1900 - 1920 NEWSPAPER ARTICLES
INDEX REQUEST FORM
SUBJECT
Able Opera House - Remodeling
DATE
Aug. 25
YEAR
1900
DESCRIPTION
The remodeled Opera House.
NEWSPAPER
Easton Daily Free Press
Able Opera House - Remodeling
Aug. 28
1900
Remodeling of Opera House
Archer, Belle Mingle
Sept. 19
1900
Belle Archer at death's door.
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Daily Free Press
Archer, Belle Mingle
Sept. 20
1900
Obit of Belle Archer, interment in Easton
Easton Daily Free Press
Archer, Belle Mingle
Archer, Belle Mingle
Sept. 20
Sept. 21
1900
1900
Easton Sentinel
Easton Daily Free Press
Archer, Belle Mingle
Archer, Belle Mingle
Sept. 21
Sept. 22
1900
1900
Archer, Belle Mingle
Bangor, - Fires.
Sept. 22
July 20, 1900.
1900
1900
Obituary of Belle Archer
Obituary for Belle Archer. Interment in
Easton.
Obituary of Belle Archer.
Obituary for Belle Archer. Interment in
Easton.
Obituary of Belle Archer.
Second fire in Bangor.
Bangor, - Fires.
March 2, 1900 1900
Bangor, PA. - Fires.
Feb. 27
Bethlehem, PA - Banks
1900
1900
Bridges, Suspension
Aug. 3
1900
Bridges, Suspension
July 31
1900
Business - Cement Industry
April 13
1900
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Easton Sentinel
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Sentinel
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Bangor swept by fire.
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Bangor swept by fire.
Easton Free Press (daily
ed.)
First National Bank, Bethlehem opened July Easton Express
9, 1900.
New suspension bridge
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Contract awarded to build suspension bridge Easton Daily Free Press
across the Lehigh
Description of Edison's Cement works.
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 3.
p. 3
Business - Cement Industry
Sept. 12
1900
Business - Foundries
Feb. 7
1900
Business - Paint Industry & Trade Feb. 1
1900
Business - Sllk Industry
March 12
1900
Business - Zinc Industry
Feb. 28
1900
Central Railroad - Wrecks
Jan. 27
1900
Clothing Stores
May 25
1900
Crime - Bank Robbery
April 6
1900
Crime - Corruption, Political
April 10 & 11
Crime - Corruption, Political
Acres o cement plants - description and
Easton Daily Free Press
location of sites.
Sterlingworth Co. to erect a steel rolling mill. Easton Daily Free Press
Painters and decorators union of Easton
organized
Phillipsburg Sllk Mill (the Haytock) sold
Easton Daily Free Press
Oldest zinc plant in the US at South
Bethlehem will move to Hazzard, near
Mauch Chunk.
Wreck of the Jersey Central at Ashley.
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Daily Free Press
1900
Opening of Surprise Merchandising Co. (205207 Northampton St.)
Boy bank robber's arrest in Denver. Stewart
embezzled $1,745 from Easton First National
Bank.
Trials of Election fraud cases.
Sept. 13
1900
Last of election cases - no evidence of fraud. Easton Daily Free Press
Drake, Catherine
Dec. 11
1900
Easton Cemetery
Aug. 2
1900
Easton Cemetery
Aug. 3
1900
Easton Library
Oct. 30
1900
Dedication of the Catherine S. Drake
Memorial Chapel in SouthSide
Dwelling and office building to be erected at
Easton Cemetery.
Construction of a house and office for new
cemetery at Seventh St.
Report of the Easton Library Assn.
Easton Post Office
March 8
1900
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton SeMI-WEEKLY
FREE press eekly Argus
Improved postal facilities--may now register Easton Daily Free Press
letters, etc.
Easton Post Office-Postmaster
Feb. 14
1900
3 true bills against postmaster Andrews
Easton Express
Easton, City of - Budget
March 10
1900
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton, City of - Budget
March 15
1900
Easton, City of - Budget
March 17
1900
Easton, City of - Budget
March 29
1900
Easton, City of - Budget
March 7
1900
Easton, City of - Fire Department - March 13
Equipment
Easton, City of - History
Oct. 30
1900
Easton, City of - Streets - Porter
Street
Easton, City of - Taxation
Easton, City of -Fire Department Firemen
Easton, South - History
July 20
1900
March 20
May 29
1900
1900
"Democrats whipped into
line"..appropriation ordinance changed by
select council.
"Illegal bills approved"..water and light
department
Investigation ordered into water and light
department
Inventory held of water and light
department
Appropriation ordinance adopted. Fight to
continue in select council.
No steam fire engine. Ordinance
disapproved by fire committee.
PA German society meeting. Some history
on the area.
Law again violated - Porter St. repaired - no
money appropriated
Wire and pole tax ordinance amended
Firemen ask for better pay
June 5
1900
South Side town hall for sale
Easton Daily Free Press
Electric Lighting
Aug. 17
1900
Comparable table of rates of electricl light
paid by Easton and neighboring cities.
Easton Sentinel
Electric Lighting
Electric Lighting
Aug. 18
Dec. 21
1900
1900
No chance for cheaper light.
The light ordinance.
Easton Sentinel
Easton Daily Free Press
Electric Lighting
Jan. 20
1900
Easton Power Co. to absorb Edison Plant;
Easton can own water plant; EastonNazareth trolley ordinance -- all in council
news.
Easton Daily Free Press
1900
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Daily Free Press
p. a
Easton Express
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 5
Electric Lighting
Jan. 22
1900
Power company news.
Easton Daily Free Press
Electric Lighting
Jan. 23
1900
Easton Power co. to absorb Edison Plant.
Electric Lighting
Jan. 27
1900
More power co. improvements.
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Daily Free Press
Electric Lighting
March 3
1900
Easton Daily Free Press
Electric Lighting
March 6
1900
Green, Henry
Aug. 17
1900
"Mr. Cooley turns on the light" -- 4,550 to
pay for machinery never ordered, stricken
from appropriation ordinance.
"It was done in secret" -- how water and
light cos. Spend $4500.
Obit. Of Chief Justice Henry Green of
Supreme Court of Pa. (native Eastonian).
Green, Henry
Oct. 6
1900
Obit. Of Chief Justice Henry Green of
Supreme Court of Pa. (native Eastonian).
Easton Daily Free Press
Lafayette College - Gayley Hall
June 19
1900
Easton Daily Free Press
Lafayette College - History
Nov. 6
1900
Gayley presents chemical laboratory to
Lafayette.
Lafayette College motto "Veritas Liberabit"
Lafayette College - History
Sept. 13
1900
Lafayette open - picture of Fayerweather,
Powell, and Martin Halls (all one building.)
Easton Daily Free Press
Lafayette College - Libraries
June 1
1900
Dedication
Lafayette College - Libraries
May 12
1900
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Daily Free Press
Lafayette College - Libraries
May 15
1900
Lafayette College - Libraries
Lafayette College - Libraries
May 30
May 30
1900
1900
Description of the Van Wickle Library to be
dedicated May 30, 1900.
Description of Van Wickle Memorial Library Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Dedication of Van Wickle Library.
Easton Express
Dedication of Van Wickle Library.
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 3
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
p. 3
p. 3
Military Companies - Reeder
Battery
Monument - Completed
Sept. 24
1900
Account of "The Reeder Battery."
Easton Daily Free Press
Jan. 23
1900
Monument completed.
Easton Daily Free Press
Monument - Dedication
Dec. 23
1900
Monument - Dedication
Jan. 13
1900
Citizens asked to help defray dedication of Easton Daily Free Press
monument expenses.
Mayor's proclamation urging citizens to be Easton Daily Free Press
generous for monument dedication. Date of
dedication, May 10, 1900.
Monument - Dedication
Monument - Dedication
Jan. 13
May 10
1900
1900
Monument - Dedication
May 10
Monument - Dedication
Monument - Dedication
Easton Express
Easton Express
1900
Date of monument unveiling change.
Northampton honors brave souls -dedication of monument.
Monument unveiled.
May 11
1900
Unveiling of monument.
May 3
1900
Program for monument day (month
preceding has small articles almost every
day) and also from then to the day.
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Daily Free Press
1900
Frank Shaffer barkeep shot by Hungarian
John Kicoinjko.
Mrs. Dillard is now insane. (DillardBartholomew murder case - 1889)
Frank Shaffer barkeep dies after being shot
by Hungarian John Kicoinjko.
Attempted murder and suicide on South
Side (Easton). Eugene Skinner tries to
murder Mrs. Lewis Milford.
Mrs. Milford dies. Murdered by Eugene
Skinner.
Ordinance for the annexation of Palmer
Township disapproved.
Murder
Murder
May 10
1900
Murder
Nov. 22
1900
Murder
Nov. 22
1900
Murder
Nov. 26
1900
Palmer Township - Annexation
Dec. 12
1900
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Daily Free Press
Palmer Township - Annexation
Dec. 28
1900
More on Palmer Tsp. Annexation.
Easton Daily Free Press
Palmer Township - Annexation
Nov. 3
1900
Palmer Township - Annexation
Oct. 20
1900
Some of the residents of Palmer opposed to Easton Daily Free Press
annexation.
Palmer Tsp. petition asks to be annexed.
Easton Daily Free Press
Parades
June 22
1900
Description of the Horseman's parade.
Easton Daily Free Press
Phillipsburg, N.J. - Horse Car Line July 31
1900
Easton Daily Free Press
Railroads - Lehigh Valley Railroad May 22
1900
Building on Phillipsburg Horse Car Line to
Whittaker.
Pa. gets control of Lehigh Valley.
Roosevelt, Theodore
May 29
1900
Roosevelt here second time in campaign.
Easton Daily Free Press
Sullivan, General - Marker
June 13
1900
The Sullivan Tablet.
Easton Daily Free Press
Sullivan, General - Marker
June 16
1900
Sullivan tablet presented to city.
Easton Daily Free Press
Sullivan, General - Marker
June 5, 6
1900
Easton Daily Free Press
Tatamy, Pa.
Taxation - Mercantile
Dec. 15
May 4
1900
1900
Taxation - Pole, Wire Tax
March 14
1900
Tablet telling of Sullivan's March to be
presented to the city by the D.A.R.
Tatamy incorporated.
Mercantile assessment for 1900 (includes
surrounding townships).
Proposed pole and wire tax.
Taxation - Pole, Wire Tax
March 24
1900
Pole and wire tax controversy.
Easton Daily Free Press
Trolley Transportation
Dec. 1
1900
New management has the trolley lines.
Easton Express
Trolley Transportation
Dec. 6
1900
Trolley Transportation
June 23
1900
Charter granted Easton, Tatamy and Bangor Easton Express
Street railway.
Trolley bulldozers checked in Freemansburg. Easton Express
Easton Express
Easton Express
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 5
p. 2, 3
Trolley Transportation - Accidents Sept. 4 & 5
1900
Trolley Transportation Bethlehem
April 20
1900
Trolley Transportation Doylestown and Easton Co.
Trolley Transportation - Easton
Consolidated
June 26
1900
July 2
1900
Trolley Transportation - Easton
Consolidated
Trolley Transportation - Easton
Transit Co.
Nov. 19
1900
July 19
1900
Trolley Transportation - Easton
Transit Co.
Trolley Transportation - Easton
Transit Co.
Trolley Transportation Freemansburg
Trolley Transportation Freemansburg
Trolley Transportation - Hay Line
July 23
Awful crash on the Bethlehem Branck of the Easton Daily Free Press
phila. And Reading Railway. Twelve dead
and more injured.
Trolley war over -- agreement reached
Easton Daily Free Press
between Freemansburg St. Railway and the
Bethlehem Freemansburg St. Railway.
Another trolley road: Doylestown-Easton
Railway Co.
Injunction dissolved -- Easton Consolidated
can go ahead with trolley.
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Consolidated leased to the Lehigh
Valley Traction Co.
Easton Transit Company in role of
obstructionist - will block Nazareth road.
Easton Daily Free Press
1900
Transit Company beaten at its own game.
Easton Sentinel
May 4
1900
Easton Daily Free Press
July 14
1900
July 18
1900
Nov. 20
1900
Easton Daily Free Press
Trolley Transportation - Nazareth July 23
1900
Trolley Transportation - Nazareth July 23
1900
Easton transit co. wants another switch (on
Cattell St.).
Little hope for Freemansburg - in grasp of
greedy trolley.
Citizens of Freemansburg will discuss trolley
action.
First car over the Easton Nazareth Railroad
(The Hay Line).
Easton Consolidated to construct line to
Nazareth.
Trolley injunction dissolved.
Trolley Transportation - Nazareth June 13
1900
Easton-Nazareth Trolley Road.
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Sentinel
Easton Sentinel
Easton Sentinel
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Daily Free Press
Trolley Transportation - Nazareth June 19
1900
Easton-Nazareth extension.
Easton Daily Free Press
Trolley Transportation - Nazareth June 8
1900
Easton-Nazareth Trolley Co. originated.
Easton Daily Free Press
Trolley Transportation - Nazareth May 3
1900
A trolley to Nazareth.
Easton Daily Free Press
Trolley Transportation - Nazareth Nov. 20
1900
Easton Express
Trolley Transportation - Nazareth Sept. 22
1900
Trolley Transportation - Nazareth Sept. 29
1900
New trolley line opens - Easton and
Nazareth.
Trolley to Nazareth road to open in three
weeks.
The first trolley to Nazareth.
Trolley Transportation Ordinance
Trolley Transportation Ordinance
Trolley Transportation - Routes
May 2
1900
Easton Daily Free Press
May 5
1900
Trolley fender ordinance -- why not yet
effective.
Car trolley tax ordinance defeated.
Jan. 22
1900
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Daily Free Press
Trolley Transportation - Slate Belt April 30
Trolley Co.
Trolley Transportation - Slate Belt Nov. 13
Trolley Co.
Trolley Transportation - Tax
Feb. 1
1900
1900
Trolley routes over city mapped out by
Easton Transit Co.
Slate Belt Trolley Co. sells its rights and light
plant.
Slate Belt Trolley sold -- bought by the
Lehigh Valley Traction Co.
Trolley people opposing new license Act.
Trolley Transportation - Tax
Feb. 1
1900
Proposal to license and tax trolley cars.
Easton Daily Free Press
Trolley Transportation - Tax
Feb. 6
1900
Easton Daily Free Press
Trolley Transportation - Tax
Feb. 9
1900
Taxing trolley co -- license committee
approves ordinance.
Easton taxes trolley co.
Trolley Transportation - Tax
June 14
1900
Trolley Transportation - Tax
June 16
1900
1900
p. 5
Easton Express
p. 5
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Express
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Trolley Co. that favors $50.00 tax (Easton & Easton Express
Nazareth).
$50 car tax ordinance defeated in council.
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 3
Trolley Transportation - Tax
Trolley Transportation - Tax
Trolley Transportation - Tax
June 16
March 10
March 21
1900
1900
1900
Trolley tax remains at $10.00 a car.
Cheap rate trolley tax passed.
License committee works on trolley tax.
Easton Express
Easton Express
Easton Daily Free Press
Trolley Transportation - Tax
Trolley Transportation - Tax
March 22
March 22
1900
1900
Trolley tax ordinance killed.
Trolley Car Ordinance.
Easton Express
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 5
Trolley Transportation - Tax
Trolley Transportation - Tax
March 7
March 7
1900
1900
Trolley tax cut down.
Tax on trolley cars reduced.
Easton Express
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 5
Trolley Transportation - Tax
Trolley Transportation -Lehigh
Valley Traction Co.
Trolley Transportation -Lehigh
Valley Traction Co.
May 19
Dec. 1
1900
1900
Nov. 14
1900
Council passes trolley tax ordinance.
Easton Express
Traction Co. now running the local trolley
Easton Daily Free Press
lines.
Lehigh Valley Traction Co. acquires control Easton Express
of Slate Belt and the Saltington trolley lines.
Trolley Transportation -Lehigh
Valley Traction Co.
Trolley Transportation -Lehigh
Valley Traction Co.
Wars - Civil War - Soldiers
Nov. 20
1900
Nov. 28
1900
May 3
1900
Wars - Civil War - Soldiers Heckman, Charles A. General
Wars - Civil War - Soldiers Heckman, Charles A., General
Wars - Spanish-American War Receptions
Sept. 19
1900
Sept. 20
1900
Sept. 28
1900
Washington, George
May 12
1900
Transit lines leased (Lehigh Valley Transit Co.
assumes control).
Arranging for transfer of Lehigh Valley
Traction.
Sketch of Marshall Howell, soldier in the Civil
War from the slate belt regions.
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Daily Free Press
Tribute and monument unveiled to General Easton Daily Free Press
Charles A. Heckman
Tribute and monument unveiled to General Easton Daily Free Press
Charles A. Heckman.
Account of parade and reception of Captain Easton Daily Free Press
Lerch of the Spanish-American War
Copy of a letter written by John Coryell of
Coryell's Ferry to George Washington.
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 5
p. 5
p. 3
Water Supply
Feb. 17
1900
Water Supply
Feb. 19
1900
Water Supply
Feb. 21
1900
Editorial against voting on buying the water Easton Daily Free Press
works.
About the city water works (Paper was
Easton Daily Free Press
against buying the water works. Has small
editorials, etc. against).
Election: the water works defeated.
Easton Daily Free Press
Water Supply
Jan. 20
1900
City's legal right to operate water works.
Easton Express
Water Supply
Y.M.C.A.
Jan. 21
Feb. 2
1900
1900
Water Co. wins by 543.
First anniversary.
Able Opera House - Employees
Feb. 5
1901
Able Opera House - Employees
Feb. 6
1901
Alliance Borough
Alliance Borough
April 15
May 6
1901
1901
Dismissal of Able Opera House employees
who joined union.
Dismissal of Able Opera House employees
who joined union.
Alliance Borough created.
Alliance Borough created.
Easton Express
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Express
Alliance Borough
Archer, Belle Mingle
May 6
June 1
1901
1901
Archer, Belle Mingle
Nov. 2
1901
Archer, Belle Mingle
Oct. 29
1901
Balloons
Aug. 2
1901
Bethlehem, PA - Bridges
1901
Bridges - Bushkill
March 20,
1901
Feb. 8
Business - 1900 - 1919
May 1
1901
1901
Alliance Borough created.
Western stage hands pay tribute to Belle
Archer.
Picture of monument to actress, Belle
Archer.
Monument to Belle Archer erected in Easton
Cemetery.
Account of balloon ascension by Eastonians.
p. 5
p. 3
p. 5
Easton Express
p. 5
Easton Express
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 5
Easton Express
Easton Express
p. 5
p. 5
Easton Express
p. 3
Easton Express
p. 5
Easton Daily Free Press
New bridge for Bethlehem (Monacacy
Easton Daily Free Press
Bridge).
Commissioners to build new Bushkill Bridge Easton Express
(west of 4th Street)
Special business number - most firms listed - Easton Express
description and history given.
p. 8
p. 9 - 12
Business - Bethlehem Steel
Aug. 15
1901
Business - Brick Industry
July 23
1901
Business - Carpenters
July 18
1901
Business - Carpenters
July 2, 4, 5, 6 & 1901
17
Dec. 3
1901
Business - Department Stores Laubach's
Business - Foundries
Business - Hotels, Taverns, etc.
March 7
Jan. 4
1901
1901
Business - Ingersoll-Rand
Aug. 10
1901
Business - Ingersoll-Rand
Dec. 10
1901
Business - Ingersoll-Rand
Dec. 13
1901
Business - Ingersoll-Rand
May 21
1901
Business - Keller's Music House
July 16
1901
Business - Lawyers
Sept. 23
1901
Business - Lehigh Valley Railroad - May 24
Strikes
Business - Slate Industry
Jan. 3
1901
Central Railroad - Strikes
1901
April 25
1901
Bethlehem Steel Co. purchases Bethlehem
Iron Co.
Bricklayers go back to work. Long building
trades strike settled. Lasted 3 months.
Easton Daily Free Press
Carpenters voted to work.
Easton Daily Free Press
Carpenter's union on strike.
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Express
Laubach's buys adjoining property to enlarge Easton Express
store.
Phillip Andover furnace sold.
Easton Express
Old Union Hotel at Brodhead Station sold.
Easton Daily Free Press
Ingersoll-Sargeant Drill Co. looking for a site
in Newark.
Editorial about Ingersoll-Sargeant olant
staying in Easton.
Editorial about Ingersoll-Sargeant plant
staying in Easton.
Ingersoll Co. won't move if it can get more
land.
Ad for Keller's Music House at 219-221
Northampton St. showing how store was
laid out.
Portrait of leading lawyers presented to the
Court
Strike at Lehigh Valley Shops
Easton Daily Free Press
Genuine Bangor Slate Co. organized to
control Bangor and Pen Argyl Co.
Settled.
Easton Express
p. 5
p. 5
p. 8
Easton Express
p. 5
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 2
Easton Express
p. 5 (also see
editorial)
Easton Semi-Weekly Free
Press
Easton Express
p. 5
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 5
Central Railroad - Strikes
April, 14 & 15
1901
Strike of Jersey Central.
Easton Daily Free Press
Churches - Lutheran - St. Paul's
Oct. 7
1901
St. Paul's Lutheran Church improvements.
Easton Daily Free Press
Churches - Lutheran - St. Peter's
Jan. 28
1901
St. Peter's Lutheran Church of College Hill is Easton Daily Free Press
25 years old. Brief history of the church.
Churches - Lutheran - St. Peter's
Jan. 29
1901
p. 3
Churches - Presbyterian
Oct. 25
1901
History of St. Peter's Lutheran Church,
Easton Free Press (semiCollege Hill.
weekly ed.)
25th anniversary of So. Presbyterian Church Easton Express
Easton Armory
Easton City Guards
Dec. 19
Feb. 7
1901
1901
Easton Express
Easton Express
p. 5
Easton City Guards
July 13
1901
Easton City Guards - Armory
March 14
1901
Move on foot to build armory.
City guard will attend inauguration of
McKinley.
Co. I's anniversary (13th reg. N.G.P.) - Easton
City Guard.
National Guard Armory for Easton?
Easton Hospital - Fund Drive
Jan. 31
1901
Easton Express
Easton Library
Jan. 8
1901
Easton Library Association
Nov. 22
1901
Mr. Miller asks for $18,000 for Easton
Hospital.
School board asked to levy tax for a free
public library.
Plans for a new library adopted.
Easton Library Association
Oct. 4
1901
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Public Library
April 11
1901
Easton Public Library
April 12
1901
Work at end now. We are to have a free
library.
School board to be asked for free public
liberary
School board votes to accept Carnegie offer.
Easton Public Library
Aug. 22
1901
Andrew Carnegie gift now available
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Public Library
Aug. 22
1901
Money is ready- Carnegie will give as soon as Easton Express
needed.
p. 3
Easton Express
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton semi-Weekly Free P. 3
Press
Easton Express
Easton Public Library
Aug. 6
1901
Central Labor Union opposed to Carnegie
Library.
Central labor union opposed to use of
Carnegie money for library.
School board to be asked for free public
library
School board to be asked for free public
library.
Carnegie will help---$50,000 for a free
library.
Carnegie offers $ 50,000 for library.
School board to be asked for free pub.
Library.
Library site suggested
Another postponement for the library
project.
Setback for library- question of levying tax
referred to committee.
Carnegie's gift
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Public Library
Aug. 6
1901
Easton Public Library
Aug. 9
1901
Easton Public Library
Feb. 12
1901
Easton Public Library
Feb. 13
1901
Easton Public Library
Easton Public Library
Feb. 13
Feb. 15
1901
1901
Easton Public Library
Easton Public Library
Feb. 15
Feb. 15
1901
1901
Easton Public Library
Feb. 15
1901
Easton Public Library
Feb. 18
1901
Easton Public Library
Feb. 18
1901
Easton Express
p.3
Jan. 11
1901
Public library project now well under way.
Easton semi- weekly Free
Press
Easton sSemi-Weekly
Free Press
Easton Express
Easton Express
Easton Semi-Weekly Free
Press
Easton Express
P. 3
1901
1901
1901
A plea for the library- sermon by Rev.
B.J.Davis.
School board to be asked for free public
library.
School board to be asked for free public
library.
Plea for library
Letter- In favor of library
School board to be asked for Free Pub. Lib.
Easton Public Library
Feb. 19
1901
Easton Public Library
Feb. 26
1901
Easton Public Library
Easton Public Library
Easton Public Library
Feb. 5
Feb. 9
Jan. 11
Easton Public Library
Easton Public Library
Jan. 15
1901
School board to be asked for Free public
Library
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Easton Public Library
Easton Public Library
Easton Public Library
Jan. 19
June 14
March 15
1901
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Easton Public Library
March 19
1901
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March 27
1901
Easton Public Library
May 7
1901
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May 7
1901
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Easton, South - Education
Nov. 22
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June 21
1901
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Education - Muhlenberg College
Jan. 23
1901
Electric Lighting
Aug. 20
1901
Electric Lighting
Aug. 20
1901
Electric Lighting
Dec. 11
1901
Electric Lighting
Electric Lighting
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Electric Lighting
June 12
June 15
June 8
June 8, 10
Electric Lighting
Electric Lighting
Electric Lighting
Chances of library grtting 1/2 mil slim.
Library site selected by school board.
No Tax for library---school board rejects
Carnegie's offer.
School board has been asked for a free
public library
Letter from Carnegie about library.
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School board to be asked for free public
library.
Possible library site--First Reformed Church
to offer buriel ground.
Library plans- prepared by new york
The library law.
Scheme back of library plan.
Last high school graduate in South Easton
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Muhlenberg College will remain in
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Allentown. (see also editorial)
State grants charter to Consumer's Light Co. Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Express
1901
1901
1901
1901
Charter granted to electric light and power
company of Easton.
Council meeting discusses light co.
ordinance.
Electric light and power Co.
Electric light and power Co.
Electric light and power Co.
Consumer's light ordinance vetoed.
March 9
May 16
1901
1901
Consumers light ordinance killed.
Ordinance adopted.
Easton Express
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May 18
1901
Light ordinance passed.
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Electric Lighting
1901
Electric Lighting
May 21, June
11
May 4
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Daily Free Press
1901
1901
1901
Council meeting discusses light co.
ordinance.
Consumer's light ordinance goes back to
committee.
Light ordinance delayed.
Our electric light plant.
Account of the "greatest flood in '62."
Electric Lighting
Electric Lighting
Floods
May 4
May 4
Dec. 16 - 18
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Floods
Floods
Dec. 16 & 17
March 11
1901
1901
Account of winter freshet.
Account of a flood.
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For a public library"
Jan. 11
1901
Easton Daily Free Press each day has letters Easton Daily Free Press
about the free library starting in Feb. 1901.
Garbage
April 17
1901
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Garbage
April 20
1901
Gas - Companies
Aug. 9
1901
People complain of dumping garbage on
Delaware banks.
People complain of dumping garbage on
Delaware banks. Editorial.
New gas co. incorporated for Easton.
Juvenile Home - Court
June 24
1901
Juvenile court established.
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Juvenile Home - Court
Lafayette College - Faculty
Lehigh Valley Railroad - Strikes
June 24
April 29
May 24
1901
1901
1901
Juvenile court established.
Obituary of Dr. T. C. Porter
Lehigh Valley boilermakers on strike.
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McKinley
Sept. 18
1901
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McKinley
Sept. 19
1901
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McKinley
Sept. 20
1901
Description of memorial exercises for
President McKinley.
Description of memorial exercises for
President McKinley.
McKinley's death.
McKinley
Sept. 20
1901
Easton's tribute to McKinley.
1901
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McKinley
Sept. 6, 14 -19 1901
Account of the McKinley assassination and
death.
Cannon to be loaned to Easton - to be
placed near monument.
Bill to close Morris Canal passes 3rd reading.
Waterway to be sold.
Charles Wagner, murder on trial--despoiled
signals on the Jersey Central to wreck trains.
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Monument (in circle)
July 29
1901
Morris Canal
March 14
1901
Murder
April 10
1901
Murder
April 11 & 12
1901
Northampton (town) murder trial - John
Kolnecko (Kicoinjko?) for the murder of
Francis (Frank) Schaeffer (Shaffer).
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Murder
April 14
1901
Northampton (town) murder trial - John
Kolnecko (Kicoinjko?) for the murder of
Francis (Frank) Schaeffer (Shaffer).
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Murder
Murder
Nov. 12
Nov. 12
1901
1901
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Murder
Nov. 5
1901
Capture of Grether for murder.
Grether given a hearing in murder of Mr.
Strunk.
A farmer (Mr. Strunk) killed by a burglar.
Murder
Murder
Oct. 10
Oct. 10
1901
1901
Capture of Grether for murder.
A farmer (Mr. Strunk) killed by a burglar.
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Murder
Murder
Oct. 5
Oct. 5
1901
1901
Capture of Grether for murder.
A farmer (Mr. Strunk) killed by a burglar.
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Murder
Sept. 25 - 27
1901
A farmer (Mr. Strunk) killed by a burglar.
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Palmer Township - Annexation
Jan. 10
1901
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Palmer Township - Annexation
Jan. 26
1901
Fighting annextation - Palmer Township
residents have their say.
Palmer Township annexation fails.
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Palmer Township - Annexation
Jan. 26
1901
Pan-American Exhibit
Oct. 23
1901
Phillipsburg, N.J - Electric Lights
June 20
1901
Phillipsburg, N.J. - Soldiers
Monument
Public Library
Dec. 8
1901
Jan. 8
1901
Department of law disapproves Palmer
Township annexation ordinance.
Letter describing Pan-American exhibit.
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Railroads - Lehigh Valley Railroad Jan. 15
1901
Phillipsburg has right to cut down light
company poles.
Phillipsburg movement underway for
soldiers monument.
Plan for a public library . Board of control
will be asked to levy tax..
New directors for Lehigh Valley Railroad Co.
Railroads - New Jersey Central
Jan. 5
1901
Jersey Central now in hands of Reading.
Steam Heat
Oct. 18
1901
Highway Dept. refuses to approve ordinance Easton Daily Free Press
of People's Steam and Power Co.
Telephone - Yellow Kid
June 12
1901
Theaters - Wonderland Theater
June 17
1901
"Yellow Kid" telephone ordinance vetoed by Easton Daily Free Press
Mayor.
Wonderland Theater in ashes.
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Theaters - Wonderland Theater
June 17
1901
Wonderland Theater destroyed by fire.
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Theaters - Wonderland Theater
June 18
1901
Fire consumes Wonderland Theater.
Travel - India
April 23
1901
Trolley Transportation
July 20
1901
Mrs. William Free giving her impressions of
India.
