From The Sun Feb. 5-11, 1845Feb. 7:...

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From The Sun Feb. 5-11, 1845

Feb. 7: The poor horses have a hard time of it now. The sleighs are continually going to the manifest injury of horse-flesh. We observe that many of the animals are so smooth shod, as scarcely to be able to get along -- we saw several fall, some under heavy loads in carts and drays. This should not be.

Feb. 10: Lyford's Commercial Journal says that the Baltimore Life Insurance Company took risks on 13 persons during the month of January.

From The Sun Feb. 5-11, 1895

Feb. 5: Mayor Latrobe sent to the Council a message recommending the passage of an ordinance for the appointment by him of three women as members at large of the school board.

Feb. 7: For the first time since the death of Mr. William T. Walters, the Walters Art Gallery was yesterday thrown open to the public.

From The Sun Feb. 5-11, 1945

Feb. 5: Asserting that the 40-year-old Jim Crow statute "is distinctly out of line with American ideals as expressed in American action throughout the world today," Governor Herbert R. O'Conor yesterday called for repeal of the Maryland law.

Feb. 8: A senior class of 114 youths, 28 of whom will proceed immediately to duty with the armed forces, tonight will receive diplomas from the Polytechnic Institute at commencement exercises in the school's auditorium.

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