From The Sun Dec. 18-24, 1844
Dec. 19: Morse's Telegraph in New York -- Professor Morse is laying a set of wires in New York between the two post offices, which are nearly a mile apart, as a medium of communication. The wires are carried across the tops of the houses instead of on poles as in this city.
Dec. 24: Mr. C. L. Spies will give a grand fancy dress ball this evening, at Central Hall. Every arrangement has been made for an agreeable and merry time; and in the course of the evening La Polka will be danced by two of Mr. S's pupils.
From The Sun Dec. 18-24, 1894
Dec. 20: A fashionable colored wedding took place yesterday at North Street Baptist Church. The bride and groom were Mazie Jones and Lewis Payne.
Dec. 21: The happiest women in the throngs of shoppers in Baltimore yesterday were those who had picked out all the presents which they intended to give on Christmas Day.
From The Sun Dec. 18-24, 1944
Dec. 19: In selecting grand jurors for the January term, the judges of the Supreme Bench of Baltimore City yesterday chose two Negroes for jury service for the first time in the history of the city courts.
Dec. 23: Sergt. Elmer C. Lindenstruth, of 941 Ashburton Street, was one of eleven members of the crew of a Superfortress lost in combat near Tokyo on November 24, it was revealed in a dispatch last night from headquarters of the 21st Bomber Command on Saipan.