An 1894 advertisement for W. H. Moyer, Veternary [sic] Surgeon, Elizabethville, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. Treats all diseases of Domestic Animals. Graduate of the Ontario Veterinary College. _____________________________________________ From the Premium […]
This story from the Lykens Register, June 14, 1900: TERRIBLE MINE ACCIDENT Seven Men at Horrible Burned by an Explosion and Injured by Flying Rock in the Mines at Williamstown. […]
A portrait photograph of Dorothy Straub, a 1940 graduate of Hubley Township High School, Hubley Township, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. “Sonny” is all er ever call this member of our class. He plays a saxophone, […]
The grave marker of Sarah [Rowe] Saylor (1820-1900) at Union or Citizens Cemetery, Lykens, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. The story of the last days of Mrs. Saylor was told in two […]
The front page of the Pottsville Republican, February 9, 1939, reporting that three men from Gratz, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, were buried in a bootleg mine cave-in near Good Spring, Schuylkill […]
An 1894 advertisement for Victor Wiest, Dealer in Dry Goods, Notions, Clothing, Groceries, Boots and Shoes, Klingerstown, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. My low Prices have become proverbial and have earned the […]
In 1971, the Advertising Council widely circulated a poster, primarily for parents and other adults to help them determine if young people were “abusing drug or using narcotics.” The poster […]
The first Gratz Fair was fondly remembered for an Indian “exhibition” in which two native chiefs were drugged by the town doctor before their performance and “rewarded” with “fire water” […]
