Saturday, April 14, 2012

Eagle Archive: Measuring county's wealth in terms of cash, crops and heritage



Around 1919, a local newspaper took issue with an article in a Baltimore paper that had credited "Yolo County, Calif., with the record of any county in the United States as being the wealthiest."

The now-defunct Union Bridge Pilot carried an article which took "exception to a recent article in the Baltimore Star… so far as per capita wealth is concerned, the citizens of Carroll county claim that honor themselves, and knowing The Star wants to be fair toward Carroll county, request equal prominence to the latter's claims." … http://www.baltimoresun.com/explore/carroll/news/community/ph-ce-eagle-archive-0415-20120411,0,6968390.story


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