East Bushkill residents object to the trolley.
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Trolley Transportation
July 23
1901
Better trolley service.
Trolley Transportation
July 31, Aug. 3 1901
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Franchise given to Northampton and Lehigh Easton Express
Street Railway Co. - Easton and Belvidere.
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Trolley Transportation - Accidents Dec. 24
1901
Trolley Transportation Doylestown and Easton Co.
1901
June 18, 28
Trolley Transportation - Nazareth Aug. 17
1901
Trolley Transportation - Nazareth Feb. 25
1901
Trolley Transportation - Nazareth May 13
1901
Trolley Transportation - Nazareth May 13, 17
1901
Trolley Transportation Ordinance
Trolley Transportation Ordinance
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Trolley Transportation Ordinance
Trolley Transportation Ordinance
Aug. 2
Trolley Transportation Ordinance
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Trolley Transportation Ordinance
Trolley Transportation Ordinance
Trolley Transportation - Tracks
Trolley wreck near Allentown -- six killed and Easton Daily Free Press
11 injured.
County Commissioners allow Doylestown
Easton Express
and Easton Company to build along
Delaware River Road.
Company refused a franchise by Council.
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Easton Daily Free Press
1901
Description of a trip over the new trolley
road -- Easton and Nazareth.
New Trolley Car Co. - Easton, Nazareth, and
Bangor Railway Co.
Easton, Nazareth, and Bangor St. Railway
Incorporated.
Trolley ordinances in Council.
July 6
1901
Railway Ordinances.
Easton Daily Free Press
July 9
1901
Railway ordinance (trolley).
June 21
1901
Doylestown trolley ordinance.
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
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June 22
1901
March 16
1901
Oct. 9
1901
Oct. 9
1901
Sept. 7
1901
Mayor vetoes two street railway ordinances Easton Daily Free Press
(Easton-Nazareth-Bangor and the
Northampton Electric Railway).
Trolley extension ordinance.
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Three trolley ordinances pass over Mayor's Easton Daily Free Press
veto.
Ordinance giving franchises to trolley
Easton Express
companies passed over mayor's veto.
Three more trolley ordinances pass council. Easton Daily Free Press
July 19
1901
Better trolley service -- traction co. to
narrow gauge of its track.
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Washington, N.J. - Washington
Township
Welfare
Jan. 7
1901
Washington Township divided into election
districts.
Charity Organized Society of Easton -- an
organization to aid poor -- organized.
Easton Daily Free Press
Oct. 16
1901
Albright, Judge E. A.
Dec. 15
1902
Easton Express
1902
1902
Obituary of Judge E. A. Albright, president,
judge of Lehigh County.
Easton artist, Angelo L. Woodward, ends his
life.
A new business enterprize - Easton
Automobile Company.
Account of new First National Bank.
Picture of First National Bank Building to be
erected.
Picture of First National Bank Building to be
erected.
Picture of new First National Bank.
First National Bank to build new building.
Artists
Aug. 15
1902
Automobile Agencies
April 8
1902
Banks
Banks
April 12
April 12
1902
1902
Banks
April 15
1902
Banks
Banks
April 15
March 10
Bryan, William Jennings
July 23
1902
William Jennings Bryan at Allentown
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Buiness - Shoe Industry
Bushkill Park
Nov. 27
July 1
1902
1902
Shoe factory sold
A new pleasure resort
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Account of new First National Bank.
Picture of First National Bank Building to be
erected.
First National Bank - picture.
Picture of First National Bank Building to be
erected.
Easton to have a new trust company Northampton Trust Co.
New trust company in Easton - Northampton
Trust Company.
First National Bank to build new building.
Business - Banks
Business - Banks
April 15
April 15
1902
1902
Business - Banks
Feb. 21
1902
Business - Banks
Feb. 25
1902
Business - Banks
March 10
Business - Banks
Business - Banks
March 10
May 1
1902
1902
Plans for Northampton National Bank.
Northampton Trust Co. begins business.
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Business - Bethlehem Steel
Business - Boots and Shoes
June 16
April 30
1902
1902
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1902
Bethlehem Steel plant in new hands.
Easton Boot and Shoe Factory in
receivorship.
Easton Boot and Shoe Factory in
receivership.
Boot and Shoemaker's union disbanded.
Business - Boots and Shoes
April 30
1902
Business - Boots and Shoes
Aug. 19
Business - Boots and Shoes
July 10
1902
Easton shoe factory sold.
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Business - Boots and Shoes
Nov. 27
1902
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Business - Boots and Shoes
Nov. 27
1902
Business - Boots and Shoes
Oct. 31
1902
Business - Boots and Shoes
Oct. 31
1902
Spanish shoe merchant goes elsewhere - will
not buy shoe factory.
Spanish shoe merchant goes elsewhere - will
not buy shoe factory.
Shoe factory bought by wealthy Spaniard will soon put it in operation.
Shoe factory bought by wealthy Spaniard
and will soon put it in operation.
Business - Bush & Bull
Dec. 16
1902
Bush & Bull's new addition to store.
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Business - Bush & Bull
Business - C. K. Williams
Business - C. K. Williams
Business - C. K. Williams
Dec. 16
May 11
May 12
May 12
1902
1902
1902
1902
Bush & Bull's new addition to store.
$50,000 C. K. Williams paint mill
$50,000 fire at C. K. Williams paint mill
$50,000 fire at C. K. Williams paint mill
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Business - C. K. Williams
Business - Cement Industry
May 13
July 25
1902
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Business - Cement Industry
Business - Confectioneries
July 29
Aug. 13
1902
1902
$50,000 fire at C. K. Williams piant mill
Edison Portland Cement plant at New Village
now working.
Edison Cement Mill.
William Abel, confectioner, a suicide
Business - Department Stores Laubach's
Nov. 15
1902
Laubach's enlarge store
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Business - Department Stores Laubach's
Business - Emery
Business - Foundries
Nov. 15
1902
Laubach's enlarge store
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April 30
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Business - Grinding Industry
Dec. 12
1902
Business - Hosiery
Oct. 20
1902
Business - Ingersoll-Rand
Jan. 7 & 14
1902
New Emery mill.
Sterlingworth Railway Supply Co. sells the
brake beam department to Chicago
Equipment Co.
Easton gets new industry - Standard Emery
and Supply Co. of Albany, N.Y. Product is
Emery polishing wheels.
Kramer Hosiery Mills in Nazareth burn to
ground.
Editorial about Ingersoll-Sargeant works.
Business - Ingersoll-Rand
June 21
1902
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Business - Ingersoll-Rand
Sept. 4
1902
Business - Laundries
March 1
1902
Business - Lumber Trade
April 30
1902
Ingersoll gets big contract - to ship 200 tons
of drills to So. Africa.
Ingersoll's plans - foundry and shops to be
built in New Jersey.
Description of the new Phoenix Laundry
building
Zearfoss and Hilliard are erecting a sawmill.
Business - Shoe Industry
April 30
Business - Shoe Industry
Oct. 31
Business - Slate Industry - Strikes April 2
1902
1902
1902
Shoe factory sold
Shoe factory sold
Slate strike renewed
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Business - Slate Industry - Strikes April 2
1902
Slate strike renewed
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Business - Tanneries
Aug. 7
1902
Brinker's tannery burned
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Canals and canaling - strikes
July 16
1902
Canal Italians strike - repairing Lehigh Canal Easton Daily Free Press
Canals and canaling - strikes
July 17
1902
Riotous Italians jailed
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Churches - Christian Science
Sept. 30
1902
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1902
New church organized in Easton - Christian
Science.
First colored Evangelical Lutheran Church.
History of the church. Started 1861 in
Church of Christ Evangelical Lutheran
Church.
First colored Evangelical Lutheran Church.
History of the church. Started in 1861 in
Church of Christ Evangelical Lutheran
Church.
Cornerstone of Lutheran Church of the Good
Shepherd laid.
College Hill Presbyterian Church dedicated
Churches - Lutheran
Sept. 22
1902
Churches - Lutheran
Sept. 23
1902
Churches - Lutheran - Good
Shepherd
Churches - Presbyterian
Nov. 17
1902
Sept. 22
Churches - Presbyterian
Sept. 22
1902
College Hill Presbyterian Church dedicated
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Sept. 23
1902
College Hill Presbyterian Church dedicated
Churches - Reformed
April 15
1902
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Feb. 17
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1902
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Churches - Reformed
Jan. 22
1902
Churches - Reformed
Jan. 22
1902
Churches - Reformed
Jan. 24
1902
Churches - Reformed
June 28
1902
Churches - Reformed
May 13
1902
Trouble in the First Reformed Church. Dr.
Kieffer promotes movement for his
resignation.
Description of chime tablet
Trouble in the First Reformed Church. Dr.
Kieffer promotes movement for his
resignation.
Description of chimes to be hung in First
Reformed steeple
Description of chimes to be hung in First
Reformed steeple
Description of chimes to be hung in First
Reformed steeple
Description of chimes to be hung in First
Reformed steeple
Spicy church dispute - Dr. Kieffer
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Churches - Reformed
Nov. 10
1902
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ed.)
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1902
Cornerstone laid at Memorial Reformed
Church
Spicy church dispute - Dr. Kieffer
Lodge will disband- Fatherland Lodge No.111
I.O.O.F.
Lodge will disband - Fatherland Lodge,
No.111 I.O.O.F.
Obituary of Dr. Condit
Churches - Reformed
Clubs - Odd Fellows
Nov. 25
Dec. 13
1902
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Clubs - Odd Fellows
Dec. 13
1902
Condit
Sept. 18
Condit
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Cottingham, William
Crime - Forgery
Sept. 18
Sept. 23
Obituary of Dr. Condit
Obituary of Dr. Condit
Elected for 26th term May 9, 1902
Case of Charles Wilkinson, forger.
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1902
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Dentistry
Dec. 16
1902
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Easton City Guards
Sept. 27, 29
1902
Easton Public Library
Easton public Library
April 10
April 11
1902
1902
First meeting of Lehigh Valley Dental Society
held
City guard on duty at strikes in Lackawanna
County.
May defeat library tax.
Library tax to be levied by school board.
Easton Public Library
April 12
1902
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April 15
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July 11
1902
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Free library assured---school board will
accept Carnegie offer.
Library contract awarded
Library contract letter
Library contract awarded
Letter: Is library tax legal?
:ibrary trustees chosen.
Easton Public Library
The Carnegie Library
Jan. 14
1902
Is it possible that Easton is already
mortgaged by library scheme beyond all
hope of release.
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Easton, City of - Bond Issues
Dec. 20
1902
Mayor urges bond issue of $300,000 for civic Easton Express
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improvements (streets, sewers, etc.)
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Oct. 4
1902
Easton, City of - Bond Issues
Oct. 4
1902
Easton, City of - City Hall
Aug. 2
1902
Mayor urges bond issue of $300,000 for civic Easton Express
improvements
Common council votes for new City Hall
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Easton, City of - City Hall
Aug. 2
1902
Green property to be bought by city
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Easton, City of - City Hall
July 9
1902
Common council votes for new City Hall
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Easton, City of - City Hall
June 21
1902
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton, City of - City Hall
June 3
1902
Easton, City of - City Hall
May 3
1902
Easton, City of - City Hall
May 3
1902
Mayor advocates purchase of Green
property for a new city building
Mayor advocates purchase of Green
property for a new city building
Mayor advocates purchase of Green
property for a new city building
Mayor advocates purchase of Green
property for a new city building
Idea for City Hall on Green estate
Lot at Delaware and Berwick St.
recommended for new site for fire station
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Easton, City of - City Hall
May 3
Easton, City of - Fire Department - May 10
Stations - South Side
1902
1902
Easton, City of - Fire Department - May 17
Stations - South Side
1902
Lot at Delaware and Berwick St.
recommended for new site for fire station
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Easton, City of - Fire Department - May 17
Stations - South Side
1902
New South Side firehouse is accepted
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Easton, City of - Mayors
Easton, City of - Streets
1902
1902
Lehr elected mayor
Indictments found against city of Easton in
its neglect to repair highways
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Feb. 19
Dec. 8
Easton, City of - Streets - Repairs Dec. 8
1902
Education - Muhlenberg College
Feb. 22
1902
Electric Lighting
April 10
1902
Electric Lighting
April 10
1902
Electric Lighting
April 18
1902
Electric Lighting
April 22
1902
Electric Lighting
April 22
1902
Electric Lighting
Feb. 17 & 27
1902
Electric Lighting
Feb. 27
1902
Electric Lighting
Feb. 5
1902
Fairs
June 24
1902
Fairs
June 27
1902
Floods
March 1
1902
Floods
March 1, 2
1902
Floods
March 1, 2, 5
1902
Floods
March 4
1902
Floods
March 4
1902
City of Easton indicted in neglect of roads,
failure to repair many streets
Tract bought for new home of Muhlenberg
College.
Charter granted to People's electric light and
power Co.
Charter granted to People's electric light and
power co.
New light co. -- franchise granted to People's
light and power co.
People's light co. Franchise granted.
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Phillipsburg Gas Co. will fight Easton Light
Trust in courts.
Charter granted to People's electric light and Easton Express
power co.
Council rejects Power Co. request to light
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city.
Explosion at city light plant.
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Account of Eagle's Carnival and Industrial
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fair.
Account of Eagles Carnival & Industrial Fair. Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Description of flood - damage has no parallel Easton Express
hereabouts.
Description of flood - damage has no parallel Easton Express
hereabouts.
Great flood damage in Lehigh Valley.
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Description of flood - damage has no parallel Easton Sentinel
hereabouts.
Central RR bridge collapsed.
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Houses, Historic
Houses, Historic - Rinek
April 15
Feb. 4
1902
1902
Green residence for new city hall.
Drake estate acquires Rinek building.
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Lafayette College - Gayley Hall
April 4
1902
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Lafayette College - Gayley Hall
April 4
1902
Gayley Laboratory and Oliver Library to be
dedicated tomorrow.
Gayley Laboratory dedicated.
Lafayette College - Gayley Hall
April 5
1902
Gayley Laboratory dedicated.
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Lafayette College - Gayley Hall
April 8
1902
Gayley lab presented to Lafayette
Lafayette College - Gayley Hall
March 8
1902
Lafayette College - Hogg Hall
Oct. 22
1902
Lehigh Valley Dental Society
Lehigh Valley Railroad - Trains
Dec. 16
Nov. 5
1902
1902
Dedication of Gayley Laboratory to be April
5.
College building donated by Mr. Hogg is
dedicated.
First meeting held
Black Diamond wrecked.
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Lehigh Valley Railroad - Wrecks
Nov. 5
1902
Black Diamond wrecked.
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Military Companies - Reeder
Battery
Monument - Centre Square
Feb. 22
1902
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Nov. 11
1902
Monument - Centre Square
Nov. 14
1902
Monument - Removal
Nov. 14
1902
Reeder Battery celebrates first anniversary gives history of battery.
The soldier's monument - G.A.R. oppose
building of public building in place of
monument.
GAR opposes movement of monument in
circle.
Soldiers' monument - G.A.R. men aroused at
suggestion that monument be moved.
Monument - Removal
Nov. 18
1902
Proposal to move monument from circle.
Monument - Removal
Nov. 21
1902
Will stay in square.
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Monument - Removal
Nov. 6
1902
Monument - Started
Nov. 14
1902
Morris Canal
Muhlenberg College
Nov. 25
Feb. 22
1902
1902
Murder
1902
Congressman Mutchler in Washington to
suggest Centre Square as a site for a public
Building -- monument to be moved to
courthouse.
GAR opposes movement of monument in
circle.
Description about inclined plane.
Tract bought for new home of Muhlenberg
College.
Grether trial for murder of Adam Strunk
started in Stroudsburg, PA, found guilty.
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Murder
April 23
1902
Murder
Dec. 11
1902
Murder
Murder
Dec. 16
Dec. 23
1902
1902
Murder
Dec. 27
1902
Murder
Murder
Murder
Dec. 8
Dec. 8
Dec. 8 & 9
1902
1902
1902
Murder
Murder
Dec. 9
July 14
1902
1902
Was Corwin murdered? He died from and
overdose of laudanum while at the Swan
Hotel, Easton, PA. He came from Chester,
New York.
Adam Strunk's murderer, Grether escapes
again.
Grether sentenced to death.
Frank Schmidt kills himself and his son-inlaw.
Frank Schmidt kills himself and his son-inlaw.
Grether escapes again.
Grether sentenced to death.
Adam Strunk's murderer, Grether escapes
again.
Grether sentenced to death.
Grether must die--new trial denied.
Murder
Murder
July 22
July 23
1902
1902
Grether sentenced to death.
Grether money raised to appeal case.
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Murder
June 16
1902
Murder
Murder
June 16
June 16
1902
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Murder
Murder
June 20
June 20
1902
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Murder
June 20
1902
Murder
Murder
Murder
June 24
June 4
June 4
1902
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Murder
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Murder
June 7
June10
May 29
1902
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Murder
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May 29
May 29
1902
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Murder
May 30
1902
Murder
Murder
May 30
Nov. 12
Murder
Murderers Grether and Aiello still at liberty-broke jail at Stroudsburg. Murdered farmer,
Adam Strunk.
Grether found guilty.
Two murderers escape--Grether and Aiello
escape from Monroe County jail.
Grether found guilty.
Murderers Grether and Aiello still at liberty-broke jail at Stroudsburg. Murdered farmer,
Adam Strunk.
Two murderers escape--Grether and Aiello
escape from Monroe County jail.
Grether convicted in Strunk murder.
Grether found guilty.
Trial of Grether at Stroudsburg, PA for
Strunk murder.
Grether convicted in Strunk murder.
Grether convicted in Strunk murder.
Trial of Grether at Stroudsburg, PA for
Strunk murder.
Trial of Grether at Stroudsburg, PA.
Grether trial for murder of Adam Strunk
started in Stroudsburg, PA, found guilty.
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1902
Trial of Grether at Stroudsburg, PA for
Strunk murder.
Trial of Grether at Stroudsburg, PA
Supreme Court refuses Grether a new trial.
Nov. 14
1902
Supreme Court refuses Grether a new trial.
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Murder
Nov. 21
1902
Supreme Court refuses Grether a new trial.
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Murder
Nov. 25
1902
Grether sentenced to death.
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Murder
Oct. 1
1902
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1902
Grether's appeal to Supreme Court on
October 12, 1902.
Historical notes of the founding of the
county
Historical notes of the founding of the
county
Historical notes of the founding of the
country
Historical notes of the founding of the
county
Phillipsburg Gas Co. will fight Easton Light
Trust in courts.
Copy of public bill introduced to provide
Easton with a Post Office.
29 years ago free delivery of mail began.
Northampton Co., PA
April 3
1902
Northampton Co., PA
March 11
1902
Northampton Co., PA
March 22
1902
Northampton Co., PA
March 28
1902
Phillipsburg, N.J - Electric Lights
April 22
1902
Post Office
April 18
1902
Post Office
Dec. 1
Post Office
Dec. 1
1902
29 years ago free delivery of mail began.
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Post Office - Building
April 18
1902
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Railroads - Lehigh Valley Railroad Aug. 1
1902
Copy of public bill introduced to provide
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Easton with a post office.
Lehigh Valley Railroad bridges improvement. Easton Daily Free Press
Railroads - Wrecks
Jan. 23
1902
"Scranton Flyer" wrecked.
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Roads
June 2
1902
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Roads
June 3
1902
Schools - Traill Green
March 14
1902
Schools - Traill Green
Sept. 12
1902
An old document - relating to opening of
road to "Forks of Delaware" not in custody
of court.
An old document - relating to opening of
road to "Forks of Delaware" not in custody
of court.
School building to be erected on West
Washington St.
New school building in West end to be
named Traill Green.
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Schools - Traill Green
Smallpox
Sept. 12
Jan. 20
1902
1902
New school to be called Traill Green.
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Riot over burial of smallpox victim at Roseto. Easton Daily Free Press
Smallpox
Jan. 20
1902
Riot over burial of smallpox victim at Roseto. Easton Express
Smallpox
Jan. 23
1902
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Smallpox
Jan. 23
1902
Smallpox
Steam Heat
Jan. 25
Dec. 20
1902
1902
Steam Heat
July 18
1902
Trolley will not transport persons from
Roseto because of smallpox.
Trolley will not transport persons from
Roseto because of smallpox.
All persons of Bangor to be vaccinated.
Ordinance passed for Easton and
Phillipsburg Conduit Co. and defeated in
Common Council.
Council agains holds up ordinance regulating
People's Steam Heat & Power Co.
Steam Heat
May 17
1902
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Steam Heat
Steam Heat
Nov. 22
Nov. 22
1902
1902
Steam Heat
Nov. 22
1902
Conduit and steam heat ordinance passed
by council.
Mayor signs steam heat ordinance.
Steam heat assured. Mayor Lehr opposes
Easton and Phillipsburg compared
ordinance.
Mayor signs steam heat ordinance.
Steam Heat
Sept. 6
1902
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Telephone
Jan. 6
1902
Telephone - Company
Jan. 6
1902
Trolley Transportation
April 15
1902
Ordinance passed for Easton and
Phillipsburg Conduit Co. and defeated in
Common Council.
Charter granted to U.S. Telephone Co. (for
N.J.).
Charter granted to U.S. Telephone co. (for
New Jersey).
Charter granted to Blue Ridge Charter Co. A
traction company -- electric road from
Slatington to Danielsville.
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Trolley Transportation
Jan. 24
1902
Trolley Transportation
May 2
1902
Trolley Transportation
May 23, 28
1902
Trolley roadbuilding -- many new lines being Easton Daily Free Press
constructed.
Charter issued to Blue Ridge Trolley Co.
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Trolley Transportation - Accidents June 5
1902
Trolley Transportation - Accidents May 23, 28
1902
Trolley Transportation - Accidents Sept. 1
1902
Trolley Transportation - Accidents Sept. 1, 4
1902
Account of trolley wreck of Easton and
Nazareth Railway. Two killed. Wreck
occurred in Palmer Township.
Electric cars in crash -- Lehigh Valley Co. -near Oakland Park.
Fatal trolley accident -- Easton and Nazareth
line at 21st and Wood St.
Car overturned -- fatal accident on the
Johnson trolley line.
Fatal accident on the Hay line.
Trolley Transportation - Blue
Ridge Co.
Trolley Transportation - Fares
May 2
1902
Charter issued to Blue Ridge Trolley Co.
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April 28
1902
Hay line reduces fares to 2c.
Easton Daily Free Press
Trolley Transportation - Hay Co.
Aug. 13
1902
Hay Co. gets franchise to operate trolley
approved by Washington Council.
Easton Daily Free Press
Trolley Transportation - Hay Co.
Nov. 11
1902
Hay Co. asked permission to enter Bangor.
Easton Daily Free Press
Trolley Transportation - Routes
June 10, Aug.
12
June 2
1902
Charter granted to trolley car for Easton to Easton Sentinel
Washington, N.J.
New trolley projected -- Easton-Washington- Easton Daily Free Press
Hackettstown to be connected.
Trolley Transportation - Wrecks
May 23, 28
1902
Vanderveer Hall
Nov. 26
1902
Trolley Transportation Washington
1902
Account of trolley wreck of Easton and
Nazareth Railway. Two killed. Wreck
occurred in Palmer Township.
Vanderveer's big night -- new Odd Fellow's
Hall.
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Wars - Military Companies Reeder Battery
Wolf, George
Feb. 22
1902
July 29
1902
Actors and Actresses
May 21
1903
Actors and Actresses
May 21
1903
Allentown, PA
Jan. 21
1903
American Flag Mfg. Co.
Feb. 10
1903
Banks
June 13
1903
Banks
June 13
1903
Banks
June 13
1903
Banks
June 13
1903
Banks
Banks
Beidelman, William
Bridges, Delaware
Sept. 19
Sept. 19
Feb. 2
Oct.
1903
1903
1903
1903
Reeder Battery celebrates first anniversary gives history of battery.
Grave of Governor Wolf and parents
(questions tombstones)
Estelle Harris, Easton Soprano, to sing with
Conried Opera Co. of N.Y.
Estelle Harris, Easton soprano, to sing with
the Conried Opera Co. of N.Y.
Phoebe Deaconess Home chartered in
Allentown, PA.
Heller Flag building leased for a silk mill.
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Easton National Bank will put up new
Weaston Exekly Free
structure.
Press
Easton National Bank has plans drawn for a Easton Daily Free Press
seven story structure.
Easton National Bank jas plans drawn for a Easton Daily Free Press
seven story structure.
Easton National Bank will put up new
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structure.
New First National Bank opens.
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First national Bank building opened.
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William Beidelman dead.
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Lost in flood on Oct. 10, 1903:
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Port Jervis - iron bridge; Belvidere - covered
bridge; Riegelsville - covered bridge; Milford covered bridge; Frenchtown - covered
bridge; Stockton; Lambertville; Raven Rock;
Martins Creek - railroad bridge.
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Business - 1900 - 1919
April 2
1903
Article on Easton's industrial advancement: Easton Daily Free Press
"Easton's industrial centre" -- H. D. Maxwell.
"116 miles of trolleys" - T. A. Hay.
"Portland Cement Industry" - G. S. Brown.
"Northampton Slate industry" - G. S. Brown.
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Business - 1900 - 1919
April 3
1903
Industries Article on Industrial Easton
p. 2 & 3
Business - American Flag Mfg. Co. Feb. 10
1903
Heller Flag building leased for silk mill.
Business - Banks
Business - Banks
Sept. 19
Sept. 22
1903
1903
Business - Bethlehem
July 18
1903
First National Bank opens.
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Fine new National Bank Building ( some
Easton Sentinel
history of bank).
Bethlehem built permanent street without Easton Express
more taxes.
The first crayola crayons were manufactured
in Easton by Binney & Smith, Inc. in 1903.
Business - Binney & Smith
1903
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Business - Boots and Shoes
Aug. 11
1903
Business - Bush & Bull
April 3
1903
Business - Cement Industry
Dec. 18
1903
Easton Shoe factory leased by Haytock for a Easton Daily Free Press
silk mill.
Picture of Bush & Bull.
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Bath Portland Cement Co. in new hands.
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Business - Cement Industry
Business - Cement Industry
Dec. 18
Dec. 9
1903
1903
New cement mill - Bath Portland Co.
Cement mills will shut down.
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Business - Cement Industry
March 10
1903
A fatal explosion - Edison cement plant.
Easton Sentinel
Business - Cement Industry
March 3
1903
At Edison Cement Mill, explosion of coal
dust kills 6 men.
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Business - Cement Industry
March 6
1903
Edison Cement plant accident.
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ed.)
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Business - Cement Industry
May 23
1903
Explosion of powdered coal at the Martin's
Creek Portland Cement Co. 4 hurt.
Business - Cement Industry
Sept. 11
1903
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Business - Food Stores
Oct. 27
1903
Business - Foundries
Aug. 1
1903
Cement age at hand - Lehigh Valley chiet
source.
H. G. Tombler Grocery Co. new building
(with picture).
Picketing at Easton Foundry.
Business - foundries
Aug. 9
1903
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Business - Foundries
Sept. 10 & 11
1903
Business - Foundries
Sept. 10 & 11
1903
Business - Foundries
Sept. 11 & 15
1903
Business - Glass Industry
Oct. 19
1903
Striking moulders enjoined - foundry case
ended.
Labor union fight in court - Local no.56 Iron
Workers vs. Easton Foundry and Machine
Co.
Labor union fight in court - local no. 56, Iron
Workers vs. Easton Foundry and Machine
Co.
Labor union fight in court - local no. 56, Iron
Workers vs. Easton Foundry and Machine
Co.
Easton Glass Works buys land for factory.
Business - Glass Industry
Business - Hotels, Taverns, etc.
Oct. 6
Dec. 19
1903
1903
Building glass works in Palmer.
Passing of an old landmark (Northampton
Fire Insurance Co. building, sold to be part of
Hotel Huntington)
Business - Hotels, Taverns, etc.
June 2
1903
Business - Hotels, Taverns, etc.
May 27
1903
The Huntington - Easton's newest hotel
opened for public.
Huntington Hotel will open tomorrow.
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Business - Insurance
Dec. 22
1903
Northampton Fire Insurance Co. building
changes hands. History of building now part
of Hotel Huntington.
Biography of John Fritz, iron trader and
founder.
H.A. Sage to rent old municipal building
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Business - Iron Industry
April 1
1903
Business - Leather Trade
May 15
1903
Business - Milk
April 3
1903
Easton Daily Free Press
1903
Pasteurized milk company plans to build
right away
Blast at John Walz stone quarry kills two.
Business - Quarries
Sept. 1
Business - Silk Industry
July 8
1903
Silk mill to be built in Italian town (Roseto)
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Business - Slate Industry
Dec. 16
Business - Slate Industry - History Dec. 16
1903
1903
Prosperity in the slate trade
Prosperity in the slate trade
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Canals and canaling
Aug. 11
1903
Notes on canals
p. 5
Canals and canaling
Aug. 4
1903
Reminiscences on canal life
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Canals and canaling
Aug. 6
1903
Reminiscences on canal life
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Canals and canaling
Aug. 7
1903
Reminiscences on canal life
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Carter Republic
Dec. 23
1903
Churches - Lutheran - Good
Shepherd
Churches - Lutheran - Good
Shepherd
Churches - Lutheran - Good
Shepherd
Churches - Methodist
May 18
1903
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May 18
1903
New building for the William T. Carter,
Junior Republic at Redington
Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Good
Shepherd is dedicated.
New church dedicated.
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Daily Free Press
May 19
1903
New church dedicated.
Oct. 20
1903
Delaware St. Methodist Episcopal Church
(S.S.) celebrates 50 years
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Churches - Methodist
Oct. 21
1903
History of the Delaware St. Methodist
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Church
History of the Delaware St. Methodist
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Church
Olivet Presbyterian Church cornerstone laid; Easton Daily Free Press
50th anniversary of Del. St. Methodist
Church Phillipsburg (joint article on two)
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Churches - Methodist
Oct. 21
1903
Churches - Presbyterian
Oct. 19
1903
Churches - Presbyterian
Oct. 19
1903
Olivet Presbyterian Church cornerstone laid; Easton Express
50th anniversary of Del. St. Methodist
Church Phillipsburg (joint article on two)
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Churches - Reformed
April 13
1903
Letter of Dr. Kieffer about church trouble
Churches - Reformed
April 21
1903
Reformed Church row breaks out afresh
Churches - Reformed
Churches - Reformed
April 21
April 21
1903
1903
Letter by Dr. Kieffer
Kieffer's friends ignore Classis
Churches - Reformed
Churches - Reformed
Churches - Reformed
Aug. 27
Dec. 2
Dec. 3
1903
1903
1903
Surprise stored away by Kiefferites
Dr. Kieffer will move
Dr. Kieffer to leave Easton
Churches - Reformed
Churches - Reformed
Churches - Reformed
Feb. 17
Feb. 18
Feb. 24 March 3
1903
1903
1903
Churches - Reformed
Jan. 10
1903
Churches - Reformed
Jan. 13
1903
Dr. Kieffer case before classis
Dr. Kieffer case before classis
Fight before classis. Huh ? Contention of
church for or against retaining Pastor
Kieffer.
