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December, 1990
The Frederick Post (Frederick, Md.)

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Toll road to skirt I-95 envisioned

Proposal greeted by sticker shock

NORFOLK (AP) — A transportation planner's proposal for a $2.5 billion, 250-mile toll road from Wilmington, Del., to Rocky Mount, N.C., has received a mixed reaction from politicians and highway officials.

William C. Mann says the proposed toll road would allow motorists to skirt traffic-choked Interstate 95. The highway would start at Interstate 295 in Wilmington, run down the Eastern Shore of Maryland and Virginia, through Hampton Roads on existing highways, and tie into 1-95 at Rocky Mount.

Mr. Mann acted on his own when he sent his proposal to lawmakers and highway officials in Virginia, North Carolina, Maryland and Delaware. Although none have made any promises and some are skeptical, many encouraged him to keep pursuing his idea.

Mr. Mann proposed financing the road by cutting the one-way toll on the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel for Virginia residents from $9 to $8, but making the one-way fee $20 for all others. Truckers would pay a higher toll. The money could be distributed among four state highway departments for construction of the new East Coast highway.

March, 1932

The widespread search for the kidnapped Lindbergh baby included the Eastern Shore area following newspaper reports that the baby was on a yacht in Chesapeake Bay. New Jersey law officers were reported to be searching the Eastern Shore of Maryland and stopping boats in Chesapeake Bay.

August, 1941
(Salisbury Times)

Two Blue Marlin Boated Off Ocean City, First In History

Ocean City, famed white marlin center, added a new record to her long list and at the same time made fishing history when two blue marlin were boated off the port over the weekend. It took a 13-year-old boy to land the first of the giant spear fish ever caught north of Cape Hatteras.

Fishermen have been trying for years along the Atlantic coast north of the famous North Carolina fishing grounds to hook and successfully gaff a blue marlin, a fish which is one of the main figures in the happy hunting ground dreams of deep sea fishing fans.

During the past eight years at Ocean City, 12 blue marlin strikes have been recorded but each time the fish either slipped the hook or else shredded the tackle. The resort guides out for the smaller white marlin were not prepared to handle the larger members of the family.

However, with the usual white marlin tackle, Harry Tellam Jr., 13, Baltimore, ended the long hunt on Saturday when he successfully struck and boated a 350 pound blue marlin.

Weighing only 90 pounds himself, young Tellam fought the fish for two hours and twenty five minutes. It measured 11 feet three inches and had a tail spread of 47 inches. The fish was displayed on the boardwalk yesterday and was hauled away today to be mounted.

He was fishing from the Empress II with Captains Jim Whaley and Paul Mumford. The rod had a 12 ounce tip and was equipped with a '24 thread line. The fish was landed at the Jack Spot, a few miles south of the resort.

The second blue marlin, landed yesterday, was also caught from the Empress II by another Baltimorian, Lewis Hamel. He fought the 285 pound fish for three hours and forty-five minutes during which time it jumped 30 times. It measured ten feet, four inches, with a tail spread the same as the other one.

Another blue marlin was hooked shortly afterwards from the same boat while a white marlin and a tuna were on but a rush from the tuna cut the line and freed the big fish. Two other blue marlin were played by other boats but they failed to hold the fish.

A Mako shark with an estimated weight of 400 pounds was landed by Peat Neal, Baltimore, and Dan Trimper, Ocean City, Saturday while aboard the Evelyn with Captain Josh Bunting. It took them over three hours to boat the fish.

White marlin fishing also picked up over the weekend with 11 landed yesterday. This brings the total for the year to 97, far below the 1939 record when 171 were landed in one day alone, for a season's total of 1,343.

October, 1905
(Peninsula Enterprise- Accomac Court House)

Mr. and Mrs. Claude B. Nottingham went to Princess Anne, Md., in their automobile last Saturday. They made the run in three hours and a half.

July, 1958 (Time Machine archive)

Johnnys & Sammys in Salisbury was advertising a Wednesday 85-Cents Lunch Special: Chicken & Slippery Dumplings served with hot rolls and butter, and choice of coffee or hot tea.

May, 1894
(Eastern Shore Press- Onancock)

The newly elected Onancock Town Council are hoping for many new things, such as the enforcing of the laws on our statute books; the maintenance of good order and the building of a lock-up in which to place all who require a few hours to collect their thoughts after a night out with the boys; wider and more level streets, with better drainage and a good street sprinkler with which to keep down the dust during the summer months; the purchase of a number of new street lamps, so that pedestrians may not get lost within the town limits at night -- in fact an entirely new town.

Our citizens seem to differ in opinion regarding the question of whether cattle and hogs shall dispute the right of way with the ladies on our sidewalks, insomuch that our town daddies may have to attempt the difficult task of carrying water on both shoulders if they would please "both merchants and citizens."


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