TIME MACHINE ... 1922, 1973, 1867, 2002, 1950, 1896

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March, 1922
The Washington Times

RYAN TO COACH EASTERN SHORE BASEBALL CLUB

Pocomoke City Team Gets Former Big League Catoher's Services After June 1.

Br LOUIS A. DOUGHER.

 Jack Ryan, former big league star catcher, has accepted terms to manage the Pocomoke City club in the Eastern Shore league, a Class D circuit to get underway in Maryland this season. Jack will coach the Virginia university baseball squad from March 15 to May 15 and will go to Pocomoke City June 1 to take charge of his squad there.

 "I'm going to use a lot of Washington youngsters on my ball club," says Jack. "Under the rules of the league we are alowed but three class players on each club. That means that I shall have plenty of room for youngsters. That's what I'm going to use, too. We're going to have a fast ball club under all conditions." 

The Eastern Shore League consists of Parksley, Va.; Crlsfield, Salisbury, Cambridge and Pocomoke City, Md., and Laurel, Del. 

"Are you going to play yourself?" we asked Jack. 

"Sure, a couple of times a week, anyway," was his reply. "I aim to develop some young pitchers and send them up to the majors, or at least to the higher minor leagues. To do that I must be in there behind the plate coaching them. I've been playing ball on the sandlots here and am always in good shape. I guess my Pocomoke City Club won't be too fast for me." 

In his major league days Jack caught such great pitchers as Kid Nichols and Fred Klobedans, both with the old Boston Cub. He knows  just what to do to bring out the best in young pitchers.

June, 1973
Evening Capital (Annapolis)
(Excerpt)

New span gets in a little jam 

By Tom Stuckey

Maryland officials helped dedicate the $120 million Chesapeake Bay Bridge yesterday then promptly got caught in a traffic jam trying to get to the other side. The backup developed as officials, guests and spectators left the site of the dedication ceremonies and headed for free food and drink served up under a big striped tent across the bay on the Eastern Shore. Gov Marvin Mandel was the first official bridge customer, paying his toll to Secretary of Transportation Harry R. Hughes at about 11a.m. after the formal dedication was completed. Mandel rode through the toll gates in a green 1929 Packard convertible, one of more than 80 classic antique cars which lead the first caravan across the 3.98-mile span.

June, 1867
The Daily News (Charleston, S.C.)

RELIEF FOR THE SUFFERING PEOPLE OF THE SOUTH. 

-The Baltimore Sun gives the following statement of the measures adopted by the charitable people of Maryland to aid the suffering poor in the South. Maryland has created a glorious record for herself, which, like bread cast upon the waters, will return to her after many days.

The citizens of *Newtown, Worcester county, Md., have held a meeting and adopted measures for the relief of the suffering people of the South. Rev. O. F.Flippo presided, and W. L. Clarke, Esq., of the Newtown Gazette, was appointed secretary. Addresses were delivered by Senator Broadwater and the Revs. Messrs. Polk, Rowe, and Martindale after which a handsome collection was taken up and handed over to the treasurer, Wm. S. Dickenson, Esq.  Messrs. Hall & Brother, and W. J. S. Clarke & Son, offered to convey, free of charge, to Baltimore, any produce contributed for the relief of the South, as did also Captain Veasey and C. M. Talbott, of the steamer Massachusetts. On the 4th of June the ladies of Newtown are to hold a great strawberry festival in aid of the Southern sufferers. The ladies of Broadneck and Townneck, Anne Arundel county, a few miles from Annapolis, are to hold a similar festival at St. Margaret's parsonage on the 12th and 13th of June.

*(Newtown became Pocomoke City in 1878.)

July, 2002
Annapolis Capital

OCEAN CITY - A Potomac developer who constructed a multi-million dollar yacht basin and upscale harbor housing now plans to convert Shantytown Village and Marina into a gated community.

John L. Gudelsky, the president of Percontee Inc., has agreed to buy Shantytown from Ray and Charles Nichols of Bel Air, who own the quirky waterside shopping area that houses more than 20 merchants on the mainland side of the Route 50 bridge.

The brothers also own the adjacent marina and the landmark Ocean City Boatel & Service Center.

The sale is contingent on approval of an application to rezone the property for residential use.

If the application is approved, Shantytown and the Boatel & Service Center would be torn down.

Silver Spring-based Percontee has applied to rezone more than 7 acres. Preliminary plans call for a gated community with townhouses and 14 single-family homes.

Shantytown Village was developed in the early 1970s. Tax records assess it now at $1.8 million while the adjacent marina is assessed at $4 million and the Bayside Boatel and an adjoined property are assessed at $1.8 million.

Shantytown Village is well known for its quaint, tourist-oriented shops, as well as the two fishing headboats and one tour boat.

Voyages East owner Karen Bunting, which operates the O.C. Princess and the Miss Ocean City headboats and the Bay Queen tour boat out of Shantytown, said her business will do fine, in another part of town.
_Associated Press

August, 1950 (Time Machine archive)
(Denton Journal) 

REED-SCOTT STOCK CAR FEATURE WINNERS

Pocomoke City Raceway was the scene of 3 ten lap heats and a 30-lap feature race on Sunday with Norris Reed of Denton driving car No. 38 owned by Mary and Ed Henry to victory in the 15-mile thriller.  Reed defeated such veteran drivers as Bill Scott in car No. 1, Jack Jones of car 75 and Roland Sammons driving No. 24 to turn the fast 1/2 mile track in 15 minutes and 21 seconds.  A beautiful wrist watch was Reed's prize as feature winner.

Footnote:  Pocomoke stock car races were held at the track on the old Fair Grounds.

March, 1896
Peninsula Enterprise- Accomac Court House

Harborton.
Our inhabitants had a surprise last week, in the shape of a lady bicycle rider. Being the first in the town, she was quite a curiosity.

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