Who Had the Biggest Big-Game Trophy Room?
Composite photograph showing how big-game trophies are displayed in private homes. In the early part of the 20th Century, hunters tried to emulate this type of decor in which their […]
Composite photograph showing how big-game trophies are displayed in private homes. In the early part of the 20th Century, hunters tried to emulate this type of decor in which their […]
The announcement of an event that was to become the largest Ku Klux Klan demonstration ever held in the Lykens Valley, appeared in the September 26, 1924, edition of the […]
LOYALTON YOUNG MAN KILLED BY EXPLOSION OF GUN WHICH HE FIRED A sad accident occurred at Loyalton between 6:00 and 6:30 last evening when Frank Lebo, 24-year-old son of Mr. […]
Lucy Page Gaston (1860-1924) was an anti-tobacco activist who founded the Anti-Cigarette League in Chicago in 1899, which quickly grew nationwide to more than 300,000 members. Her movement was aligned […]
On Saturday, May 10, 1924, the Ku Klux Klan announced its presence in Williamstown, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, by burning a cross on the culm bank west of the colliery. The […]
An undated generic post card from Muir, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. Greetings from Muir, Pennsylvania __________________________________ Corrections and additional information should be added as comments to this post.
JOHN P. “FRANK” SHOLEY It is difficult to determine who this person actually was and what was his real name. Has been variously reported as F. B. Sholey, Frank Sholey, […]
JOHN HENRY ROWE Henry Rowe was born in Perry County, Pennsylvania. His father, John Rowe, a coal miner, arrived in United States from Cornwall, England, in 1865, at the end of the […]