War over communion cup at First Reformed Easton Express
Church in Easton, PA. Pastor Dr. Kieffer
unfavorable to the use of individual
communion cups.
Dr. Kieffer wins in bitter church contest
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Churches - Reformed
Churches - Reformed
Churches - Reformed
Churches - Reformed
Churches - Reformed
Churches - Reformed
Churches - Reformed
Churches - Reformed
Churches - Reformed
Jan. 15
Jan. 20
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Jan. 6
June 2
June 29
March 17
March 19
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Dr. Kieffer wins in bitter church contest
Troubles continue with Dr. Kieffer
Dr. Kieffer wins in bitter church contest
Troubles continue with Dr. Kieffer
Editorial : Kiefferite success
Kiefferites' latest move
Dr. Kieffer case before classis
Dr. Kieffer must go
Kieffer must go
Churches - Reformed
Churches - Reformed
May 12
May 20
1903
1903
Letter by Dr. Kieffer
Classis bans Kieffer's friends
Churches - Reformed
Churches - Reformed
May 21
May 21
1903
1903
Kiefferites latest move
Classis bans Kieffer's friends
Churches - Reformed
May 22
1903
Classis bans Kieffer's friends
Churches - Reformed
Churches - Reformed
May 26
May 26
1903
1903
Churches - Reformed
Nov. 10
1903
Editorial : Kiefferite success
The petition of Dr. Kieffer and his "spiritual
council."
East Penn Classis overruled - Kieffer wins
Churches - Reformed
Nov. 2
1903
East Penn Classis overruled - Kieffer wins
Churches - Reformed
Nov. 28
1903
Kieffer case goes to general synod
Churches - Reformed
Churches - Reformed
Nov. 3
Nov. 4
1903
1903
Dr. Kieffer defeated
East Penn Classis overruled - Kieffer wins
Churches - Reformed
Oct. 13
1903
Dr. Kieffer loses
Churches - Reformed
Oct. 30
1903
Dr. Kieffer's case before the Synod
Easton Express
Easton Sentinel
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Easton Sentinel
Easton Sentinel
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Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Sentinel
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ed.)
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ed.)
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ed.)
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Churches - Reformed
Oct. 30
1903
Synod takes up Kieffer's case
Churches - Reformed
Churches - Reformed
Oct. 31
Oct. 5
1903
1903
Churches - Reformed
Oct. 5
1903
Synod decides against Dr. Kieffer
Second opinion in church case against Dr.
Kieffer
Dr. Kieffer loses again
Churches - Reformed
Oct. 6
1903
Churches - Reformed
Oct. 6
1903
Churches - Reformed
Churches - Reformed
Sept. 12
Sept. 12
1903
1903
Churches - Reformed
Churches - Reformed
Sept. 14
Sept. 14
1903
1903
Churches - Reformed
Sept. 15
1903
Churches - Reformed
Churches - Reformed
Sept. 15
Sept. 19
1903
1903
Churches - Reformed
Sept. 4
1903
Churches - Reformed
Churches - Reformed
Sept. 8
Sept. 9
1903
1903
Churches - St. Joseph
Churches - St. Joseph
Churches - St. Joseph
Jan. 27
Jan. 27
Jan. 27 & 28
1903
1903
1903
Clothing Stores
Jan. 9
1903
Easton Free Press (daily
ed.)
Easton Express
Easton Express
Easton Free Press (daily
ed.)
Rev. Henry D. Kieffer and the First Reformed Easton Free Press (semiChurch
weekly ed.)
Dedication of Memorial Reformed Church
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Kieffer case is on
Easton Express
Rev. Kieffer gets an injunction
Easton Free Press (daily
ed.)
Kieffer case is on
Easton Express
Rev. Kieffer gets an injunction
Easton Free Press (daily
ed.)
Rev. Henry D. Kieffer and the First Reformed Easton Free Press (semiChurch
weekly ed.)
Rev. Kieffer loses
Easton Sentinel
Rev. Henry D. Kieffer and the First Reformed Easton Free Press (semiChurch
weekly ed.)
Rev. Kieffer gets an injunction
Easton Free Press (daily
ed.)
Kieffer case in on
Easton Express
Rev. Kieffer gets an injunction
Easton Free Press (daily
ed.)
St. Joseph's Jubilee (the 50th).
Easton Express
50th anniversary of St. Joseph's.
Easton Express
St. Joseph's Jubilee, (the 50th).
Easton Daily Free Press
Jacob Mayer purchased Samuel Drinkhouse Easton Daily Free Press
property.
p. 5
p. 5
Clubs - McKinley
Nov. 3
1903
Club opens
Clubs - Orpheus
April 25
1903
Account of Hiawatha
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Daily Free Press
Cock Fight
Feb. 3
1903
Fight broken up.
Easton Daily Free Press
Cottingham, William
June 12
1903
50th Anniversary
Easton Daily Free Press
Cottingham, William
November 3
1903
Honoring Dr. Cottingham-50th Anniversary
Easton Sentinel
Cottingham, William
October 22
1903
Easton Daily Free Press
Cottingham, William
October 27
1903
Cottingham, William
October 29
1903
Cottingham, William
Cottingham, William
October 29
October 29
1903
1903
Cottingham, William
October 30
1903
Cottingham Celebration (50th Anniversary)
Library Dedication.
W.W.Cottingham and the schools--his
record.
School superintendant--50 years tribute to
William W. Cottingham
Tribute
All Easton joins in honors for Mr.
Cottingham
Tribute on 50th Anniversary
Crime - Murder
July 10 - 15, & 1903
22
Crime - Murder
Nov. 10
1903
Crime - Murder
Nov. 24
1903
Crime - Murder
Nov. 3
1903
More about "Dr." Woods and wife in
connection with the death of Col. William
Best.
Bechtel murder. Allentown tragedy. The
murder of Mabel Bechtel. Brother Thomas
arrestewd for the crime.
Bechtel murder. Allentown tragedy. The
murder of Mabel Bechtel. Brother Thomas
arrestewd for the crime.
Bechtel murder. Allentown tragedy. The
murder of Mabel Bechtel. Brother Thomas
arrestewd for the crime.
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Daily Argus
Easton Express
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Sentinel
Easton Sentinel
Easton Sentinel
P. 3
P. 1
Dairy Plants
1903
Donnelly, James R.
Doylestown, PA
July 6
Aug. 1
1903
1903
Easton Sanitary Milk Company chartered
September 24, 1903.
Obituary
Depositors may not lose
Doylestown, PA
Aug. 3
1903
Depositors may not lose
Easton Daily Free Press
Doylestown, PA
July 30
1903
Doylestown bank failure
Easton Daily Free Press
Doylestown, PA
July 31
1903
Doylestown bank failure
Easton Daily Free Press
Drinkhouse, Samuel
April 18
1903
Samuel Drinkhouse 99 years old tomorrow
Easton Daily Free Press
Drinkhouse, Samuel
April 19
1903
Samuel Drinkhouse 99 years old
Easton Daily Free Press
Durham Cave
Easton City Guards
June 16
June 10
1903
1903
Description of Durham old cave
First inspection of city guardsmen under
new act of Congress.
City guards anniversary.
Easton Sentinel
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 1
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 1
"Free Press" sold.
Four young women elected library assistants
(also label designed by Mr. Marx and a
description of the rooms).
Lorenzo Bill, mail carrier, will use auto to
deliver mail.
New rural free delivery routes.
Easton Express
Easton Express
p. 5
Easton City Guards - Anniversary July 3
1903
Easton Free Press
Easton Library
Staff
Jan. 3
Aug. 6
1903
1903
Easton Post Office
Sept. 9
1903
Easton Post Office-Rural Service
Dec. 3
1903
Easton Public Library
Easton Public Library
Easton Public Library
1903
April 7
Aug. 6
1903
1903
Easton Carnegie Library opened Oct. 28,
1903
Carnegie Library Building
4 young women elected library assistants
(also label designed by Mr. Marx, and a
description of the rooms.)
Easton Express
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Sentinel
Easton Express
p. 5
Easton Public Library
Easton Public Library
Dec. 15
Dec. 15
1903
1903
Library regulations
First week of the public library.
Easton Express
Easton Daily Free Press
p.8
Easton Public Library
July 16
1903
Easton Public Library
July 16
1903
Easton Public Library
July 21
1903
Spooks in library-strange lights and ghosts
Easton Express
seen at new library building.
Spooks in Library-Strange lights and ghosts Easton Express
seen at new library building.
A report of spooks around Carnagie Library. Easton Sentinel
Easton Public Library
July 24
1903
Library square a beautifier.
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Public Library
July 28
1903
Library Square a beautiful site
Easton Public Library
Easton Public Library
Oct. 22
Oct. 28
1903
1903
Easton Public Library
Oct.23
1903
Library dedication next week.
Easton Public Library was opened on Oct.
28, 1903
Library to be dedicated.
Easton Semi-Weekly Free
Press
Easton Express
p.5
Easton Public Library
Oct.28
1903
Library Dedicated
Easton Public Library
Oct.30
1903
Library dedicated
Easton Public Library Trustees
Aug. 7
1903
Library Trustees hold meeting.
Easton Public Library
Rules
Easton Public Library
Dedication
Easton Public Library
"Sunday Morning Menu"
Easton Public Library
Dedication
Easton, City of - Bond Issues
Dec. 15
1903
Library Regulations
Easton semi-weekly free
press
Easton semi-weekly free
press
Easton Express
Oct. 28
1903
Easton's handsome library dedicated
Easton Express
Aug. 11
1903
Easton Sentinel
Oct. 22
1903
Sentinel did not approve of taking Carnegie
money for library.
Easton's handsome library dedicated
July 11
1903
Meeting about the bond ordinance. People
opposed.
Easton Express
Easton Semi-Weekly Free
Press
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Express
p.1
P. 8
P.5
Easton, City of - Bond Issues
July 11
1903
Easton, City of - Bond Issues
Easton, City of - Bond Issues
Easton, City of - Bond Issues
Easton, City of - Bond Issues
July 18
July 20
July 22
July 22
1903
1903
1903
1903
Easton, City of - Bond Issues
Easton, City of - Bond Issues
Easton, City of - Bond Issues
June 20
June 6
May 2
1903
1903
1903
Easton, City of - Bond Issues
May 6
1903
Easton, City of - City Hall
July 11
Easton, City of - City Hall
July 18
Easton, City of - City Hall
July 20
Easton, City of - City Hall
July 22
Easton, City of - City Hall
May 2
Easton, City of - Fire Department - Nov. 26
History
Easton, City of - Police Dept. April 6
Duties
Easton, City of - Streets
Dec. 19
1903
1903
1903
1903
1903
1903
Easton, City of - Streets Delaware Drive
Easton, South - Streets
Nov. 11
1903
Aug. 25
1903
Education - Health
Aug. 14
1903
Education - High School (2nd
Street)
June 2
1903
1903
1903
Meeting about the bond ordinance. People
opposed.
Voters declare against bond issue
Bond issue defeated by 707 majority
Bond issue defeated by 707 majority
Voters declare against bond issue
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 1
Easton Express
Easton Express
Easton Express
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 5
People to decide bond question
People to decide bond question
Bond ordinance for improvements to
streets,sewers, etc. now on way through
councils.
Bond ordinance for improvements to
streets, sewers, etc. now on way through
councils.
Bond issue defeated by 707 majority
Bond issue defeated by 707 majority
Bond issue defeated by 707 majority
Bond issue defeated by 707 majority
Bond issue defeated by 707 majority
Reminiscense of a boy who ran with the fire
machines before the war
Mayor asked to have police patrol business
section at all times.
Bricks no longer to be used for sidewalks
Easton Express
Easton Express
Easton Express
p. 5
Easton Express
p. 5
North and South Delaware Drive to be taken
over by State
Ordinance passed for South Side sewer and
street work.
Fumigation of the school houses must be
done bi-monthly.
Easton High School form permanent
association.
Easton Express
Easton Express
Easton Express
Easton Express
Easton Express
Easton Express
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Express
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Express
p. 5
p. 6
Education - History
Elections
Oct. 27
May 19
1903
1903
History of our schools.
First election held in Northampton County.
Easton Express
Easton Sentinel
p. 5
Electric Lighting
Feb. 20
1903
Easton Daily Free Press
Electric Lighting
March 5
1903
Fire Companies
Nov. 27
1903
Fire Companies - Fairview
Chemical
Fishing
April 23
1903
Power Co. offers to light streets free - if city
cannot get coal.
Light Trust has sold out - Philadelphia
interests purchase control.
Reminiscenses of volunteer fire co. before
Civil War.
Fairview Chemical fire engine co. no. 1.
Aug. 14
1903
Carp and eel fishing on Delaware.
Flad
Flag Day Celebrations
July 17
July 7, 8
1903
1903
Floods
Oct. 10, 12, 13 1903
Obit. Of J. W. Flad.
Easton's special flag day (about the Easton
flag).
Unprecedented flood in the Delaware.
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Express
Easton Daily Free Press
Floods
Oct. 10-13
1903
Greatest Flood Easton has ever experienced. Easton Daily Free Press
Floods
Oct. 13
1903
Flood in Easton - Pictures.
Easton Daily Free Press
Floods
Oct. 13, 16
1903
Floods
Garbage
Oct. 20
April 14
1903
1903
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Sentinel
Easton Daily Free Press
Garbage
April 8
1903
Delaware Valley flood (Picture of old bridge
with trolleys).
Unprecedented flood on Delaware.
Article by Prof. Hart about garbage and
sewage disposal.
Easton needs a crematory (garbage).
Garbage
May 12
1903
Citizens' meeting.
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 1
Garbage
May 26
1903
Citizens move for a crematory.
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 1
Easton Express
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 3
Easton Express
Easton Daily Free Press
Garbage
May 5
1903
New industries and a crematory.
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 1
Gas
April 1
1903
Gas
July 15
1903
Gas - Companies
Dec. 17
1903
Rates of gas and electric reduced by new
Easton Daily Free Press
owners of plant.
Better gas and electric service -- new power Easton Daily Free Press
station completed.
New gas company to locate in West Easton. Easton Express
p. 5
Gas - Easton Power Co.
May 29
1903
Gas - People's Gas Co.
April 29
1903
Gas - People's Gas Co.
May 8
1903
Easton Power Co. to furnish gas to South
Easton Daily Free Press
Side.
Protest filed against People's Gas Co. by the Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Gas Co.
Charter granted "Peoples Gas Co." of Easton. Easton Express
Ghosts
Nov. 17
1903
Experiences at a haunted house in Bucks.
Easton Daily Free Press
Hospitals
June 8
1903
Easton Express
Hospitals
June 8
1903
Hospitals
June 9
1903
Hospitals - Insane Asyllum
Hospitals - Insane Asyllum
April 15
April 15
1903
1903
Hospitals - Insane Asyllum
Feb. 9
1903
Hospitals - Insane Asyllum
Feb. 9
1903
County Hospital too expensive -- state
hospitals cheaper.
County Hospital too expensive -- state
hospitals cheaper.
County Hospital too expensive -- state
hospitals cheaper.
Grand jury favor county insane asylum.
Grand jury favors a county asylum instead of
a state one.
Judge Scott talks to grand jury about a
county insane asylum.
Insane Asylum proposed for Northampton.
Hospitals - Insane Asyllum
May 4
1903
Court moves for county asylum.
Easton Daily Free Press
Houses, Historic - Shuman
May 16
1903
Shuman building is condemned (corner of
Walnut and 6th St.).
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 1
Easton Sentinel
p. 4
Easton Express
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Express
p. 1
Insane Asylum
1903
Insane Asylum proposed for Northampton.
Lafayette College - Gateway
Lafayette College - Pardee Hall
Feb. 9, April
15, June 8
June 17
Feb. 26
Easton Express
1903
1903
Lafayette College - Students
Aug. 25
1903
New gateway dedicated.
Easton Express
Letter from Stephens from the penitentiary Easton Daily Free Press
(Pardee Hall fire)
Three Hindus enter Lafayette.
Easton Daily Free Press
Lehigh Valley Railroad - Tracks
Aug. 11
1903
Lehigh Valley Railroad - Tracks
July 21
1903
Lehigh Valley Railroad - Tracks
July 28
1903
Lehigh Valley Railroad - Wrecks
Dec. 1
1903
Lipton, Sir Thomas
Aug. 1
1903
Lipton, Sir Thomas
Long Family
Long Family
Lynn, Joseph
Aug. 1
April 20
April 21
Feb. 9
1903
1903
1903
1903
March, Colonel
April 30
1903
March, Francis Andrew
April 2
March, Francis Andrew
March, Francis Andrew
Lehigh Valley insists that citizens pay
$10,000 toward Glendon tracks.
Lehigh Valley insists that citizens pay
$10,000 toward Glendon tracks.
Lehigh Valley insists that citizens pay
$10,000 toward Glendon tracks.
Lehigh Valley Wreck -- runaway cars crash
into train.
Sir Thomas Lipton here.
Easton Express
p. 5
Easton Express
p. 5
Sir Thomas Lipton here.
Obituary of James W. Long
History of the Long family
Parke H. Davis purchased the papers of
Joseph Lynn and secures an historical
document…an indictment of 1802.
Feather for Col. March. Army & Navy Journal
speaks of Easton soldier's brilliant record.
Easton Express
Easton Express
Easton Express
Easton Daily Free Press
1903
Dr. March has another reform -- printing of
letters to show pronunciation.
Easton Daily Free Press
April 4
1903
Prof. March nominated for mayor.
Jan. 2
1903
Prof. March nominated for mayor.
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Express
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 5
p. 3
Easton Express
p. 2
March, Francis Andrew
Jan. 27
1903
Prof. March nominated for mayor.
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Express
March, Francis Andrew
Jan. 31
1903
Prof. March nominated for mayor.
March, General Payton C.
Nov. 29
1903
Minstrels
Nov. 20
1903
Youngest major general in U.S. Army in
Easton - Peyton C. March.
Account of the minstrel troupes of Easton in Easton Daily Free Press
1865-1866 "The Burnt Cork Artistes."
Morris Canal
July 14
1903
Municipal League
Murder
June 19
1903
Aug. 7, 8 & 13 1903
Murder
Dec. 11
1903
Murder
Murder
Murder
Feb. 24
Feb. 24
Feb. 24
1903
1903
1903
Morris canal data offered - corporation
report to state commission charged with its
abandonment.
Municipal league under way in Easton.
Mrs. Fatzinger murdered in Allentown,
Pennsylvania.
Midnight murder at Alpha, NJ. Michael Pari
shoots Joseph Kiss.
Grether's fatal day.
Grether's fatal day.
Grether dies of scaffold.
Murder
Murder
Feb. 24
Jan. 20
1903
1903
Grether sentenced to death.
Easton Express
No pardon for Tillie Smith's murderer, Titus. Easton Sentinel
Murder
Nation, Carrie
March 3
Dec. 11 & 12
1903
1903
Grether's fatal day.
Account of Carrie Nation visit.
Easton Sentinel
Easton Daily Free Press
Nation, Carrie
Nation, Carrie
New Village
Parade - Politcal
Dec. 12
Dec. 15
June 16
June 13
1903
1903
1903
1903
Easton Express
Easton Sentinel
Easton Sentinel
Easton Daily Free Press
Parsons, William
Oct. 30
1903
Account of Carrie Nation visit.
Account of Carrie Nation visit.
New Village organized.
Major Meixsell, Easton post drummer recalls
his Jackson Day parades.
Remains of William Parsons exhumed.
p. 10
Easton Sentinel
Easton Express
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Express
Easton Sentinel
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
p. 5
p. 5
Paxinosa Inn
Paxinosa Inn
Oct. 3
Oct. 3
1903
1903
Paxinosa Inn sold.
Paxinosa Inn in hands of new company.
Easton Express
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 5
Paxinosa Inn
Phillipsburg, N.J. - Churches
Oct. 3
Dec. 14
1903
1903
Easton Express
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 5
Phillipsburg, N.J. - Industries
Sept. 12
1903
Phillipsburg, N.J. - Streets
Sept. 22
1903
Paxinosa Inn sold.
50th anniversary of the First Presbyterian
Church, Phillipsburg.
Bachman and Bro. buy Phillipsburg stove
plant.
Phillipsburg's Sewer Scandal.
Playgrounds
April 10
1903
School board says no playground.
Easton Daily Free Press
Playgrounds
April 18
1903
Playgrounds
Playgrounds
April 18
April 7
1903
1903
Councils provide a playground (behind New Easton Daily Free Press
City Hall).
Playground & park at Green property.
Easton Express
No playground in Fourth St.
Easton Daily Free Press
Playgrounds
April 7
1903
Playgrounds
June 5
1903
Playgrounds
March 13
1903
Public Works
Aug. 11
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Daily Free Press
Blackeye for playgrounds - school board
refused offer of civic group.
No children's playgrounds.
Easton Express
Easton Express
1903
Move for playgrounds - civic club to equip
Fourth Street.
Board of Public Works favored.
Railroads - Lehigh Valley Railroad Aug. 11
1903
The Smith Farm, or no siding.
Easton Daily Free Press
Railroads - Lehigh Valley Railroad July 16
1903
Lehigh Valley will pay half (in siding to the
Smith farm).
Citizens (property owners) file objections -ask another route for siding.
Easton Daily Free Press
Railroads - Lehigh Valley Railroad July 22, 28, 29 1903
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 1
Railroads - Lehigh Valley Railroad June 19, 20
1903
Railroads - Lehigh Valley Railroad June 30
1903
It's up to the Lehigh Valley -- South Side can Easton Daily Free Press
have new industries if the railroad will build
a spur.
Lehigh Valley can use Glendon St.
Easton Daily Free Press
Reading Railroad - Wrecks
Nov. 23
1903
Reading local train wrecked.
Easton Daily Free Press
Republican Party
Nov. 3
1903
Easton Daily Free Press
Republican Party
Nov. 6
1903
Roads - Delaware River
Nov. 11
1903
Roads - Easton-Bath
April 23
1903
Northampton Republican Club opens new
house (138 No. 10th St.).
Northampton County Republic Club opens
hall.
No. & So. Delaware Drive to be taken over
by State.
County to build another road (Easton-Bath).
Schools - Taylor
Feb. 13
1903
No exchange of property.
Easton Daily Free Press
Schools - Taylor
Jan. 20
1903
Easton Express
Schools - Taylor
Jan. 3
1903
Schools - Taylor
Jan. 9
1903
Schools - Taylor
Jan. 9 & 20
1903
School board refuses to exchange Green
property for Taylor building.
A proposed exchange - Green property for
the Taylor school building.
School board refuses to exchange Green
property for Taylor Building.
School board opposed to exchange plan.
Schools - Traill Green
April 2
1903
Traill Green School will be modern.
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 6
Schools - Traill Green
Aug. 11
1903
Easton Sentinel
p. 5
Schools - Traill Green
Aug. 4
1903
Schools - Traill Green
Aug. 4
1903
Traill Green school building turned over to
school board.
Traill Green school building turned over to
school board.
Traill Green school building turned over to
school board.
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Express
p. 1
p. 3
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 5
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Express
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Express
Schools - Traill Green
Aug. 7
1903
1903
Traill Green school building turned over to
school board.
Bond and conduit ordinace passed finally.
Easton Semi-Weekly Free p. 3
Press
Easton Daily Free Press
Sewerage
May 30
Sewerage
May 30
1903
Common Council favors conduit.
Easton Daily Free Press
Sewerage
May 6
1903
How they voted on the Conduit.
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 1
Sidewalks
Dec. 19
1903
Bricks no longer to be used for sidewalks.
Easton Express
p. 5
Smallpox
Smallpox spreading.
Easton Express
p. 5
Smallpox
Smallpox
May 19, 20,
1903
June 5
May 26
1903
Nov. 16, 17, 18 1903
Smallpox in Easton.
Over 100 smallpox cases.
Easton Sentinel
Easton Daily Free Press
Smallpox
Nov. 19
1903
Threats against the town of Bath.
Easton Daily Free Press
St. Luke's Hospital
Sept. 21
1903
St. Luke's opens after repairs.
Easton Daily Free Press
Steam Heat
Dec. 15
1903
Conduit people, who are they?
Easton Daily Free Press
Steam Heat
July 6
1903
Conduit people, who are they?
Easton Daily Free Press
Steam Heat
May 2, 4, 5
1903
Conduit people, who are they?
Easton Daily Free Press
Steam Heat
Nov. 21
1903
Conduit people, who are they?
Easton Daily Free Press
Trolley Transportation
Trolley Transportation
Aug. 11
July 14
1903
1903
p. 5
Trolley Transportation
July 17
1903
Siding at Glendon sidetracked.
Easton Express
Must not shout our Blue Ridge Co. (Naz.
Easton Daily Free Press
Council).
Nazareth passes trolley - Easton & Belvidere. Easton Express
Trolley Transportation
July 18
1903
Franchise grab goes through in Nazareth.
p. 1
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 1
p. 5
Trolley Transportation
July 21
1903
Citizens enter a protest.
Easton Daily Free Press
Trolley Transportation
July 21
1903
Easton Express
p. 5
Trolley Transportation
Trolley Transportation
Trolley Transportation
July 28
July 31
June 23
1903
1903
1903
Easton Express
Easton Express
Easton Express
p. 5
Trolley Transportation
Trolley Transportation
June 23
June 25
1903
1903
Trolley Transportation
June 26
1903
Lehigh Valley insists that citizens pay
$10,000 toward Glendon tracks.
Route still in doubt.
Trolley (Nazareth) work goes on.
New trolley for Easton - Easton and
Belvidere.
Big trolley plans in New Jersey.
Trolley talks in Nazareth - two companies
want to build.
Municipal league acts (against trolley).
Trolley Transportation
June 29
1903
Glendon may grant request to vacate part of Easton Express
Main Street for Lehigh Valley Railroad.
Trolley Transportation
Trolley Transportation
Trolley Transportation
Trolley Transportation
June 30
June 9
May 4
May 4
1903
1903
1903
1903
Glendon will give up street.
The Doylestown trolley.
Trolley system may be divided.
Receivers for Lehigh Valley Traction Co.
Easton Express
Easton Sentinel
Easton Express
Easton Express
Trolley Transportation
Nov. 12
1903
Robert E. Wright talks of trolleys.
Easton Daily Free Press
Trolley Transportation
Sept. 19
1903
Negligent trolley franchises threatened
(Lehigh Valley Traction Co.). City officials
insist that tracks and cars be repaired.
Easton Express
1903
Electric cars wild flight -- jumped track at
College Hill.
Trolley cars collide head on.
Easton Daily Free Press
Another trolley coming to Easton -- the
Easton and Belvidere.
Easton Daily Free Press
Trolley Transportation - Accidents Oct.
Trolley Transportation - Accidents Sept. 7, 8 & 10 1903
Trolley Transportation - Belvidere June 23
1903
p. 5
Easton Sentinel
Easton Express
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 3
p. 5
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 1
Trolley Transportation - Blue
Ridge Co.
June 25
1903
Trolley Transportation - Hay Line Dec. 7
1903
Nazareth stirred by trolley fights (Easton and Easton Daily Free Press
Belvidere opposed by the Blue Ridge in use
of various streets).
Court's decision in the trolley suit (Easton
Easton Daily Free Press
and Belvidere wins against the Blue Ridge
Trolley Co.).
Extending Hay Line to Pen Argyl.
Easton Daily Free Press
Trolley Transportation - Blue
Ridge Co.
May 18
1903
Trolley Transportation - Hay Line May 27
1903
New trolley line to Bangor.
Easton Daily Free Press
Trolley Transportation - Hay Line Nov. 10
1903
Train ran into Hay trolley.
Easton Daily Free Press
Trolley Transportation - Hay
Nov. 13
Trolley
Trolley Transportation - Nazareth Aug. 4
1903
Train runs into Hay Trolley.
1903
Franchise grab goes through in Nazareth.
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Daily Free Press
Trolley Transportation - Nazareth July 21
1903
Easton Sentinel
Trolley Transportation - Routes
June 23
1903
Trolley Transportation - Tax
Nov. 7
1903
Nazareth town council grants trolley rights
contrary to law.
New trolley for Easton - Easton and
Belvidere.
Payment of the trolley car tax.
Trolley Transportation -Lehigh
Valley Traction Co.
Trolley Transportation -Lehigh
Valley Traction Co.
Trolley Transportation -Lehigh
Valley Traction Co.
Trolley Transportation -Lehigh
Valley Traction Co.
April 29, May 2 1903
Lehigh Valley Traction seeking loan.
Easton Daily Free Press
May 12
1903
Receivers for Lehigh Valley Traction Co.
Easton Sentinel
May 4
1903
Receivers for Lehigh Valley Traction Co.
Easton Express
Sept. 19
1903
Negligent trolley franchises threatened
(Lehigh Valley Traction Co.). City officials
insist that tracks and cars be repaired.
Easton Express
Trolley Transportation -Lehigh
Valley Traction Co.
Sept. 19
1903
Mayor Lehr after Lehigh Valley Traction Co. -- Easton Daily Free Press
bad tracks and poor service.
Easton Express
p. 1
p. 1
p. 1
p. 5
p. 5
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 5
Trumbore, William
July 12
1903
Trumbore, William
July 14
1903
Typhoid Fever
April 30
1903
Typhoid Fever
April 8
1903
Typhoid Fever
May 7
1903
Whitehall Township
Feb. 3
1903
Able Opera House
Aug. 13
1904
Able Opera House - Programs
Aug. 13
1904
Able Opera House - Remodeling
Feb. 6
1904
Alpha, NJ - Churches
Dec. 5
1904
Alpha, NJ - Churches
Dec. 6
1904
Arnold, Johann.
Feb. 6
1904
Business
Oct. 1
1904
Business - Banks
Business - Banks
Feb. 26
Feb. 26
1904
1904
Business - Boots and Shoes
Sept. 10
1904
Business - Boots and Shoes
Sept. 27
1904
Has sounded taps 874 times -- article about
Willam Trumbore.
