Lykens – Uhler Drug Store Fire Was Costly, 1924
UHLER DRUG STORE FIRE ESTIMATED $2,000 The fire which occurred at the Uhler Drug Store, Main and Market Streets, Saturday morning, October 25 [1924], caused a loss estimated at about […]
Williamstown Saved from Great Fire, 1924
Quick action by residents and the Williamstown fire company, with some assistance from the wind changing directions, saved Williamstown from the fate of Gratz which one week earlier lost its […]
Jacob F. Werner Decapitated by Train, 1924
The death certificate of Jacob F. Werner, of Lykens, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, indicates he died on March 10, 1924, and that he was “killed by train; head crushed,” and the […]
Jonathan Baddorf & Jane [Row] Baddorf – 50th Wedding Anniversary, 1924
A newspaper photograph (Lykens Standard, March 14, 1924) of Jonathan Baddorf (1848-1939) and Leah Jane [Row] Baddorf (1852-1939) at their 50th Wedding Anniversary. The photograph was accompanied by a brief […]
Lykens Newspaper Pays Tribute to Lucy Gaston, 1924
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 […]
Wiconisco Telephone & Telegraph Company Directory, 1936-1937
The front cover of the first telephone directory of the Wiconisco Telephone and Telegraph Company, 1936-1937. Beginning in May 1936, the company required that the operator be given the number […]
John P. “Frank” Sholey (1876-1948) – Halifax Bank Robber
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 (1879-1902) – Halifax Bank Robber
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 […]