Lighting the faces of children, and a dark day for taxation
July 11, 1947 Westminster Lions Club presented Westminster Playground Lights and It was only a little over 60 years ago that Maryland first implemented a sales tax -- on July 1, 1947. http://tinyurl.com/krhy3h
EAGLE ARCHIVE By Kevin Dayhoff Posted on http://www.explorecarroll.com/ 7/26/09
http://explorecarroll.com/community/3217/lighting-faces-children-dark-day-taxation/ http://tinyurl.com/krhy3h
If there's anything that jumps out for an historian in any review of old newspaper articles, it's the age-old cliche that the more things change, the more they stay the same.
Such a dynamic is certainly the case when one examines the events of July in Carroll County history.
At the last meeting of the mayor and Westminster Common Council, Ron Schroers, director of recreation and parks for the city, made presentations about service groups contributing to the city.
More than 60 years ago the July 11, 1947, edition of the now-defunct Democratic Advocate carried an article with much of same news.
It reported that the Westminster Lions Club had presented the mayor and council with their "latest improvement" to the Westminster playground — lights.
[…]
In other news from the 1940s, taxes were, of course, just as controversial then as they are today.
It was only a little over 60 years ago that Maryland first implemented a sales tax -- on July 1, 1947.
Read the entire article here: Lighting the faces of children, and a dark day for taxation
EAGLE ARCHIVE By Kevin Dayhoff Posted on http://www.explorecarroll.com/ 7/26/09
http://explorecarroll.com/community/3217/lighting-faces-children-dark-day-taxation/ http://tinyurl.com/krhy3h
20090726 SCE Lighting faces children dark day taxation sceked
July 11, 1947 Westminster Lions Club presented Westminster Playground Lights and It was only a little over 60 years ago that Maryland first implemented a sales tax -- on July 1, 1947. http://tinyurl.com/krhy3h
EAGLE ARCHIVE By Kevin Dayhoff Posted on http://www.explorecarroll.com/ 7/26/09
http://explorecarroll.com/community/3217/lighting-faces-children-dark-day-taxation/ http://tinyurl.com/krhy3h
If there's anything that jumps out for an historian in any review of old newspaper articles, it's the age-old cliche that the more things change, the more they stay the same.
Such a dynamic is certainly the case when one examines the events of July in Carroll County history.
At the last meeting of the mayor and Westminster Common Council, Ron Schroers, director of recreation and parks for the city, made presentations about service groups contributing to the city.
More than 60 years ago the July 11, 1947, edition of the now-defunct Democratic Advocate carried an article with much of same news.
It reported that the Westminster Lions Club had presented the mayor and council with their "latest improvement" to the Westminster playground — lights.
[…]
In other news from the 1940s, taxes were, of course, just as controversial then as they are today.
It was only a little over 60 years ago that Maryland first implemented a sales tax -- on July 1, 1947.
Read the entire article here: Lighting the faces of children, and a dark day for taxation
EAGLE ARCHIVE By Kevin Dayhoff Posted on http://www.explorecarroll.com/ 7/26/09
http://explorecarroll.com/community/3217/lighting-faces-children-dark-day-taxation/ http://tinyurl.com/krhy3h
20090726 SCE Lighting faces children dark day taxation sceked
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