Article of William Trumbore, drummer
during Civil War.
Danger from typhoid fever (investigating
water supply).
Typhoid epidemic in So. Bethlehem.
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Water Supply OK -- no danger of
typhoid.
How the Whitehall (No. and So.) Townships
got their name.
Theatrical trust acquires control of local
opera house.
Able Opera House now in a theatrical circuit.
Easton Daily Free Press
Improvements in the Opera House.
Asbestos curtain added.
Alpha Union Baptist Church dedicated.
Easton Express
Alpha Union Baptist Church dedicated.
(Picture)
Easton's oldest citizen, Johann Arnold, age
103. Huh?
Industrial edition of the paper. Gives history
of various firms.
Easton Trust Co. to enlarge.
Easton Trust Co. buys big corner.
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Daily Free Press
Automobile plant may locate in old shoe
factory.
Easton Silk Co. gets old shoe factory.
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 1
Easton Sentinel
Easton Express
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Express
Easton Express
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 8
Business - Firearms
March 24
1904
Easton Daily Free Press
1904
Famous inventor, Henry Deringer, born in
Easton Oct. 26, 1786.
Local boy, Henry Derringer lived in the
middle of the block, east side of 3rd St,
between Bushkill and Spring Garden. His
gun shop was in the rear and his son who
was born in this house was the inventer of
the Derringer revolver.
United States Hotel sold.
Business - Firearms
March 25
1904
Business - Hotels, Taverns, etc.
March 26
Business - Hotels, Taverns, etc.
March 30
1904
U.S. Hotel bought by the Kueblers.
Easton Daily Free Press
Business - Hotels, Taverns, etc.
Sept. 6
1904
Description of Garren's Café.
Easton Sentinel
Business - Ingersoll-Rand
Dec. 27
1904
Business - Iron Industry
June 2
1904
Ingersoll-Sargeant Benefit Association,
annual meeting.
Thomas Iron Co. - 50th anniversary.
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Daily Free Press
Business - Iron Industry
June 3
1904
Thomas Iron Co. - 50th anniversary.
Business - Laundries
March 26
1904
Business - Lehigh Valley Shops Accidents
Business - Slate Industry
Carter Republic
Oct. 15
1904
Easton Steam Laundry consolidates with
Phoenix Steam Laundry
Roundhouse roof falls, 4 hurt
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Express
March 27
Nov. 18
1904
1904
Bangor Crescent Slate Co. chartered
Carter Republic at Redington expanding
Churches - African Methodist
Dec. 5
1904
Bethel A.M.E. at Locust St. without members Easton Daily Free Press
- to go over to Colored Baptist Church.
Churches - Presbyterian
Oct. 3
1904
Dedication of the Olivet Presbyterian Church Easton Daily Free Press
Churches - Presbyterian
Oct. 4
1904
Dedication of the Olivet Presbyterian Church Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
p. 1
Easton Express
p. 5
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Express
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 5
Churches - Reformed
Feb. 2
1904
Churches - Reformed
Churches - Reformed
Jan. 12
Jan. 26
1904
1904
H.M. Kieffer leaves church to become
Episcopalian
Kiefferites routed at meeting
Dr. Kieffer now an Episcopalian
Churches - Reformed
June 12
1904
Kieffer friends left the meeting
Clubs - Elks
June 17
1904
Elk's Club Instituted
Clubs - Jacksonian
November 22
1904
Clubs - Jacksonian
October 25
1904
Clubs - Northampton Beneficial
Society
Clubs - Odd Fellows
Crime - Murder
May 25
1904
They couldn't expell him. Dr. Shull still a
member
Brodhead's rousing reception at Jacksonian
Club
Of the Boro of Easton established 1791
May 16
Feb. 9
1904
1904
Crime - Murder
Dairy Plants
Jan. 19 & 26
Jan. 20
1904
1904
Dairy Plants
Jan. 22
1904
Doctors
Doctors
Feb. 11
Feb. 11
1904
1904
History of Odd Fellows Lodge in Easton
Bechtel murder. Allentown tragedy. The
murder of Mabel Bechtel. Brother Thomas
arrestewd for the crime.
The Bechtel trial.
Easton Sanitary Dairy Co. puts new plant in
operation.
Easton Sanitary Dairy Co. puts new plant in
operation.
Obituary of Dr. Ludlow.
Obituary of Dr. Ludlow.
Doctors
Feb. 12
1904
Obituary of Dr. Ludlow.
Doctors
Doctors
Feb. 16
Jan. 26
1904
1904
Easton Sentinel
Easton Express
Easton Free Press (daily
ed.)
Easton Free Press (daily
ed.)
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Centinel
Easton Express
Easton Express
Easton Express
Easton Sentinel
Easton Sentinel
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Express
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Obituary of Dr. Ludlow.
Easton Sentinel
Pioneer physicians of Northampton County -- Easton Daily Free Press
a lecture by Dr. Charles MacIntire.
P. 5
Drinkhouse, Samuel
Jan. 25
1904
Obituary
Drinkhouse, Samuel
Drinkhouse, Samuel
Jan. 25
Jan. 26
1904
1904
Obituary
Obituary
Easton Armory
April 27
1904
Easton Armory
April 29
1904
Easton Armory
March 30
1904
Easton Armory
Easton City Guards - Armory
March 30
April 17
1904
1904
Easton Express
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
New armory - City guard purchases site and Easton Express
will erect building.
City Guard to erect Armory.
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
New armory - City guard purchases site and Easton Express
will erect building.
City guard will erect armory
Easton Express
City Guard to erect an armory.
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton City Guards - Armory
March 30
1904
Easton City Guard to build own armory.
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Free Press
June 20
1904
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Public Library
Dec. 9
1904
First cartoon to appear in the Free Press -"The New Waiter."
Library Information
Easton Public Library
Easton Public Library
Feb. 12
Feb. 16
1904
1904
First report of the librarian.
First year report of Easton Public Library
Easton Public Library
Oct. 25
1904
"Sunday Morning Menu Column"- article of
beautiful grounds of Easton Public Library.
Easton, City of - City Hall
Jan. 19
Easton, City of - Fire Department - Nov. 1
History
Easton, City of - Fire Department - Nov. 1
Parades, celebrations
1904
1904
Old city hall afire
25th anniversary of paid fire department
1904
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 5
p. 3
Easton Semi-weekly Free
Press
Easton Express
p.5
Easton semi-weekly free
press
Easton Sentinel
Easton Express
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Fireman's parade celebrates quarter century Easton Sentinel
of paid fire department
p. 5
Easton, City of - Fire Department - Oct. 25
Parades, celebrations
1904
Fireman's parade celebrates quarter century Easton Daily Free Press
of paid fire department
Easton, City of - Fire Department - Sept. 20
Stations - South Side
1904
South Side firemen hold reunion
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton, City of - Wards
Oct. 10
1904
Court decides the 4th Ward
Easton Daily Free Press
Electric Lighting
April 30
1904
Easton Daily Free Press
Electric Lighting
May 2
1904
Easton Consolidated Electric Co. to take
possession of Easton lines of the Lehigh
Valley Traction Co.
Better street car service in effect.
Electric Lighting - Lehigh Power
Co.
Fire Companies - Humane Fire
Co.
April 29
1904
Lehigh Power Co. plant sold.
Easton Express
Feb. 23
1904
Survivors of Old Humane Fire Co. hold
reunion… gives history of the Company.
Easton Daily Free Press
Fire Companies - Humane Fire
Feb. 26
Co.
Fire Companies - Pocahontas and Sept. 17
Franklin Co.
Floods - Allentown
March 8
1904
(107 banquet) history.
1904
1904
Veteran South Side firemen hold reunion -Pocahontas and Franklin Co.
Flood takes away Allentown bridge.
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Daily Free Press
Garbage
March 7
1904
City Refuse dump may be abolished.
Easton Daily Free Press
Hospitals - Pest House
Sept. 17
1904
Oppose pest house of Lehicton St.
Easton Daily Free Press
Hospitals - Pest House
Sept. 8
1904
City pest house to be on Lehicton St.
Easton Daily Free Press
Island Park
March 18
1904
Italians
April 19
1904
Island Park to be fitted up as an amusement Easton Express
place.
Sachetti attacked by other Italians (not
Easton Daily Free Press
enough work to go around).
p. 5
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 3
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 5
Italians
Murder trial.
Easton Daily Free Press
Italians
Dec. 15-18 & 1904
22
Oct. 10, 11, 12 1904
Italians riot in Easton -- one killed.
Easton Daily Free Press
Lafayette College - Fraternities
Jan. 29
1904
D. K. E. fraternity house opened.
Lafayette College - Fraternities
Jan. 29
1904
D. K. E. has new fraternity house.
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Daily Free Press
Lehigh County Historical Society
Jan. 9
1904
Lehigh County Historical Society organizes.
Lehigh University
Nov. 22
1904
Obituary of Dr. Drown, president of Lehigh
Easton Sentinel
Markets - Ordinance
July 13
1904
Easton Daily Free Press
Markets - Ordinance
Nov. 19
1904
Police enforce market rules -- must unhitch
and stable horses.
May abolish circle market.
Markets - Ordinance
Nov. 3
1904
Easton Daily Free Press
Missionaries
Aug. 23
1904
Ordinance to break up circle combine
amended.
Letters from missionaries.
Murder
Dec. 28
1904
Murder
Feb. 2
1904
Parades
Nov. 22
1904
Phillipsburg, N.J.
Oct. 4
1904
Phillipsburg, N.J. - Education
July 8
1904
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Daily Free Press
Murderer James Titus paroled. In prison for Sunday Call
the murder of Tillie Smith.
Edward J. Lictenwalner, district attorney of Easton Sentinel
Lehigh County, under serious charges of
taking improper liberties with Bechtel famil
during time when under indictment for
complicity in murder of Mabel Bechtel.
Salt River Parade.
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Fire destroys American Sheet Iron.
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Proposed new High School, for Phillipsburg. Easton Daily Free Press
p. 8
Phillipsburg, N.J. - Education
Oct. 7
1904
Political Campaigns
Nov. 22
1904
Phillipsburg town council censored for
defeating the high school project.
"Salt River" parade.
Easton Daily Free Press
Public Works
May 21
1904
Board of Public Works created.
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Daily Free Press
Railroads - Roundhouse
Oct. 15
1904
Roundhouse collapsed with mighty crash.
Easton Express
Rinek Family
Roosevelt, Theodore
Aug. 23
May 27
1904
1904
Obit. Of Thomas Rinek.
Visited Phillipsburg.
Roseto, Pa.
July 30
1904
Salt River Parade
Schools - Teachers
Nov. 18
July 2
1904
1904
Strouse, K. C.
April 14
1904
Roseto's big day - gives some history of the
town.
Description of the Salt River Parade.
Charles E. Clifton and Olivia Hill, favorite
teachers, win a trip to the St. Louis
Exposition.
Letters from Africa.
Easton Express
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Express
Strouse, K. C.
Jan. 30
1904
Strouse, K. C.
March 2, 12
Strouse, K. C.
Easton Express
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 5
Easton Daily Free Press
1904
An account of an Easton miss -- Mrs. Kate
Chidsey Strouse.
Another letter from Kate Chidsey Strouse.
May 25
1904
Letters from Africa
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 5
Suffrage
Suffrage
Nov. 15
Nov. 19
1904
1904
Easton Sentinel
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 4
p. 5
Suffrage
Nov. 3
1904
Taylor, George - Home
Taylor, George - Home
Taylor, George - Home
Jan. 26
Jan. 26
March 18
1904
1904
1904
Editorial. Easton ladies want to vote.
Easton women organize branch of National
American Suffrage Assoc.
Women's suffrage convention opens in
Easton.
D.A.R. tries to save Taylor House.
Taylor house exonerated from taxes.
D.A.R. tries to save Taylor House.
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Express
Easton Express
Easton Express
p. 5
p. 5
p. 5
Telephone - Company
June 18
1904
Telephone - Yellow Kid
Feb. 11
1904
New telephone companies. Easton and
Easton Express
Bethlehem take hold of local independent
lines.
Sale of "Yellow Kid" Telephone Co. ordered. Easton Daily Free Press
Trolley Transportation
Feb. 9
1904
Bangor fathers turn around in trolley fight.
Easton Express
p. 5
Trolley Transportation
Trolley Transportation
Jan. 23
Jan. 26
1904
1904
Hay Line ordered out of Nazareth.
Easton Consolidated suing Lehigh Valley
Traction Co. for return of their property.
Easton Express
Easton Express
p. 5
Trolley Transportation
Jan. 30
1904
Easton Express
p. 5
Trolley Transportation
July 8
1904
Trolley Transportation
May 24
1904
Trolley Transportation
May 3
1904
Council knew nothing of Hay's actions
(Bangor).
Narrowing gauge. First to be operated on
College Hill.
Work pushed on Philadelphia and Easton
railway.
Better street car service.
Trolley Transportation
May 3
1904
Easton's electric railroads -- improvement
and changes in contempation.
Trolley Transportation - Blue
Ridge Co.
Trolley Transportation - Delaware
St. Railway
Trolley Transportation - Easton
Consolidated
Trolley Transportation - Easton
Transit Co.
March 8
1904
Blue Ridge Co. gives up.
Easton Daily Free Press
June 21
1904
Easton Sentinel
April 18
1904
Aug. 10
1904
Trolley Transportation - Easton
Transit Co.
Aug. 12
1904
Another trolley road in Easton - Delaware St.
railway.
Local trolley system to go back to Easton
Consolidated.
Transit co. request denied -- defeats
ordinance permitting track extension in
square.
Transit co. concerning tracks in circle.
Easton Express
Easton Sentinel
p. 3
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Sentinel
Easton Express
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
p. 5
p. 5
Trolley Transportation - Fares
May 2
1904
Trolley Transportation - Hay Line Aug. 20
1904
Trolley Transportation - Hay Line Feb. 9
1904
Transit Co. raises fare between Easton and
Bethlehem.
Hay co. may extend trolley to Martin's
Creek.
Bangor fathers turn around in trolley fight.
Easton Express
Trolley Transportation - Hay Line Jan. 23 & 30
1904
Hay line ordered out of Nazareth.
Easton Express
Trolley Transportation - Hay Line May 2
1904
Easton Daily Free Press
Trolley Transportation - Routes
Aug. 10
1904
Trolley Transportation - Routes
June 10, 20
1904
Trolley Transportation - Tracks
April 26
1904
Rumors of big electric deals -- Hay Lines
concerned.
No circle track. Council defeats transit
company ordinance.
Trolley road to be constructed from Easton
to Martin's Creek.
Gauge of Tracks to be narrowed.
Trolley Transportation - Tracks
July 2
1904
City fathers prefer T rail.
Easton Daily Free Press
Trolley Transportation Washington
Trolley Transportation -Lehigh
Valley Traction Co.
June 7
1904
The trolley to Washington, N.J.
Easton Sentinel
Jan. 26
1904
Lehigh Valley Traction Co. to surrender lease Easton Daily Free Press
of Easton Consolidated Electric Co. and sub.
Co -- action started in court.
Trolley Transportation -Lehigh
Valley Traction Co.
Jan. 26
1904
Easton Consolidated suing Lehigh Valley
Traction for return of their property.
Easton Express
Trolley Transportation -Lehigh
Valley Traction Co.
Trolley Transportation -Lehigh
Valley Traction Co.
Unions
March 17
1904
Lehigh Valley Traction Co. to reorganize.
Easton Daily Free Press
May 9
1904
Easton Express
May 17
1904
Another goes back. Lehigh Valley Traction
lets go of Slate Belt Line.
Condemning local unions.
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Express
p. 5
Easton Express
Easton Express
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Sentinel
p. 2
Water Supply
March 14
1904
Water Co. largest main -- will connect
Easton Daily Free Press
reservoir on College Hill with that of 15th St.
Weather - Rainstorm
Aug. 9
1904
Heavy rain storm.
Wells
June 21
1904
Actors and Actresses
Feb. 27
1905
Actors and Actresses
Feb. 27
1905
Awnings - Easton, PA
Dec. 12
1905
Awnings - Easton, PA
Dec. 15
1905
Awnings - Easton, PA
Dec. 27
1905
Awnings - Easton, PA
Awnings - Easton, PA
Dec. 27 & 28
Dec. 28
Awnings - Easton, PA
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Old Easton wells. Where they were located. Easton Sentinel
Easton Daily Free Press
1905
1905
Interview with May Yohe, vaudeville star
born near Bethlehem.
Interview with May Yohe, vaudeville star
born near Bethlehem.
No awnings or overhead signs after
December 31st over sidewalks.
No awnings or overhead signs after
December 31st over sidewalks.
Protests against awning removal ordinance
at council meeting.
Wooden awnings must come down.
Wooden awnings must come down.
Dec. 29
1905
Wooden awnings must come down.
Awnings - Easton, PA
Jan. 19
1905
All awnings on streets must come down.
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Daily Free Press
Awnings - Easton, PA
June 6
1905
p. 3
Bands
Feb. 14
1905
Ban on sidewalk awnings. South Third Street Easton Free Press (semimust be cleared.
weekly ed.)
The Citizen's Band of Easton - with picture. Easton Sentinel
Bands
Nov. 27
1905
Citizens Band and the Easton Band have
united under the name of the Easton
Easton Express
p. 5
Belvidere, N.J. - Fires
Dec. 22
1905
Warren woodworking factory at Belvidere
destroyed.
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Sentinel
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Daily Free Press
EDFP, Dec. 27,
1905
Easton Express
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 1 - 3
Bridges - Glendon
June 11
1905
Objection to new bridge at Glendon
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 5
Business
Jan. 6
1905
p. 5
Business - 1900 - 1919
Feb. 27
1905
Association of retail merchants of Easton
Easton Express
and Phillipsburg organized.
Indsutrial section accounts of industries and Easton Daily Free Press
the biographies of people.
Business - Cement Industry
Dec. 4
1905
Business - Cement Industry
July 29
1905
Business - Cement Industry
June 24
1905
Business - Cement Industry
June 27
1905
Business - Cement Industry
June 3
1905
Business - Department Stores
Dec. 9
1905
Business - Doctors
March 7 &
March 14
July 4
1905
Business - Furniture
Manufacturing
Nov. 15
1905
Business - Iron Industry
Aug. 9
1905
Business - Keller's Music House
Nov. 27
Business - Keller's Music House
Nov. 28
Business - Food Industry
Cement plant sold - National Portland
Cement bought by A.F. Gerstell.
Cement plant sold - National Portland
Cement bought by A.F. Gerstell.
National Portland Cement bought by A.F.
Gerstell.
Cement plant sold - National Portland
Cement bought by A.F. Gerstell.
Cement plant sold - National Portland
Cement bought by A.F. Gerstell.
Laubach's Department Store. Description of
the new store.
Wilhelm, Dr. Eugene of Raubsville. Obituary.
Easton Daily Free Press
Improvement and additions to Drake and
Co.
A new industry started up. Diehl - Schilling
Manufacturing Co. of Palmer makes wood
turning, cabinet work, etc.
Easton Sentinel
Easton Daily Free Press
1905
Description of two new engines for the
Thomas Iron Co.
Keller's Music House . 30 years old.
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 5
1905
Keller's Music House. 30 years old.
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
p. 5
1905
Easton Express
Easton Express
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Express
p. 3
Easton Express
p. 5
p. 5
Easton Sentinel
Easton Free Press (daily
ed.)
Business - Paper Industry
Aug. 3
1905
Midnight fire at Uhlersville paper plant
Easton Daily Free Press
Business - Paper Industry
Aug. 4
1905
Midnight fire at Uhlersville paper plant
p. 1
Business - Plumbing
Jan. 10
1905
Business - Riegel Paper Co.
Business - Silk Industry
June 5
April 18
1905
1905
Obituary of William B. Levan, first man to
put plumbing into Easton house.
Obituary of Benjamin F. Riegel
Contract let for Northampton Silk Co. (S.S.)
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Express
Easton Express
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 5
Business - Silk Industry
April 21
1905
Contract given for new silk mill
Business - Silk Industry
Aug. 12
1905
Business - Silk Industry
Sept. 7
1905
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Cartoon from "The Evening Mail" ( NY paper) Easton Daily Free Press
describing Herman Simon
New silk mill in operation
Easton Daily Free Press
Business - Silk Industry
Sept. 8
1905
Northampton Silk Co. in operation
Carter Republic
Oct. 19
1905
Center Square - Trees
Centre Square - Trees
Centre Square - Trees
Centre Square - Trees
Centre Square - Trees
Centre Square - Trees
Churches - Lutheran - Trinity
July 24
July 12
July 12
July 13
July 13
July 24
Nov. 24
1905
1905
1905
1905
1905
1905
1905
Churches - Lutheran - Trinity
Nov. 28
1905
Churches - Reformed
Nov. 6
1905
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Founders Day at Carter Jr. Republic
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Circle trees cut down by city vandals
Easton Express
Circle trees cut down by city vandals
Easton Express
Hands and axes off the Circle trees
Easton Express
Hands and axes off the Circle trees
Easton Express
Circle trees cut down by city vandals
Easton Express
Hands and axes off the Circle trees
Easton Express
Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church to build Easton Free Press (seminew church on Northampton Street
weekly ed.)
between 6th & 7th.
Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church to build Easton Free Press (seminew church on Northampton Street
weekly ed.)
between 6th & 7th.
St. Peter's Reformed Church (South Side).
Easton Free Press (semi10th anniversary of pastorate of Rev. W. H. weekly ed.)
Mader
p. 5
p. 3
p. 1
p. 1
p. 5
p. 8
Clothing Stores
March 23
1905
Ad. For the opening day of the Surprise
Store.
Outcault talks about cartoons--creator of
Yellow Kid and Buster Brown
A colored comis section first appears
Easton Daily Free Press
Comic Strip
October 17
1905
Comic Strips
November 15
1905
Crime - Bribery
Oct. 31
1905
Reeder's "reformer" Coleman accused of
grafting - poor director accepted $50.00
promising to secure prisoner's release.
Easton Express
Crime - Embezzlement
Sept. 15
1905
Easton Express
Easton Free Press
July 26
1905
Three from East Stroudburg Normal School
held on charges of graft.
Free Press new printed on 12 page press.
Easton Public Library
Feb. 17
1905
Children's hour
Easton Public Library
July 26
1905
Beautifying of library site[with pictures].
Easton semi-weekly free
press
Easton daily free-press
Easton, City of - Bond Issues
Oct. 19
Easton, City of - Fire Department - April 3
Criticism
Easton, City of - Fire Department - Oct. 28
Parades, celebrations
1905
1905
Easton Express
Easton Express
1905
Ordinance bonding city is defective
Mayor March gets black eye when he
attempts to remove fire chief Ricker
Easton to have a firemen's parade
Easton, City of - Fire Department - Oct. 28
Parades, celebrations
1905
Easton to have a firemen's parade
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton, City of - Fire Department - Oct. 30
Parades, celebrations
1905
Easton to have a firemen's parade. It will
commemorate anniversary of the
organization of the paid fire department.
Easton Sentinel
Easton, City of - Fire Department - Oct. 31
Parades, celebrations
1905
Easton to have a firemen's parade
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Express
p.3
Easton, City of - Fire Department - Sept. 14
Parades, celebrations
1905
Easton to have a firemen's parade
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton, City of - Fire Department - Sept. 27
Parades, celebrations
1905
Easton to have a firemen's parade
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton, City of - Fire Department - Sept. 9
Parades, celebrations
1905
Easton to have a firemen's parade
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton, City of - Fire Department - July 8
Stations - South Side
1905
New South Side firehouse is accepted
Easton Express
Easton, City of - Police Dept. Employees
Easton, City of - Streets - Paving
Oct. 18
1905
Easton Daily Free Press
Aug. 4
1905
Easton, City of - Streets - Paving
July 21
1905
Education - Jointure
Sept. 15
1905
Special officer Ginkinger fired by Mayor
March
New street scheme provides for levying a
fee for digging up streets
New street scheme provides for levying a
fee for digging up streets
West Easton and Palmer ask that their
children be admitted to our high school.
Education - Nazareth Hall
May 3 and 4
1905
Education - Nazareth Hall
May 5
1905
Electric Lighting
July 18, 19
1905
Fairs - Nazareth, Pa.
Sept. 12
1905
Garbage - Disposal
July 7
1905
Easton Express
Easton Express
Easton Express
Sesquicentennial of founding of Nazareth
Easton Daily Free Press
Hall.
Nazareth Hall begun - May 3, 1755, First day Easton Semi-Weekly Free pp. 1 & 3
of school - Oct. 3, 1785. Sesquicentennial
Press
celebration at Nazareth Hall.
Going right ahead - Warner has force of men Easton Express
at work despite injunction.
Nazareth fair opens.
Easton Daily Free Press
Garbage collection should be a city function. Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
p. 1
Home for Aged Women
Aug. 8
1905
Interesting story of a visit to the Old Ladies
Home, with pictures.
Biog. Of John Horn, Esq.
Dan Patch lower world's records at
Allentown (Harness Racing).
William Fisher makes target of George Ebner
at Island Park.
Easton gives substantial assistance to
oppressed Hebrews in Russia.
Black Knight Commandory, Knights of Malta,
hall dedicated.
Fierce battle with the madman who tried to
wreck train (overpowered at Island Park by
Lehigh Valley Section Hands).
Easton Daily Free Press
Horn, John
Horse Racing
June 6
Sept. 22
1905
1905
Island Park
May 6, 7
1905
Jews
Nov. 13
1905
Knights of Malta
April 22
1905
Lehigh Valley Railroad - Wrecks
Aug. 1
1905
Lehigh Valley Railroad - Wrecks
Dec. 23
1905
Valley Train wrecks station at Catasauqua.
Easton Daily Free Press
Military Companies - Reeder
Battery
Military Companies - Reeder
Battery
Murder
Feb. 3
1905
Reeder Battery celebrates 5th anniversary.
Easton Daily Free Press
Feb. 7
1905
Reeder Battery celebrates 5th anniversary.
Feb. 27
1905
Murder
Feb. 28
1905
Murder
March 1 & 2
1905
Murder
March 21 & 22 1905
Murder
March 3
1905
Nazareth, Pa. - Fair
Sept. 15
1905
Allentown, PA --new murder mystery -Assassins kill John P. Ebert.
Bloch hanged in Allentown for the murder of
Mrs. Fatzinger.
Allentown, PA --new murder mystery -Assassins kill John P. Ebert.
Allentown, PA --new murder mystery -Assassins kill John P. Ebert.
Brother of Bloch states he killed Mrs.
Fatzinger.
Fair a great success.
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 3, illus
Easton Sentinel
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Express
p. 5
Easton Express
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 3
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
p. 9
Patriotic Order Sons of America
Aug. 26
1905
Easton Daily Free Press
1905
1905
1905
Ladies Branch P.O. of A. to be organized in
this city.
Paxinosa Inn burned down in an hour.
Maybe rebuilt.
Destruction of Paxinosa Inn.
Paxinosa Inn
Paxinosa Inn
Paxinosa Inn
July 10
July 10
July 10, 26
Paxinosa Inn
July 11
1905
Destruction of Paxinosa Inn.
Semiweekly Free Press
p. 1
Paxinosa Inn
Paxinosa Inn
Paxinosa Inn
Paxinosa Inn
July 15
July 15
July 18
July 22
1905
1905
1905
1905
Easton Express
Easton Express
Easton Sentinel
Easton Express
p. 5
Paxinosa Inn
July 29
1905
Paxinosa Inn
July 29
1905
Phillipsburg, N.J. - Churches
May 20
1905
Phillipsburg, N.J. - Churches
May 20
1905
Phillipsburg, N.J. - Churches
May 23
1905
Phillipsburg, N.J. - Churches
Nov. 28
1905
May rebuild inn.
Paxinosa Inn burned down in an hour.
Destruction of Paxinosa Inn.
Paxinosa Co. will rebuild inn if people buy
$16,000 bond issue.
Prospect that Paxinosa will be rebuilt - Bond
issue subscribed.
Paxinosa Co. will rebuild inn if people buy
$1,600 bond issue.
Golden jubilee of M.E. Church of
Phillipsburg.
Golden jubilee of First M. E. Church of
Phillipsburg.
First Methodist Wesley Church 50th
Anniversary.
Grace Luthean Church dedicated.
Phillipsburg, N.J. - Churches
Nov. 29
1905
Railroads - Lehigh Valley Railroad Oct. 12
1905
Republican Party
Sept. 20
1905
Roads
Aug. 29
1905
Easton Express
Easton Express
Semiweekly Free Press
Easton Express
Easton Express
Easton Express
p. 3
Easton Express
p. 3
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 8
Dedication of Grace Lutheran Church,
Phillipsburg.
L. V. Railroad buys Coxe Bros. coal property. Easton Express
State league of Republican Clubs convene in Easton Daily Free Press
Easton.
Boulevard scheme - Board of Trade plans
Easton Express
fine road between Easton and Bethlehem.
p. 10
p. 10
Roads - Bethlehem
Aug. 29
1905
Roads - Delaware River
Roosevelt, Theodore
July 7
Aug. 10
1905
1905
Roosevelt, Theodore
Aug. 10
1905
Roosevelt, Theodore
Aug. 11
1905
A boulevard to Bethlehem proposed -- route
along the Freemansburg Road.
River road to be opened full width.
President Roosevelt greeted by great crowds
while passing through Easton.
Pres. Roosevelt warmly greeted on his first
visit to the Forks of the Delaware.
Greeted by crowds while passing Easton.
Easton Daily Free Press
Roosevelt, Theodore
Aug. 11
1905
Trip thru Easton.
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Semiweekly Free Press
Roosevelt, Theodore
Roseto, Pa.
Aug. 15
Jan. 29
1905
1905
Roosevelt welcomed at depot.
Roseto not to be a borough.
Easton Sentinel
Easton Daily Free Press
Roseto, Pa.
Sept. 26
1905
Roseto not to be a borough.
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 5
Schools - Principals
April 28
1905
Oct. 13
1905
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 3
Schools - Stevens
Schools - Taxation
April 14
1905
Schools - Taxation
April 18
1905
Charges against H.S. principal Jones for laxity
of discipline.
Easton School to cooperate in raising funds
for Thaddeus Stevens.
Extravagant school board attempts to
increase taxes to pay enormous deficit.
School board clique afraid to raise taxes.
Schools - Webster
July 1
1905
Easton Express
Sewerage
Oct. 19
1905
Stables - Fires
July 17
1905
Stroudsburg State College
May 10
1905
List of teachers for the four room at
Webster School. School started September
1905.
