TIME MACHINE ... 1977, 1894, 1914, 1952, 1929

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August, 1977
(The Progress Index- Petersburgh, Va.)

Soviet Ship Crew Tours Va. Shore

CHINCOTEAGUE, Va. (AP)- The Soviet hydro-meteorological ship Akademik Korolev sailed from here today for a brief visit to Baltimore before heading home to Vladivostok.

Its 134 scientists and crew members carried from this Eastern Shore area a genuine glimpse of American life, and left some new friends.

As a farewell gesture, Akademik Korolev's captain, Cleg A. Rostovset, entertained about 25 U.S. news reporters aboard the ship Tuesday.

The reporters and the crew members toasted each other and world friendship with Russian vodka and wine during a buffet luncheon aboard the ship, which has been here since early this month. It has been cooperating with the National Aeronautics And Space Administration in joint experimental rocket launches from NASA's research complex on Wallops Island. Russian and U. S. scientists have been collecting and comparing atmospheric data.

Last week the Russians trouped ashore at Pocomoke City, Md., and here to sightsee and visit residents of the mostly rural area.

Captain Rostovset's dog, "D.Z." helped usher the reporters and photographers through the ship, scampering between their feet, scratching at doors and, finally, sharing the buffet.

Rostovset told reporters they could look at anything and take photographs of "anything or anybody you want."
Among the most popular camera subjects were the Soviet flag, banners that were draped in nearly every compartment, paintings of Lennon and other Soviet leaders, and a mural showing a Russian submarine, surface warship, and diving jets in a collage that exhorted the Soviets to show their might.

Reporters were intrigued by the presence of more than 30 Russian women aboard.

Rostovset said about half the women are scientists. The others are cooks, stewardesses and sailors.

Rostovset, who lives in Vladivostok with his wife and two daughters, said there are no married couples aboard, but he added that the presence of the women had caused no sex-related problems.


　　
March, 1894
(The Daily News- Frederick, Md.)

(Excerpts)

The Forestry Division of the Maryland Academy of Science has collected specimens of 60 of the 187 species of trees found in Maryland.

In making this collection of woods the academy has discovered that the Louisiana tupelo, or large leaved tupelo, flourishes in Worcester County, near the Pocomoke river, back in the cypress swamp. No less than five factories in the neighborhood of Pocomoke City are making vessels of this wood, such as bowls, bread trays, peach and berry boxes, and pint and quart baskets. The tupelo in Worcester County obtains a diameter of four feet, and height of over one hundred feet. It is found in no other part of the State. In the next ten years not one of these trees will be left in Maryland. During the last ten years from four to five miles of this timber have been cut.　


　
June, 1914 (Time Machine archive)
(The Daily News- Frederick, Md.)

Controversy Over Road

The State Roads Commission, with Governor Goldsborough present, heard rival delegations from Somerset and Worcester counties on the route of the highway southward from Westover, about six miles south of Princess Anne, Somerset County, to which point the highway has already been improved. The Worcester delegates want the road diverted from Westover to Pocomoke City and thence to the Virginia line, to connect at that point with a road which Virginia will build through Accomac and Northampton counties. The Somerset people argued for the extension of the road southward from Westover to Crisfield. 

The Commission did not announce a decision on the controversy. The opinion prevailed, however, that the advocates of the Pocomoke City route will win. 


　
(Pocomoke City Poultry Auction Branch Operating)

August, 1952
(Denton Journal)

 (Excerpt)

Poultry Auction Averages A Quarter Of A Million Chickens Daily

Last Friday marked the close of the eighth week of operation of the Eastern Shore Poultry Growers Exchange, a non-profit corporation formed by poultry leaders of the Delmarva Peninsula for the purpose of assisting with the marketing of the many millions of chickens produced here in the broiler capital of the world.

This eighth week also saw the first sale consumed through the Pocomoke City branch of the auction. Through the installation of special telephone equipment, owners of flocks in the southern part of the peninsula can participate in each day's sales by stopping at the V.F.W. home in Pocomoke. A direct wire with amplification equipment permits the sale being conducted by Auctioneer (Carroll) Long, in the principal office of the exchange in Selbyville, to be heard at the Pocomoke branch office. Purchases can be made at the branch station by any buyers who find it more convenient to be in that part of the Peninsula. 　


　
March, 1929
(The Daily News- Frederick, Md.)

(Ad- Sam Miller's Shoes And Clothing in Frederick)

We bought out the entire stock of pants at S. Levy's at Crisfield, Md., and we are going to offer these pants at a 10-days sale at $1.00 a pair.

(Included: All sizes of Men's Dress Pants, All Wool Army Pants, Corduroy Pants, Khaki Pants, Best Work Pants, Riding Breeches; Men's Work Shirts 3 for $1.00.)　


　
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