News

While I was peeking around the Frederick Post website after reading a particular article I found this:

100 years ago
NOVEMBER 2, 1906

Persons who have examined the plans for the Y.M.C.A. building are aware that they include billiard rooms. In some quarters there has been found to exist a prejudice against these games because of their usual connection, in the past, with saloons, but this prejudice is fast dying out, and it is now almost universally recognized that there is absolutely nothing harmful in the games themselves, but that they are, on the contrary, not only interesting, but beneficial to those who play them.

Mr. John Mumford, a well-known huckster residing near Braddock Heights, had quite a mishap one evening recently. While driving up the west side of Catoctin Mountain, his horses became frightened and ran the wagon down a steep embankment, smashing 75 dozen eggs and wrecking the wagon top, two wheels and the tongue.

The hunting season opened in Frederick county yesterday, and hundreds of sportsmen were out with guns and dogs, after partridges. Birds are rather scarce, but many were shot yesterday. Rabbits are more plentiful and hundreds were killed.

This is rather interesting. Look at the news from back then compared to the news of today. I can't wait to read what tomorrows news from 100 years ago says. Frederick and surrounding Maryland History is quite interesting to me. Germantown has quite a bit of history I would love to read up on as well. Such as.....355 use to be a dirt road at one point. There's a Germantown Historic Socieity I would love to go to sometime.

Neato!