Simon Evans Killed at Brookside Colliery, 1906
KILLED BY FALL OF COAL AT BROOKSIDE [Lykens Standard, 20 Jul 1906] Simon Evans of Tower City, aged 43 years, employed as a miner in breast 159, West Brookside Colliery, […]
KILLED BY FALL OF COAL AT BROOKSIDE [Lykens Standard, 20 Jul 1906] Simon Evans of Tower City, aged 43 years, employed as a miner in breast 159, West Brookside Colliery, […]
A brief article in the Lykens Standard, February 8, 1924, told of a Canadian who tried to move his family into the United States without having a passport. He was […]
A newspaper photograph (Lykens Standard, March 14, 1924) of Jonathan Baddorf (1848-1939) and Leah Jane [Row] Baddorf (1852-1939) at their 50th Wedding Anniversary. The photograph was accompanied by a brief […]
The front cover of the first telephone directory of the Wiconisco Telephone and Telegraph Company, 1936-1937. Beginning in May 1936, the company required that the operator be given the number […]
A photograph from the early 20th Century showing an operator working at a console at a telephone exchange. The operator manually connected wires to move a call from one wire […]
On April 6, 1906, the Lykens Standard took the opportunity to criticize the parents of a young girl who had died giving birth to a baby that had been conceived […]
“Hop” Evans, was run down and killed on the Williams Valley Railroad Friday evening by the train reaching there at 7:42 o’clock.… the man’s body was frightfully mangled. His legs […]
A 1921 booklet with the schedule for “Twin County League Base Ball.” This was issued as an advertising item for Charles C. Baker, a furniture dealer and funeral director of […]