February 1970
Today's excellent youth
"YMCA Holds Youth Banquet
"The representatives of area schools to the U.M.C.A. banquet were Alan K. Arnold, Atholton High School; Pamela Genster, Glenelg High School, Donald James Parker, Howard High School and Michael W. Chase, Mt. Hebron High School
"In all, 45 metropolitan Baltimore area high school Student Council presidents are being honored at the twelfth annual flower of Youth banquet.
"The event is jointly sponsored by the Y.M.C.A. of the Greater Baltimore Area and the Allied Florists Association, to focus community attention on the excellence of today's youth.
"Larry S. Gibson, Baltimore attorney, will be guest speaker. Mrs. Betty Riedel, president of Allied Florists, will present each of the students with one dozen red roses, and Frank A. Armiger, president of the Baltimore area Y.M.C.A., will present certificates."
February 1940
Fatal explosion in Savage
"Fire, Blast At Savage Injuries Nine; One Dead; Mrs. Thomas Ridgeway Dies From Asphyxiation; House Totally Destroyed
"A series of tragedies early Monday morning killed one woman, injured nine others and completed wrecked a house at Savage. The havoc started when a gas leak in her home caused the death of Mrs. Thomas Ridgeway, 68. While rescuers were attempting to revive the asphyxiated woman and two other members of the household, an explosion occurred. A few minutes later the building burst into flame.
"The injured were: Mrs. Helen Linder and Miss Catherin Ridgeway, daughters of Mrs. Ridgeway, who were treated at a Baltimore hospitals for gas poisoning, body injuries and shock; Dr. Frank Shipley, who received the gas victims, lacerations about the head; Charles Lecallett and Arthur Sweeney, members of a Gas and Electric Company rescue crew, first and second degree burns; Richard Linder, husband of Mrs. Linder, lacerations; State Patrolman W.M. Bowler, leg injuries; Monroe Collison, lacerations and abrasions; and Mrs. May Swann, bruises and shock."
From the "Star Dust" column:
"Gone are the days when a hero had to be perfect every minute that he was on the screen. In Paramount's "Road to Singapore," Bing Crosby is a shiftless sort of guy, aided and abetted in a career of idleness by Dorothy Lamour and Bob Hope.
"Three other matinee idols have forgotten the maxims of their copybooks, so far as new pictures are concerned. Robert Montgomery gets himself hanged in "The Earl of Chicago," George Brent portrays a fugitive from justice in "Till We Meet Again" and Tyrone Power, believe it or not, is a gangster in his latest."
February 1915
Bus to Baltimore
"Buses To Compete With B.&O.; New Line Of Automobile Buses to Run From Elkridge To Baltimore, Will Begin Operation Monday Next. Cars carrying 14 to 16 Passengers Will Connect At Terminal Of Columbia Ave. Line.; New Enterprise Should Be Supported By People
"One of the latest new Auto Bus lines to start in operation in this section is the new line from Elkridge to Baltimore City. The initial trip has already been made and the regular schedule will be assumed on Monday next when the new concern will go right after all the business they can get out of that section.
"This new line deserves the support of the people of Elkridge and lower Howard county, for as long as it is a paying concern and continues in operation, it will be a great advantage to the communities which it serves. The cars will be in continuous operation all day, beginning with first car leaving Elkridge at 6:15 A.M. till the last car out of Baltimore at night at 12:30. The line it will travel will be along the Baltimore-Washington Boulevard from Elkridge to the terminal of the Columbia Avenue line of the United Railways."
The bus line from Elkridge area to Baltimore made it more convenient for people to get into the city to work. And later one of those work places, especially for Baltimore and Howard countians, was Montgomery Ward. The bus stop was right across the street from the Wards building, which contained the store and store offices. Aaron Montgomery Ward founded the enterprise in 1872. Today, the former Baltimore Wards store is an office building called Montgomery Park.