Elizabethville – Alleged Attack of 12-Year-Old Girl, 1912
Negro Attacks Elizabethville Girl On Sunday evening, about 8 o’clock, a big burly negro who had been stranded from the Gratz Fair attacked the 12-year-old daughter of Dewin Bechtel near […]
Joseph Wambaugh’s “Echoes in the Darkness” & the Horn Murder Case, 1979
What connection does the Helen Horn murder in 1979 in Gratz, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, have to famed, true-crime writer Joseph Wambaugh? Helen E. Horn was murdered at her home in […]
Gratz High School Adds a Third Year, 1926
GRATZ HIGH SCHOOL ADDS ANOTHER GRADE GRATZ, June 29 [1926] – At a meeting last Friday night of the Board of Directors of the Gratz Boro Schools, it was decided […]
Melva N. Sitlinger (1901-1985) – Retired Postmaster of Loyalton
MELVA N. SITLINGER MILLERSBURG – Melva N. Sitlinger, 84, of Susquehanna Lutheran Village, and formerly of Loyalton, died Wednesday, April 10 [1985] in Harrisburg Hospital. She was the former postmistress […]
Prof. Adam S. Beisel – First Principal & Founder of Gratz Academy
A portrait of Prof. Adam S. Beisel, believed to be the first principal of the Gratz Academy, Gratz, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. The Gratz Academy, sometimes called the Gratz Seminary, was […]
Tower City – Fetterhoff Pretzel Factory
A 1912 photograph of the Fetterhoff Pretzel Factory of Tower City, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. SCHUYLKILL MEMORY LANE QUIZ Clue: Many area residents will recall a Tower City industry of former […]
First Trial of Henry Romberger & Frank Romberger, 1881 (1)
Part 1 of 4. On 28 April 1881, the trial of Henry Romberger and Frank Romberger for the murder of Daniel Troutman began in Dauphin County Court, Harrisburg. Here follows […]
Susanna [Row] Keiper (1852-1933) – Life Sketches of Aged People
Susanna [Row] Keiper, who was born 1 February 1852 in Washington Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, was interviewed by the Millersburg Sentinel, in early January 1933, for an article that appeared […]