A fact from Baltimore municipal strike of 1974 appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 30 September 2012 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that numerous piles of trash were set ablaze when Baltimore's garbage collectors and police officers conducted overlapping strikes in July 1974?
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A lot of the URLs for the newspaper sources are through Proquest. If you're in Baltimore, you can get through to these via the Pratt Library site, here. Click on "Historical Newspapers" and enter your library card number. Then click the new link you're offered. After you've logged into the database, you can click straight through from the URLs listed in the references section on this page. groupuscule (talk) 11:15, 9 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]