There was an error in sewerage bond
ordinance -- must be amended.
Incendiary believed to have started fire in
Heck Stables. $1,500 damage.
Stroudsburg State Normal graft gang placed
under arrest.
Easton Express
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Express
Easton Express
Easton Express
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Express
Easton Express
p. 3
Stroudsburg State College
May 9
1905
Stroudsburg State College
Sept. 12, 13
1905
Taxation - Occupational
Nov. 29
1905
Telegraph
June 16
1905
Stroudsburg State Normal graft gang placed
under arrest.
Stroudsburg State Normal graft gang placed
under arrest.
Occupation assessment -- new ordinance
drafted.
Telegraphy in early days in Pa.
Travel - India
March 1
1905
A letter -- "from Easton to Bombay, India."
Trolley Transportation
Trolley Transportation
Aug. 12
Aug. 18
1905
1905
Hands off is advice to Mayor March.
Transit co. merger.
Trolley Transportation
Trolley Transportation
Aug. 19
Aug. 19
1905
1905
Trolley Transportation
Trolley Transportation
Aug. 4
Aug. 5
1905
1905
Trolley Transportation
Aug. 7
1905
Trolley Transportation
July 11
Trolley Transportation
Easton Express
p. 5
Easton Express
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Express
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Delaware trolley time is extended.
Easton Express
Council helps out trolley co. (Del. St. R-way). Easton Daily Free Press
City owns the streets says the solicitor.
Trolley's friends win in council -- resolution
defeated.
Mayor March sends letter asking questions
about trolley road along Delaware St.
Easton Express
Easton Daily Free Press
1905
Trolley on W. Spring Garden St.
July 18
1905
Warner afraid to answer (injunction case).
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Express
Trolley Transportation
July 19
1905
Going right ahead - Warner has force of men Easton Express
at work in circle despite injunction.
Trolley Transportation
July 21
1905
New street scheme - provides for levying a
fee for digging up streets.
p. 6
p. 1
Easton Express
Easton Express
p. 3
Trolley Transportation
July 22
1905
Trolley Transportation
Sept. 1
1905
Trolley Transportation
Sept. 26
1905
Trolley Transportation - Delaware
St. Railway
Trolley Transportation - Delaware
St. Railway
Trolley Transportation - Delaware
St. Railway
Trolley Transportation - Delaware
St. Railway
Trolley Transportation - Delaware
St. Railway
Aug. 15
1905
Aug. 4, 5, 7 &
12
Aug. 8
1905
Aug. 8
1905
Dec. 2
1905
Trolley Transportation - Delaware
St. Railway
Trolley Transportation - Delaware
Trolley Co.
Trolley Transportation - Easton
Transit Co.
Trolley Transportation - Hay Line
Dec. 7
1905
Dec. 5
1905
Nov. 9
1905
The Delaware Trolley Co. wants a new
franchise.
Building out Freemansburg Road.
June 20
1905
Proposed Hay line extension.
1905
Trolley Transportation - Nazareth Oct. 3
1905
Trolley Transportation - Routes
Aug. 7 & 12
1905
Trolley Transportation -Lehigh
Valley Traction Co.
Aug. 1
1905
Trolley roads consolidated - Moyer and
Mutchler interests combined for
construction of line between Nazareth and
Alliance.
Boulevard to Bethlehem trolley.
Philadelphia & Easton Railway Co. asks for
receivers.
Mayor asks solicitor concerning trolley road
law.
Mayor orders Delaware St. Railway to stop
work.
Mayor notifies Delaware St. railway co. to
stop work.
Mayor calls halt to work on Delaware St.
railway.
Delaware Street Railway Co. now the Easton
Improved Railway Co. (Co. asks for franchise
under its new charter).
The steam road -- a franchise grab.
Easton Express
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Express
p. 3
Easton Sentinel
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Sentinel
p. 3
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 5
Easton Sentinel
Easton Express
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Franchises for the Mutchelr Road (Nazareth Easton Daily Free Press
and Bath grant franchises to trolley to
connect to lines).
Hands off advice to Mayor March (trolley
Easton Express
line along Delaware St.).
Lehigh Valley Traction reorganized.
Easton Sentinel
p. 2
Trolley Transportation -Lehigh
Valley Traction Co.
Trolley Transportation Northampton Traction Co.
June 27
1905
Lehigh Valley Traction Co. and Allentown
and Slatington Road sold.
Northampton Traction Co. granted right of
way by council, through Spring Garden to
wood thence to Bushkill St.
The So. Easton Water Co.
Easton Sentinel
Oct. 11
1905
Water - So. Easton Water Co.
Oct. 7
1905
Water - South Side Co.
Sept. 14
1905
Poor water service -- Council objects to
paying South Side Co. any more money.
Easton Express
Water Supply
Oct. 10
1905
South Easton Water Company.
Water Supply
Youells, Benjamin
Oct. 7
March 1
1905
1905
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Express
Easton Daily Free Press
Bangor, Hotel opening.
Sept. 11, 1906. 1906
Bangor, PA - Banks
March 30
1906
Bangor, PA. - Hotels.
Sept. 8
1906
Big stick out for water company.
Benjamin Youells recalls '49ers.' John
Bachman, Easton Printer published the first
paper in Panama.
The Colonial Hotel in Bangor opened.
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Bangor Trust Company incorporated March
30, 1906.
The Colonial Hotel in Bangor opened.
Easton Daily Free Press
Bryan, William Jennings
Sept. 3
1906
Bryan cheered by his Easton admirers
Easton Daily Free Press
Bryan, William Jennings
Business - Boots and Shoes
Business - C. K. Williams
Sept. 3
Oct. 31
Sept. 26
1906
1906
1906
Easton Express
Easton Express
Easton Daily Free Press
Business - C. K. Williams
Sept. 26
1906
Business - C. K. Williams
Sept. 28
1906
Business - Cement Industry
Nov. 14
1906
Bryan cheered by his Easton admirers
C.M. Hapgood going out of business.
Third fire at C. K. Williams plant. Newsprint
mill destroyed.
Third fire at C. K. Williams plant. Newsprint
mill destroyed.
Third fire at C. K. Williams plant. Newsprint
mill destroyed.
Nazareth Cement Co. burns.
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 3
p. 4, illus.
p. 5.
Easton Express
p. 5
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 3
Business - Cement Industry
Business - Department Stores Laubach's
Business - Firearms
Nov. 14
Sept. 18
1906
1906
Nazareth Cement Co. burns.
Picture of Laubach's in 1906
Nov. 6
1906
Business - Foundries
June 12
1906
"Gunmakers of Old Northampton" - W. J.
Heller.
Warren Foundry semi-centennial.
Business - Foundries
Business - Foundries
June 7
June 8
1906
1906
Warren Foundry semi-centennial.
Warren Foundry semi-centennial
Business - Hardware Stores
March 14
1906
Business - Hotels, Taverns, etc.
Dec. 10
Business - Hotels, Taverns, etc.
Easton Express
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Sentinel
p. 4
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Express
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 3
Easton Express
p. 5
1906
A. Hay & Co. to erect building near armory
site.
The Swan Hotel to be Hotel Sterling.
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 5
Dec. 21
1906
Description of the Karldon Hotel.
Easton Daily Free Press
Business - Hotels, Taverns, etc.
Dec. 21
1906
Description of the Karldon Hotel.
Easton Express
Business - Hotels, Taverns, etc.
Dec. 25
1906
Karldon Hotel - Easton's finest hotel.
Business - Hotels, Taverns, etc.
Feb. 13
1906
Swan Hotel closed.
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Sentinel
Business - Hotels, Taverns, etc.
Nov. 26
1906
Carlton to be new name of the U.S. Hotel.
Easton Daily Free Press
Business - Lawyers
March 26
1906
Easton Express
Business - Lehigh Coal &
Navigation Co.
Business - Lumber Trade
Feb. 27
1906
Portrait of old-time lawyer Hopewell
Hepburn
Lehigh Coal and Navigation criticised
Oct. 30
1906
Business - Organs
Aug. 23
1906
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Daily Free Press
Business - Organs
March 12
1906
Obituary of James R. Zearfoss, head of
lumber company
Haytock buys Lawrence Organ Works
manufacture plant
Lehr Organ factory fire
p. 5
Easton Express
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 1
Business - Organs
Business - Organs
March 12
March 13
1906
1906
Lehr Organ factory fire
Lehr Organ factory fire
Business - Slate Industry March 5
Quarries
Business - Slate Industry - Strikes March 10
1906
Easton Express
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Only one quarry in Bangor region is working Easton Express
1906
The slater's strike
Easton Express
Business - Slate Industry - Strikes March 2
1906
The slater's strike
Easton Express
Business - Slate Industry - Strikes March 3
1906
The slater's strike
Easton Express
Business - Slate Industry - Strikes March 8
1906
The slater's strike
Easton Express
Centre Square - Improvements
May 19
1906
Centre Square - Sidewalk
Centre Square - Sidewalk
May 19
Oct. 29
1906
1906
Trust "busting" plan in Council - to break up Easton Express
huckster combine in Circle
Circle coping to be completed
Easton Express
Circle coping to be completed
Easton Daily Free Press
Centre Square - Sidewalk
Oct. 6
1906
Circle coping to be completed
Churches - Baptist
Sept. 7
1906
Calvary Baptist Nission organized.
Churches - Lutheran - Trinity
Feb. 27
1906
Churches - Lutheran - Zion
April 3
1906
Churches - Methodist
jan. 8
1906
Easton Free Press - (Semi- p. 5
Weekly)
Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church to build Easton Free Press (semi- p. 3
new church on Northampton Street
weekly ed.)
between 6th & 7th.
Re-opening if church.
Easton Free Press (semi- p. 1
weekly ed.)
Reopening of Delaware St. M. E. Church
Easton Daily Free Press
Churches - Methodist
Jan. 9
1906
Reopening of Delaware St. M. E. Church
Churches - Reformed
Nov. 10
1906
p. 1
p. 5
p. 5
p. 5
p. 5
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton's oldest church will reopen tomorrow Easton Free Press (daily
after redecoration
ed.)
p. 5
Churches - Reformed
Nov. 12
1906
Churches - Reformed
Churches - Reformed
Nov. 12
Nov. 13
1906
1906
Churches - Reformed
Churches - Reformed
Nov. 8
Sept. 10
1906
1906
Churches - Reformed
Sept. 10
1906
Coates, Thomas
October 16
1906
Criem - Bribery
March 19
1906
Crime - Arson
March 17
1906
Crime - Bribery
March 17
1906
Crime - Bribery
March 22
1906
Crime - Bribery
March 23
1906
Delaware River - Pollution
Jan. 29
1906
Delaware River - Pollution
Jan. 8
1906
Delaware River - Pollution
May 25
1906
Department Stores
May 21
1906
Department Stores
May 21
1906
Department Stores
Drake, Catherine
May 29
April 4
1906
1906
Easton's oldest church reopens after
redecoration
Rededication of First Reformed Church
First Evangelical Reformed Church, oldest
church in city, redecorated
First church remodeled
Cornerstone laying of Grace Reformed
Church
Cornerstone laying of Grace Reformed
Church
A neglected grave--propose monument for
Thomas Coates
Reformer Coleman to be arrested. Sold coal
sites for public building.
Stephens, fire fiend, now counterfeiter.
Easton Free Press (daily
ed.)
Easton Express
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Express
Easton Free Press (daily
ed.)
Easton Express
Reformer Coleman to be arrested. Sold coal
sites for public building.
Reformer Coleman to be arrested. Sold coal
sites for public building.
Reformer Coleman to be arrested. Sold coal
sites for public building.
State to protect Easton from typhoid
Easton Express
p. 5
Easton Sentinel
Easton Express
Easton Express
Easton Express
Easton Express
Easton Daily Free Press
Water supply in danger because of pollution Easton Daily Free Press
at Martin's Creek
Trenton seeks to stop pollution of Delaware - Easton Express
Easton worst offender
Obituary of Samuel Rader of Rader & Co.
Easton Daily Express
Obituary of Samuel Rader. Account of
business.
Obituary of Samuel Rader.
Millions left to charity
p. 5
p. 1
Easton Daily Express
Easton Sentinel
Easton Express
p. 5
Easton Armory
Easton Armory
Easton Armory
April 4
July 12
June 13
1906
1906
1906
Armory plans approved.
Beard to build Easton Armory.
Armory bids were too high - state board
rejects offers.
Bids for Easton Armory too high.
Easton Express
Easton Express
Easton Express
Easton Armory
June 13
1906
Easton Armory
March 6
1906
Easton Express
1906
Armory as a boon - locating of the building
enhances value of properrty in
neighborhood.
City guard most efficient in whole state.
Easton City Guards
June 26
Easton Hospital - Dedication
Nov. 21
1906
Dedication of Easton Hospital.
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Hospital - Dedication
Easton Hospital - Dedication
Nov. 21
Nov. 23
1906
1906
Dedication of Easton Hospital.
Dedication of Easton Hospital.
Easton Hospital (New)
Easton Hospital -Nursing School
Nov. 27
Nov. 16
1906
1906
Easton Post Office
Aug. 1
1906
Easton Post Office
Aug. 11
1906
Easton Express
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Description of New Easton Hospital.
Easton Sentinel
Training school for nurses now in operation Easton Express
with Easton Hospital.
Only one bid for federal building site.. 6th. Easton Daily Free Press
And Northampton st.
In favor of post office at 6th. St.
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Post Office
Aug. 7
1906
In favor of post office at 6th. St.
Easton Post Office
Easton Post Office - building
Feb. 13
Aug. 3
1906
1906
Easton Post Office-Building
Aug. 10
1906
Easton Public Library
Aug. 17
1906
Easton Public Library
March 15
1906
Editorial on proposed post office.
Easton Sentinel
Only one bid offered for federal building site Easton semi-weekly free
press
Only one bid offered for federal building site Easton semi-weekly free
press
Library to be open 12 hours a day.
Easton semi-weekly free
press
Library Inspection- school board went
Easton Express
through the building.
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 5
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 5
p. 3
p. 5
Easton Daily Free Press
P. 7
P. 3
p.3
p4
Easton Public Library
March 16
1906
School directors visit library
Easton semi-weekly free
press
Easton semi-weekly free
press
Easton Express
Easton Public Library
Sept. 18
1906
Easton, City of - Bond Issues
Feb. 6
1906
Easton, City of - Bond Issues
May 19
1906
Easton, City of - Streets - Curbing May 23
1906
Valuable old books in public library
Lengthy discussion of bond issue before
committee appointed by mayor
Lengthy discussion of bond issue before
committee appointed by mayor
List of streets which must curb and pave
Easton, City of - Streets Sassafras Street
Easton, City of - Streets Sassafras Street
Easton, City of - Taxation
Easton, City of - Taxation
July 20
1906
The Sassafras Street matter
Easton Express
July 24
1906
The Sassafras St. matter
Jan. 30
March 13
1906
1906
Easton, City of - Taxation
March 2
1906
Education - Curriculum - Music
Nov. 9
1906
Education - Curriculum - Music
Nov. 9
1906
Education - Curriculum - Music
Oct. 12
1906
Fickle-minded Mr. Nevin (city taxes)
Joint committee on tax revision
accomplishes little at meeting
Joint committee on tax revision
accomplishes little at meeting
Mr. Charles Royer elected to teach music at
$800 per year.
Mr. Charles Royer elected to teach music at
$800 a year.
Music to be taught in schools.
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Sentinel
Easton Express
Education - Curriculum - Music
Oct. 16
1906
Education - Foreigners
Education - Foreigners
Sept. 14
Sept. 14
Education - Foreigners
Education - High School (2nd
Street)
P. 7
Easton Express
Easton Express
p. 5
p. 7
p. 5
Easton Express
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Express
Easton Express
p. 3
1906
1906
Easton High School music teacher to be
hired.
Separate school for little Italians.
Separate school for little Italians.
Easton Semi-Weekly Free p. 3
Press
Easton Express
Easton Daily Free Press
Sept. 18
1906
Separate school for little Italians.
May 16
1906
High School to be enlarged.
Easton Semi-Weekly Free p. 3
Press
Easton Express
p. 5
Electric Lighting
Aug. 15
1906
Electric air line to run through Easton - to
rival the Pennsylvania.
Mayor March on city's poor light service.
Easton Express
Electric Lighting
Dec. 11
1906
Electric Lighting
Electric Lighting
Dec. 11
Dec. 13
1906
1906
"City business" -- city lighting debated.
Lamp makers make excuses -- try to put
responsibility for poor service to city plant.
Electric Lighting
Dec. 13
1906
New lamps are cause of trouble.
Easton Daily Free Press
Electric Lighting
Dec. 14
1906
Mayor March on city's poor light service.
Electric Lighting
Electric Lighting
Electric Lighting
Electric Lighting
Dec. 22
Dec. 8
March 30
Nov. 15
1906
1906
1906
1906
Eckard on light plant.
Going easy with contract light scheme.
Warner light to be used here.
Mayor March on city's poor light service.
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Express
Easton Express
Easton Express
Easton Daily Free Press
Electric Lighting
Nov. 16
1906
Mayor March on city's poor light service.
Electric Lighting
Electric Lighting
Nov. 17
Nov. 17
Electric Lighting
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Sentinel
Easton Express
p. 3
p. 4, 5
p. 5
p. 1
1906
1906
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Mayor March would close light plant.
Easton Express
Mayor calls for action to secure better light. Easton Daily Free Press
Nov. 20
1906
Mayor March on city's poor light service.
p. 2
Fires
Oct. 9
1906
College Hill section threatened by fire.
Hackett Park
Dec. 22
1906
Urges park acceptance.
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Daily Free Press
Hackett Park
Hackett Park
Dec. 24
Dec. 25
1906
1906
Easton Express
Easton Sentinel
p. 5
Hackett Park
Nov. 17
1906
All for Hackett Park.
Report of park commissioners on Leeds
Hackett Park.
Hackett donates another gift for park
purposes.
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 1
Hackett Park
Nov. 20
1906
Hackett Park
Nov. 3
1906
Hackett Park
Oct. 20
1906
Hackett Park
Oct. 20
1906
Hackett Park
Oct. 23
1906
Hackett Park
Oct. 23
1906
Horn, John
Horn, John
Hospitals - Pest House
June 5
May 29
Dec. 14
1906
1906
1906
Houses, Historic
May 1
1906
Lafayette College - Students
April 26
Lafayette College - Students
Lafayette College - Students
March, Francis Andrew
Land donated by Mr. & Mrs. J.M. Hackett for Easton Free Press (semipark.
weekly ed.)
Opposition to the park develops.
Easton Daily Free Press
Splendid gift of land for a public park
(Hackett).
Hundred acres donated for city park -Hackett gives land in memory of son.
Land donated by Mr. & Mrs. J.M. Hackett for
park.
Leeds Hackett Park -- donated to the city.
Easton Daily Free Press
Biog. Of John Horn, Esq.
Biog. Of John Horn, Esq.
Juggling pest house question -- over
providing portable buildings and place to put
them.
"Seen and Heard." Old buildings passing
away at Front and Northampton Sts. They
are to be torn down by a Mr. Hughes to
build a new building. No one knows when
they were built.
Easton Sentinel
Easton Sentinel
Easton Express
1906
Lafayette student body may strike
(investigation of hazing: 14 suspended.)
Easton Express
April 27
April 28
June 20
1906
1906
1906
Easton Express
Easton Express
Easton Daily Free Press
Markets
Markets
June 2
June 8
1906
1906
Markets
June 9
1906
Students resort to arbitration.
Lafayette strikers break
Dr. March retires from active work at
Lafayette.
New market rules.
Mayor refuses to sign market stand
conditions.
City losing money on market case.
p. 3
Easton Express
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Sentinel
p. 3
Easton Sentinel
Easton Express
Easton Express
p. 5
p. 5
Easton Express
p. 5
Markets - Circle
Markets - Circle
Feb. 17, March 1906
10
March 10
1906
Merchants ask that circle market be
abolished. Too much competition.
Merchants ask that circle market be
abolished. Too much competition.
Petition to abolish circle market.
Easton Daily Free Press
Markets - Circle
March 13
1906
Markets - Circle
Markets - Ordinance
May 15
May 22
1906
1906
Markets - Ordinance-Hucksters
May 12
1906
Markets - Ordinances
June 5
1906
Military Companies - Reeder
Battery
Murder
March 20
1906
Ordinance introduced to exclude hucksters
from circle market.
Idiotic rules to govern buyers of Market
stands.
Reeder battery Banquet.
Easton Daily Free Press
April 3
1906
Joseph Boccia murders wife, Anna Bubba.
Murder
Dec. 12
1906
Boccia makes another effort to stay trial for Easton Express
the murder of his wife, Anna Bubba.
Murder
Dec. 18
1906
Joseph Boccia murders wife, Anna Bubba.
Murder
Dec. 6
1906
Boccia makes another effort to stay trial for Easton Express
the murder of his wife, Anna Bubba.
Murder
Dec. 6 & 12
1906
Boccia death warrant soon.
Easton Daily Free Press
Murder
Feb. 15
1906
The Parkhurst murder trial.
Easton Daily Free Press
Murder
Feb. 16
1906
Conviction in the Parkhurst murder trial.
Easton Daily Free Press
Murder
Murder
Murder
July 25
July 28
July 9
1906
1906
1906
Italian murderer, Boccia, collapses.
Italian murderer, Boccia, collapses.
Italian murderer, Boccia, collapses.
Easton Express
Easton Express
Easton Express
Easton Express
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Proposal to abolish circle market.
Easton Sentinel
Ordinance to restrain trade at circle market. Easton Sentinel
p. 7
Easton Express
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Sentinel
p. 4
Easton Sentinel
p. 5
Murder
July 9
1906
Joseph Boccia, murdered wife, refused a
Easton Daily Free Press
new trial. Sentenced to hang.
Boccia makes another effort to stay trial for Easton Express
the murder of his wife, Anna Bubba.
Murder
June 11 - 14
1906
Murder
June 11 - 14
1906
Murder
June 19
1906
Murder
June 21
1906
Boccia makes another effort to stay trial for Easton Express
the murder of his wife, Anna Bubba.
Murder
March 30
1906
Joseph Boccia shoots wife, Anna Bubba.
Easton Daily Free Press
Murder
Oct. 11
1906
Boccia death warrant soon.
Easton Daily Free Press
Nazareth, Pa. - Fire Dept.
June 19
1906
Fireman's parade at Nazareth.
Negroes
Oct. 31, Nov. 3 1906
North. Co. Hist. Society
April 24
1906
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Negroes petition the mayor against the play Easton Daily Free Press
"The Clansmen." to be a Able's.
Historical society organized.
Easton Daily Free Press
North. Co. Hist. Society
Palmer Township
April 24
Feb. 6
1906
1906
Historical society organized.
Will pay for fire protection.
Palmer Township - Fire
Jan. 27, Feb. 2 1906
Palmer residents request fire protection.
Palmer Township - Fire Co.
Jan. 31
1906
Parades
Sept. 4
1906
Palmer Township to form a Volunteer Fire
Co.
Labor Day Parade.
Paxinosa Inn
Phillipsburg, N.J.
June 13
May 10, 11
1906
1906
New Paxinosa Inn opened.
Dedicates soldiers and sailors monument.
Joseph Boccia, slayer of child-wife brought
to bar.
Joseph Boccia murders wife, Anna Bubba.
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Sentinel
Easton Express
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 5
p. 2
p. 3
Easton Express
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Express
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
p. 5
Phillipsburg, N.J. - History
May 22
1906
Phillipsburg council votes for new charter.
Easton Daily Free Press
Phillipsburg, N.J. - Soldiers
Monument
Phillipsburg, N.J. - Soldiers
Monument
Phillipsburg, N.J. - Soldiers
Monument
Phillipsburg, N.J. - Trolley
Transportation
Phillipsburg, N.J. - Trolley
Transportation
Playgrounds
Police, PA State
Post Office - Building
May 10
1906
Phillipsburg soldiers monument dedicated.
Easton Express
May 10
1906
May 15
1906
Phillipsburg dedicates monument in memory Easton Daily Free Press
of soldiers and sailors.
Phillipsburg monument dedicated.
Easton Sentinel
Aug. 28
1906
Oct. 19
1906
Nov. 17
June 27
Aug. 7
1906
1906
1906
Reading Railroad
Dec. 10
1906
Recreation - Parks
May 21
Riis, Jacob
Trolley road completed through Sitgreaves
St. (P'Burg).
Citizens demand better trolley service
(P'Burg).
Park question hits a snag.
State police fire into crowd
People of western section seek to have post
office located at 6th st.
Reading Railroad rejects union recognition.
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Express
Easton Express
Easton Express
p. 10
1906
Sunday amusements denounced. Pastor
Leinbach denounces amusement parks.
Easton Express
Oct. 25
1906
Jacob Riis speaks to Teachers Institute.
Easton Daily Free Press
Riis, Jacob
Roseto, Pa.
Oct. 25
Jan. 22
1906
1906
Lecture by Jacob Riis.
Roseto again asks to become a borough.
Easton Express
Easton Express
Roseto, Pa.
Roseto, Pa.
Jan. 29
Jan. 30
1906
1906
Roseto not to be a borough.
Roseto not to be a borough.
p. 1
San Francisco
April 21 & 23
1906
Sewerage
July 18
1906
Sewerage
June 1
1906
To build no more sewers this year - no more Easton Express
money available.
So. Side sewer to be built.
Easton Express
p. 5
p. 10
p. 5
Easton Express
Easton Express
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton gives liberally to earthquake victims. Easton Express
p. 5
p. 5
Sewerage
March 7
1906
State board of health denies city privilege of Easton Express
extending its sewer system.
p. 5
Sewerage
May 28
1906
March out for the new sewer for Easton.
Easton Express
Sewerage
Taylor, George - Home
Telephone
Telephone
Telephone - Taxation
May 30
Nov. 20
Dec. 13
Nov. 30
Nov. 13
1906
1906
1906
1906
1906
Easton Express
Easton Express
Easton Express
Easton Express
Easton Express
p. 5
p. 5
Telephone - Wires
Feb. 13
1906
Feb. 9
1906
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 3
Telephone - Wires
Telephone - Yellow Kid
Nov. 13
1906
Tombler, Jr., Henry G.
Tombler, Jr., Henry G.
July 10
July 6
1906
1906
Sewer plan is adopted.
Bronze tablet for Taylor house.
Phone trust wins its point.
City answers telephone Co.
Consolidated Telephone Companies object
to city tax on poles and wires.
Telephone Co. bluff (about placing wires in
conduits).
Telephone company says it cannot be
compelled to place wires in a conduit.
Yellow Kid Phone Co. wants pole and wire
tax reduced.
Obit. Of Henry G. Tombler, Jr.
Obit. Of Henry G. Tombler, Jr.
Trolley Transportation
April 30
1906
Commissions try to block road - object to
building of the line on the Del. River Road.
Easton Express
Trolley Transportation
Aug. 16
1906
Easton Express
Trolley Transportation
Trolley Transportation
March 3
Sept. 21
1906
1906
Trolley Transportation - Easton
Transit Co.
Trolley Transportation - Easton
Transit Co.
Feb. 27
1906
Flyers for the new trolley - cars will travel at
high speed between Easton & So.
Bethlehem.
City Hall rang with talk on the trolley.
Trolley question on right of way to
Hackettstown unsettled (P'Burg).
Easton Transit Co. trolley opposed.
March 15
1906
March forces trolley to pay for franchise Easton Transit Co. to occupy Butler & St.
John St.
Easton Express
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Sentinel
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Express
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Express
p. 10
Trolley Transportation - Easton
Transit Co.
Trolley Transportation - Fares
Trolley Transportation - Fares
March 21
1906
Transit extension approved.
Easton Daily Free Press
Oct. 13
Oct. 16
1906
1906
Trolley Transportation - Fares
Trolley Transportation Ordinance
Trolley Transportation Ordinance
Oct. 20
Feb. 17
1906
1906
March hits Fehr for 4 cent fare.
Can city compel transit co. to sell tickets 25
for $1.00.
City to test 4 cent fare.
Easton transit ordinance passes.
Easton Express
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Express
Easton Daily Free Press
Feb. 2
1906
Object to new trolley ordinance. So. Side
enters vigorous protest against measure.
They don't like change of route.
Easton Express
Trolley Transportation Ordinance
Trolley Transportation Ordinance
Trolley Transportation Ordinance
March 15
1906
March 17
1906
March 20
1906
City gets $10,000 consideration from Easton Easton Daily Free Press
Transit.
Steam railway ordinance given knock-out
Easton Daily Free Press
blow (called the Snake).
Halting city progress -- select council defeats Easton Express
Easton Improvement Railroad Co. ordinance.
Trolley Transportation Ordinance
March 20
1906
Halting city progress -- select council defeats Easton Sentinel
Easton Improvement Railroad Co. ordinance.
Trolley Transportation Ordinance
Trolley Transportation Ordinance
Trolley Transportation Ordinance
Trolley Transportation Ordinance
Trolley Transportation - So.
Bethlehem
Trolley Transportation - So.
Bethlehem
March 20
1906
March 3
1906
March 6
1906
Towns trouble -- after much talk council
passes trolley ordinance.
Select council concurs with trolley
ordinance.
Trolley extension ordinance.
March 6
1906
Feb. 14
1906
Towns trouble -- after much talk council
passes trolley ordinance.
So. Bethlehem welcomes Easton Transit Co. Easton Daily Free Press
July 6
1906
Two new So. Bethlehem trolley companies.
p. 3
p. 5
Easton Sentinel
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Sentinel
p. 3
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 5
Trolley Transportation - Strikes
June 25
1906
Strike on Lehigh Valley Transit lines.
Easton Daily Free Press
Trolley Transportation - Strikes
June 26
1906
Easton Express
Trolley Transportation - Tracks
Feb. 16
1906
Trolley Transportation Washington
Water - South Easton Water Co.
Nov. 10
1906
Jan. 11
1906
Water Supply
Sept. 14
1906
Jan. 4
1906
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 5
Weather
Allentown cars running despite mob - Lehigh
Valley Transit strike.
Railway Co. to build tracks and operate cars
in Easton.
New traction line between Easton and
Washington, N.J.
Nat Freeman did not appear -- director of
South Easton Water Co.
South Easton Water Company claim
rejected.
Weather statistics for 15 years.
Weather
Jan. 5
1906
Weather statistics for 15 years.
p. 5
Welfare
Oct. 12
1906
Charity Organized Society of Easton -- an
organization to aid poor -- organized.
