150 years ago in The SunOct. 6: The contract for building...

150 years ago in The Sun

Oct. 6: The contract for building an iron bridge over Jones' Falls, at Madison Street, made on the part of the city by the city commissioners, has been ratified.

Oct. 7: THE ELECTION TO-DAY -- After reading The Sun and eating their breakfasts this morning, it will become the duty of our citizens, to go forth to exercise the dearest privilege of freemen -- the suffrage of untrammelled political sentiment through the medium of the ballot.

100 years ago in The Sun

Oct. 6: ORIOLES FIELD DAY -- The field sports at Union Park which have been arranged for the benefit of the champions will be held next Saturday, provided Baltimore wins the first game in Cleveland.

Oct. 7: The school board of Baltimore last night determined to reopen the night schools, which were closed last winter for lack of an appropriation.

50 years ago in The Sun

Oct. 9: Next week's attraction at Ford's Theater will be "Dear Ruth," a comedy of proved merit which opened a run of two

seasons in New York in December, 1944.

Oct. 12: Three men arrested by the FBI in Baltimore were released in bail of $1,000 each yesterday to await a hearing on charges of "publishing" pictures of materials and related equipment to the atomic bomb.

Pub Date: 10/06/96