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Wiconisco – Keen Bridal, 1990

A 1990 advertisement (business card) for The Keen Bridal, 810 Pottsville Street, Box 480, Wiconisco, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. ___________________________________ From the 1990 yearbook, La Memoria, of the Upper Dauphin High School, Elizabethville, […]

May 30, 2025
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Lykens – Bronze Tablet Added to Civil War Memorial, 1925

Mounting the bronze plaque on the pedestal in front of the G. A. R. Hall on North Second Street in Lykens, in October 1925, completed the Lykens (and Wiconisco) Civil […]

May 18, 2025
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Wiconisco – Red’s Greenhouse & Gift Shop, 1988

A 1988 advertisement (business card) for Red’s Greenhouse and Gift Shop, 714 Pottsville Street, Wiconisco, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. Flowers for all Occasions – Wire Service – Silk and Dried Arrangements […]

May 16, 2025
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Williamstown – Suspicious Fire Destroys Barn & Crops, 1925

A fire believed to be of incendiary origin destroyed a barn belonging to Norman Baird, located on the road from Williamstown to Tower City, in late September 1925. Local fire […]

May 16, 2025
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New Lykens Hotel: “Gateway to Anthracite Field,” 1925

While the new Lykens Hotel was under construction and set to have its opening in early April 1926, the Lykens Standard published an article (November 27, 1925), which described the […]

May 14, 2025 1 Comment
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Prohibition Law Violators, 1925 (1)

Two notices from the Lykens Standard, October 9, 1925: 71-Year-Old Wiconisco Man Paroled President Judge Hargest in the Dauphin County Court, Monday, paroled Isaac Dietrich, 71, of Wiconisco, after he […]

May 3, 2025
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“Fat” Gaynor – Female Impersonator, 1925

A Lykens resident nicknamed “Fat” Gaynor was reported to be a well-known female impersonator who won prizes several years in a row in the Philadelphia Mummers Parade. He performed in […]

April 30, 2025
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Lykens – Former Resident Dies Following Appendix Surgery, 1925

Victor W. Neiman, a young man of 31, had a burst appendix, the effects of which were not immediately apparent. Eventually, he became seriously ill and had to have emergency […]

April 25, 2025

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