The following murder-suicide story appeared in the Elizabethville Echo, September 3, 1931: CARSONVILLE MAN SHOOTS GIRL THEN COMMITS SUICIDE, SATURDAY Motivated by jealousy and the fact that his sweetheart had […]
A Christmas newspaper advertisement for Forman Brothers, Wiconisco, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, from the Lykens Standard, December 22, 1922: Another Beautiful Gift for Father’s and Mother’s Christmas Wouldn’t it be a […]
The front page of the Elizabethville Echo, December 11, 1941, featured two major stories: (1) a fire destroyed one of the Swab Wagon Company’s buildings; and (2) America Declares War […]
A self-inflicted gunshot wound into the right temple of an 18-year-old young man who was sitting in the back seat of his car with his 18-year-old lady friend. A coroner’s […]
A colorized studio portrait of Jacob P. Elm (1836-1916) and his wife Christina S. [Vogel] Elm (1840-1925) taken in 1913 on the occasion of their 50th Wedding Anniversary. During the […]
FOOT CRUSHED BY THE CARS George Dreibelbis, aged 15 years, son of Abraham Dreibelbis, an old Grand Army resident of Wiconisco, Pennsylvania, had his foot mashed yesterday near his home […]
In his July 28, 1966, column in the Lykens Standard, “Lykens of Yesteryear,” C. L. Peters reflected on the earlier railroads of the Lykens Valley area. The photo accompanying the […]
An August 4, 1987, article by Dave Caroll, staff writer for the Pottsville Republican, gave a brief history of the Lykens G. A. R. Building, located in the 600 Block […]