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
West Ward Building Association
May 8
1906
Y.M.C.A.
Arnold, Johann
March 2
Jan. 28
1906
1907
Automobile Agencies
March 12
1907
Banks
Nov. 18
1907
Banks
Nov. 18
1907
Banks
Nov. 18
1907
Banks
Nov. 18
1907
Prosperous business -- West Ward Building
Association.
New home for Y.M.C.A. urged.
Easton's oldest citizen, Johann Arnold, age
103. Huh?
Successful business -- J.A. Harps, man of
gasoline can.
Easton Banking houses form a clearing
house association.
Easton Banking houses form a clearing
house association.
Easton banking houses form a clearing
house assoc.
Easton banking houses form a clearing
house assoc.
Easton Express
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 5
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Sentinel
Easton Express
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Sentinel
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Express
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Express
p. 3
Banks
Nov. 19
1907
1907
Easton Banking houses form a clearing
house association.
Easton banking houses form a clearing
house assoc.
New dam on Bushkill will be improvement
(Mann & Allshouse)
Industrial Review of Easton and vicinity.
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Daily Free Press
Banks
Nov. 19
1907
Bushkill Creek - Dams
Sept. 3
1907
Business - 1900 - 1919
Oct. 2
Business - Foundries
Business - Hotels, Taverns, etc.
p. 1
Feb. 12
April 12
1907
1907
Sterlingworth Co. in receivership.
Conditions close the Huntington Hotel.
Business - Hotels, Taverns, etc.
Jan. 1
1907
The Hotel Sterling replaces The Swan.
Easton Express
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Sentinel
Business - Hotels, Taverns, etc.
Jan. 2
1907
Business - Hotels, Taverns, etc.
March 29
1907
Stirling's doors are thrown open. Hotel
succeeds the Swan.
Conditions close the Huntington Hotel.
Business - Ingersoll-Rand
Business - Lehigh Valley
Symphony
Business - Silk Industry - Strikes
Dec. 27
Jan. 14
1907
1907
Ingersoll plants to be enlarged.
Lehigh Valley Symphony formed
Dec. 13
1907
400 silk workers strike in Easton
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Express
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Daily Free Press
Business - Silk Industry - Strikes
Dec. 14
1907
400 silk workers strike in Easton
Easton Daily Free Press
Business - Silk Industry - Strikes
Dec. 19
1907
Strike in Phillipsburg
Easton Express
Businesss - Doctors
Churches - Baptist
June 26
March 8
1907
1907
Obituary of C. B. Zulick.
Calvary Baptist Church organized.
Churches - Methodist
April 16
1907
Churches - Reformed
Oct. 1
1907
New church for West End - Memorial
Methodist will build at 10th & Ferry St.
Grace Reformed Church dedication
Easton Express
Easton Semi- Weekly Free p. 5
Press
Easton Express
Churches - Reformed
Oct. 8
1907
Grace Reformed Church dedication
p. 1
p. 3
Easton Express
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Sentinel
p. 5
p. 1
Churches - Reformed
Sept. 28
1907
Grace church dedicated
Churches - Reformed
Churches - Reformed
Sept. 30
Sept. 30
1907
1907
Grace Church dedicated
Grace church dedicated
Clubs - Elks
Feb. 16
1907
Club dedicates new quarters
Clubs - Elks
Feb. 16
1907
Elks dedicate new quarters at 4th and Pine
Coates, Thomas
Jan. 24
1907
Monument plans
Coates, Thomas
Coates, Thomas
Jan. 24
Jan. 25
1907
1907
Monument plans
Monument for local musician
Crime - Black Hand (Extortion)
Aug. 3
1907
Daughters of the American
Revolution (D.A.R.) - George
Taylor Chapter
Daughters of the American
Revolution (D.A.R.) - George
Taylor Chapter
Department Stores
Department Stores
June 16
1907
The Black Hand threatens to blow up the
cement mill and kill officials.
The D.A.R. White Elephant (Geo. Taylor
House)- Part 2
June 16
1907
March 12
March 4
Department Stores
Department Stores
Dr. Porter
Easton Post Office
Easton Armory
Easton Free Press (daily
ed.)
Easton Express
Easton Free Press (daily
ed.)
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Free Press (daily
ed.)
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 5
Easton Express
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Daily Free Press
P. 3
Easton Sunday Call
p.5
The D.A.R. White Elephant (Geo. Taylor
House)- Part 2
Easton Sunday Call
p.5
1907
1907
Obituary of Jacob Rader.
Obituary of Jacob Rader.
March 4
March 4
1907
1907
Obituary of Jacob Rader.
Obituary of Jacob Rader.
Easton Sentinel
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Daily Express
Easton Daily Free Press
Oct. 5
Feb. 6
1907
1907
Talk on life of Dr. Porter.
Easton Express
Options for post office site second and ferry. Easton Express
1907
The Easton Armory, costing $30,000, was
dedicated October 17, 1907.
p. 5
p. 5
p. 5
Easton Armory
Oct. 17
1907
Easton Armory dedicated on Oct. 17, 1907
Cost $30,000
Size 60 by 150 feet
Easton Armory
Easton Armory
Oct. 17, 18
Oct. 17, 18
1907
1907
Easton Armory
Oct. 18
1907
City Guard Armory dedication.
Dedication of new Armory of Company I,
13th Regiment.
Dedication of new Armory.
Easton Armory
Easton Armory
Oct. 2
Oct. 22
1907
1907
Dedication of Easton Armory.
Dedication of new Armory.
Easton Armory
Easton Armory
Oct. 22
Sept. 25
1907
1907
Easton Armory
Sept. 25
1907
Dedication of Easton Armory.
Armory opening on
Tuesday next.
For Armory dedication.
Easton Hospital (New)
Jan. 1
1907
Easton Post Office
Jan. 9
1907
Easton Post Office
March 1
Easton Post Office
Easton Express
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Express
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Sentinel
Easton Express
p. 1
p. 3
p. 5
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Sentinel
1907
The hospital of 1906 -- erected and
dedicated.
Still no site determined for post office
building.
Second street site selected for post office.
March 1
1907
Post 0ffice site is on second and ferry.
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Post Office
Easton Post Office
March 28
May 7
1907
1907
Easton Express
Easton Sentinel
Easton Post Office- building
March 5
1907
Fight for post office site.
Picture of corner of 2nd. & ferry st.--where
post office will be.
Post office site at 2nd and Ferry sts.
Easton Public Library
April 16
1907
Library Publicity
Easton Public Library
Feb. 26
1907
Library Publicity
Easton Express
Easton Express
Easton semi-weekly Free P. 3
Press
Easton semi-weekly free P.3
press
Easton semi-weekly free P. 3
press
Easton Public Library
July 12
1907
Library Publicity
Easton semi-weekly free
press
Easton semi-weekly free
press
Easton Daily Free Press
P.5
Easton Public Library
March 22
1907
Library publicity
Easton, City of -Fire Department - Jan. 7
Firemen
Easton, City of - Fire Department - April 20
Stations - South Side
1907
1907
Easton firemen win suit against city
controller
Fire service for South Side
Easton Express
p. 5
Easton, City of - Fire Department - Dec. 13
Stations - South Side
1907
Picking site for a fire station
Easton Express
p. 5
Easton, City of - Fire Department - June 11
Stations - South Side
1907
No relief money for South Side fire fighters
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
p. 3
Easton, City of - Fire Department - March 16
Stations - South Side
1907
Fire service for South Side
Easton Express
p. 5
Easton, City of - Fire Department - March 2
Stations - South Side
1907
Fire service for South Side
Easton Express
p. 5
Easton, City of - Fire Department - May 8
Stations - South Side
1907
Fire service for South Side
Easton Express
p. 5
Easton, City of - Fire Department - Nov. 12
Stations - South Side
1907
Picking site for a fire station
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
p. 5
Easton, City of - Fire Department - Oct. 19
Stations - South Side
1907
Paid fire service for South Side seems
assured
Easton Express
p. 5
Easton, City of - Fire Department - Oct. 26
Stations - South Side
1907
New South Side fire stations
Easton Daily Free Press
P.1
Easton, City of - Fire Department - Oct. 26
Stations - South Side
1907
Picking site for a fire station
Easton Express
Easton, City of - Fire Department - Oct. 29
Stations - South Side
1907
Picking a site for a fire station
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
p. 3
Easton, City of - Fire Department - Sept. 21
Stations - South Side
1907
Paid fire service for South Side seems
assured
Easton Express
p. 5
Easton, City of - Fire Department - Sept. 21
Stations - South Side
1907
Paid fire service for South Side seems
assured
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton, City of - Streets - Peach July 30
Street
Easton, City of - Streets - Peach June 30
Street
Education - Curriculum - Spelling Jan. 11
1907
Concrete steps for Peach St.
Easton Express
p. 5
1907
Concrete steps for Peach St.
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 5
1907
Spelling reform not wanted here. Easton
schools will stick to old way of doing things
despite Roosevelt attempt.
Easton Express
Education - Curriculum -Athletics Feb. 15
1907
Easton Daily Free Press
Education - Foreigners
June 14
1907
Education - Foreigners
June 14
1907
Electric Lighting
Electric Lighting
Electric Lighting
April 11
Dec. 12
Dec. 3
1907
1907
1907
School board recognizes high school
athletics.
Night school for foreigners - ministers
advocate plan.
Night school for foreigners - ministers
advocate plan.
New ideas for lighting plant.
New lamps will be ready soon.
Street lights.
Electric Lighting
Electric Lighting
Dec. 7
Feb. 14
1907
1907
Electric Lighting
Jan. 10
1907
Bonds to pay for new light.
Warner, maker of arc lamp, wants his
money.
City light plant to be improved.
Easton Express
p. 5
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Express
Easton Express
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Express
Easton Express
Easton Express
p. 5
p. 5
p. 4
Electric Lighting
Jan. 10
1907
Electric Lighting
Jan. 11
1907
City to waste $10,000 more on worn-out
Easton Daily Free Press
lighting plant.
Easton Power Co. offers to light city streets. Easton Express
Electric Lighting
Jan. 15
1907
Street lights.
Electric Lighting
Jan. 2
1907
Electric Lighting
Jan. 21
1907
March favors municipal ownership (light
Co.).
Street lights.
Electric Lighting
Jan. 8 & 11
1907
Electric Lighting
Electric Lighting
Electric Lighting
Electric Lighting
Nov. 14
Nov. 16
Nov. 2
Nov. 26
1907
1907
1907
1907
Electric Lighting
Electric Lighting
Electric Lighting
Nov. 30
Oct. 10
Oct. 12
1907
1907
1907
Electric Lighting
Electric Lighting
1907
1907
Electric Lighting
Electric Lighting
Oct. 19
Oct. 22, Nov.
15, 19
Oct. 31
Oct. 5
Electric Lighting
Electric Lighting
Electric Lighting
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Express
p. 2
p. 3
1907
1907
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Street lights.
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Light question up to council.
Easton Express
New lamp chosen by the councils.
Easton Express
Contract lighting again defeated.
Easton Express
Warner here to make fight -- maker of lamps Easton Express
in use in Easton won't give up without legal
battle.
Long discussion on lamp question.
Easton Express
Light question is up again.
Easton Express
Lamp company backs down -- Warner
Easton Express
people agree to furnish city with new style
of lamp.
No chance for contract lighting.
Easton Express
Arc lamps no good.
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Bid for new street lamps.
Easton Express
Light plant is o.k. but lamps are no good.
Easton Daily Free Press
Oct. 8
1907
Plant OK but lamps no good.
p. 3
Sept. 12
Sept. 13
1907
1907
Neiman condemns Warner lamps.
City cheated in the Warner Arc Lamps.
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Express
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
p. 1
p. 5
p. 5
p. 5
p. 3
p. 5
p. 5
Electric Lighting
Electric Lighting
Electric Lighting
Sept. 16
Sept. 19
Sept. 20
1907
1907
1907
Necessity for enlarged jail.
Poor light and big deficit.
City cheated in the Warner Arc Lamps.
Easton Express
Easton Express
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 5
p. 5
p. 1
Hackett Park
Aug. 15
1907
Hackett Park
Aug. 16
1907
Letter -- The Hackett tract as a site for a
park.
Hackett tract as a site for a park.
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Offer of park site free of cost rejected by the Easton Daily Free Press
city.
Offer of park site free of cost rejected by
Easton Free Press (semicity.
weekly ed.)
Easton wants no park -- select council by
Easton Sentinel
majority of one, refuses gift (Hackett Park).
p. 3
Hackett Park
Aug. 17
1907
Hackett Park
Aug. 20
1907
Hackett Park
Aug. 20
1907
Hackett Park
Aug. 3
1907
Easton Express
p. 5
1907
1907
Taxpayers get no voice in park plan
(Hackett).
Park ordinance laid on shelf (Hackett).
Appropriation for city park striken out.
Hackett Park
Hackett Park
Feb. 2
Jan. 15
Hackett Park
Jan. 15
1907
Appropriation for park (Hackett) dropped.
Easton Express
p. 5
Hackett Park
Jan. 15
1907
No money for city park.
p. 2
Hackett Park
Jan. 23
1907
Hackett Park
Hackett Park
Jan. 23
Jan. 25
1907
1907
Citizens meet and declare themselves on
Hackett Park question.
Park, money or no money.
No money for city park.
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 5
p. 3
Hackett Park
Jan. 5
1907
Easton Express
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Daily Free Press
Hackett Park
Jan. 5
1907
Easton Express
p. 5
Recommend the park's acceptance
(Hackett's).
Lively spat over Park ordinance (Hackett).
p. 3
Easton Express
Easton Daily Free Press
Hackett Park
Jan. 8
1907
Plenty of money to improve park.
Easton Daily Free Press
Hackett Park
Hackett Park
July 20
July 23
1907
1907
Strings still on the park (Hackett).
Looks good for city park now.
Horses
July 12
1907
Dr. Ludlow, Sr. never had his horse shod
claiming that it was unnatural and cruel to
put iron shoes on animals' feet. Pioneers in
the livery business (Shipman brothers).
Easton Express
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Howell Family
Howell Family
Howell Family
March 12
March 4
March 5
1907
1907
1907
Obit. Of Major Abraham Howell.
Obit. Of Major Abraham Howell.
Obits. Of Major A.B. Howell.
Hubbard, Elbert
March 21
1907
Elbert Hubbard of Heptosoph Hall.
Murder
April 29
1907
Easton Daily Free Press
Murder
April 29 & 30
1907
Murder
April 30
1907
Murder
April 30
1907
Boccia will die on the scaffold Tuesday
morning.
Boccia pardon to be opposed. Death warrant
called.
Boccia pays the penalty for his crime on the
gallows.
Boccia notified he must die.
Murder
April 4
1907
Boccia notified he must die.
Easton Daily Free Press
Murder
Aug. 27
1907
Murder
Aug. 27
1907
South Bethlehem policeman murdered by
Easton Free Press (semiWilliam Handy, a Negro. Handy hurried
weekly ed.)
away from angry mob.
South Bethlehem policeman, George
Easton Daily Free Press
Shuman shot dead. Murdered by Negro (Mr.
Handy) he had arrested.
Easton Sentinel
Easton Express
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Express
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 5
p. 7
p. 5
p. 1
p. 5
Murder
Aug. 28
1907
William Handy, murdere of Bethlehem
policeman, wanted for another murder.
Easton Express
Murder
Aug. 29
1907
William Handy was in jail at time of second
murder he was accused of. Couldn't have
committed second murder.
Easton Express
Murder
Aug. 30
1907
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Murder
Aug. 30
1907
Murder
Aug. 30
1907
Murder
Dec. 30
1907
South Bethlehem policeman murdered by
William Handy, a Negro. Handy hurried
away from angry mob.
Boy swears that William Handy killed
policeman.
South Bethlehem policeman, George
Shuman shot dead. Murdered by Negro (Mr.
Handy) he had arrested.
Handy to die on gallows February 20, 1908.
Murder
Jan. 11
1907
Murder
Jan. 11
1907
Murder
March 21
1907
Murder
March 21
1907
Murder
March 26
1907
Murder
May 7
1907
Murder
Murder
Sept. 10
Sept. 10 - 13
1907
1907
p. 3
Easton Express
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Daily Free Press
Boccia pardon to be opposed. Death warrant Easton Express
called.
Boccia death warrant soon.
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 5
Boccia pardon to be opposed. Death warrant Easton Express
called.
Boccia must die.
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 5
Boccia pardon to be opposed. Death warrant Easton Express
called.
Joseph Boccia murders wife, Anna Bubba.
Easton Sentinel
p. 5
Murder trial of William Handy started.
William Handy found guilty of murder of
South Bethlehem policeman, George
Shuman.
Easton Express
Easton Express
p. 5
p. 5
Murder
Sept. 13
1907
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 1
1907
South Bethlehem policeman, George
Shuman shot dead. Murdered by Negro (Mr.
Handy) he had arrested.
St. John's Reformed Church at Nazareth
dedicated.
St. John's Reformed Church at Nazareth
dedicated.
St. John's Reformed Church at Nazareth
dedicated.
Select staff for Orpheum theatre.
Nazareth, Pa. - Churches
Dec. 16
1907
Nazareth, Pa. - Churches
Dec. 16
1907
Nazareth, Pa. - Churches
Dec. 17
1907
Orpheum Theatre
Dec. 13
Orpheum Theatre
Dec. 19
1907
New theatre (Orpheum) will open Monday.
Easton Express
p. 5
Orpheum Theatre
Dec. 19 & 24
1907
Orpheum to open next Friday.
Easton Daily Free Press
Orpheum Theatre
Dec. 20
1907
New theatre to open.
Orpheum Theatre
Orpheum Theatre
Dec. 24
Dec. 27
1907
1907
New Orpheum opens.
New theatre to open.
Orpheum Theatre
June 23
1907
New vaudeville theatre on So. Front St.
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Sentinel
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Daily Free Press
Parsons, William
April 13
1907
Easton Daily Free Press
Parsons, William
Feb. 7
1907
Article by J.M. Levering about William
Parsons.
William Parsons founder of Easton.
Parsons, William
Jan. 26
1907
Article of William Parsons.
Easton Daily Free Press
Paxinosa Inn
Nov. 21
1907
Easton Daily Free Press
Paxinosa Inn
Nov. 21
1907
Phillipsburg, N.J. - Churches
May 28
1907
New use for Paxinosa Inn -- to be seminary
for young womaen.
New use for Paxinosa Inn -- to be seminary
for young womaen.
History of Wesley Church.
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Express
p. 1
p. 9
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Express
p. 5
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
p. 3
Playgrounds
Nov. 20
Railroads - Lehigh Valley Railroad Aug. 13
1907
1907
1907
Park plan is launched.
The Lehigh Valley seeks to buy South Side
property.
Nearly 1,800 for Riverside Park.
Easton Express
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Daily Free Press
Riverside Park
Nov. 20
Riverside Park
Nov. 22
1907
Nearly 1,800 for Riverside Park.
p. 3
Riverside Park
Nov. 29
1907
Proposed Riverside Park.
Riverside Park
Schuyler
Schuyler
Schuyler
Schuyler
Scrip
Sewerage
Oct. 24
Aug. 27
Sept. 17
Sept. 3
Sept. 9
Nov. 21
Dec. 21
1907
1907
1907
1907
1907
1907
1907
Sewerage
Sewerage
Sewerage
Nov. 2
Nov. 5
Sept. 20
1907
1907
1907
Riverside Park plan under way.
Obit. Of Judge Schuyler.
Tributes to memory of Judge Schuyler.
Obit. Of Judge Schuyler.
Tributes to memory of Judge Schuyler.
Scrip issued in Easton.
Poisoning river water is a crime -- sewage
question again.
New sewer system proposed.
Sewer disposal question.
New conduit ordinance in place of old.
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Express
Easton Express
Easton Sentinel
Easton Sentinel
Easton Express
Easton Express
Easton Express
Easton Express
Easton Sentinel
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 5
Synagogues - B'nai Abraham
Dec. 10
1907
Synagogues - B'nai Abraham
Dec. 2
1907
Synagogues - B'nai Abraham
Dec. 2
1907
Synagogues - B'nai Abraham
Dec. 3
1907
Synagogues - B'nai Abraham
Sept. 3
1907
Taylor, George - Home
Oct. 4
1907
Cornerstone of new Hebrew Church laid.
(Children of Abraham)
Cornerstone of new Hebrew Church laid.
(Children of Abraham).
Cornerstone of new Hebrew Church laid.
(Children of Abraham)
Cornerstone of new Hebrew Church laid.
(Children of Abraham)
Children of Abraham on 6th St.
George Taylor house will be restored to its
original condition.
p. 5
p. 5, illus
p. 5
p. 5
Easton Sentinel
Easton Express
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Express
p. 1
p. 5
Taylor, George - Home
Oct. 8
1907
Telephone - Poles
Telephone - Wires
March 11
June 7
1907
1907
Restoration of George Taylor house to be
started.
10 cent tax on telephone poles.
Telephone conduit ordinance approved.
Telephone - Wires
May 17
1907
Amendments to Bell telephone conduit bill. Easton Daily Free Press
Temples - Temple Covenant of
Peace
Temples - Temple Covenant of
Peace
Temples - Temple Covenant of
Peace
Theaters
Theaters
Theaters - Jewel Theater
Trolley Transportation
Aug. 31
1907
Rededication of Covenant of Peace.
Easton Daily Free Press
Aug. 31
1907
Rededication of Covenant of Peace.
Easton Express
Sept. 3
1907
Rededication of Covenant of Peace.
Easton Sentinel
Dec. 24
July 23
Sept. 10
May 14
1907
1907
1907
1907
Easton Express
Easton Express
Easton Sentinel
Easton Sentinel
p. 5
p. 5
Trolley Transportation Bethlehem
Trolley Transportation - E & W
July 8
1907
Doors of new theater opened.
New theater to be built on Front St.
New Jewel Theater.
Philadelphia and Easton trolley road to be
sold at Doylestown.
New trolley line under inspection.
Easton Express
p. 5
Feb. 5
1907
Easton Daily Free Press
Trolley Transportation - E & W
Feb. 8
1907
E & W Traction co. may put up fight -petition for leave to connect with Easton
transit tracks.
E & W traction co. may put up fight.
Trolley Transportation - Easton
Transit Co.
July 9
1907
Trolley Transportation - Fares
June 14
1907
Trolley Transportation - Fares
Oct. 7
1907
Trolley Transportation - Hay Line Feb. 12
1907
Easton Transit Co. -- a concern which has
built up and maintained one of the best
trolley systems.
4 cent fare fight in court -- mayor fires bill
against Easton Transit Co.
City loses low fare fight -- no right to
regulate the rates of trolley cars.
Crash of cars of Hay trolley road.
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Express
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 3
p. 5
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Sentinel
p. 3
Easton Express
p. 5
Easton Express
Easton Daily Free Press
Trolley Transportation - Hay Line Sept. 7
1907
Hay line now running cars to Port Murray.
Easton Daily Free Press
Typhoid Fever
Feb. 4
1907
Typhoid fever at Martin's Creek.
Easton Daily Free Press
War - Grand Army of the Republic June 3
1907
Water - South Easton Water Co.
July 3
1907
Easton ready to give G.A.R. a hearty
Easton Daily Free Press
welcome. Series to run the entire week of
June 3rd.
Don't have to pay $25 per plug -- no contract Easton Express
binding us to So. Easton Water Co.
Water Supply
Water Supply
Aug. 15
Aug. 16
1907
1907
Water Supply
Water Supply
July 10
July 5
1907
1907
Water Supply
Banks
June 13
April 7
1907
1908
Bethlehem, PA - Bridges
Aug. 11
1908
Bryan, William Jennings
Oct. 23
1908
Bryan, William Jennings
Oct. 23
1908
Business - Banks
April 7
1908
Business - bush & Bull
April 21
1908
Flaws picked in water contract.
Five year agreement with water company.
(S.S.)
Water for $20 a plug hereafter.
Cannot stop South Side corporation (water
co.).
Water Co. rights again questioned.
Building at corner of 4th and Northampton
Street torn down to make way for
Northampton National Bank---gives history
of the building.
Award bridge contract for inter-county
bridge at Broad St., Bethlehem.
William Jennings Bryan speaks at
Phillipsburg
William Jennings Bryan speaks at
Phillipsburg
Building at corner of 4th and Northampton
Street torn down to make way for
Northampton National Bank. History of the
building.
Bush & Bull formally opened at Bethlehem.
p. 5
p. 5
Easton Express
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Express
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Express
Easton Sentinel
p. 5
p. 5
Easton Sentinel
p. 8
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Express
Easton Sentinel
Easton Sentinel
p. 5
p. 1
Business - Casket Companies
Oct. 6
1908
New casket company in Easton - Ashton
Casket Co.
Description of Seip's restaurant.
Easton Sentinel
Business - Hotels, Taverns, etc.
Sept. 4
1908
Business - Leather Trade
June 9
1908
Long and useful life - 75th anniversary of
Henry A. Sage
Mann & Allshouse to build new dam
Easton Sentinel
Business - Milss
Aug. 25
1908
Business - Rope Works
April 13
1908
Business - Silk Industry
Candle (Centre Square)
Jan. 28
Nov. 28
1908
1908
Easton Sentinel
Express
1908
Standard silk mill strike
Account of its history and the people who
inspired it
Calvary Baptists disband and return to First
Baptist.
Obituary of Rev. Pfatteicher
Churches - Baptist
Sept. 8
1908
Churches - Luteran - Zion
Sept. 22
Churches - Lutheran - St. Peter's
March 3
1908
St. Peter's Lutheran Church.
Churches - Lutheran - Zion
Sept. 19
1908
Obituary of Rev. Pfatteicher.
Churches - Lutheran - Zion
Sept. 19
1908
Easton Express
Clubs - Concordia Maennerchor
April 21
1908
Coleman, Lyman
Cremator
Crime - Black Hand (Extortion)
March 24
Dec. 5
March 17
1908
1908
1908
Obituary of Rev. Pfatteicher of Zion
Evangelical Lutheran Church.
Founded March 29, 1883 celebrating 25th
Anniversary
Lectures established at Lafayette
Cremator plan gets a start.
Black Hand makes threat in alliance.
Crime - Muder
June 5
1908
Easton Express
Crime - Murder
April 28
1908
Robert Bachman, murderer of Irene May
Smith, declared insane.
Irene May Smith, child killed in religious
frenzy at Nazareth, PA by Robert Bachman.
Easton Express
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Rinek Rope Co. - old "rope walk" to be razed Easton Daily Free Press
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Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
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p. 5
p. 5
p. 1 & 5, illus.
p. 7
p.3
P. 5
p. 5
Crime - Murder
April 28 - 30
1908
Girl offered as sacrifce by fanatics. Five year Easton Express
old killed by religious maniacs in Nazareth,
PA. Robert Bachman named as murderer.
Crime - Murder
June 3
1908
Crime - Murder
June 4
1908
Crime - Murder
June 8
1908
Robert Bachman, murderer of Irene May
Smith, declared insane.
Robert Bachman, murderer of Irene May
Smith, declared insane.
Irene May Smith, child killed in religious
frenzy at Nazareth, PA by Robert Bachman.
Crime - Murder
May 1 & 2
1908
Girl offered as sacrifce by fanatics. Five year Easton Express
old killed by religious maniacs in Nazareth,
PA. Robert Bachman named as murderer.
Crime - Murder
May 22 & 27
1908
Girl offered as sacrifce by fanatics. Five year Easton Express
old killed by religious maniacs in Nazareth,
PA. Robert Bachman named as murderer.
Crime - Murder
May 26
1908
p. 1
Crime - Murder
May 4
1908
Robert Bachman kills little girl in religious
Easton Sentinel
frenzy.
Girl offered as sacrifce by fanatics. Five year Easton Express
old killed by religious maniacs in Nazareth,
PA. Robert Bachman named as murderer.
Crime - Murder
May 5
1908
Easton Sentinel
p. 8
Easton Public Library
Aug. 7
1908
Robert Bachman kills little girl in religious
frenzy.
Library Publicity
P.5
Easton Public Library
March 20
1908
Library Publicity
Easton Public Library
Nov. 10
1908
Library Publicity
Easton, City of - Bond Issues
Jan. 19
1908
Bond issue beaten
Easton semi-weekly free
press
Easton semi-weekly free
press
Easton semi-weekly free
press
Easton Express
Easton Express
Easton Express
p. 5
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P.1
P.5
Easton, City of - Fire Deparment - June 6
Stations - South Side
1908
South Side fire station site selected
Easton Express
Easton, City of - Fire Department - Aug. 4
Stations - College Hill
1908
New firehouse planned
Easton Express
Easton, City of - Fire Department - April 4
Stations - South Side
1908
South Side fire station site selected
Easton Express
Easton, City of - Fire Department - Jan. 4
Stations - South Side
1908
Kleinhans lot decided upon for South Side
firehouse
Easton Express
Easton, City of - Fire Department - March 10
Stations - South Side
1908
Kleinhans lot decided upon for South Side
firehouse
Easton Express
Easton, City of - Fire Department - March 28
Stations - South Side
1908
Kleinhans lot decided upon for South Side
firehouse - bids
Easton Express
Easton, City of - Fire Department - March 5
Stations - South Side
1908
Kleinhans lot decided upon for South Side
firehouse
Easton Express
Easton, City of - Police Dept. Employees
Easton, City of - Slogans
Dec. 15
1908
List and picture of Easton police force
Easton Sentinel
Jan. 15
1908
Easton's slogan
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton, City of - Streets - Eighth
Street
Easton, City of - Streets - Eighth
Street
Easton, City of - Streets - Eighth
Street
Education - Foreigners
May 15
1908
p. 3
Sept. 5
1908
New cement steps at 8th and Northampton Easton Free Press (semiSt.
weekly ed.)
Eighth St. steps will be built
Easton Express
Sept. 8
1908
p. 7
Jan. 10
1908
New cement steps at 8th and Northampton Easton Free Press (semiSt.
weekly ed.)
To establish a night school for foreigners.
Easton Express
Electric Lighting
Jan. 9
1908
Making city's new lamps.
p. 5
Easton Express
p. 5
p. 5
p. 5
Electric Lighting
Oct. 10
1908
Inspection of the Edison Portland Plant.
Easton Daily Free Press
Fire Companies - Humane Fire
Co.
Fireman's Parade
Flag
Flag
Flag
Oct. 31
1908
Easton Daily Free Press
Oct. 31
Feb. 22
March 10
March 10
1908
1908
1908
1908
Picture of the Humane's Old Hand Pump
Engine.
Fireman's Parade on inspection day.
