A 1955 advertisement for Romberger’s Modern Dairy, Lykens, R. D., Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. Milk – Cream ___________________________________ From the 1955 yearbook, La Memoria, of the Upper Dauphin Joint High School, Elizabethville, Dauphin […]
Citizens’ Military Training Camps (C. M. T. C) were summer camps set up by the United States Government during the years 1921 to 1940. Their purpose was to give basic military […]
JAKE MILLER BURNED AT BRIQUET PLANT George Miller, better known as “Jake,” sustained severe burns of face, arms and legs Friday evening of last week while cleaning a dry culm […]
The station agent was the official representative of the railroad in the local community. Agents were responsible for the controlling of train movements. A passenger agent sold tickets and planned […]
From the Lykens Standard, August 1, 1924: WONDERFUL CLOCK AT WEST BOROUGH PARK Among the attractions at West Borough Park [Lykens] this week is a large mechanical clock. It is […]
In May 1923, a second major fire occurred at the American Briquet Plant in Wiconisco, near Lykens. The first fire took place in 1919, one month after the plant had […]
JOHN B. RALPH WILLIAMSTOWN – John B. Ralph, 41, of 136 E. Market Street, died Monday at Holy Spirit Hospital, Camp Hill. He was an employee of Park Publishing Company, […]
In 1919, about one month after the American Briquet Company opened a new plant at Wiconisco, near Lykens, a fire, believed to have been caused by defective wiring, broke out […]