Time Machine: 1926, 2006,1901, 2008, 1998.

January, 1926

 Worcester Democrat

March, 2006

The Daily Times (Salisbury)

March, 1901

Peninsula Enterprise

February, 2008

The Star Democrat (Easton)

October, 1998

The Baltimore Sun

1983  ..  One of Pocomoke City's most popular seniors is mayor J. Dawson Clarke, shown below at a 1983 "roast" in his honor. (article next Sunday)

1956  ..  Elvis makes his first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show. 

The Time Machine is a weekly feature I've enjoyed researching and compiling on The Pocomoke Public Eye since 2011.  I have fond memories of growing up in Pocomoke City and welcome reader contributions we can share about things you've read, remember, or were told relating to our Pocomoke/Eastern shore area...a sentence, a paragraph, or more all fine. Just email it.

TIME MACHINE: 1958, Undated, 2004, 2006.

Our Little Corner In Space And Time    

(Reader-friendly viewing of items from newspaper archives)

JULY, 1958

In the news..

-To celebrate its third anniversary on the air WDVM radio was bringing the nationally popular Buddy Murrow orchestra to the Pocomoke armory with proceeds to benefit local civic organizations.

-Concern was being voiced regarding a housing shortage in the area due in part to an increase in personnel at the Chincoteague Naval Air Station. (Ironically, the base unexpectedly closed the next year and the housing shortage vanished.)

-School integration was the topic of publisher Elmer M. Jackson Jr.'s column chiding Democrats who were speaking out against a judge's ruling that desegregation should take place gradually.

-The 33rd annual Chicoteague Firemen's Carnival was ready to open with three finalists vying for carnival queen.

-An open house was to be held at the new Pocomoke High School where classes were scheduled to begin in September.

-J.J. Newberry's was celebrating the third anniversary of their new store on the corner of Second and Market Streets.

-The State Roads Commission was offering $15,000 to acquire five Pocomoke properties on Snow Hill Road but the property owners were not expected to accept the offer. 

-The large four-faced clock in front of Citizens National Bank was damaged when struck by a truck but the clock continued to function okay. 

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This is one of the photos from the Virginia Eastern Shore Public Library old picture collection that's available for viewing on line.



To view the collection, click here:
http://www.espl-genealogy.org/mearscol/pixfrompast/pixfrompast.html


August, 2004 

 

 

 

 

 

News Journal (Wilmington)

December, 2006

Daily Times (Salisbury)

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TIME MACHINE: Circa 1938, 1989, 1983, 1928.

Our Little Corner In Space And Time   

(Reader-friendly viewing of news archives/historical archives material)




Before coming to Pocomoke City in the late 1930's, serving as a hotel for about eleven years, the sidewheeler Governor Emerson C. Harrington was used on the Clairborne-Annapolis ferry run from 1919 to 1937.

WICIPEDIA:

Built in 1901. 201-foot. sidewheeler. Originally named the Thomas Patten and in service in New York Harbor.

Capacity: 42 vehicles. 1000 passengers.

Bought in 1919, renamed the Gov. Emerson C. Harrington and placed in service on 19 Jun 1919, under Capt. Thomas Mann.

Sold in 1938 to C. K. Duncan, who brought the vessel to Pocomoke City, Maryland, and made it into a floating restaurant, nightclub and hotel. In 1949, the superstructure was stripped off and her furnishings purchased by the VFW for their new post home. The vessel was brought to a Baltimore scrap yard.


April, 1989

The New Journal (Wilmington)

June, 1983

The Salisbury Times

July, 1928

The Evening Journal (Wilmington)

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TIME MACHINE ... 1942, 1922, 1948

(Reader-friendly viewing of news archives/historical archives material)

January, 1942

                 

(The Salisbury Times)

April, 1922   
(Maryland State Archives)

Proceedings and Acts of the General Assembly, 1922


Be it Resolved by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the State Roads Commission be, and is hereby requested to complete as soon as practical, the road from Pocomoke to Stockton, via Girdletree to Snow Hill, from Snow Hill to Public Landing, from Snow Hill to Salisbury, from Bishop to Bishopville, from Berlin to Powellville, via Liberty, from Trappe Mills to 
Lower Sinepuxent, from Showell to St. Martin's Station, from Showell to Gray's Corner...


1948

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