February 1970
'Excellent value,' indeed
Real Estate ads from the Times:
"Taylorsville, large wooded lot with 4-bedroom home, 2-car garage and attached stable, $23,500; Large Frame Two Story house with 6 bedrooms, plus family room and full basement. 3 acres of land and small pond included. Asking $19,900; Old Washington road — 2 l/4 acre wooded home site over 200 ft. frontage, $5,900; Howard County — 5 acre home site with 500 ft. road frontage. Excellent value at $11,000."
February 1940
Doughnut difficulties
"Doughnut Machine Plant Seeking Baltimore Water; Petition To Public Service Commission is 'Being Considered,' Manager Told; Says Failing Supply Has Caused Several Partial Shut-Downs
"Efforts of the Doughnut Corporation of America to obtain better water service for their Ellicott City plant were disclosed this week by H.T. Hunter, manager of the local branch. Mr. Hunter said that his company recently had petitioned the Public Service Commission for extension of Baltimore city water lines to the plant. He was informed that the Commission was considering the request.
"We feel that we should be able to obtain water service that would make pumping unnecessary. I never heard of such an arrangement at any other plant."
"Mr. Hunter also commented on the muddy condition of the water supplied by the local company, and said that it was not used for drinking purposes at the plant."
From the "Star Dust" column: "Plenty of bets were won in Hollywood when RKO decided to shelve the first Orson Welles film, 'Heart of Darkness.' People in Hollywood were against Welles before he arrived there; they didn't like him in advance and lost few chances to prove it. It was too much for the film colony to have a man demand the world with a pink ribbon tied around it, and get it.
"That was practically what Welles did. He insisted on producing, writing, directing and acting in whatever picture he decided to make. RKO agreed.
"And after some weeks of trying to get started and finally postponing the first picture while a second, 'Smiler With a Knife,' got under way, it was announced that all bets are off, so far as 'Heart of Darkness' was concerned."
A couple of Welles' best-known films are "Citizen Kane" and "The Third Man," the latter movie script written by Graham Greene. In 1942 and 1943, he worked on a radio series for the United States' war effort. Welles married several times, with one of his wives being actress Rita Hayworth, who, in a negligee photo, became a famous pin-up girl for American G.I.s during World War II.
Social notes from Poplar Springs:
"Mr. and Mrs. Vaughn J. McMahon and son, Jimmie, of Bel Air, together with Miss Bloomquist, of Long Island, N.Y., and Mr. McMahon, of North Carolina, were Sunday visitors of Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Pickett; Mr. and Mrs. Claude I. Ecker paid Mrs. Raymond E. Hardy a short visit while spending a day in Baltimore last week."
February 1915
Profits from poultry
"Money in Poultry, But Not A Fortune: Experiment Station Poultrymen Cautions Against Great Expectations in the Poultry Business. By Roy H. Waite, Maryland Agricultural Experiment Station
"I wish it were possible for every poultry raiser to make $7.16 per hen per year, to have 14 hens bring $2,200.00 or to have 4 hens yield $1,300.00. These are some of the headlines we have seen recently in connection with advertisements appearing in the poultry press.
"On second thought, I am not so sure though that I do want to see poultry raisers make so much, but I am not thinking so much about overworking the hen, as I am wondering where the poor fellow who doesn't raise chickens would get the money to pay for his breakfast eggs!"
"Amusements:
"Miss Marie Tempest, the English comedienne, will pay her farewell visit to Baltimore next week when she appears at the New Academy of music in two of her most successful comedies, 'Mary Goes First' and 'The Marriage of Kitty,' both of which were used by her during her engagement at the Comedy Theatre, New York. She will be supported here by her original London company headed by W. Graham Browne, her leading man."