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Good deals could be had on farm wagons 100 years ago
100 Years Ago Winning ways of wagons In a large ad that week a headline screams, "Do You Want a Farm Wagon?" "I have a lot of celebrated Birdsall Farm Wagons, all styles, which I will close out a very low prices. Real Bargains. R.W. Carter, Sykesville,...Tags: Henry Ford, Sykesville, Ellicott City, Lawyers, Howard County
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100 years later, Flowermart still blooming
It has been 100 years since Baltimore's ladies of the gentry decided to call attention to their efforts to beautify the city by holding a Flower Mart at the base of the Washington Monument in Mount Vernon, selling crab cakes their cooks prepared and...Tags: Mount Vernon, Dance, Religious Education, World War I (1914-1918), William Donald Schaefer
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Oyster season gets festive send-off
Dining@LargeIf, as Andrew Carnegie had it, the first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell, then don't be late to Woodberry Kitchen's oyster festival.The restaurant celebrates oyster season with an outdoor festival Sunday from 3 p.m. to......Tags: Oysters, Dining and Drinking, Alcoholic Beverages, Foods and Beverages, Hot Dogs
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Steel yourself for an adventure in lively Pittsburgh
Special To The SunIt used to be when you mentioned Pittsburgh, the uninitiated conjured images of belching smokestacks, die-hard football fans and snow. This year, Pittsburgh's getting national attention only for the Steelers' losing streak and the city's budget woes -...Tags: Arts, Carnegie Museum of Art, Meriwether Lewis, Science, Car Guides and Reviews
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Morgan State University
Special to SunSpotThe name has changed over the years, but the mission at Morgan State University has remained fundamentally the same: To provide an affordable, quality education with a special emphasis on serving the needs of African-American students. The Methodist...Tags: Arts, Engineering, Carnegie Hall, Colleges and Universities, African Americans
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Refurbished 109-year-old organ featured in recital
Daily American CorrespondentA 109-year-old organ will pipe up for all to envision memories from the past and to hear that what was old sounds new again. An organ recital by Mark Steiner of Cumberland to be held at the First United Methodist Church in Meyersdale at 3 p.m. Sunday....Tags: Cumberland (Allegany, Maryland), Christianity, Methodist
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Friends of the Library: Libraries need maintenance, too
More than 100 years ago, the philanthropist Andrew Carnegie saw the potential for the public library to be the center of enlightened learning in every community. He offered to build libraries if communities would contribute land, furnish money for...Tags: Mountains, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Greenwich Village, Libraries, Landforms
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Gingrich: Even his sister doesn't want him to win [The conversation]
Opinion L.A.Newt Gingrich's surge in the polls has the women at Jezebel worried. "We were hoping that Newt Gingrich might drop out of the presidential race and retreat back to the '90s, from whence he came," writes Margaret Hartmann. No such...... -
See the billionaire – then be the billionaire
How'd they do it?
That is often thought to be the primary motivation behind our fascination with the life stories of business behemoths: a curiosity about the means – both noble and scurrilous – by which mammoth fortunes are made. "Steve...Tags: Federal Reserve, Behavioral Conditions, Behavioral Conditions, Depression, University of Chicago
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Bookmark: Take a chance on these moguls' biographies
How'd they do it? That is often thought to be the primary motivation behind our fascination with the life stories of business behemoths: a curiosity about the means — both noble and scurrilous — by which mammoth fortunes are made. "Steve...Tags: Federal Reserve, Behavioral Conditions, Pulitzer Prize Awards, Depression, University of Chicago
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Officer Receives National Heroism Award For Saving Pilot
FOX 17 Web ProducerA Muskegon police officer has earned national recognition for saving a pilots' life after a 2010 plane crash. FOX 17 spoke to pilot Chris Porter, from Illinois, after his plane went down near the Muskegon County airport. From his hospital bed,...Tags: Transportation Accidents, Hospitals and Clinics, Awards and Prizes, Heroism, Air and Space Accidents
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Don't be agast (or even aghast)! Tribune once trifled with standard spelling
For more than 40 years, the Tribune crusaded against an "unspeakable offense," a "monster cruelty": English spelling.
From Jan. 28, 1934, to Sept. 28, 1975, the newspaper adopted a system of simplified spelling, a cause dearly felt by publisher Col....Tags: Mark Twain, Theodore Roosevelt, Upton Sinclair
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