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Title: National star-spangled banner centennial, Baltimore, Maryland, September 6 to 13, 1914
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: National star-spangled banner centennial commission O'Connell, Frank Albert, 1886- Coyle, William F
Subjects: Star-spangled banner (Song) Baltimore, Battle of, Baltimore, Md., 1814
Publisher: (Baltimore, Munder-Thomsen Press
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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latest styles are detached, have orna-mental bay windows, and each, by law, must be provided witha bathtub and the best sanitary appliances. A real home in Baltimore is within reach of all. And thishome is on a good street, in a respectable neighborhood. Balti-moreans are not stowed away in the uppermost stories of un-healthy, insanitary tenement houses, with dubious and doubtfulassociates under the same roof, and in an atmosphere of social,physical and moral impurity. Baltimore has many stately mansions amid the environmentof wealth and dignity, which are very impressive, but the thou-sands of small dwellings, sheltering thousands of contentedfamilies, each dweller in his or her own castle, offer, asplendid object-lesson. The excellent system of street car lines enables a person toreach any part of Baltimore for a 5-cent fare, which also in-cludes one free transfer. This is a great boon to the wage-earner who desires to live in the open, away from the office,factory and workshop. 93
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BALTIMORE MARKETSThree views of Lexington market, possibly the most famous in the country THCr BALTIMORLE^ BOOFx BALTIMORE MARKETS The habit of going to market is so fixed a custom, and sogenerally practiced as a part of the domestic routine by theBaltimore housekeeper, that markets are supported and flourishas they do nowhere else. Moreover, the markets, on marketdays, are one of the sights of the City. Few strangers come toBaltimore who do not join the picturesque throng at one ofthese centers. To see these markets in full blast is indeed in-teresting. Not only the markets themselves, but all approachesfor squares take on the market environment. Along the streetsare hundreds of wagons, converted into stalls, and scores ofimprovised shops line the curb; the flower girl, the ubiquitousfaker, the country folk, the thrifty housewife, making her dis-criminating purchases, is a spectacle well worth witnessing. Lexington Market is the most noted and is, possibly, withouta serious rival in

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