Maryland Pharmaceutical Association

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1. 1902 · 1902-06-30

   Ocean City's 1902 season opened with two state conventions back to back at the Atlantic Hotel — the largest teachers' meeting the association had ever held, then the Maryland State Bar Association.

   "The early birds at Ocean City this season will be the members of the State Teachers' Association and the Maryland Bar Association. These two organizations will lap each other in their stay and cover the period from June 30 to July 3, leaving the 4th to be celebrated by excursionists from all parts of the peninsula and from Baltimore, Washington and other cities ... The headquarters of the Teachers' and Bar Associations will be the Atlantic Hotel." The teachers' meeting "was the largest ever held since the formation of the association"; Joseph Blair of Sparrow's Point was elected president, and both State Superintendent M. Bates Stephens and the outgoing president F. Eugene Wathen argued at the opening for better pay for county teachers. The State Board of Education met at Ocean City on 1 July with Governor John Walter Smith presiding and elected the vice-principal of State Normal School No. 2 at Frostburg. The lawyers followed: "Most of the Worcester lawyers are attending the meeting of the State Bar Association now in session at Ocean City ... among the most distinguished visitors are Judges McSherry, Page, Pearce, and other members of the Court of Appeals." Judge James Alfred Pearce used his address there to recount the Civil War arrest of Judge Richard Carmichael, dragged bleeding from his own bench by a federal provost marshal. In May the paper had already run the headline "OCEAN CITY CONVENTIONS — School Teachers And Lawyers Will Assemble This Year," arguing that the pharmaceutical, lawyers', bankers' and Republican delegates who had come before "have almost unanimously so declared" the resort the right place for the state's professional bodies.

   State Teachers' Association of MarylandMaryland State Bar AssociationMaryland Bankers AssociationJohn Walter Smith

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2. 1903 · 1903-07-07

   Ocean City books three state conventions in a fortnight: the teachers, then the Maryland State Bar Association at the Atlantic 7–9 July, then the Pharmaceutical Association's twenty-first annual meeting the week after.

   The Bar Association's eighth annual meeting had been provisionally set for Ocean City as early as 21 February — "The Executive Council of the Maryland State Bar Association has decided that the eighth annual meeting of the association shall be held at Ocean City, if suitable arrangements can be made. The dates selected are Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, July 7, 8 and 9" — and the July programme confirms it: opened at 10 a.m. on 7 July with the president's address by Benjamin A. Richmond of Allegany County, the annual address on the 8th by Henry Budd of Philadelphia, the programme prepared by Judge Conway W. Sams, secretary. Snow Hill sent five lawyers. The following week the Messenger noted that "William C. Powell attended the sessions of the twenty-first annual meeting of the Maryland Pharmaceutical Association at Ocean City this week." Three state bodies inside three weeks in a town whose winter population was in the hundreds — the "Convention City" pattern the county paper named in 1899, now routine.

   Maryland State Bar Association

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3. 1908

   Convention town: 500 teachers in June, the Democrats nominating a congressman in the Atlantic Hotel parlor in July, and the Republicans doing the same at Ocean City in August.

   The Maryland State Teachers' Association held its forty-first annual meeting at Ocean City on 24-26 June 1908 — the executive committee had fixed the dates the previous January — "with an attendance of about 500." The association sang "America," Rev. J. R. North of Snow Hill prayed, Judge Robley D. Jones of Snow Hill welcomed them to Worcester County, Prof. E. H. Norman of the Baltimore Business College replied, and President Albert S. Cook, superintendent of schools for Baltimore County, gave his inaugural address; "the officers … are congregated chiefly at the Atlantic Hotel, where they welcome new arrivals and discuss educational problems with one another." The meeting elected Miss Sarah E. Richmond of the State Normal School president. One teacher, Miss Hilda Howard, "slipped away from the Teachers' Convention" and got married. The Maryland Pharmaceutical Association met at the resort the same week — "nearly all the druggists of our county spent a part of the week there." On Thursday 23 July the Democratic Congressional Convention of the First District was called to order "in the large parlor of the Atlantic Hotel, Ocean City" at noon; Edward Goslin of Caroline chaired, Samuel K. Dennis of Worcester was secretary, and J. Harry Covington was nominated. Two weeks later, on Thursday 6 August, "Congressman William H. Jackson was renominated by the Republicans of the First Congressional District in convention at Ocean City." Both parties chose their candidate in the same town, in the same fortnight, for the third time this decade. In August the resort also hosted a series of evangelistic meetings, opening Tuesday 18 August, which the Berlin correspondent thought "will be a pleasant and valuable feature of the sea side city in coming years."