City councils adopt municipal flag.
City flag adopted.
City flag adopted.
Flag
March 7
1908
Council adopts municipal flag.
Flag - History
Jan. 24
1908
p. 5
Garbage
Dec. 5
1908
Garbage - Disposal
June 13
1908
History of the flag that may become our city Easton Express
flag.
Proposed loan for crematory to burn
Easton Daily Free Press
garbage.
Move for city garbage disposal. Department Easton Express
favors bond issue for site and plant.
Hackett Park
March 7
1908
Mayor signs park ordinance.
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 5
Health
Jan. 15
1908
Easton Express
Hubbard, Elbert
Jacobsburg -Tract
March 24
Sept. 18
1908
1908
Lehigh Valley Railroad - Trains
Feb. 3
1908
Health commission Dixon pleads with
Easton.
Elbert Hubbard of Heptosoph Hall.
Jacobsburg Tract to be bought for water
supply.
Black Diamond to be discontinued.
Market House
Murder
Nov. 13
Feb. 19
1908
1908
A move for a new market house.
Murderer, William Handy to die tomorrow.
Easton Express
Easton Express
Murder
Feb. 21
1908
Murder
Jan. 14
1908
William Handy executed for murder of South Easton Free Press (semiBethlehem policeman.
weekly ed.)
William Handy, murderer, hears death
Easton Express
warrant.
Easton Express
Easton Express
Easton Sentinel
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Sentinel
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Express
p. 4
p. 5
p. 1
p. 1 & 5
p. 5
Murder
Jan. 3
1908
Nazareth, Pa. - Churches
Aug. 31
1908
Nazareth, Pa. - Churches
Aug. 31
1908
Nazareth, Pa. - Churches
Sept. 28
1908
Orpheum Theatre
Nov. 23
1908
Orpheum Theatre
Oct. 20
1908
Patriotic Order Sons of America
William Handy's race raises funds to carry
fight to the Board of Pardons.
Cornerstone laying at St. John's, Nazareth.
Easton Express
p. 5
Easton Daily Free Press
Cornerstone of St. John's Lutheran Church, Easton Express
Nazareth, laid.
Bishop's lay cornerstone of Catholic school Easton Express
in Nazareth.
Orpheum going back to original policy -- all Easton Daily Free Press
vaudeville (Had been showing some movie).
Orpheum to show moving pictures and 3
vaudeville acts. Last week of all vaudeville.
Easton Daily Free Press
History of Easton camp 233, P.O.S. of V.
Easton Sentinel
Patriotic Order Sons of America
Jan. 28, Feb. 4, 1908
March 3
March 10
1908
History of Camp P.O.S. of V.
Easton Sentinel
Paxinosa Inn
March 25
1908
Easton Daily Free Press
Phillipsburg, N.J. - Education
Jan. 28
1908
Lutherans make offer for Paxinosa (for a
women's college).
High School annex appropriation granted.
Postal Service
Riverside Park
Riverside Park
Dec. 7
Feb. 4
Jan. 22
1908
1908
1908
Free delivery of mail is 35 years old.
New scheme for the park fund.
Park fund for Riverside Park grows slowly.
Riverside Park
Riverside Park
Jan. 23
Jan. 24
1908
1908
Appeal for park fund.
Subscriptions to Riverside Park project.
Riverside Park
June 16
1908
Riverside Park
March 7
1908
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Express
Easton Express
Easton Express
Easton Express
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Riverside Park -- report to subscribers by D. Easton Sentinel
W. Nevin.
Park fund still short, but Riverside site has
Easton Express
been formally conveyed to city.
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P. 5
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p. 5
p. 7
Roads
Oct. 24, 25, 26 1908
Roseto, Pa.
Sept. 29
1908
Scrip
Jan. 24
1908
Sewerage
Feb. 7, 11 & 18 1908
Scandal on roads -- $100,000 more to be
expended.
Fatal accident to founder of Roseto -Nicholas Roseto.
Clearing house script called in - banks no
longer need.
Proposed sewer system for Easton.
Sewerage
Sewerage
Jan. 11
Jan. 14
1908
1908
Proposed sewer system for Easton.
Proposed sewer system for Easton.
Sewerage
Jan. 15
1908
Sewerage
Jan. 9
1908
Spitting
Synagogues - B'nai Abraham
July 27
Sept. 21
1908
1908
Synagogues - B'nai Abraham
Sept. 21
1908
Synagogues - B'nai Abraham
Sept. 21
1908
Synagogues - B'nai Abraham
Sept. 23
1908
Telephone - Company
Aug. 12
1908
Representative men of Easton discuss
sewage and garbage question.
Dixon, state prosecutor will prosecute city
unless waste water into sewers.
Anti-spitting law goes into effect.
Dedication of Temple - Children of Abraham
on 6th St.
Pretty Synagogue is dedicated. (Children of
Abraham)
Dedication of Temple - Children of Abraham
on 6th St.
Dedication of Temple - Children of Abraham
on 6th St.
Easton Independent lines now under control
of American Union Telegraph Co.
Telephone - Company
Aug. 13
1908
Tombler, Jr., Henry G.
July 10
Travel - Schwep
Oct. 2, 3
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Sentinel
Easton Express
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Express
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Express
p. 3
p. 8
p. 6
Easton Express
Easton Express
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 5
Easton Express
Easton Sentinel
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Express
p. 1
Telephone companies are consolidated.
Easton Express
p. 3
1908
Obit. Of Henry G. Tombler, Jr.
p. 3
1908
Letters of Frank Schwep in Africa.
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 5
Trolley Transportation
April 5
1908
City beaten in suits against trolley roads.
Easton Daily Free Press
Trolley Transportation - Easton
Transit Co.
Trolley Transportation - Easton
Transit Co.
Trolley Transportation - Easton
Transit Co.
Trolley Transportation - Easton
Transit Co.
Dec. 21
1908
Transit Co. replies to city.
Easton Daily Free Press
March 2
1908
Judge Scott says transit Co. may build bridge. Easton Daily Free Press
Nov. 20
1908
Easton Daily Free Press
Nov. 6
1908
Easton Daily Free Press
Trolley Transportation - Easton
Oct. 29
Transit Co.
Trolley Transportation - Nazareth June 21
1908
1908
City sues transit co. to give 10 minute
service.
Transit Co. issues statement about service
(concerning discontinuing every 10 min.
service).
Transit Company won't give 10 minute
schedule.
Trolley now connects Nazareth to Bath.
Trolley Transportation - Tracks
Feb. 19
1908
Development of Easton trolleys.
Trolley Transportation - Tracks
Jan. 6
1908
Court asked to compel transit co. to remove Easton Daily Free Press
tracks (Suit to try to compel Easton transit
Co. to give 10 min. service).
Tuberculosis
April 24
1908
Easton Express
p. 5
Tuberculosis
March 2
1908
Easton Express
p. 5
Tuberculosis
March 3
1908
Water - South Side Co.
June 11
1908
Water Supply
Weather - Drought
Able Opera House
Dec. 19
Oct. 20
Sept. 1
1908
1908
1909
T.B. dispensary for Easton expected to open
April 28.
Local branch of Anti-Tuberculosis Society is
organized.
Organization affected -- Eastonians unite to
carry on work against T. B.
No water for So. Side. Petition to extend
mains.
Public Water Works proposed.
Great 1908 drought.
Shuberts lease the Able Opera House.
Able Opera House
Sept. 1
1909
Shuberts lease the Able Opera House.
Easton Express
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
p. 2
Easton Express
Easton Sentinel
p. 3
Easton Sentinel
Easton Express
Easton Express
Easton Sentinel
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 5
Aeronautics
Mar. 9
1909
Aeroplane built in this city on plans of
Easton Express
Norwin Rinek
Rinek airship damaged in first trial. Built and Easton Express
flown by Eastonians.
Rinek airship - built and flown by Eastonians. Easton Express
Airship damaged in 1st trial.
Aeronautics - Airships
Dec. 22
1909
Airships
Dec. 22
1909
Ashton, E. Harris
Automobile Agencies
Oct. 27
Nov. 10
1909
1909
Obituary of E. Harris Ashton.
Easton Express
No auto plant for this city. (Ewing Auto Co.) Easton Daily Free Press
p. 5
Automobile Agencies
Nov. 16
1909
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 5
Automobile Agencies
Oct. 12
1909
Ellsworth Case has started plant for
vulcanizing tires--another new industry for
Easton.
New auto plant assured--Ewing Auto Co.
Automobile Agencies
Oct. 6
1909
New auto plant assured - Ewing Auto Co.
Easton Daily Free Press
Baseball - Clubs.
Aug. 3
1909
Easton Sentinel
Baseball - Clubs.
Aug. 31
1909
Baseball.
July 13, 1909.
1909
Baseball.
July 14, 1909.
1909
Baseball.
July 2, 1909.
1909
Bridges - Glendon
Bridges, Lehigh
Jan. 5
June 8
1909
1909
Bridges, Delaware
July 15
1909
Information on Harry Hopper, President of
Easton and Phillipsburg city leagues of
baseball.
Picture of officers and directors of City
League.
Easton chopped from baseball league
(Atlantic League).
Easton chopped from baseball league
(Atlantic League).
Easton chopped from baseball league.
(Atlantic League).
New bridge for Glendon
Board of Trade favors new bridge over the
Lehigh
Hammers out for new bridge. At least one
commissioner and engineer oppose him.
Easton Sentinel
Easton Sentinel
Easton Express
Easton Express
Easton Express
Easton Sentinel
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Express
illus.
Bridges, Lehigh
July 9
1909
Bridges, Lehigh
June 9
1909
Bridges, Lehigh
May 7
1909
Business - Banks
July 13
1909
Business - Banks
July 6
1909
Business - Cement Industry
Dec. 30
1909
Business - Cement Industry
Dec. 31
1909
Business - Foundries
March 18
1909
Business - Foundries
March 23
1909
Business - Laundries
April 1
1909
Business - Music & Musicians
Nov. 22
Central Railroad - Wrecks
All boosting for a new bridge over Lehigh
River
Board of Trade favors new bridge over the
Lehigh
Lehigh bridge needs repairs
Easton Express
p. 5
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Sentinel
Northampton National Bank - a perfect
building.
Northampton National Bank has moved to a Easton Free Press (seminew location at 4th & Northampton Sts.
weekly ed.)
Easton Daily Free Press
1909
Alpha Portland Cement Co. to merge with
cement manufacturing company.
Alpha Portland Cement Co. to merge with
cement manufacturing company.
Fire destroys Easton Foundry and Machine
Co.
Easton Foundry and Machine Co. greatly
damaged by fire.
Obituary of James M. Dreisbach. Opened
first laundry
Bach choral society organized for Easton
Oct. 9
1909
Worst wreck in C.R.R. history at Siegfried's.
Easton Express
Chamber of Commerce, Easton
Feb. 26
1909
New Board of Trade ready to boost Easton
Easton Express
Churches - Episcopal
Nov. 2
1909
Churches - St. Bernard's
Sept. 13
1909
Memorials dedicated at Trinity Episcopal
Church.
Dedication of the new parochial school.
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Daily Free Press
Churches - St. Bernard's
Sept. 14
1909
Dedication of the new parochial school.
Easton Semi-Weekly Free
Press
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Express
p. 2
p. 8
p. 1
Easton Sentinel
Easton Express
p. 5
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 1
Churches - St. Bernard's
Sept. 21
1909
Parochial school of St. Bernard's dedicated.
Easton Sentinel
Clothing Stores
July 8
1909
July 30
1909
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
p. 3
Clubs - Moose
Mayer Family.
Advertising.
Loyal Order of the Moose started here
Clubs - Moose
Sept. 20
1909
Cremetory
Dachrodt, Jacob
Daughters of American
Revolution, George Taylor
Chapter
Daughters of American
Revolution. George Taylor
Chapter
Davis, Daniel
Davis, Daniel F.
Easton Hospital - Ambulance
March 25
June 8
June 8
1909
1909
1909
P. 5
Obit. Of Col, Jacob Dachrodt
Easton Express
Easton Sentinel
Easton Centinel
Nov 27
1909
Obit. Of Daniel F. Davis.
Easton Express
Nov 27
Nov. 27
Aug. 6 & 25
1909
1909
1909
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Easton Express
Easton Express
Easton Lodge 45, L.O.O.M., organized
September 20, 1909
plants to be examined
Easton, City of - Fire Department - Nov. 30
Stations - College Hill
1909
Obit. Of Daniel F. Davis.
Obituary
Ambulance must go next month. Hospital to
be notified that city will no longer take
charge of it.
Shake up in No. 3 engine house
Easton, City of - Slogan
Jan. 15
1909
Slogan "Easton - City of Resources" adopted Easton Express
Easton, City of - Slogans
April 27
1909
Easton, City of - Slogans
Jan. 19
1909
Easton's slogan sign - illumination now tells Easton Sentinel
of city of resources
Easton - City of Resources is the new slogan Easton Sentinel
Easton, City of - Streets - Fourth June 4
Street
Easton, City of - Streets - Fourth Aug. 6
Street
1909
Wood paving of 4th St.
Easton Daily Free Press
1909
Wood paving of 4th St.
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
P. 5
p. 5
p. 3
p. 5
p. 2
Easton, City of - Streets - Fourth
Street
Easton, City of - Streets - Fourth
Street
Easton, City of - Streets - Fourth
Street
Easton, City of - Streets - Fourth
Street
Easton, City of - Streets - Fourth
Street
Easton, City of - Streets - Fourth
Street
Easton, City of - Streets - Paving
June 18
1909
Wood paving of Fourth St.
June 8
1909
Wood paving of 4th St.
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 1
Oct. 16
1909
Wood paving of 4th St.
Easton Daily Free Press
Oct. 8
1909
Fourth Street paving to start
p. 7
Sept. 18
1909
Wood paving of Fourth St.
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Daily Free Press
Sept. 21
1909
Fourth St. paving to start
p. 3
April 17
1909
Easton, City of - Streets - Paving
Aug. 17
1909
Easton, City of - Streets - Paving
Aug. 20
1909
Easton, City of - Streets - Paving
Aug. 28
1909
Easton, City of - Streets - Paving
Dec. 17
1909
Easton, City of - Streets - Paving
Oct. 15
1909
Easton, City of - Streets - Paving
Oct. 9
1909
New street scheme provides for levying a
fee for digging up streets
Wood block now up to transit on trolley's
decisions. Depends on style of pavement on
4th St.
Wood block now up to transit on trolley's
decisions. Depends on style of pavement on
4th St.
Wood block now up to transit on trolley's
decisions. Depends on style of pavement on
4th St.
Wood block now up to transit on trolley's
decisions. Depends on style of pavement on
4th St.
Wood block now up to transit on trolley's
decisions. Depends on style of pavement on
4th St.
Wood block now up to transit on trolley's
decisions. Depends on style of pavement on
4th St.
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Express
Easton Express
Easton Express
Easton Express
Easton Express
p. 5
Easton Express
p. 5
Easton Express
p. 5
Easton, City of - Streets - Paving
Sept. 18
1909
Easton, South - History
April 30
1909
Easton, South - History
April 30
1909
Electric Lighting
June 10
1909
Garbage
Aug. 21
1909
Wood block now up to transit on trolley's
Easton Express
decisions. Depends on style of pavement on
4th St.
South Side's old town hall to be a factory
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Mauch & Centre St. was meeting hall for
Easton Free Press (semiReeder Battery, Sons of Veterans
weekly ed.)
New lamps for the city streets. Department Easton Express
picks location for as many as can be erected
now.
Gang blocked. Fails to try the garbage grab. Easton Express
Garbage
Aug. 7
1909
Gang blocked. Fails to try the garbage grab.
Easton Express
Garbage
Dec. 4
1909
Easton Daily Free Press
Garbage
Jan. 16
1909
Garbage
Garbage
Garbage
July 1
July 22
June 30
1909
1909
1909
Easton will buy a Morse-Boulanger
Crematorium.
Garbage question up to people. Ordinance
to bond city for $45,000 for incinerating
plant passed by councils.
Garbage question still unsolved.
Garbage men still in dark.
Site selected for garbage crematory.
Garbage
March 2
1909
Easton Express
Garbage
March 23
1909
Garbage
Garbage
May 29
Sept. 16
1909
1909
Garbage question up to people. Ordinance
to bond city for $45,000 for incinerating
plant passed by councils.
Garbage question up to people. Ordinance
to bond city for $45,000 for incinerating
plant passed by councils.
Garbage question still unsolved.
Gang blocked. Fails to try the garbage grab.
Garbage - Disposal
Aug. 13
1909
Ash & refuse burning plan not in favor.
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
p. 5
p. 3
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Easton Daily Free Press
p. 5
p. 5
p. 5
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Easton Express
p. 1
Garbage - Disposal
Dec. 7
1909
Easton to buy a Morse-Boulger.
Garbage - Disposal
July 2
1909
Ash & refuse burning plan not in favor.
Gas - Easton Gas and Electric Co. Nov. 2
1909
Gas - People's Consolidated
Service Co.
Sept. 4
1909
Easton Gas and Electric co. headquarters
open to the public.
Peoples Consolidated Service Co. merged
with Easton Gas and Electric Co.
Glendon
Sept. 7
1909
Old Home Day.
Glendon, Pa. - Celebration
Sept. 4 - 6
1909
Glendon's old home day.
Glendon, Pa. - Celebration
Sept. 4 & 6
1909
Green, Traill
June 8
1909
Health, Board of
Dec. 17
1909
From far and near came folks to old Glendon Easton Express
"Home Day" brought back hundreds of
former residents.
Cemetery association to erect monument to Easton Express
its founder.
Rules and regulation of the Board of Health. Easton Daily Free Press
Dec. 21
Aug. 5 & 12,
Sept. 2, 23, 30,
Oct. 16, Nov.
20
Incinerator
Dec. 14
Lafayette College - South College Aug. 7
1909
1909
Obit.
Still no site for incineration.
Easton Sentinel
Easton Express
1909
1909
Still no site for incineration.
Fire at South College
Easton Express
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 5
Lafayette College - South Hall
Aug. 10
1909
Fire damages South Hall.
p. 3
Nazareth, Pa. - Churches
May 18
1909
Northampton Co., PA - Prison Building
April 23
1909
50th anniversary of St. John's Reformed
Church, Nazareth.
Auditors want to examine the jail work
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Express
Horn, John
Incinerator
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 3
Easton Express
p. 5
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
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p. 2, 3
p. 1
p. 5
p. 8
Northampton Co., PA - Prison Building
Northampton Co., PA - Prison Building
April 27
1909
Auditors want to examine the jail work
Easton Express
Aug. 3
1909
Trap set for inspectors not touched. Prison
board refused to accept new jail.
Easton Express
Northampton Co., PA - Prison Building
Aug. 6
1909
Trap set for inspectors not touched. Prison
board refused to accept new jail.
Easton Express
Northampton Co., PA - Prison Building
Northampton Co., PA - Prison Building
Northampton Co., PA - Prison Building
Dec. 24
1909
More defects found in the new prison
Easton Express
Jan. 1
1909
Auditors want to examine the jail work
Easton Express
July 29
1909
Trap set for inspectors not touched. Prison
board refused to accept new jail.
Easton Express
p. 5
Northampton Co., PA - Prison Building
July 30
1909
Trap set for inspectors not touched. Prison
board refused to accept new jail.
Easton Express
p. 5
Northampton Co., PA - Prison Building
June 7
1909
Trap set for inspectors not touched. Prison
board refused to accept new jail.
Easton Express
Northampton Co., PA - Prison Building
Northampton Co., PA - Prison Building
Northampton Co., PA - Prison Building
Northampton Co., PA - Prison Building
Northampton Co., PA - Prison Building
Northampton Co., PA - Prison Building
May 15
1909
Auditors want to examine the jail work
Easton Express
May 17
1909
Auditors want to examine the jail work
Easton Express
May 18
1909
Auditors want to examine the jail work
Easton Express
May 19
1909
Auditors want to examine the jail work
Easton Express
May 20
1909
Auditors want to examine the jail work
Easton Express
May 21
1909
Auditors want to examine the jail work
Easton Express
Northampton Co., PA - Prison Building
Northampton Co., PA - Prison Building
Northampton Co., PA - Prison Building
Northampton Co., PA - Prison Building
Northampton Co., PA - Prison Building
Northampton Co., PA - Prison Building
Northampton Co., PA - Prison Building
May 25
1909
Auditors want to examine the jail work
Easton Express
May 3
1909
Auditors want to examine the jail work
Easton Express
May 4
1909
Auditors want to examine the jail work
Easton Express
May 7
1909
Auditors want to examine the jail work
Easton Express
May 7
1909
Auditors want to examine the jail work
Easton Express
Oct. 19
1909
More defects found in the new prison
Easton Express
Oct. 30
1909
Trap set for inspectors not touched. Prison
board refused to accept new jail.
Easton Express
Orpheum Theatre
Orpheum Theatre
Dec. 21
Dec. 3
1909
1909
Palmer Township - Annexation
Aug. 7
1909
Orpheum two years old.
New theatre to be built between 4th & 5th
Sts.
Palmer Township wants to come into city.
Easton Sentinel
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Express
Phillipsburg, N.J. - Education
Oct. 8
1909
School buildings condemned -- Phillipsburg. Easton Daily Free Press
Playgrounds
1909
Easton urged to establish a park system.
Easton Daily Free Press
Red Cross
Nov. 17, Dec.
15
Nov. 9, 23
1909
Easton Express
p. 5
Rodenbough Family
Roseto, Pa.
April 2
Aug. 27
1909
1909
Red Cross Christmas stamp to be sold by
Tuberculosis Society.
Obit. Of Joseph S. Rodenbough.
Roseto again asks to become a borough.
Easton Express
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 5
Sandt Family
Signs
Signs
May 5
Feb. 2
Feb. 20
1909
1909
1909
Obit. Of C. Albert Sandt.
Overhead signs get a boost.
Ordinance approved.
Easton Express
Easton Express
Easton Express
p. 1
p. 5
Trolley Transportation
Jan. 6
1909
Trolley Transportation
March 22
1909
Trolley Transportation - Easton
Transit Co.
Trolley Transportation - Easton
Transit Co.
Trolley Transportation - Easton
Transit Co.
April 6
1909
Dec. 11
1909
Jan. 6
1909
Trolley Transportation Schedules
April 5
1909
Trolley Transportation Schedules
March 22
1909
Water - Plant
Water - Plant
Water Supply
July 23
May 8
July 27
1909
1909
1909
Water Supply
Water Supply
July 27
June 23
1909
1909
Weather - Snow
Welfare
Dec. 25
Oct. 22
1909
1909
Women
April 30
Y.W.C.A.
Nov. 5
Demands streets from trolley - court ask to Easton Express
order transit company to vacate certain
thorofares.
City test suit now in court - demand 10 A.M. Easton Express
schedule or vacation of streets by Transit Co.
City loses suit to Transit Co. (City sued to
force return of 10 min. service).
Easton transit Co. starts through service to
Allentown.
Demand streets from trolley. Courts ask to
order transit co. to vacate certain
thorofares.
City test suit now in court. Demand 10
minute schedule or vacations of streets by
transit co.
City test suit now in court. Demand 10
minute schedule or vacations of streets by
transit co.
Citizens to vote on water works.
Citizens to vote on water works.
In favor of city owned water works.
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Express
p. 1
Easton Express
Easton Express
Easton Express
p. 5
Easton Express
Easton Express
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
For city water works.
Easton Sentinel
Council in favor of city owned water works -- Easton Daily Free Press
people will have to decide.
Christmas blizzard.
Easton Express
Charity Organized Society of Easton -- an
Easton Free Press (semiorganization to aid poor -- organized.
weekly ed.)
p. 5
1909
Splendid work of Easton's noble women.
p. 5
1909
Easton Y.W.C.A. seems assured.
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 2
p. 6
p. 5
Y.W.C.A.
Oct. 15
1909
Easton's Y.W.C.A. organized.
Easton Daily Free Press
Y.W.C.A.
Oct. 7
1909
Easton Y.W.C.A. seems assured.
Easton Daily Free Press
Y.W.C.A.
Oct. 8
1909
Easton Y.W.C.A. seems assured.
Able Opera House
Aug. 19
1910
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Express
Able Opera House - Vaudeville
Aug. 19
1910
Aeronautics - Airships
Feb. 28
1910
New arrangement for theatre - Vaudeville
goes to Able Opera House and legitimate to
Orpheum
New arrangement for theatre - Able Opera Easton Express
House gets vaudeville, the Orpheum goes
legitimate.
Easton Cordage Co. to make light airships.
Easton Express
Airships
Feb. 28
1910
Albright, Allen
Oct. 9
1910
Bakeries
Feb. 2
1910
Bangor, PA - Elks
Feb. 23
Banks
p. 1
p. 6
Easton Cordage Company to make light
airships.
Obituary of Allen Albright.
Easton Express
Easton Express
p. 5
1910
Bakers promise reforms--Board of health
after them.
Bangor Lodge of Elks dedicates new home.
p. 3
Oct. 18
1910
Fire at First Natinal Bank Building.
Baseball.
Business - 1900 - 1919
Jan. 14
June 15
1910
1910
Business - 1900- 1919
June 28
1910
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
p. 9
Business - 5 & 10 Cent Stores
Nov. 22
1910
Baseball League seems assured.
Four new industries to locate in Easton;
Victor Balata, Vulcan Hard Fibre Co., Easton
Rubber Manufactory, Keiper and Heller
Knitting Mill.
EASTON
Business improvements. Stores moving to
new buildings.
New 5 & 10 cent store coming to Easton.
(United 5 & 10).
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Express
Easton Express
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
p. 1
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 3
p. 5.
Business - Banks
Oct. 18
1910
Business - Bethlehem Steel
Business - Bethlehem Steel
Business - Bethlehem Steel
Business - Bethlehem Steel
Business - Bethlehem Steel
Business - Bethlehem Steel
Business - Bethlehem Steel
Business - Bethlehem Steel
April 14
April 14
April 15
April 5
April 8
Feb. 16 & 17
Feb. 25
Feb. 26
Business - Bethlehem Steel
Fire at First National Bank Building.
p. 3
1910
1910
1910
1910
1910
1910
1910
1910
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Steel strikers before court.
Easton Express
Steel strikers plead guilty.
Easton Express
Bethlehem Steel strikes plead guilty.
Easton Express
Strike situation at Bethlehem.
Easton Sentinel
A new furnace of Schwab plant.
Easton Express
Bethlehem Steel strike of 1910
Easton Express
Mobs attacl workmen.
Easton Express
Schwab closes steel works (works on strike). Easton Daily Free Press
Feb. 5
1910
Strike spreads at Bethlehem steel works.
Easton Express
p. 5
Business - Bethlehem Steel
Business - Bethlehem Steel
Feb. 7 - 14
March 1
1910
1910
Easton Express
Easton Sentinel
Business - Bethlehem Steel
Business - Bethlehem Steel
Business - Bethlehem Steel
March 11
March 15
March 16
1910
1910
1910
Business - Bethlehem Steel
March 1-7
1910
Shots for strikers at steel mill.
So. Bethlehem strike - two men shot by
state constables.
No permit for parade on Saturday.
Strike at Bethlehem.
Government sends agent to investigate
labor conditions.
Schwab closes steel works (works on strike).
Business - Bethlehem Steel
March 2
1910
Schwab's force in steel plant is increasing.
Easton Express
Business - Bethlehem Steel
Business - Bethlehem Steel
Business - Bethlehem Steel
March 2 & 11
March 22
March 31
1910
1910
1910
Easton Express
Easton Sentinel
Easton Express
Business - Bethlehem Steel
Business - Bethlehem Steel
Business - Bethlehem Steel
March 8
May 17
May 18
1910
1910
1910
Business - Bethlehem Steel
May 23
1910
Trooper who shot Hun under bail.
Trouble at Bethlehem.
Bethlehem Steel strike of 1910 damages
business.
Schwab has strikers' demand.
Editorial on So. Bethlehem strike.
Bethlehem Steel strike is officially declared
off.
Effort made to prolong Bethlehem steel
strike.
Easton Express
Easton Sentinel
Easton Express
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Sentinel
Easton Sentinel
Easton Express
Easton Express
p. 5
Business - Bethlehem Steel
Business - Bethlehem Steel
Business - Boots and Shoes
May 3
May 4
Jan. Huh?
1910
1910
1910
Editorial on So. Bethlehem strike.
Easton Sentinel
Report on condidtions at Bethlehem.
Easton Express
Hay Boot and Shoe Co. to go out of business. Easton Express
Business - Breweries
Oct. 4
1910
Kuebler foundries co. improve plant.
Business - Cement Industry
April 13
1910
Business - Cement Industry
Jan. 21
1910
Business - Cement Industry
Jan. 21
1910
Business - Department Stores Laubach's
Business - Department Stores Laubach's
Business - Department Stores Laubach's
Business - Foundries
April 6
1910
Men lose lives at stone quarry of Nazareth
Cement Co.
Alpha plan adopted. Cement company and
manufacturers concerned merged with
capitol of $10,000,000.
Alpha plan adopted. Cement company and
manufacturers concerned merged with
capitol of $10,000,000.
Laubach's department store 50 years old
April 8
1910
Laubach's in business for 50 years
Oct. 12
1910
Laubach's new store ready
Sept. 30
1910
Business - Hosiery
Feb. 17
1910
Kuebler Foundries will improve and enlarge Easton Daily Free Press
plant.
New knitting mill - Easton Knitting Mills Co. Easton Express
Business - Hosiery
Business - Hotels, Taverns, etc.
Oct. 1
Dec. 17
1910
1910
Business - Keller's Music House
April 15
1910
Business - Keller's Music House
May 7
1910
Rapid growth of Chipman Mills.
Easton Express
Hotel Huntington re-opens on Monday after Easton Daily Free Press
being redecorated.
Keller's Music House may be enlarged.
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Keller & Son will make pianos.
Easton Express
Business - Keller's Music House
May 7
1910
Keller's Music House may be enlarged.
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Express
p. 3
Easton Express
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Express
p. 4
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 3
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 5
p. 5
p. 5
Business - Keller's Music House
May 7
1910
Keller's Music House may be enlarged.
Easton Express
p. 5
Business - Keller's Music House
Oct. 5
1910
Keller's piano factory now in operation.
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 5
Business - Petroleum Industry
March 19
1910
Easton oil company plant burns
Easton Daily Free Press
Business - Petroleum Industry
March 19
1910
Easton oil plant burned
Easton Express
p. 5
Business - Rope Works
April 5
1910
Easton Cordage Co. sued
p. 1, 2
Business - Shoe Stores
April 21
1910
Hay boot and shoe store out of business
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Daily Free Press
Business - Treadwell Engineering
Co.
