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May, 1923

(Oak Leaves- Oak Park, Illinois)

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BUILDS A HOSPITAL

Mrs. Caroline Pitkin McCready Gives Magnificently Equipped Institution To Crisfield, Maryland, As Memorial.

An Oak Park woman has given to Crisfield, Md. one of the best equipped hospitals in the country.

Crisfield, Md., April 28.- About 14 years ago a mere handful of women, fighting against many odds, financed, equipped, and put into operation Crisfield's first hospital. During these years the little institution, known as the Crisfield General and Marine Hospital, has faithfully administered to the needs of a suffering humanity. It has served its purpose, even though in a small way, in a building which it has long since outgrown and which has become antiquated when compared with modern surgical and medical institutions.

Today a lone woman, realizing the needs of the Lower Eastern Shore peninsula, has come forward and presented to the people of Crisfield and Somerset county, a modern hospital ranking second to none in the state. This new institution, a gift from Mrs. Caroline McCready and costing more than $150,000, will be dedicated with appropriate ceremonies on May 6. The new hospital comes to the people of this community complete in every detail, equipped and furnished, ready to be opened to serve the public, and entirely free of debt.

On February 14, 1922, ground was broken and work commenced on the erection of this new hospital building. Today it stands completed, the new McCready Memorial Hospital, erected in memory of Edward McCready, husband of the doner; Miss Susanne McCready her daughter, and Miss Catherine Steinbach, a nurse.

This stretch of land was the scene of the boyhood days of Mr. McCready. Here also lived his mother, Mrs. Lovey McCready, and on this plot of ground, where once stood the old homestead, is erected this imposing monument in memory of Edward McCready, the father; Susanne, a little daughter; and a nurse, who were killed in an accident September 13, 1919, in Somerset County.

Mr McCready was born near Crisfield and resided here until he grew into young manhood. Then, craving for adventures, he started out to make his way in the world. He settled in Chicago, and there became one of the largest cork manufacturers in the country.

Mrs. Caroline McCready is in Crisfield this week making final arrangements for the dedication. Many invited guests from Chicago and other cities will be present, as well as thousands from all sections of the Eastern Shore.

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June, 1941

(The Salisbury Times)

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ARMY UNIT IS TOURING SHORE IN WAR GAME

Arrives Here After Pocomoke Bridge Is "Blown Up"

With the Pocomoke River Bridge at Pocomoke "blown up" by the enemy, a mechanized U.S. Army unit rolled into Salisbury today just in time for dinner in Municipal Park despite a detour through eastern Worcester County.

The army on wheels, moving in 33 trucks and cars, is composed of officer students in the motor transport school at Holibard Quartermasters depot, Baltimore.

On tour of the Eastern Shore, the group of 75 men were delayed this morning from Cape Charles when a bridge was theoretically blown to bits at Pocomoke City.

The "enemy" action forced a detour via Snow Hill.

　

June, 1892

(The Indiana Progress- Indiana, Indiana County, Pa.)

New England Andirons Are Rare.

Early New England andirons, or fire dogs, of brass and wrought iron were tall affairs ornamented with dogs' heads. They are seldom seen in New York, although they are imitated occasionally in modern wares. A great many excellent andirons and fire sets come from the eastern shore of Maryland and from Virginia. The stove drove out the fireplace in New England, but the milder climate in Maryland and Virginia made the fireplace a permanency there, and in many old homes in those states the fire irons of three generations are in use.

A New Yorker takes special pride in a fire set from Worcester County on the eastern shore of Maryland. It includes brass headed tongs and shovel, a fire block of oak on which they rest when not in use, and brass andirons twenty-one inches high and weighing nearly ten pounds each.- New York Sun.

　

October, 1880

(The Denton Journal)

"I want a spoke in my wheel" is the way to ask for a drink at a station on the line of the Eastern Shore railroad, between Salisbury and Crisfield, and if a red spoke is wanted he gets whiskey, and if a white one rum.

　

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