   Atlantic HotelState Teachers' Association of MarylandHon. William H. Jackson

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4. 1913

   Convention town again: the druggists at the Plimhimmon, the state's editors at the Atlantic, the Odd Fellows parading on the Board Walk, and the Tri-County teachers about to become Four-County.

   Four gatherings in one season. (1) The Maryland Pharmaceutical Association held its thirty-first annual meeting at the Hotel Plimhimmon from Tuesday evening, late June, with a reception for president David Schindel of Hagerstown; "for the first time in the history of the association a number of ladies" attended as members. (2) The Maryland Press Association held its semi-annual meeting at the Atlantic Hotel in July; its president, Col. William S. Powell, was absent and resigned on retiring as a publisher, and W. Meade Holladay of Annapolis was elected in his place. (3) "Peninsula Odd Fellows will hold a grand re-union at Ocean City on August 1st. The program will include a parade on the Board Walk at 9.00 p. m., escorted by Patriarchs Militant." (4) The summer school known as the Tri-County Institute, begun in 1905, met 27 August to 4 September; in June the superintendents of Wicomico, Worcester and Somerset met the Dorchester superintendent at Ocean City to bring in a fourth county and 140 more teachers, and the paper noted that "the term Tri-County will be a thing of the past. Suggestions will be in order for a new name."

   Atlantic HotelPlimhimmon Hotel / Plim PlazaOcean City BoardwalkMaryland Press Association

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5. 1930 · 1930-07-15

   "The convention resort": seven state and regional bodies meet at Ocean City in 1930, and Mayor McCabe welcomes the Maryland druggists with Governor Ritchie closing the session.

   Documented in the 1930 corpus: the 95th annual session of the Improved Order of Red Men, 23–24 April, at which Mrs. Florence Abernathy of Cherry Hill was elected Great Pocahontas of the Ladies' Branch (Midland Journal, 2 May); the Maryland Pharmaceutical Association in convention with the Delaware Pharmaceutical Society in late June, where "Mayor William W. McCabe of Ocean City gave an address of welcome to the state druggists at the opening session" and Governor Ritchie addressed the members at the close (Smyrna Times, 2 July); the Maryland State Teachers' Association, whose sessions drew the Garrett County superintendent (The Republican, Oakland, 3 July); the Automobile Trade Association of Maryland, 14–15 July, headquarters the Hotel Atlantic, "more than 350 visitors… among them Gov. Ritchie" (Washington Daily News, 8 July); the fifth annual convention of the Eastern Shore of Maryland Association of Optometrists, 21 August, with delegates from Delaware, Maryland, Virginia and the District (Washington Times, 21 August); the Del-Mar-Va Eastern Shore Association, whose Worcester County governors for the year were named on 1 July as including W. W. McCabe, Dr. C. W. Purnell and Frank W. Pruitt, all of Ocean City (Peninsula Enterprise, 5 July); and the Maryland State Council of the Izaak Walton League, meeting 19 September to elect officers and adopt a constitution (Evening Star, 7 September). In December the Community Fire Company of Rising Sun elected five delegates and five alternates to the Maryland State Firemen's convention, "which meets at Ocean City" — booked for 8–10 July 1931, "one month later than usual."

   1928's draft called the convention trade 'the year's quiet economy'. In 1930 it is not quiet: it is the thing the town's own advertising leads with, and the mayor's job in July is standing up to welcome druggists.

   Atlantic HotelDel-Mar-Va Eastern Shore AssociationState Teachers' Association of MarylandOcean City Volunteer Fire DepartmentWilliam W. McCabeDr. Charles Washington Purnell

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6. 1933 · 1933-06-20

   Maryland and Delaware druggists, meeting at Ocean City, sent Roosevelt a protest against the Nazi treatment of Jews

   'OCEAN CITY, Md., June 21. Resolutions protesting inhuman treatment of the Jews and Jewish pharmacists in Germany by the Nazi government were adopted by Maryland druggists at a joint convention of the Maryland Pharmaceutical Association and the Delaware Pharmaceutical Society here yesterday. Copies of the resolutions were forwarded to President Roosevelt and Congress. Governor Albert C. Ritchie, Maryland, and Governor C. Douglass Buck, Delaware, will speak here tonight.' Five months into Hitler's chancellorship, in a convention hall on the Maryland beach.

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