Time Machine: 100 years ago in Pocomoke's newspaper; 1973, 1991, 1899, 1980.

 

(Baker was the famous "Homerun Baker" of Trappe, Md.)

  

January, 1973

Democratic Messenger

*May, 1991

Sunday Times (Salisbury)

October, 1899

This newspaper excerpt from the Morning Herald of Baltimore captures a portion of the Maryland governor's race of 1899 as it played out on the lower Eastern Shore including Pocomoke City.  The candidates were incumbent Republican governor Lloyd Lowndes Jr. and Democrat challenger John Walter Smith of Worcester County.

The election results (Wikipedia):

August, 1980

          (Submitted by Jerry Barbierri.  Thanks Jerry!)