Millersburg Music Supervisor Killed by Train, 1930
WOMAN IS KILLED IN GRADE CRASH AT MILLERSBURG Former Music Teacher in City Is Victim; Husband Escapes Mrs. James Zerbe, 32, Dalmatia, former music tutor in this city [Harrisburg] and […]
Henry Breslin – Another Victim of Lykens Valley Bigotry?
Henry Breslin was born on 6 April 1846 in Gratz, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, the son of James Breslin Sr. (1821-1909), an immigrant from Donegal, Ireland, and a Roman Catholic, and […]
Edward Crabb – African American Victim of Bigotry in Gratz (2)
This story was previously posted on The Civil War Blog on 1 July 2016 and then updated on 19 July 2017: ______________________________________ Almost exactly one year after an extremely critical […]
Jennie Kissinger – Buried in Her Ku Klux Klan Robes, 1925
The presence of the Ku Klux Klan in Pennsylvania in the 1920s and 1930s has been briefly discussed here in past blog posts. What has not been mentioned before is […]
Small Plane Crashes at Bendigo Airport, 2017
SACRAMENTO MAN HURT IN PLANE CRASH TOWER CITY – A Sacramento man was seriously injured when the small plane he was flying crashed outside of Tower City Wednesday morning. Herbert […]
Edward Crabb – African American Victim of Bigotry in Gratz (1)
This story was previously posted on The Civil War Blog on 1 July 2016 and then updated on 19 July 2017: __________________________________ Another Memorial Day has gone by and the […]
Pennsylvania Railroad Offered Excursions from Lykens to K.K.K. Rally in Washington, 1926
The Harrisburg Telegraph of 11 September 1926 advertised a special excursion rate of $6.00 by the Pennsylvania Railroad for anyone interested in attending the Ku Klux Klan “parade” to be […]
Gratz News – February 24, 1926
The following news briefs were published in the “Gratz Items” section of a local newspaper for the week of 24 February 1926, and labeled, “too late for last week:” Gordon […]