TREVORTON CONTRACTOR ATTEMPTED SUICIDE Because a summons was served on him to appear at a hearing where employees were preferring charges for wages due them, John Goodman, well-known Trevorton contractor […]
A young man of Muir, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, decided to give his wife-to-be a wardrobe of new clothing, so he burglarized a store in Tremont and walked away with about […]
A young girl of Williamstown, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, was the unfortunate victim of an accident that occurred at the site of a street bonfire that had been set by older […]
In 1925, Herman Grell, a former resident of Lykens, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, was killed in a massive explosion that took place on the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia. The story was […]
An article that appeared in the Lykens Standard, October 23, 1925, noted that a “fugitive from justice” had been spotted in the First National Bank in Lykens, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. […]
In 1925, in Wiconisco, Charles Hurko, identified as a “Russian,” badly beat his wife with a hammer over a dispute as to whether the water had been let out of […]
For the crime of burglary, three men of Wiconisco, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, were hastily rounded up and quickly convicted. Although they were first-time offenders, they were sentenced to ten to […]
This article from the Lykens Standard, August 28, 1925, described an explosion of oil in a Lykens home. Miraculously, the nearly 90-year-old who was attempting to light the stove escaped […]