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Samuel L. 'Sandy' Frank
Samuel L. "Sandy" Frank, a retired Baltimore clothing manufacturer executive and World War II veteran, died Feb. 28 from cancer at his Roland Park Place home. The former longtime Mount Washington resident was 92. The son of Henry Frank, who headed A....
Tags: Wars and Interventions, Judaism, Dartmouth College, Clothing and Textiles Industry, Roland Park
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Chesapeake Shakespeare Company ready for its next stage in life
Chesapeake Shakespeare Company is following through on the Bard's famous statement that all the world is a stage. As if it weren't enough that this Ellicott City-based theater company already uses various Howard County sites for its indoor productions,...
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Baltimore Sun in the news
There's a fallacy that reporters detest being in the spotlight. If that were really true, articles would be published without bylines. But print journalists have found that it's easier and more fun to ask questions than it is to answer them. Nonetheless,...
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Open house at Baltimore Fire Museum might be its last
The helmet looks much the way it did when Morris Hunt wore it into a burning building on Leadenhall Street in the summer of 1965. He managed to get out, but he didn't survive. His daughter, Drue Jenkins, came to the Baltimore Fire Museum in the old...Tags: Horse (animal), Health, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Arts and Culture, Business Enterprises
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William Polk Carey, donor to Hopkins and UM, dies
Business entrepreneur and philanthropist William Polk Carey, who donated more than $100 million to Maryland schools and universities, spent most of his life outside the state, but he never stopped thinking of himself as a Baltimorean.
Mr. Carey, 81, died...Tags: New York City, Companies and Corporations, Baltimore School for the Arts, Government, Arizona State University
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A toast to Baltimore's old breweries
"Back again, back again, we've got Franklin D. Roosevelt back again, since Roosevelt's been re-elected moonshine liquor's been corrected, we've got legal wine, whiskey, beer and gin." —Recorded by Bill Cox in 1936 Happy New Year! Oh, I'm sorry....Tags: Crown Cork & Seal Company Incorporated, Book, Consumer Goods Industries, Frederick (Frederick, Maryland), Consumer Goods Industries
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Anniversary of The Great Baltimore Fire
Maryland WeatherFrom the Sun's print edition:Baltimore Sun librarian Paul McCardell offers this post: From the Sun archives: The Great Baltimore Fire started on the morning of Feb. 7, 1904, at John E. Hurst building located near present day 1st Mariner Arena.......Tags: Baltimore Weather, Weather, 1st Mariner Arena, Weather Reports
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Hessie Abraham Davidson
Hessie Abraham Davidson, former chairman of the Davidson Transfer & Storage Co., who counted among his many interesting and challenging moving jobs overseeing the moving of the U.S. Constitution, died Sept. 18 of complications from a stroke at Springhouse...Tags: Horse (animal), Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), Radio Industry, Lombard Street, Companies and Corporations
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James "Jimmie" Judd
Baltimore Sun reporterJames "Jimmie" Judd, a well-known antiques dealer recalled for his elaborate homes and discerning eye for art, died of prostate cancer Thursday at his Inner Harbor home. He was 82. Born in Baltimore and raised on East North Avenue at Collington Avenue,...Tags: Mount Vernon Place, Pratt Street, Prostate Cancer, Metal and Mineral, Reisterstown Road
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150 years ago, the bloodshed started here
A good deal of blood was spilled on both sides. … It was one battle from the President Street Depo —- to the Camden Street depot — I can say no more.
Baltimorean Catherine N. Smith, April 1861
One week after the bloodless...Tags: Health, Federal Hill, National Aquarium Baltimore, Companies and Corporations, New York
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