Catholic High School of Baltimore - Troubadour Yearbook (Baltimore, MD)

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FRANCIS SCOTT KEY dill offers tho manuscript of the Star Span- gle d Bonner at Eutaw Place. LOCK RAVEN DAM is one of three sources of water supply for Balti- more. GILMAN HALL on the Johns Hop- kins campus recalls an intellectual center almost at the TCHS door- step. WASHINGTON MONUMENT at Ml. Vernon Place was the first Wash- ington monument to be begun in the United Stales. RELIGIOUS • CULTURAL INTELLECTUAL SKYLINE AND INNER HARBOR OF THE CITY OF BALTIMORE AS SEEN ON OUR RETURN FROM A BOAT RIDE TO BETTERTON.

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BE LA IR ROAD it important for homes and shops in Northeast Baltimore. Here, Katherine Haak, We are proud of our city and its traditions . . . Other “firsts” attract our attention: Baltimore is responsible for the first American designed locomotive, 1830; for the first commercial telegraph message by S. F. B. Morse in 1844; for the first linotype typesetting machine invented by Ottmar Mcr- gcnthalcr; for the first issue of the first newspaper, the Mary- land Journal and Baltimore Advertiser; in 1773; for the first school for colored girls in the United States, opened by the Sisters of Providence in 1829. Yes, Baltimore is noted, too, for the first blood shed in the Civil War when a group of patriots fired upon a troop of Massachusetts soldiers. Oddly enough, even the first umbrella in the United States was first brought to Baltimore in 1772 from India. Margoret Ronncnberg, and Rote Tavik aro heading toward the shops in the noxt block after a gala Junior-Senior Day. ■ We think it is interesting to note that the Goudy type used for headings in this edition of the yearbook was created by Mr. Frederic Goudy, a noted type designer of Baltimore who died in 1947. It could he proved that Baltimore is among the first, if not the first, in the fields of journalism, music, science, industry, and politics. But that is another story.

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In 1649 . . ♦ Catholic Maryland was the first colony