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Pratt and Balto Co. libraries to share nearly $1 million bequest
An avid reader who considered the library a second home has left a $950,000 bequest to be shared by the Baltimore County Public Library and the Enoch Pratt Free Library. The city and county systems will share equally in the gift from Margaret S. "Peggy"...Tags: Elections, Human Interest, Politics, Libraries, Arts and Culture
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Alice F. Bowie, Evening Sun reporter and editor, dies
Alice F. Bowie, a former newspaper reporter and editor who enjoyed gardening, died Thursday of lung cancer at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Towson.
The Lutherville resident was 87.
The daughter of a farmer and suffragette, Alice Forbes was born in Baltimore...Tags: Elections, Lawyers, Charles Carroll, Anglicanism, Roland Park
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Pratt library wants your Civil War documents
Marylanders are being asked to brave dusty attics to help preserve history. The Enoch Pratt Free Library is in search of Civil War-era documents and wants to preserve them on computers and share them on the Internet. Librarians have joined up with the...Tags: Maryland, Washington (U.S. state), Wars and Interventions, Pratt Street, Lifestyle and Leisure
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Evelyn G. Calhoun, teacher, dies
Evelyn G. Calhoun, a retired Baltimore County educator and world traveler who was also a thoroughbred racing fan, died Sunday of pancreatic cancer at her Parkton home.
She was 89.
Evelyn Gertrude Dennis, the daughter of a steelworker and a homemaker,...Tags: Sports, Surgery, World War II (1939-1945), Diseases and Illnesses, Democratic Party
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Food truck owner plans to reopen Woman's Industrial Exchange
The Woman's Industrial Exchange, famous for its tomato aspic and its no-nonsense waitresses, will reopen in November under the no-nonsense management of food truck owner Irene Smith, who says she is determined to honor the tearoom's traditions that...Tags: Tomatoes, Mass Media, Pies and Tarts, Foods and Beverages, Dining and Drinking
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Library helps prevent summer learning loss
With summer vacation in full swing, thoughts of warm weather fun, sleeping in and spending time with friends tend to top most kids' to-do lists. For too many youngsters, however, one essential activity is missing: retaining much of what they learned...Tags: Maryland, Elections, Human Interest, Politics, Continuing Education
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Best week ever: Baltimore events, music, movies and more
Stay in the loop with a look at everything going on this week
MOVIES OPENING (Friday; subject to change)
Martha Marcy May Marlene
The Skin I Live In
The Son of No One
Tower Heist
A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas
NOTABLE TV
MONDAY
Ghost Hunters Live!...Tags: Music, Justin Bieber, Entertainment, Fells Point, Kings of Leon (music group)
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Rose Simpson
Baltimore Sun reporterRose Givens Simpson, a retired Social Security Administration clerk, died of pancreatic cancer Oct. 20 at her daughter's home in Diamond Bar, Calif. The former West Baltimore resident was 97. Born Rose Givens in Baltimore and raised on Caroline Street,...Tags: Career and Workplace, Social Security, World War II (1939-1945), Wages and Pensions, Anglicanism
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Read me: Books to check out right now
Our bookshelf is looking a bit sad lately. So we enlisted some of the young staff at Enoch Pratt Free Library branches to give us their picks for books they're loving right now. -
City opens cooling centers as heat index climbs through week
The National Weather Service was calling for Wednesday to be mostly sunny in the Baltimore area with a high near 95 degrees and east winds 3 to 6 miles per hour. Heat index values will be as high as 102. There is a chance of isolated showers and...Tags: Environmental Pollution, Diseases and Illnesses, Reisterstown Road, Air Pollution, Environmental Issues
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Forecast: Sunny and hot, high near 101
The National Weather Service was calling for Thursday to be sunny and hot, with a high near 101 degrees and south winds between 5 and 10 miles per hour. Heat index values will be as high as 111. Thursday night was expected to be mostly clear, with a low...Tags: Reisterstown Road, Weather Reports, Weather, Cherry Hill
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Sigmund Freud, William Halsted and cocaine addiction
![Howard Markel's "An Anatomy of Addiction" starts, like a shot, on May 5,1884. A Bellevue Hospital orderly summons Dr. William Stewart Halsted to save the leg of a laborer who has fallen from a scaffolding.](http://www.baltimoresun.com/media/thumbnails/story/2011-07/63405604-21103000.jpg "Howard Markel's "An Anatomy of Addiction\" starts, like a shot, on May 5,1884. A Bellevue Hospital orderly summons Dr. William Stewart Halsted to save the leg of a laborer who has fallen from a scaffolding.")
Howard Markel's "An Anatomy of Addiction" starts, like a shot, on May 5,1884. A Bellevue Hospital orderly summons Dr. William Stewart Halsted to save the leg of a laborer who has fallen from a scaffolding.
Famous for the speed and virtuosity of his...Tags: Surgery, Diseases and Illnesses, History (tv network), H.L. Mencken, The Dick Van Dyke Show (tv program)
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