The Moon six-36 - 1918 ad

From a Nov 1918 edition of the Salisbury Advertiser

Scout Troop To Take Delmar Train Ride - 1951

Scout Troop To Take Delmar Train Ride

About 30 Cub Scouts of troop 185 will get a chance to see how Eastern Shore Casey Joneses operate.

Mayor Rollie W. Hastings, railroad passenger station agent here, arranged for the local troop to board an afternoon train today from Salisbury to Delmar.

At Delmar a tour of the railroad yards is planned.  After watching switching operations there, visiting the roundhouse and freight offices, and seeing an engine on display, the troop will return by bus to Salisbury.

The Scout Master Rev. Paul Fallers, is to be in charge of the troop.

 

From the April 11 1951 edition of the Salisbury Times, Salisbury, MD

Girl Fight 1906

Nina Tuttle, ten years of age, was arrested last evening for cutting Bessie Truitt, who was only 12 years old.  The two girls were found in a field just north of Parsons Cemetery by a man from Delmar who separated the girls and brought them to Salisbury.  Dr. F. M. Slemons dressed the wounds of the Truitt girl and found six different cuts on various parts of the arms and body.  While none of the wounds are serious, there is one on her wrist that is ugly and quite painful.  The Tuttle girl was carried before Justice of the Peace William A. Trader, and after a hearing committed temporarily to jail.  Definite action will be taken later.

From July 7 1906 the Courier, Salisbury Maryland.

Concerning Charcoal, Hops and Muskrats

GEORGETOWN, Jan 2 – Collin’s coal pits near here have been in operation barely two months, but have fully demonstrated to their enterprising owner that fine timber pays much better converted into coal and sold at 20 cents a bushel than the wood at $2.25 per cord.  Townsend, the Angola charcoal burner has made a Sussex county fortune - $15,000 is the figure  - in a few years, although the incidental expenses are comparatively heavy.  Collins has from 15 to 20 pits burning, and cared for by attendants who live at the kiln.  Here the wood is charred from full cord length sticks, differing from the methods of the Carolines, where it is charred from small sawed billets.  The coal is brought to town in wagons, carrying a hundred bushels and shipped north by rail.  The average life of a “pit” or “mound” is three weeks, and the work, though exceedingly dirty is very healthy to any one troubled with weak lungs, dyspepsia and kindred affections.

Sussex is to make a new departure.  The question has been asked before this, “if hops will flourish in New York State, why not in Sussex, so much futher south?”  A northern man, a physician I believe, has purchased a tract of land on the McColley farm four miles out of town, for his son, who will engage in hop culture.  The gentleman says he can make more money in one year on one acre of the ground planted in hops, than three Sussex farmers with three times the amount of land planted in corn, can make in the same time.  This is a tall statement, very tall; but, nevertheless, some one may yet live to see as flourishing hop gardens in old Sussex  as were ever seen in the hop districts of England.
Very few of the city readers of the GAZETTE probably know anything of muskrat hunting on the Sussex marshes.  When the marsh is frozen over nicely the sport is very enticing and not without its spice of danger a broken leg or arm, or even a dislocated neck, provided the rat hole you slip into is large and deep enough.  The spear is the weapon used, and in expert hands never fails to bring the rodent impaled on the point from its hole.  Down in Cave Neck the marsh farmers, besides making a snug sum of money by the sale of muskrat hides, use the meat on their tables with great relish.  Out a brace of fricasseed rats before a Wilmington epicure and the odds are that be couldn’t tell ‘em from rabbit.

The first snow here of the season, of any depth, fell Saturday.  Not enough for sleighing, though.

From The Wilmington Gazette January 3, 1883

Dogs, Huckleberries, Snakes and Door Knobs

From The Los Angles Herald April 19 1908

 

 

From the Milford Chronicle June 30 1933

The Eighteenth Amendment Was Ratified Today

The National Prohibition Act (18th Amendment) was ratified on January 16th, 1919 with North Carolina, Utah, Nebraska, Missouri and Wyoming all approving the amendment on January 16, 1919 giving the required 36 states (Delaware was the 9th) to approve the amendment. This gave everyone one year to stock up on alcohol before the amendment went into effect. It is frequently thought that having possession of alcohol was against the law but the amendment merely deny manufacture, sale and transportation of liquors and on January 17, 1920 it went into effect.

The 18th
Section 1. After one year from the ratification of this article the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors within, the importation thereof into, or the exportation thereof from the United States and all territory subject to the jurisdiction thereof for beverage purposes is hereby prohibited.

Section 2. The Congress and the several states shall have concurrent power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

Section 3. This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of the several states, as provided in the Constitution, within seven years from the date of the submission hereof to the states by the Congress.

Old Local Newspaper On Line

There are a number of old Delmarva Newspapers on line. 

The Peninsular Enterprises newspaper Accomack Virginia 1895 to 1908 are located here;

http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn94060041/issues/1895/


you can select a year (1895 - 1908) and than pick the issue,

Example select Jan 5 1895 and four images will pop up generally with the Peninsular Enterprise only page 3 (image3) has local news on it and may be what you are most interested in. Pick an image and play with it some.

There are a number of newspapers out there across the country in the Chronicling America program so if you do a search for a specific name it will search all the papers, but you can do an "advance search" and search just the Pen. Enterprise issues.



The Nabb Center is at http://nabbhistory.salisbury.edu/

click on "search the historical eastern shore newspaper" block in Red,
at the next screen you can do a search of a particular name or click on browse - followed by click "Browse all digital archives" - followed by click "newspapers" - select a newspaper out of the 22 they have - select a year - select a month - click go
obviously you have to play with them some to make it work.



I use the snipping tool in window 7 to "cut out" an article and save it.