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The Great Pillow Fire of 1926 (2)

The following news article is from the Elizabethville Echo, April 22, 1926, via Newspapers.com. _______________________________________ FIRE THREATENED TOWN OF PILLOW ESTIMATE $10,000 LOSS IN BLAZE THAT SWEEPS SEVEN PROPERTIES FIVE […]

September 3, 2020
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The Great Pillow Fire of 1926 (1)

The following news article is from the Harrisburg Evening News, April 21, 1926, via Newspapers.com. _______________________________________ FIREMEN FROM FIVE TOWNS HELP FIGHT BIG FIRE AT PILLOW PILLOW, April 21 [1926] […]

September 2, 2020
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Harrisburg – Independence Island at Moonlight

An undated moonlight post card view of Independence Island in the Susquehanna River, showing Fair View, Harrisburg, Dauphin County. ______________________________ Corrections and additional information should be added as comments to […]

September 1, 2020
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Penbrook Ku Klux Klan Draws From Whole State, 1927

A news brief from the Harrisburg Telegraph, August 13, 1927, indicated that “several bands and members of Klans from all parts of the State will be in the lineup” of […]

September 1, 2020
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Harrisburg Girl Branded with Ku Klux Klan Initials, 1924

On the evening of December 15, 1924, the teenage daughter of a Harrisburg capitalist, A. L. Ensinger, was allegedly accosted in her bedroom by a man who carved the initials […]

August 31, 2020
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Millersburg – Centennial Parade, 1907

A 1907 photograph of the Centennial Parade at Millersburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. From an old post card. ________________________________________ Corrections and additional information should be added as comments to this post.

August 31, 2020
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Harry Smith – Killed by Train, 1925

HARRY SMITH OF GRATZ, KILLED BY TRAIN Residents thruout this section and the thousands who yearly attend the Gratz Fair at Gratz, Pennsylvania, were shocked Wednesday evening to learn of […]

August 30, 2020
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Advertising the Dauphin County Klan Rally in Harrisburg, 1925

An advertisement that appeared in the Lykens Standard of September 4, 1925, for the Ku Klux Klan Day and Parade in Harrisburg on Labor Day, 1925. As was later shown […]

August 29, 2020

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