Research Topic

Pastimes

This topic appears in 80 indexed records between 1800 and 1943.
80 Indexed Records
1800 Earliest Record
1943 Latest Record
Bakerton Strongest Location
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July 22, 2023

Stouffer & Bowers, Antietam Creek Dynamite

Charles Stouffer and Charles Bowers couldn’t catch fish fast enough last summer in the usual way, so they killed them wholesale with dynamite n Antietam creek. They paid for their violation of the law on Monday, […]
May 23, 2020

Martin Welsh, Potato in Bottle

Our young friend Martin Welsh, of Bakerton, brought us a curosity last week— a potato growing through the neck of a bottle. Must have been something mighty good in the bottle to cause the potato to […]
May 23, 2020

The Biggest Carp Yet.

The biggest carp we have ever heard of in this section was captured last Monday below Shepherdstown, near Flanagan’s quarries, by Mr. A. M. Hopper and his sons. The fish had gone into a shallow place, […]
May 22, 2020

The Ore Bank Giant

Mr. William Foreman, who has charge of the Virginia ore bank below Shepherdstown, unearthed the skeleton of a human being some days ago. Men were at work making an excavation in the hillside when they uncovered […]
May 22, 2020

An Evening Drive (to Bakerton).

The REGISTER man took a drive the other evening down to Bakerton by way of Moler’s Cross Roads, and he has thought that what he noticed might not be uninteresting in print. The first impression is […]
Time Periods

Time Period Concentration

This topic appears most frequently during the following decades.

1890s 16 records
1900s 13 records
1910s 13 records
1920s 9 records
1820s 3 records
1860s 2 records