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Lykens – Bronze Tablet Added to Civil War Memorial, 1925

Mounting the bronze plaque on the pedestal in front of the G. A. R. Hall on North Second Street in Lykens, in October 1925, completed the Lykens (and Wiconisco) Civil […]

May 18, 2025 Leave a comment
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Williamstown – Suspicious Fire Destroys Barn & Crops, 1925

A fire believed to be of incendiary origin destroyed a barn belonging to Norman Baird, located on the road from Williamstown to Tower City, in late September 1925. Local fire […]

May 16, 2025
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Valley View – Mysterious Shooting Death, 1925

A mysterious death occurred in Valley View, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, in October 1925. Two boys, Harry Etzweiler and Norman Bixler, went looking for a dog and one of them, Bixler, […]

May 13, 2025
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Gratz & Lykens Stores Robbed, 1925

Two clothing store burglaries occurred with a week in Lykens and Gratz, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. The reports of the crimes were published in the Lykens Standard, October 23, 1925: LYKENS […]

May 7, 2025
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Upper Dauphin High School – “Through These Doors,” 1990

A 1990 photograph of a group of unidentified students exiting the Upper Dauphin Area High School, Elizabethville, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. Caption: Through These Doors Through these doors we entered high […]

May 5, 2025
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Prohibition Law Violators, 1925 (1)

Two notices from the Lykens Standard, October 9, 1925: 71-Year-Old Wiconisco Man Paroled President Judge Hargest in the Dauphin County Court, Monday, paroled Isaac Dietrich, 71, of Wiconisco, after he […]

May 3, 2025
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Williamstown – Boy Killed by Biscuit Truck, 1924.

CHILD KILLED BY AUTO TRUCK AT WILLIAMSTOWN A shocking accident happened at Williamstown on Monday when a truck of the Sunshine Biscuit Company of Harrisburg, hit George Pravila, the 10-year-old […]

April 26, 2025
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Upper Dauphin Area Teacher Strike, 1991

Photographs of the Upper Dauphin Area Education Association on strike against the Upper Dauphin Area School Board, which took place in September, 1991. None of the individuals in the photos […]

April 23, 2025

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