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Jacques Kelly | September 30, 2011
The door at 831 N. Howard St. swings open to one of Baltimore's more charming salesrooms. But Friday, when I stopped by the place known as the Imperial Half Bushel, it was a dispiriting and depressing sight. The 19th-century walnut and oak showcases were empty. Gone were the silver forks and spoons made by Baltimore silversmiths. The water pitchers, the cups, the napkin holders had disappeared. Sometime between Sept. 17 and Sept. 20, thieves looted $100,000 worth of silver from this little shop located on a stretch known as Antiques Row. Fred and Nancy Duggan and their son, Patrick, opened their silver business in 1976.
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August 11, 2011
Harford County sheriff's deputies and Maryland State Police report: Aberdeen Stephanie Johnson, 30, of the first block of Pritchard Avenue, was arrested Wednesday on two warrants in cases in which she was charged with fourth-degree burglary, second-degree assault, animal abuse and abandonment of animal. Marc Philippe Steele, 44, of the first block of Liberty Street, was charged Wednesday with being a fugitive from Pennsylvania. A caller in the 1400 block of Old Philadelphia Road reported Saturday vandals broke a window.
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By Jacques Kelly, The Baltimore Sun and Baltimore Sun reporter | January 21, 2011
Curt Raymond Schaefer, an architectural designer who was an advocate for the rejuvenation of aging Baltimore landmarks, died Sunday of complications from the flu at his Mount Vernon Place home. He was 51. Mr. Schaefer worked with design teams on the preservation of the Druid Hill Park Conservatory, the Lab School on the old Goucher College campus and the Enoch Pratt Free Library 's Canton and Edmondson Village branches. "I see my role as restoring and bringing back to use the historic buildings on the west side of downtown Baltimore," he told a Baltimore Sun reporter in 2008.
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By Frederick N. Rasmussen, The Baltimore Sun | October 15, 2010
My object is to mystify and entertain. I wouldn't deceive you for the world. — Howard Thurston If Central Casting were looking for an archetypical prestidigitator, it could do no better than George Goebel, the veteran Baltimore magician and Houdini expert who also owns A.T. Jones & Sons, the Howard Street costume shop. "In our day, magicians looked like magicians. Today, they wear jeans and other outfits," Goebel said in an interview the other day. "A magician should wear a full dress suit, pique vest, turban and have a beard.
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By Michael Dresser, The Baltimore Sun | September 16, 2010
In the aftermath of an August derailment in the Howard Street Tunnel, CSX Transportation and Baltimore have jointly announced a series of actions to improve safety in the more than 100-year-old structure, including improved communications, stepped-up inspections and an accelerated track replacement program. The agreement reflects an increasingly cooperative relationship between the freight railroad and City Hall and stands in stark contrast to the finger-pointing and recriminations that marked the response to the near-catastrophic 2001 fire in the tunnel.