Ritchie Administration Platform Highlights for Maryland
The document outlines Democratic pledges under Governor Ritchie across drought relief, labor, mining, education, fisheries, and economic development. It praises Maryland coal purchases, university improvements, construction programs, and the Maryland Development Bureau. It advocates state control of prohibition locally, calls for tax relief, and endorses Ritchie for governor with key party candidates.
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Ritchie
Maryland
Harding
Baltimore City
Baltimore
Judicial Council of California
Raymond Moley
Columbia University
United States
Democratic Party
Faith in Wells Across Britain and Ireland Fades
Across the British Isles many wells drew pilgrims seeking love, marriage luck, or prophecy. St Aelen's well in Lancashire saw pins tossed for lovers' fidelity while Tober Kilna-Greine in Cork hosted sun-worship rites with a prophetic nymph, a wooden image, and a threefold ritual before desecration ended the observances.
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British Isles
Tober Kilna-Greine
County Cork
Skeleton of Roman settler found in Purley England
Skeleton unearthed 18 inches below a Purley lawn is estimated to be about 1,700 years old. Sir Arthur Welch, famed anthropologist, says the man was around 56, likely a Roman settler or descendant who held a responsible position and had brain capacity indicating non manual work. A boy grave, about four, lay nearby, perhaps the Roman’s son.
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Purley
England
Sir Arthur Welch
Arthur
Century of Brilliant Women in Sixteenth Century Society
In a passage from Samuel Prattams Trom Rahclats Man of the Renaissance the text notes women gaining social scope beyond home duties. It highlights figures such as Marguerite d Angouleme Vitoria Cofan a Anne Boleyn Catherine de Medici Diane de Poitiers More’s daughter Jeanne of Aragon and later Elizabeth and Mary Stuart as part of a widening women’s rights era.
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Marguerite d’Angouleme
Vitoria Cofonna
Anne Boleyn
Catherine de Medicil
Diane de Poitiers
Ancestry of Canaries
Domestic canaries are hard to trace to a single wild progenitor after centuries of selective breeding. The Canary Islands and Madeira harbor wild canaries that differ in plumage and are thought by some authorities to share ancestry with several species. In the United States the “wild canary” label is sometimes applied to the common American thistle bird, though it is not a true canary.
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Canaries
Pathfinder Magazine
Islands
Madeira
Afric
Canary
Oddly Worded Notices In London Churches And Shops
A brief fragment surveys odd notices seen in London such as a Holborn church warning that cats must not be in the churchyard and a creche sign claiming children mended here. The narrator recalls a florist ad promising flowers for weddings funerals and all vital celebrations and notes the oddity of public phone service in small towns.
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London
Holborn
England
Fossil Glass Like Stone Formed By Sand and Heat
The article describes glassy quartz fusion created by sand and high heat during meteoric impact. It notes opalescent fusion, distortions in sandstone from interaction with water and heat, and multiple cavities resembling pumice formed by steam. The piece highlights peculiar fused sandstone pieces and their cork like forms.
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Pumle
Wren Architecture Named in Historic Church Notes
A fragmentary note discusses Sir Christopher Wren and his London designs work from 1680 to 1723. It mentions early American meeting houses in Philadelphia, Charleston, New York and London connections, noting Gibbs as architect for several projects and the Radcliffe Library at Oxford.
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Wren
Christopher Wren
Chri Wren
London
Tlner
Sir Christopher Wre
Christchurch
Philadelphia
St. Phillip
Charleston
St. Paul
New York
St. Michael, Cha
Gibbs
Radcliffe Library
Oxford
Famous Colonial Hall Trees At Annapolis Stand On Terrace
In Annapolis Maryland the front terrace of Carvel Hall hosts 250 to 300 year old nilanthus trees said to be Chinese in origin. Their arrival aboard a ship remains unclear. The building in front, the Prince George entrance, is Carvel Hall hotel, built in 1764 by William Paca signer of the Declaration of Independence and Maryland’s third governor.
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General Assembly
University Hospital
Ritchie
George Manoriver
Terra Carvel Hall
Annapolis
Mfd
Carvel Hall
China
Prince George
Willam Paca
Maryland
Unattainable Blue Rose Phrase Traces Floral History
Fragment discusses the saying about pursuing unattainable things and traces its origins to days before blue roses existed. It notes the term reflects scarcity and the later introduction of blue rose varieties like Vellehenblau by German breeders, changing accessibility.
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Kansas
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Labor
Central Purchasing Bureau
University of Maryland
State University
College Park
Law
Virginia
Sinepuxent Bay
State Banking Department
State Auditing Department
Public Service Commission
Supreme Court of the United States
Maryland National Guard
Cascade
National Guard
Veterans’ Relief Fund
Chesapeake Bay
Maryland Development Bureau
Bathmore City
Mucre
Maryland Aviation Commission
Department of Commerce
Ritche
Maryland Court of Appeals
Albert C. Ritchie
Thomas H. Robinson
Belair
William S. Gordy, Jr
Salisbury
Court of Appeals
James A. Young
Cumberland
J. Enos Ray
Stenz
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