The Pocomoke Public Eye

Sunday, November 16, 2025

Time Machine: 100 years ago this week in Pocomoke's newspaper, plus 1923, 2004.

(As in the previous week's edition much of the news space was devoted to the newspaper's subscription drive, with social notes also occupying much of the front page. An exception was the news of a fire at St. Mary's as noted below.)

*August 1923

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The News Journal (Wilmington)

*October 2004

Salisbury Daily Times

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Saturday, November 15, 2025

A page from 1916's Maryland's Colonial Eastern Shore

(Continues with another page next Saturday here at The Pocomoke Public Eye.)

Friday, November 14, 2025

Pocomoke's St. Mary's in recovery mode from fire-

(WBOC)

POCOMOKE CITY, Md. - An 180-year-old church in Pocomoke City is working to turn a summer lightning strike into a Christmas homecoming.

Saint Mary the Virgin Episcopal Church was hit in July when lightning struck its steeple. The strike traveled down the side of the historic building, damaging the steeple, the water main and two air conditioning units. The sanctuary has been closed since then.

(View news story)

Lightning-damaged Pocomoke City church aims to reopen by Christmas | Latest News | wboc.com

Pocomoke Public Eye note: Pocomoke's St. Mary's also experienced a major fire on November 11, 1925. Read the Pocomoke newspaper's front-page account of that fire on this Sunday's Time Machine here at The Pocomoke Public Eye.

Investigation: School bomb threat in Chincoteague

(View Shore Daily News story:)

https://shoredailynews.com/headlines/chincoteague-schools-evacuated-following-bomb-threat-early-dismissal-initiated/

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This Sunday here at The Pocomoke Public Eye:

A front-page story in Pocomoke City's Worcester Democrat detailed the major fire three days earlier (Nov. 11, 1925) at Saint Mary the Virgin Episcopal Church in Pocomoke.