Time Machine: One hundred years ago this week- Pocomoke at the start of 1921.

In the Worcester Democrat's first edition of the new year..

(excerpt)

(a few of the other headlines from the front page)

(a public meeting on expenses related to a new roadway from 6th St. to the Snow Hill Road)

      

(elsewhere in the newspaper)

(Reader comment)

 Anonymous said...

I actually remember when local loggers used teams of mules to haul logs out of the forest to trucks to be loaded for the mill. It was in the late '50s, only 3 miles from downtown Pocomoke City, and when the loggers had gone home for the evening my neighbor and I would climb into the corral and ride the mules.

(The Empire Theater preceded the Marva and Fox Theaters in Pocomoke City and was located on the southwest corner of Market and Front Streets.)

(Even $45 would seem an out of reach price for an average worker of this era, many whose salary in a small town area such as Pocomoke City might have been in the range of $20 to $35 weekly. In 1921 the highest percentage of income tax returns nationwide reported a yearly income of $1,000 to $2,000 annually. The next highest percentage of returns reported yearly income of $2,000 to $3,000. Obviously the above merchant appealed to higher income clientele. The graphic below would be more representative of clothing prices for the general public of the time.)  

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