A 1937 photograph of the two star baseball players of Porter Township High School, Tower City, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania: Pete Sherack and Anthony Sherack. ________________________________ Photo appeared in the “Memory […]
A news article and photograph from the West Schuylkill Herald (Tower City, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania), 14 August 1908, describing the passenger train wreck that occurred on the Williams Valley Railroad […]
An undated topographical map of Porter Township, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, produced by the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey. The communities of Tower City, Sheridan, Reinerton, Orwin, Muir, Williams Valley […]
TOWER CITY PILOT KILLED IN PLANE CRASH Captain Joel A. Dinger, 26, pilot in the U. S. Army Air Forces, son of Mrs. Maria Dinger, Tower City, R. D., was […]
WATCHMAN FOUND DEAD AT REINERTON Peter Yustis, age 65, of Reinerton, employed as a watchman on a WPA project at the Porter Township High School at that place, was found […]
BOY KILLED IN HIGHWAY ACCIDENT TUESDAY Francis Madenford, age 13, of Joliet, Schuylkill County, was killed when struck by a bus of the Reading Transportation Company in Reinerton, while he […]
BOY DROWNED IN MINE STRIPPING HOLE Ronald Koppenhaver, 14, son of Mr. and Mrs. Clair Koppenhaver, of Keffers, drowned in a water-filled abandoned mine stripping hole at Keffers last Wednesday […]
TOWER CITY SOLDIER DIES OF WOUNDS Mr. and Mrs. Henry O. Adams, Tower City, R. D., have been advised that their son, Pfc. David J. Adams [sic, should be David […]