TIME MACHINE ... 1917, 1897, 1950, 1920, 1994, 1884

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Thanks to former Chincoteague resident Tom Elliott for providing additional information regarding the old Chincoteague wild goose farm.  Check Monday's Pocomoke Public Eye for an excerpt from the 1929 article that Tom sent.-tk

March, 1917 
Washington Post

Col. Charles Chaille-Long, author, explorer, and one-time American consul general at Alexandria, Egypt, is dead at his home in Virginia Beach, Va. He was 75-years-old. He was born at Princess Anne, Somerset County, Md., in 1842, and during the civil war served in the First Maryland volunteers, and later became a captain of Company G. Eleventh Maryland cavalry. Three years after the war he became a lieutenant colonel in the Egyptian army. In 1882 he was appointed consul general at Alexandrea. He also served as consul general and secretary of the American legation in Seoul, Korea from 1887 to 1889.

He wrote several books on exploration in central Africa.

May, 1897
The Colfax Chronicle (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.)

Maryland Malaria

Col.Chaille-Long, of the eastern shore of Maryland, well known as an African traveler, tells the following story: '"One day, when I was with Gordon as chief of his staff, he asked me, in a quizzing way, why it was I never died of the jungle fever. 'Sir,' I said, I was born on the eastern shore of Maryland and have breathed the air of malaria and swamp fever for many years. This was my training school for eastern travel." -Chicago Inter Ocean.

September, 1950
Evening Times (Cumberland, Md.)

State Editor 90 Years Old

POCOMOKE CITY— (AP)—"Jukey" Clarke, one of the nation's oldest newspaper editors, had only one complaint on his ninetieth birthday last Saturday:

"This heat gets me," he said at his desk in the weekly Worcester Democrat where he celebrated his birthday as usual.

  "Jukey"—more formally known as Dr. Edward J. Clarke —has been owner and editor of the paper since 1922. Before that he had been an educator. He taught in Worcester county and Accomack, Va., public schools and at Washington College where he was head of the English Department and on the Board' of Governors. He also was superintendent of Kent County public schools.  

One of Dr. Clarke's English students was Federal Judge T. Alan Goldsborough.
His newspaper routine consists of getting in at 9 a. m. and returning after lunch about 3 p.m. Mrs. Clarke, to whom he's been married 51 years, is 82.

Moderation is his advice far longevity and for success, sincerity. "That's the thing that counts," he said.

September, 1920
New York Tribune

(Excerpts)

Nation-Wide Wet Crusade Is Launched

Plan Devised in Maryland Already Is Extended to New York, New Jersey and Five Other States

Special Dispatch to The Tribune

BALTIMORE, Sept. 5- Maryland wets have begun a drive against the Volstead law and the prohibition amendment. In addition, prominent anti-prohibitionists will seek to bring the question up before the extra session of the Maryland Legislature called for September 20 to provide facilities for registration of women.

Captain W. H. Stayton, native of the Eastern Shore of Maryland and at present president of the Baltimore Steamship Company, took the initiative in suggesting the wet plan. And it is due chiefly to his efforts that the association has organized branches in New York, Connecticut, Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia and West Virginia, in addition to Maryland.

November, 1994

In 1994 CBS aired a two-part mini-series on the famed Dionne quintuplets.

The quintuplets in "Million Dollar Babies" were played by two sets of triplets: Brooke, Emily and Samantha Gilliland from Snow Hill, Md., and Erin, Grace and Bonnie Morris-Vanasse from Ottawa, Canada.

January, 1884
(The New York Times)

MARRIED ON A STEAM-BOAT (Time Machine archive)

From The Pocomoke City (Md.) Record

At Onancock, Va., on Wednesday morning of last week, as the steamer Tangier was preparing to leave her wharf, a young man, closely followed by a young lady, was seen making for the landing with hurried strides. The gang-plank, which had been drawn in, was again put out, and the couple, gasping for breath, hastily boarded the steamer. As the boat moved off an elderly man came rushing down to the wharf, gesticulating wildly and shaking his fist at the receding vessel, but the lucky couple- Mr. George S. White and Miss Annie T. Hopkins- only laughed at the old gentleman. They were aged 20 and 18, respectively, and were married speedily afterward by the Rev. George Bradford, who was on the steamer at the time on his way to Pocomoke City. The ceremony was witnessed by others of the boat and passengers, among whom the little romantic episode caused quite a ripple of pleasurable excitement. The newly married couple had intended returning to Onancock and facing the irate parents, but owing to the dense fog prevailing the boat failed to reach that place and they were carried on to Baltimore. They spent the first three days of their honeymoon, therefore, on the steamer Tangier, not even so much as going ashore to view the beauties of the city and enjoy the festivities of the holidays.

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