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Pocket Monthly magazine published in Wrightsville
Long before there was the internet, television, movies, and even radio, people liked to be entertained. You couldn’t go to the theater or circus or a ball game all that often, so you read. Literary...
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More on the York County literary magazine Pocket Monthly
In my last post I shared a 1909 clipping about the new Pocket Monthly magazine, which was listed as a York, Pa. publication with printing done at the Wrightsville Star newspaper office. None of the...
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York newspaper editor defends his honor
Newspapers of the past were strongly partisan. Henry F. Thomas, Editor and Proprietor of York’s People’s Advocate plainly showed his Whig colors. He published very few favorable things to say about...
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York County Democrats celebrate in 1882
This account below is only one of several from the November 28, 1882 York Gazette recounting celebrations around the county of recent Democratic election wins. Democrat Robert E. Pattison had won the...
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York Gazette ads pricey in 1836
Considering that the four page newspapers of the early to mid-nineteenth century had at least one full page of advertisements, I was surprised to find out how expensive they were when compared with...
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More rural York County news, 1894
Here are more local news items from the small towns and rural areas of York County. These are from the October 19, 1894 Delta Herald and Times, under the heading “Brogueville Items.” The...
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Life in 19th century Wrightsville
Even small newspaper items and advertisements can give clues on life in the past, such as these ads from the May 7, 1857 York County Star and Wrightsville Advertiser, These two are for Wrightsville...
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Working together to save York County history
Before–buildings at Market and Water (later Pershing) in 1918, decorated for end of World War I During–restoration work going on in 1961. After–restoration complete, c. 1964. My previous post on the...
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It is obvious that I love old newspapers. From the vitally important to minutia, the items make the past come alive. With over two hundred years of local newspapers on microfilm, as well as files full...
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1939 news from Saginaw, Gatchelville and Wrightsville
County datelines from York County Heritage Trust newspaper microfilm What was going on in York County 75 years ago? If your family was at all known to the newspaper stringer for your area, they...
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Yorker changes mind about drinks
The Sponslers of York seem to have been an interesting family. Many members were quite musical; there was even a Sponsler family orchestra. In a previous post, I shared a 1904 newspaper account of...
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Ned Spangler at Fort Jefferson, Dry Tortugas, Part 2
Cell area where Spangler and the other Lincoln prisoners were confined. Here is the second part of the letter published in October 25, 1865 in the Aledo [Ill.] Weekly Record, about three months after...
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York County jail empty and other news.
News from the York Recorder, June 9, 1829: This didn’t happen very often: “The jail of this county is at present empty—not an individual being confined therein for crime or debt. The like has not...
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York County lower end property, near McCall’s bridge, for sale in 1816
Newspapers of the past give a good look at the lives of our forebears. The advertisements can sometimes reveal more than news items. The ad below, from the York Gazette, for Richard Porter’s tavern,...
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York County news from the 1880s
I can always find something of interest in the old newspapers on microfilm at York County Heritage Trust. Sometimes the little items from across the county are the most interesting. Here are a few...
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Margaret Sarah Lewis paints York First Moravian Church
My upcoming York Sunday News column is on the popular and prolific Yorker, Margaret Sarah Lewis. York Daily Record editor and fellow blogger, Jim McClure, has already posted the column on the...
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1907 York news, trivial and tragic
Here is what was happening in York County in 1907, according to the York Daily of June 13. News from Dallastown: “The mail from York due here at 7:30 o’clock on account of a freight wreck at...
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More on York County research and connections
York Daily clipping. Courtesy of newspapers.com My York Sunday News column last month illustrated how you often to take several sources and put them together to round out the story on a person, an...
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Former Soviet spy called York County home
Reino Hayhanen/Eugene Maki/John Linden You never know what fascinating stories you might uncover in the York County History Center files. I never expected to find one on a Soviet spy who allegedly hid...
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Grow, Preserve, Eat—York County and food
From the time the first humans walked the productive soil of what is now York County, Pa., food has been grown, preserved and happily eaten here. Here a few examples from our history: One of my recent...
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