Word: privateersmen
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Dates: during 1937-1937
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Both Publisher Abell and the city in which he set up shop were bustling and full of fight when Vol. 1 No. 1 of the Sun came out. Baltimore skippers, some of them privateersmen in the War of 1812, were trading in & out of Canton, Bombay, Lisbon, Valparaiso. Overland west to Harper's Ferry went the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. The Baltimore & Susquehanna ran north to the Pennsylvania line. Priding itself on art as well as commerce, busy Baltimore pointed to the paintings of Rembrandt Peale, to the acting of Junius Brutus Booth, to the great 180-ft. column...
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