O'Conor Endorsed In Two More Counties
Petitions pledging convention votes for Herbert R. O'Conor were filed from Howard and St. Mary's Counties. Howard County signers include 278 names with leaders such as Howard Bruce and State Senator Joseph L. Donovan pledging support. In St. Mary's, leader Philip H. Dorsey presented endorsements predicting O'Conor's victory there. Other county leaders across the region affirmed allegiance to the O'Conor faction.
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Herbert R.o’conor
Howard
St. Mary’s
O’conor
State Central Committee
Howard County
Democratic Party
Howard Bruce
Maryland
Joseph L. Donovan
Frank Shipley
Raymond L. Pickett
Register of Wills
H. Grafton Penny
Robert H. Mercer
C. Ferdinand Sybert
Jerome A. Loughran
Charles Carroll, Jr
House of Delegates
Daniel H. Gaither
Board County Commissioners
DeWilton Parlett
John Hardy
Humphrey D. Wolfe
Edwin Warfield, Jr
Daily Record
Howard T. Downs
Charles Downs
Isaac H. Taylor
P. A. Sybert
Murray Talbott
Stanley P. Harman
William L. Hasting
George L. Gardiner
W. P. Maloney
A. V. Weaver
Eureka-Maryland Assurance Corporation
Milton W. Baxley
Mortimer D. Crapster
Philip H. Dorsey, Jr
Democratic State Central Committee
St. Mary’s County
Adam T. Wible
St. Mary's County
Charles A. Heard
Henry Camalier
B. Harris Camalier
Board of County Commissioners
George B. Cecil
Peter H. Thompson
M. C. Thompson
Board of Supervisors of Elections
Mr. O’conor
James C. Johnson
Morganza
J. A. Norris
Great Mills
H. W. Hewitt
Valley Lee
Roy Guyther
Mechanicsville
T. King Clarke
California
John A. Cecil
James H. Roach
Ridge
B. F. Herbert
Dynard
W. H. Mattingly
Abell
John F. Gardiner
Leonardtown
Gilbert Hooper
Stanley L. Raley
St. Inigoes
Johnson Mattingly
Curiosa Americana First American Librarian Was a Frenchman
Curiosa Americana recounts Timothee Timathée, a Huguenot refugee who learned printing in Holland, moved to Philadelphia, and was hired by Benjamin Franklin to run what became America’s first public library under the Junto. He later Americanized his name, moved to Charleston, and bought the Carolina Gazette, launching a major Southern print shop.
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Loula ‘Mmothee
France
Holland
Philadelphia
Benjamin Franklin
Franklin
Niame
United States
Timothee
Charleston
S. C
Carolina Gazette
South
Western Newspaper Union
Stockings in Elizabethan England and a Patent Promise
In Queen Bess’s reign England wore stockings by law on Sundays while court ladies bore bare legs due to long skirts. The knitting trade thrived as reformers complained of harm to hand knitters. Rev William Lee invented a woollen stocking machine, then silk hose to win a patent, which the queen refused, prompting Lee to flee to France with his device.
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Bess
England
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Elizabeth
William Lee
Nottingham
Lee
France
Languages of the World Estimated at 2790
A Paris dispatch cites the Academie Francaise estimate that 2790 languages exist worldwide. The piece notes the feat of multilinguals, cites Cardinal Mezzofanti as a famed linguist fluent in about sixty languages with over a hundred known, and references Byron’s praise of him as a walking polyglot and master of many tongues across French German and regional dialects.
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Academie Fran‘caise
Paris
Cardinal Mezzofanti
Byron
Faubourg St. Germain
Toulouse
Black Forest
Dresden
Cloth Use Traces To Chinese Tradition Of Child Carriage
A historical note links the use of cloth to Chinese tradition, detailing how fabric use evolved from women carrying their children in fiber nets, reflecting cultural practices and textile development.
Satan Gets Credit for Tempting Men
A brief voice in dialect quotes Uncle Eben arguing that Satan earns credit for prompting men who choose their own path without interference, reflecting a moral edge in a colonial-era serialized page.
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Satan
Eben
March Traditions and Superstitions Across Civilizations
The piece recalls March’s rich lore from Julius Caesar to Roman and European calendars. It notes the ides of March and March 25 as year beginnings in England until 1752, the warlike Mars linkage, weather sayings, and the belief in March winds and beer brewing conditions.
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March
Julius Caesar
Caesar
Europe
England
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