Valley View News – September 26, 1924
Valley View, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania – Valley View News, reported for the week of September 19, 1924, included happenings in the schools, and churches, as well as attendance at a […]
Upper Dauphin High School – Girls’ Basketball, 1994
A 1994 photograph of the girls’ basketball team of the Upper Dauphin High School, Elizabethville, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. Identified in the photo: Front Row: B. Kreiser; A. Bechtel; T. Shade; S. Erdman; […]
On Vacation – Lykens Valley at the Atlantic City Beach
A photo of Millersburg at the Atlantic City beach, 1950s. Summer is approaching. For the next few months I will be taking a vacation from writing and go back to […]
Simon Evans Killed at Brookside Colliery, 1906
KILLED BY FALL OF COAL AT BROOKSIDE [Lykens Standard, 20 Jul 1906] Simon Evans of Tower City, aged 43 years, employed as a miner in breast 159, West Brookside Colliery, […]
Gratz Area Man Killed in Harrisburg Railroad Yard, 1906
JOHN WOLFE FATALLY INJURED IN THE HARRISBURG YARD [Lykens Standard, September 21, 1906]. John Wolfe, of Harrisburg, a brakeman on the Pennsylvania railroad, was run over by a shifter in […]
Eugene Machamer – Killed By Gas at Short Mountain Colliery, 1924
From the Lykens Standard, April 18, 1924: WICONISCO YOUTH SMOTHERED IN MINES An outburst of gas at Short Mountain Colliery Friday morning of last week was fatal to Eugene Machamer, […]
Berrysburg Post Office, 1908
A post card with message mailed from the Berrysburg Post Office, Berrysburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, June 12, 1908, at 10 A. M., and marked “received” at the Gratz Post Office, […]
Charles Mucher Killed at Short Mountain Colliery, 1924
MINE ACCIDENT FATAL TO CHARLES MUCHER Again the inevitable happened at Short Mountain Colliery and a possible outburst of gas took for its toll the life of Charles Wellington J. […]