An article from the Lykens Standard, December 5, 1952, describing the new, exclusive gown shop opened by famed fashion designer Joseph E. Molko, originally of Wiconisco: Visited By Actress The […]
In February 1929, Harry Benton Bowman, formerly of Halifax, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, was formally charged with the murder of Verna Klink, a Harrisburg confectionery store manager. Bowman first stole $900 […]
From the Sunbury Daily Item, July 3, 1989: ‘GYPSIES’ BLAMED FOR THEFT LYKENS – A group of people described as gypsies created a disturbance Sunday at a Lykens grocery store, […]
The story of the murder of Morris Bender of Orwin, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, as told in the pages of the Lykens Standard, August 21, 1980, August 28, 1908, and September […]
Anti-Mormonism was particular strong in the period from the 1870s through the first early years of the 20th century when national efforts were being made to make the Church of […]
A portrait of Jonas Garman (1827-1908) that appeared in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch in March, 1899, included with a description of him as a missing person. Garman, who had been postmaster of Lykens, Dauphin County, […]
James Garman, who had been postmaster of Lykens, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, during the Civil War was a druggist and successful businessman there went missing in 1899 because he was confused with […]
A portrait of Jonas Garman (1827-1908) that appeared in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch in March, 1899, included with a description of him as a missing person. Garman, who had been […]