Elizabethville – Man Almost Decapitated in Auto Wreck, 1924
This story is from the Lykens Standard, August 8, 1924: HEAD ALMOST SEVERED BY WINDSHIELD IN AUTO WRECK Entertain Hope For Recovery of Paul Cyckowski – 7 Others Injured Slightly […]
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, […]
Foreigner Without Passport Arrested in Tower City, 1924
A brief article in the Lykens Standard, February 8, 1924, told of a Canadian who tried to move his family into the United States without having a passport. He was […]
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 […]
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 […]
New Phone Exchanges, 1908
A photograph from the early 20th Century showing an operator working at a console at a telephone exchange. The operator manually connected wires to move a call from one wire […]
Tower City – Girl Dies “In Confinement,” 1906
On April 6, 1906, the Lykens Standard took the opportunity to criticize the parents of a young girl who had died giving birth to a baby that had been conceived […]
Man Killed on Williams Valley Railroad, 1906
“Hop” Evans, was run down and killed on the Williams Valley Railroad Friday evening by the train reaching there at 7:42 o’clock.… the man’s body was frightfully mangled. His legs […]