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Maryland: Apex of Normalcy
Mencken, H. L. | May 3, 1922 issue

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According to the author, in all tables of statistics Maryland seems to gravitate toward a safe middle place, neither alarming nor depressing. The colony was settled after Massachusetts and Virginia, but before Pennsylvania and the Carolinas, the State lies today about half-way down the list of American commonwealths, in population, in the value of its manufactures, and in its production of natural wealth. The chief city of Maryland, Baltimore, lies half-way down the list of great American cities, the State's average temperature, winter and summer, is halfway between the American maximum and minimum.

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URBAN policy; POPULATION; STATISTICS; WEALTH; CITIES & towns; MARYLAND; UNITED States
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