MSA SC 304-5-1
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00/09/02/38
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Articleby H.L. Mencken on the Johns Hopkins Hospital - Housekeeping; the Wilmer Ophthalmological Institute, the James Buchanan Brady Urological Institute; the Henry Phipps Psychiatric Clinic; the Marburg Memorial Building; the Thayer and the Diagnostic clinic; the School of Nursing; the Special Clinics; the Medical School, the Halstead Clinic.
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MSA SC 304-5-2
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00/09/02/38
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Old St. Matthew's Evangelical Lutheran Church steeple torn down to make way for the widening of Fayette Street (photo)
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MSA SC 304-5-3
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1937
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00/09/02/38
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Seventieth anniversary of Baltimore gymnastic organization "Vorwaerts" celebrated in October 1937 - created by young German men - basis for creation of school gymnasiums.
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MSA SC 304-5-4
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00/09/02/38
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Cartoons and mini articles of strange things - include advice to Vienna Imperial Opera House contralto Mme. Ernestine Schuman Heink as a young girl so go home and buy a sewing machine.
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MSA SC 304-5-5
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1931/06/21
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00/09/02/38
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Biographical sketch of Light Horse Harry Lee, father of Robert E. Lee, focusing on his military exploits. Partial article on the beginnings of railroads from the journal of John Bruce, first head of the Winchester and Potomac Line. Partial article about the Society for Psychical Research from a book by Dr. Hereward Carrington. (Baltimore Sun, June 21, 1931)
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MSA SC 304-5-6
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00/09/02/38
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Baltimore pension system costs for 1940; record of spending in Presidential years (FDR's spending topped all others before the U.S. got into WWII); British merchandise imports soared to highest total since 1929.
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MSA SC 304-5-7
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00/09/02/38
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The Library Company of Philadelphia, the first public library in the Colonies, celebrates its 200th anniversary (1932); book review of The Buried Rose; Legends of Old Baltimore by Sidney L. Nyberg; photo of the Battle Monument in early days.
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MSA SC 304-5-8
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00/09/02/38
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Two tiny side-by-side homes in upper Cathedral Street purported to have been built by two French brothers in 1790; partial article on horsemen of the Old West.
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MSA SC 304-5-9
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1937/06/07
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00/09/02/38
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Forts Howard, Carroll, Armistead and Smallwood abandoned; Fort McHenry a National Park (Baltimore Evening Sun, June 7, 1937, partial article)
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MSA SC 304-5-10
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00/09/02/38
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Stratford Hall, ancestral home of the Lees of Virginia to receive new gates and gatehouse; Royal Oak Inn, owned by the Robson family of West Auckland, England, closes after 200 years; pre-Ice Age relics found in Palestine.
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MSA SC 304-5-11
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00/09/02/38
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History of political National Convention in Baltimore; desire to bring the Constellation (oldest ship of the American Navy) back to Baltimore; reminiscence of ice skating and sledding.
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MSA SC 304-5-12
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00/09/02/38
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History of the Constellation's cruises from her launch on Sept. 7, 1797; Maryland Press Association recommends retaining present plan for relief problem.
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MSA SC 304-5-13
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00/09/02/38
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Baltimore's trolley lines and their woes, complicated by the arrival of automobiles and buses.
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MSA SC 304-5-14
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00/09/02/38
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Goucher Alumnae Quarterly, May 1942, includes a photo of Mary Cecilia Fisher Goucher, whose family founded Goucher College.
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MSA SC 304-5-15
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00/09/02/38
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Wilkens Avenue changed to Crozier Boulevard, residents protest name changes, many photos.
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