. Pressler earned her Master of Science in Conservation at the University of Frederick. Floyd Reed Harrison, longtime Washington Post Publishing Co. treasurer and Newsweek director, died aged 71 after a stroke in New York.
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Frederick Community Concert Association
Frederick News-Post
Francis W. Bush SR
Audrey E. Presser
Oakwood Drive
University of
Pressler
Frederick H
Floyd Reed Harrison
New York
Fioyd Reed Harrison
The
Washington Post Publishing Co
Mondster
Newsweek Magazine
Washington Post
Times Herald
Pei
Great Great Fair Showcases Grange Displays and Poultry
Clear skies greet the Great Great Fair as 14 county granges enter booth competitions featuring Our Blessings of Plenty. Exhibits include burr cucumbers, embroidered maps, and a garden scene by the Green-walled Garden Club. Poultry turnout was high with many birds turned away.
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United States
Tne
Alton T. Wilbiar
Clark Smith
Mt. Pleasant
Carl R
Dick) Mealey
Countess Marguerite Cassini Dies in New York
Countess Marguerite Cassini aged 79 and a noted Washington social figure in McKinley and Roosevelt era died Monday in New York. Born in Bucharest, she was the daughter of Count Cassini Russia’s ambassador to the United States and mother of gy C i gy.
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New York
Marguerite Cassini
Washington
McKinley
Theodore Roosevelt
Bucharest
Count Cassini
Russia
United States
Eg C i Gy
Elizabeth Taylor Skips Meeting With 11 Congressmen On Cleopatra Set
Eleven congressmen, ten Democrats and a Republican, waited in Rome at Cinecitta for Elizabeth Taylor to meet them during the first day of Cleopatra filming. Taylor did not appear as scheduled, though she later met three members of the group. The incident drew mild to sharp comments from Rep. Victor Anfuso and Rep. Alfred Santangelo, while the public relations office issued Press Release No. 2 amid the distraction on the sweltering set.
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Rome
U.S
Elizabeth Taylor
Miss Taylor
Cinéma Village
Cinecitta
Victor L. Anfuso
Dn.y
Alfred F. Santangelo
New York
I Miss Taylor
Doctors honored for 25 years at Frederick Memorial Hospital
Nineteen doctors received certificates recognizing 25 years or more of service at Frederick Memorial Hospital during the first hospital staff family picnic held last Thursday. The group includes Dr. J. H. Messier, L. R. Schoolman, Dr. J. Gray, Dr. W. E. Trail, Dr. B. C. Thomas and others.
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Frederick Memorial Hospital
J. H. Messier
L. R. Schoolman
J. Gray
W. E. Trail
B. C
Deaths of Gregory Michael Smith in Monrovia
Gregory Michael Smith eight year old son of Charles Edward and Nancy Lee Moore Smith of Monrovia died Monday at 5 20 p m at the National Institutes of Health Bethesda after a week long illness He is survived by two sisters Susan Lynn and Melissa Diane both at home maternal grandparents Earl L and Mary R Smith New Market and paternal grandmother Mrs Mary J Moore Frederick He attended New Market Methodist Church and was a third grade student at New Market Elementary The body lies at 1201 North Market Street Funeral services Thursday at 11 am from the funeral home with interment in Mt Olivet Cemetery Robert E Dailey and Son, funeral directors.
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Gregory Michael Smith
Charles Edward
Nancy Lee Moore Smith
Monrovia
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda
Susan Lynn Smith
Melissa Diane Smith
Earl L
Mary R. Smith
New Market
Mary J. Moore
Frederick
Thurmont Homemakers Meet and Chile Talk
The Thurmont Homemaker Club met at Mrs. Claude Hamerick home on September 14 with eleven members and three guests present. Miss Beatrice Fehr spoke on Chile, showing slides on Chilean life and customs. Next meeting set for October 12 at 8:00 p.m. at Mrs. Harry Zentz home.
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Thurmont Homemakers
Thurmont Homemaker’s Club
Claude Hamerick
Beatrice Fehr
Frederick County
Chile
Elizabeth Lampkin
Sick Rev Shull moved to National Lutheran Home for the Aged
The Rev Dr C H Shull 91 previously of Frederick and Jefferson was moved by ambulance to the National Lutheran Home for the Aged in Washington on Friday. Also listed are local patients Paul Stockman improving at Frederick Memorial Hospital C Bernard Spring at Martinsburg Veterans Hospital Little Freddie Smith surgical patient at Ker nan Hospital Baltimore Mrs Paul Hann undergoing surgery at Baltimore Eye Ear and Throat Hospital with satisfactory condition
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C. H. Shull
Frederick
Jefferson
M. R. Etchison
National Lutheran Home For the Aged
Washington
Shull
Paul
Pete) Stockman
West South Street
Frederick Memorial Hospital
C. Bernard Spring
North Market Street
Veterans Hospital
Martinsburg
W. Va
Little Freddie Smith
Dan Smith
Ijamsville
Kernan Hospital
Baltimore
Paul W. Hann
Baltimore Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital
President Kennedy Becomes Uncle Again
The president's brother Edward M. Kennedy and Joan Kennedy welcomed a baby boy at St Elizabeth's Hospital in Boston. This is the couple's second child, joining daughter Kara born 18 months earlier. Joan Bennett Kennedy, from Bronxville New York, has a Republican heritage but campaigned for her brother-in-law.
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St. Elizabeth's Hospital
Joan Kennedy
Edward M. Kennedy
Kilauea Still Heaving After New Lava Flow Emerges
The Kilauea volcano in Hawaii shows renewed activity after another lava flow. Scientist Don Richter notes uncertainty about when it may erupt again. Summit rise of six feet in a year signals ongoing subterranean pressure as three lava sites have erupted since Friday.
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Pahoa
Hawaii
Kilauea
Don Richter
Volcano Observatory
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