Business - Treadwell Engineering
Co.
Business - Treadwell Engineering
Co.
Business - Treadwell Engineering
Co.
Business - Treadwell Engineering
Co.
Business - Victor Balata Belting
Co.
Business - Victor Balata Belting
Co.
Business - Victor Balata Belting
Co.
Business - Victor Balata Belting
Co.
Business - Victor Balata Belting
Co.
Business - Victor Balata Belting
Co.
June 28
1910
New industry for Easton - Treadwell
Easton Daily Free Press
June 28
1910
New industry for Easton - Treadwell
Easton Express
Oct. 11
1910
Treadwell underway - ground broken
Easton Sentinel
Oct. 6
1910
Ground broken for big works - Treadwell
Easton Daily Free Press
Oct. 6
1910
Treadwell underway - ground broken
Easton Express
Aug. 4
1910
Bright prospects for belting company
Easton Express
p. 5
Aug. 8
1910
New things about the belting plant
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 5
Feb. 11
1910
1910
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 5
Feb. 9
July 12
1910
Victor Balata Belting Co. to be new industry
for Easton
Victor Balata Velting plant to be new
industry for Easton
Balata belting factory
July 5
1910
Ground broken for new belting plant
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 5
Easton Sentinel
p. 3
Business - Victor Balata Belting
Co.
Business - Victor Balata Belting
Co.
Business - Victor Balata Belting
Co.
Centre Square - Trees
July 6
1910
Victor Balata Belting Co. to be new industry Easton Free Press (semifor Easton
weekly ed.)
Balata belting factory
Easton Sentinel
June 28
1910
May 11
1910
July 19
1910
Chamber of Commerce, Easton
Feb. 11
1910
Chamber of Commerce, Easton
Feb. 15
1910
Agreement for leather belting company now Easton Daily Free Press
assured
Plan to improve Easton Circle. Gives diagram Easton Sentinel
of trees
Holds first annual meeting
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Board of Trade completes first year Easton Sentinel
Chamber of Commerce, Easton
June 17
1910
Landed 4 new industries
Children's Home, Easton
Churches - Methodist
June 18
Oct. 21
1910
1910
25 years of noble work
Local history of Methodism
Churches - Methodist
Oct. 25
1910
Local history of Methodism
Churches - Reformed
Sept. 27
1910
Churches - St. Anthony's
Nov. 21
1910
Churches - St. John's Lutheran
April 29
Churches - St. John's Lutheran
p. 5
p. 3
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Express
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 6
p. 2
1910
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Grace Reformed congregation (College Hill) Easton Free Press (semianniversary
weekly ed.)
Dedication of St. Anthony's Catholic mission Easton Daily Free Press
on East Lehigh Street.
Parish house at St. John's dedicated.
Easton Express
May 3
1910
Parish house at St. John's dedicated.
p. 1
Churches - St. Joseph
Dec. 27
1910
Circuses
June 7
1910
Clothing Stores
Feb. 1
1910
Clothing Stores
May 29
1910
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Silver Jubilee
Easton Free Press (daily
ed.)
Ringling show comes to town
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Warne residence in Centre Square leased by Easton Free Press (semiEugene Barnako.
weekly ed.)
Description of Rosenbaum's store.
Easton Sentinel
p. 5
p. 1
p. 5
p. 5
p. 3
p. 1
Clubs - Bangor, PA
Feb. 22
1910
Bangor lodge of Elks dedicates its home.
Easton Daily Free Press
Clubs - Elks
Clubs - Elks
Clubs - Odd Fellows
May 12
May 12
June 10
1910
1910
1910
May 24
1910
Curfew
Dryland Church
Easton Post Office
Easton Public Library
November 19
Jan. 25
Oct. 8
April 19
1910
1910
1910
1910
Easton Express
Easton Express
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Express
Easton Express
Easton Express
P. 5
P. 5
P. 3
Cody, William (Buffalo Bill)
Elks home formally dedicated
Elks buy site for a home
Anniversary of Lihicton Lodge, Odd Fellows
gives history or Easton Lodge
Last visit with Wild West Show
P. 5
p. 5
Easton Public Library
June 17
1910
Curfew bill in council.
Dryland Church case in court
Contract awarded for new post office.
Church street to be graded in front of Easton
Public Library.
Councilmen don't like church street job.They Easton Express
voted $ 4,000-in front of library
Easton Public Library
March 22
1910
Nov. 19
1910
Easton semi-weekly free
press
Easton Daily Free Press
P.1
Easton, City of - Employees
New entrance for E. P. L. [from
Northampton]
Frank Howard Raub elected city engineer
Easton, City of - Employees
Nov. 5
1910
John J. McNeal resigns as city engineer
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton, City of - Fire Department - May 21
Equipment
Easton, City of - Fire Department - Aug. 12
Stations
Easton, City of - Fire Department - Aug. 12
Stations - South Side
1910
1910
Councilmen condemn their own property to Easton Express
sell old Franklin steamer
New 6th St. fire house is accepted
Easton Express
p. 5
1910
New South Side firehouse is accepted
p. 5
Easton, City of - History
April 13
1910
Easton, City of - Streets - Bank
Street
April 19
1910
"100 minutes from Broadway" is new slogan Easton Express
for boosters for Easton
Strenuous times on South Bank Street. (Lists Easton Free Press (seminew buildings going up.)
weekly ed.)
Easton Express
P. 3
p. 5
p. 2
Easton, City of - Streets - Church May 7
Street
Easton, South - Industry
Nov. 16
1910
For grading Church St.
Easton Express
p. 5
1910
South Side sites to be opened for industry
Easton Express
Education - Curriculum
May 13
1910
Recess periods established in schools.
Easton Daily Free Press
Education - Curriculum
Nov. 23
1910
Easton Daily Free Press
Education - High School (2nd
Street)
Electric Lighting
Electric Lighting
Oct. 14
1910
April 21
Dec. 11
1910
1910
Easton School District new department of
manual training a success.
One continuous session to be tried for High
School.
E.J. Fox to assist in arc lamp suit.
Board of trade secures lower lighting rate.
Electric Lighting
Dec. 15
1910
Easton Express
p. 5
Electric Lighting
Electric Lighting
Feb. 1
1910
Feb. 1, April 21 1910
Another step for contract lighting. City
department to ask bids from private
corporation.
Another flop on city lights.
Warner case off till May. City's suit over
lamps will be tried next term of court.
Easton Express
Easton Express
p. 5
p. 5
Electric Lighting
Jan. 10 & 26
1910
Warner case off till May. City's suit over
lamps will be tried next term of court.
Easton Express
Electric Lighting
Electric Lighting
Jan. 26
July 14
1910
1910
Easton Express
Easton Express
p. 5
Electric Lighting
Electric Lighting
May 9
Oct. 3
1910
1910
Easton Express
Easton Express
p. 5
p. 5
Fire Companies - Franklin Fire Co. Jan. 7
1910
May buy current for city lighting.
Councilmen are necessity for electric lights
at Riverside.
Case.
Another hitch in the city case (Warner Arc
lights).
Franklin Steamer will not be sold.
Garbage
Aug. 17
1910
Garbage
Dec. 7
1910
Easton Express
Easton Express
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Daily Free Press
Destroy garbage next month. Plant will be in Easton Express
working order.
More on the garbage question.
Easton Express
p. 5
Garbage
Feb. 14
1910
The gang, its candidates and schemes
(politics). Free Press denunciation of gang
garbage game.
Burning plans are discussed.
Acceptance of incinerator.
Easton Express
Garbage
Garbage
Feb. 26
Oct. 22
1910
1910
Easton Express
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 5
Garbage
Sept. 21
1910
Easton Express
p. 5
1910
Garbage and ashes must be separate from
now on.
Appointments at garbage plant.
Garbage - Disposal
Aug. 31
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 5
Garbage - Disposal
Feb. 8
1910
Garbage incinerator site selected.
p. 3
Garbage - Disposal
Jan. 19
1910
Dock St. site for incinerator.
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Daily Free Press
Garbage - Disposal
Jan. 21
1910
Dock St. site for incinerator.
p. 3
Garbage - Disposal
Garbage - Disposal
Jan. 22
Jan. 23
1910
1910
Dock St. site for incinerator.
Dock St. site for incinerator.
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Express
Easton Daily Free Press
Garbage - Disposal
Jan. 25
1910
One step nearer incinerator.
p. 3
Garbage - Disposal
Garbage - Disposal
Garbage - Disposal
Jan. 26
Jan. 8
July 8
1910
1910
1910
Garbage - Disposal
June 24
1910
Garbage - Disposal
March 1
1910
One step nearer incinerator.
Dock St. site for incinerator.
Town to buy equipment for garbage
collection.
Municipal garbage collection adopted
(P'Burg).
Equipment for the incinerator.
Garbage - Disposal
Garbage - Disposal
Garbage - Disposal
May 4
Oct. 19
Sept. 15
1910
1910
1910
Work at the incinerator plant.
City incinerator is accepted.
Appointments at garbage plant.
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Express
Easton Express
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Express
Easton Express
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 5
p. 5
p. 5
p. 10
p. 10
p. 3
p. 5
p. 5
Garbage - Disposal
Sept. 16
1910
Garbage - Disposal
Sept. 2
1910
Garbage - Disposal
Sept. 20
1910
Garbage - Disposal
Sept. 3
1910
Green, Traill
March 26
1910
Green, Traill
March 26
1910
Green, Traill
March 26
1910
Green, Traill
March 29
1910
Health, Board of
Sept. 9
1910
Incinerator
1910
Incinerator
Lafayette College - Fraternities
Jan. 8, 19 &
22Feb. 5, July
28, 30
Oct. 19
Dec. 21
Lafayette College - Fraternities
Appointments at garbage plant.
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Mules will be used to haul garbage wagons. Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Description of incinerator plant with picture. Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Mules will be used to haul garbage wagons. Easton Express
p. 1, 2
Statue of the late, Dr. Traill Green placed in
cemetery.
Harry Raul to design memorial for Dr. T.
Green.
Cemetery association to erect monument to
its founder.
Commission for H.L. Raul -- to execute
statue of Traill Green.
City preparing to clean house -- dumps must
go (names them).
Two sites (for incinerator) put up to city
councils.
Easton Express
p. 5
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 5
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Express
p. 1
1910
1910
City incinerator is accepted.
Can't tax college fraternity houses.
Easton Express
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 5
p.7
Dec. 21
1910
Can't tax college fraternity houses.
Easton Express
p. 5
Lafayette College - Fraternities
Feb. 5
1910
Zeta Psi fraternity opens new home.
Easton Daily Free Press
Lafayette College - Fraternities
Feb. 8
1910
Tau chapter, Zeta Psi opens new house.
Lafayette College - Fraternities
Nov. 24
1910
Can't tax college fraternity houses.
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Express
Lafayette College - Mechanical
Engineering
Oct. 27
1910
Mechanical engineering building for
Lafayette College.
p. 5
p. 2, illus
p. 5
Easton Express
Easton Sentinel
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 5
p. 3, illus.
p. 5
Lawall, W. S.
Mack, E.B.
June 27
Nov. 16
1910
1910
Obituary of W. S. Lawall
Obit. Of E.B. Mack.
Easton Express
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 5
Mummers
Dec. 7
1910
Mummers parade a big success.
Easton Daily Free Press
Murder
June 14
1910
Trial of Trooper Moughan for killing Joseph
Szambo during the Bethlehem Steel strike.
Easton Express
Murder
June 15
1910
Easton Express
Murder
March 1
1910
Trooper Moughan goes free after killing
Joseph Szambo during Bethlehem Steel
Strike.
Trial of Trooper Moughan for killing Joseph
Szambo during the Bethlehem Steel strike
Northampton Co., PA - Prison Building
Orpheum Theatre
Jan. 21
1910
Jail addition cost $144,387.24
Easton Express
Aug. 19
1910
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 5
Phillipsburg, N.J.
Aug. 2
1910
Able to present vaudeville -- Orpheum
legitimate theatre.
Phillipsburg's new advertising sign.
p. 3
Phillipsburg, N.J.
Sept. 2
1910
New post-office.
Phillipsburg, N.J. - Churches
Dec. 30
1910
Elevator fall in steeple.
Phillipsburg, N.J. - Education
Sept. 13
1910
Purcell school building to be erected.
Phillipsburg, N.J. - Fire Companies Jan. 18
1910
Phillipsburg, N.J. - Trolley
Transportation
Post Office - Building
Railroads - Wrecks
Reeder, Frank
Dec. 3
1910
Oct.8
July 30
Dec. 7 & 10
1910
1910
1910
Phillipsburg Centennial firehouse in bad
shape.
Phillipsburg town will appeal trolley track
gauge change.
Contract awarded for new post office
Jersey Central derailed by wreckers.
Obit. Of General Frank Reeder.
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Express
p. 10
p. 1
p. 10
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Express
Easton Express
Easton Daily Free Press
P. 5
Schools - Washington
Dec. 9
1910
Taylor, George - Portrait
Dec. 24
1910
Theaters - Able and Orpheum
Aug. 2
1910
Trolley Transportation
Jan. 4
1910
Trolley Transportation
Trolley Transportation
June 10
Nov. 9
1910
1910
Trolley Transportation - Hay Line April 26
1910
Trolley Transportation Philadelphia
Trolley Transportation - Routes
April 5
1910
Nov. 9
1910
Warren Hospital - Washington
April 13
1910
Wars - European War 1914-1918 - November 2
City Guard
Wars - European War 1914-1918 - November 2
City Guards
Wars - Military Companies
October 22
1910
Water Supply
Wolf, George
Wolf, George
Wolf, George - Memorial
Gateway
1910
1910
1910
1910
March 30
Aug. 6
Aug. 8
Aug. 6 & 7
1910
1910
Washington School - located at 41 S. 7th
Street. Named after George Washington.
Built in 1854.
Taylor portrait may be removed from
Independence Hall -- may not be authentic.
Easton Express
Easton's theaters combine -- Able and
Orpheum
Hays to quit shoe business -- will devote all
time to street railroad.
Local trolley lines will be consolidated.
New trolley plan on the way -- seeks to bring
all cars to city's centre.
Hay lines and Pa. Easton and W. road joined.
Easton Sentinel
Important announcement -- trolley cars to
run to Philadelphia.
New trolley plan on way. Board of Trade
seeks to bring all cars to City's business
centre.
Booker T. Washington speaks here.
Easton Sentinel
Godley to be made Captain of Easton City
Guard.
Godley to be made Captain of Easton City
Guard.
Captain Stitzer welcomed home - Captain of
Easton Grays.
Mountain water for West Easton.
Plan for Wolf memorial.
Wolf memorial meets with favor.
Plan for Wolf Memorial.
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Express
Easton Express
p. 1
p. 5
Easton Sentinel
Easton Express
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Express
P. 5
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Express
Easton Express
Easton Express
Easton Express
p. 5
p. 5
Y.M.C.A.
Aug. 2
1910
Considering sites for Y.M.C.A. bldg.
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Express
Easton Express
Easton Express
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Express
Easton Sentinel
Y.M.C.A.
Y.M.C.A.
Y.M.C.A.
Y.M.C.A.
July 27
July 28
July 29
July 29
1910
1910
1910
1910
Y.M.C.A. Building plans blocked.
Y.M.C.A. may yet purchase site.
Y.M.C.A. purchase about assured.
Considering sites for Y.M.C.A. bldg.
Y.M.C.A. - Site
Youells, Benjamin
Sept. 30
May 29
1910
1910
Bangor, PA. - Fires.
Bath, Pa - History.
Jan. 31
1911
Nov. 28, 1911. 1911
Bridges, Delaware
July 1
1911
Bridges, Delaware
July 11
1911
Bridges, Delaware
July 12
1911
Bridges, Delaware
July 13
1911
Bridges, Delaware
July 13
1911
Y.M.C.A. to take Sixth Street site.
Benjamin Youells 90 years old -- give
biography.
Cost of fire in Bangor is $10,000.00.
Address - "Bath and Environs" by Dr. G.T.
Fox.
Board of trade calls upon commissioners to
enforce terms of bridge contract on Third
Street bridge.
Board of trade calls upon commissioners to
enforce terms of bridge contract on Third
Street bridge.
Board of trade calls upon commissioners to
enforce terms of bridge contract on Third
Street Bridge.
Board of trade calls upon commissioners to
enforce terms of bridge contract on Third
Street bridge.
Bridge builders got busy after meeting
Bridges, Lehigh
April 27
1911
Third Street Bridge contract is awarded
Easton Daily Free Press
Bridges, Lehigh
July 12
1911
Easton Daily Free Press
Bridges, Lehigh
Nov. 4
1911
Contractors ordered to open Third Street
Bridge
County is fully protected on South Third
Street Lehigh bridge contract
p. 3
p. 5
.5
p. 5
p. 5
p. 5
Easton Centinel
Easton Sentinel
Easton Express
Easton Express
Easton Express
Easton Express
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Free Press
p. 5
Bridges, Suspension
Aug. 30
1911
Suspension bridge 25 years old
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 5
Business - Banks
Business - Bethlehem
Nov. 3
April 24
1911
1911
Easton Express
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 5
Business - Boots and Shoes
Nov. 25
1911
Business - Breweries
Oct. 11
1911
Postal Savings Bank opened.
Bethlehem can now build its own water
works.
Local investors will not forget this
experience - United Shoe Repairing Co.
assets sold.
Ad showing picture of Seitz Brewing Co.
Business - Cameron Pump
July 18
1911
Business - Cameron Pump
June 8
1911
Business - Carpets
June 14
1911
Business - Cement Industry
May 10
Business - Cement Industry
Ground will be broken for the plant of the
Cameron Steam Pump Works.
Still another good industry is secured.
Cameron Pump is coming to Phillipsburg.
Easton Free Press (daily
ed.)
Easton Free Press (daily
ed.)
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 7
Easton Daily Free Press
1911
Easton lands two more industries, John
Crossley & Sons carpet manufacture and
Hawley Down-Draft Furnace Co.
Bath Portland Cement Co. in new hands.
Easton Express
p. 5
May 10
1911
Clark faction gets Bath Portland Cement.
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 7
Business - Chemical Industry
Aug. 30
1911
Lehigh Valley Chemical Co. gets charter.
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 5
Business - Food Industry
Dec. 1
1911
Business - Food Industry
June 6 & 13
1911
Easton Free Press (daily
ed.)
Easton Sentinel
Business - Food Industry
June 7
1911
Business - Food Industry
Business - Furnace Company
March 14
Aug. 3
1911
1911
More arrests for violating pure food laws ( in
Lehigh Valley).
Diamond anniversary of founding of Drake
and Co.
Diamond Anniversary of founding of Drake
and Co.
Anniversary of Drake and Co.
Hawlwy Down-Draft Furnace Company ground broken for new industry.
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Sentinel
Easton Daily Free Press
Business - Mills
Aug. 24
1911
Business - Printing
Jan. 3
1911
Hawk Flour and Feed Mill to conduct
business established Henry E. Hawk
Correll fire with pictures.
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 5
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 1 & 8
Business - Silk Industry
Sept. 1
1911
Continental silk mill shut down by strike
Business - Slate Industry
Sept. 6
1911
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 5
1911
Obituary of F.M. Hower, pioneer slate
operator
Three plants to be consolidated ( Easton
Tool & Machine Co., Richard P. Lippey, and
Jackson Vise & Tool Co. of Vineland, NJ)
Business - Tools
Aug. 18
Business - Victor Balata Belting
Co.
Business - Victor Balata Belting
Co.
Carter Republic
Carter Republic
May 15
1911
New industry in operation
Easton Express
May 15
1911
Easton Daily Free Press
Oct. 23
Oct. 24
1911
1911
Victory Balata Belting Co. plant has started
up
Founder's Day at Carter Republic
Founders Day (picture of Brease cottage)
Centre Square - Fountain
July 22
1911
Award contract to erect public fountain
Churches - Moravian
Nov. 6
1911
Fire in historic Moravian Church (Schoeneck) Easton Free Press
Churches - Moravian
Nov. 7
1911
Churches - Presbyterian
May 22
1911
Fire in historic Moravian Church (Schoeneck) Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Loving cup presented to Charles Knauss,
Easton Daily Free Press
organist of Brainerd Union Church
Churches - Presbyterian
Oct. 13
1911
Churches - Presbyterian
Oct. 7
1911
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Free Press
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Daily Free Press
First Presbyterian Church has 100th
Easton Free Press (semianniversary
weekly ed.)
Portraits of early Presbyterians form part of Easton Free Press
decorations of the First Presbyterian Church
centennial
p. 5
p. 7
p. 3
Churches - Presbyterian
Oct. 9
1911
Centennial of Old First Presbyterian Church
Easton Free Press
Churches - St. Joseph
Dec. 18
1911
Blessing of statue and bell at St. Joseph's.
Churches - St. Joseph
1911
Churches - St. Joseph
Churches - St. Joseph
March 11 &
March 13
March 14
March 14
St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church
destroyed by fire.
St. Joseph's church ruined by fire.
St. Joseph's church ruined by fire.
Easton Free Press (daily
ed.)
Easton Express
Churches - St. Joseph
March 28
1911
Clothing Trade
Nov. 14
1911
Clubs - Jacksonian
Aug. 7
1911
Coates, Thomas
May 18
1911
Coates, Thomas
May 18
1911
Coates, Thomas
May 20
1911
Coates, Thomas
May 20
1911
Coates, Thomas
May 23
1911
Columbus Day
October 13
1911
Correll Building
Cowgirl
Jan. 2
July 5
1911
1911
Crime - Manslaughter
July 10
1911
1911
1911
St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church
destroyed by fire.
New industry for Wind Gap (Blue Mountain
Shirt Co.).
Club purchases Knecht property on South
6th Street
Military parade to precede dedication of
Bandmaster's monument
Easton honors the memory of Thomas
Coates
Tribute paid to memory of Professor Coates
Easton Sentinel
Easton Semi-Weekly Free p.1 & p.3
Press
Easton Express
p. 5
Easton Free Press (daily
ed.)
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Express
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Express
Easton honors the memory of Thomas
Easton Daily Free Press
Coates
In memoriam of Professor Thomas Coates-- Easton Sentinel
memorial erected
Columbus Day celebrated
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Fire sweeps building
Easton Express
Western cowgirl rides into town. Nan J.
Easton Daily Free Press
Aspinwall of Kalispell, Montana.
Young Egbert James is held for shooting
Easton Daily Free Press
McCluskey.
P. 5
Crime - Manslaughter
July 4
1911
Young Eastonian kills a man in "shooting"
town. Charles J. McCluskey was killed by
Egbert James.
Young Eastonian kills a man in "shooting"
town. Charles J. McCluskey was killed by
Egbert James.
Young Egbert James is held for shooting
McCluskey.
James trial will begin Wednesday for the
"Wild West" shooting of Charles McCluskey.
Easton Sentinel
Crime - Manslaughter
July 5
1911
Crime - Manslaughter
July 6
1911
Crime - Manslaughter
Sept. 12
1911
Crime - Manslaughter
Sept. 13 & 15
1911
James trial will begin Wednesday for the
Easton Free Press (daily
"Wild West" shooting of Charles McCluskey. ed.)
Crime - Manslaughter
Sept. 20
1911
Egbert James acquitted.
Delaware, Lackawanna &
Western - Strikes
Delaware, Lackawanna &
Western - Wrecks
Dental Clinic
Department Stores
Sept. 16
1911
D L & W strike order issued.
May 2
1911
Nov. 7
Aug. 7
1911
1911
D.L. and W. excursion train leaves tracks
near Martin's Creek.
Opening of the free dental dispensary
The Globe Store in new hands.
Easton Hospital
July 8
1911
Easton Hospital - Dental Dept.
Nov. 7
1911
Easton Hospital - staff
Dec. 6
1911
Easton Hospital-Staff
Dec. 8
1911
Easton Post Office- Postal Savings Nov. 3
1911
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Free Press (daily
ed.)
Easton Free Press (daily
ed.)
Easton Sentinel
Easton Free Press
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 7
New site for city hospital. Proposal to erect
one down the Delaware River.
Free dental dispensary opened at Easton
Hospital.
Local physicians confer on Easton Hospital
matters - not managed to their liking.
Easton Express
p. 5
Easton Express
p. 5
Local physiciansconfer on Easton Hospital
matters--not to their liking.
Postal savings bank will open tomorrow.
Easton semi-weekly free
press
Easton Free Press (daily
ed.)
Easton Free Press.
p.3
p. 7
Easton Post Office- Postmaster
March 16
1911
Joseph W. Pascoe, Easton's twenty - second
postmaster
Carnegie again helps library
Easton Daily free press
City approves acceptance of Carnegie offer. Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Public Library
Easton Public Library
April 14
May 20
1911
1911
Easton Public Library
Addition
Easton, City of - Elections
April 14
1911
Aug. 24
1911
No keystone ticket in city or county this fall. Easton Daily Free Press
Easton, City of - Fire Department - May 4
Stations - South Side
1911
For fire alarm bell over on South Side
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton, City of - History
May 16
1911
"Easton many years ago" by Reuben Kolb
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton, City of - History
Easton, City of - Mayors
Easton, City of - Streets Northampton Street
May 16
Dec. 4
Aug. 4
1911
1911
1911
Easton Express
Easton Free Press
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
p. 5
Easton, City of - Streets - Paving
June 8
1911
Looking backward on old Easton
David W. Nevin is now mayor of Easton
Vitrified blocks for paving grade (north side
of Northampton from Centre Square to 6th
St.)
Amiesite paving for No. 2nd St.
Easton Express
p. 5
Easton, City of - Streets - Paving
Sept. 12
1911
Gang ready to pave 3rd St.
Easton Express
p. 5
Easton, City of - Streets - Paving
Sept. 2
1911
Easton Express
Easton, City of - Streets - Repairs Aug. 1
1911
New street scheme provides for levying a
fee for digging up streets
Vitrified blocks for paving grade
Easton, City of - Streets - Repairs Aug. 6
1911
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton, City of - Streets - Repairs June 17
1911
Proposed changes at new bridge approach.
Removal of Belgian Block paving at Lehigh
Valley Station.
No $20,000 for street repairs
Easton, City of - Streets - Repairs June 8
1911
No $20,000 for street repairs
Easton Daily Free Press
Carnegie gives more to Easton Library.
Easton Express
p. 7
p. 3
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 5
Easton, City of - Streets - Second
Street
Easton, City of - Streets - Second
Street
Easton, City of - Streets - Third
Street
Easton, City of - Taxation
Easton, City of - Views
July 22
1911
Amiesite for Second St.
Easton Daily Free Press
July 8
1911
Amiesite for Second St.
Easton Daily Free Press
July 21
1911
Amend ordinance for amiesite on No. 3rd St. Easton Daily Free Press
Oct. 21
Sept. 25
1911
1911
Assessors have violated city ordinance
Easton Free Press
Glimpses of Easton at the time "The Daily
Easton Free Press
Free Press" was started (1866). Entire paper
has pictures of Easton today and in 1866.
Easton, South - Annexation
Sept. 15
1911
South Side not a burden to city
Easton, South - Education
April 20
1911
Easton, South - Recreation
Oct. 10
1911
Ground broken for parochial school on
South Side.
South Side park bill is held up.
Education - Churchman's
Business College
Education - Churchman's
Business College
Education - Churchman's
Business College
Education - Curriculum - Sewing
July 3
1911
July 4
1911
June 30
1911
Large crowd at opening of Churchman's
Business College.
New business college in Easton - W.E.
Churchman starts school.
New school of business starts in city.
June 9
1911
To teach sewing in High School.
Easton Daily Free Press
Education - Health
July 28
1911
No medical inspector for city schools.
Easton Daily Free Press
Education - History
Sept. 1
1911
Easton Daily Free Press
Electric Lighting
April 19
1911
City schools to open under the new school
code.
City contends Warner lamps fail to burn.
Electric Lighting
Jan. 9, April 18 1911
Lamp case is postponed (Easton versus
Warner Arc Lamp).
Easton Express
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Express
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 3
p. 7
Easton Sentinel
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 6
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 5
Fires
Jan. 3
1911
Flag
Jan. 17
1911
Foresters of America
May 16
1911
Foresters of America
May 16
1911
Correll Building destroyed -- New Year's eve Easton Sentinel
fire.
Easton flag presented to Pa. Soc. Of NYC.
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Foresters of America open state convention Easton Daily Free Press
in Easton.
Easton opens gates to Forestors of America. Easton Express
Garbage
June 21
1911
To collect garbage twice every week.
Easton Daily Free Press
Green, Traill
June 6
1911
Bronze statue of Dr. Traill Green unveiled.
Easton Sentinel
Green, Traill
May 30
1911
Easton Daily Free Press
Hospitals - Pest House
May 5
1911
Bronze statue of Dr. Traill Green unveiled
with imposing ceremonies.
City pest houses to be improved.
Lafayette College - History
June 21
1911
Lafayette College and Church may separate. Easton Express
Lauder, Harry
Nov. 28
1911
Harry Lauder comes to town.
Lehigh Valley Railroad
Aug. 22
1911
Lehigh Valley Railroad - Wrecks
1911
Lehigh Valley Railroad - Wrecks
Aug. 21, 25 &
26
May 4
March, Dr.
March, Dr.
March, Francis Andrew
Sept. 12
Sept. 9
Nov. 1
1911
1911
1911
March, Francis Andrew
Sept. 11
1911
March, Francis Andrew
Sept. 12
1911
1911
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Free Press (daily
ed.)
Cars burned at Valley Station - escaping gas. Easton Express
26 dead, 69 hurt in Valley wreck at
Manchester.
Coroner's jury starts inquiry into the wreck
near Martin's Creek.
Funeral.
Dr. March dies at home on campus.
Memorial for Francis March.
Death of Dr. F.A. March. Death causes
general expression of sorrow.
Obit. Of Prof. Francis A. March.
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Express
Easton Express
Easton Free Press (daily
ed.)
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Sentinel
p. 1
p. 7
p. 7
March, Francis Andrew
Sept. 12
1911
Dr. March laid to rest.
Easton Daily Free Press
March, Francis Andrew
Sept. 12-15
1911
Obituary of Francis March.
p. 1-3
March, Francis Andrew
Sept. 9
1911
Obituary of Dr. F.A. March, Sr.
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Daily Free Press
Morris Canal
Feb. 21
1911
Lehigh Valley would abandon Morris canal.
p. 7
Mummers
Murder
Jan. 2
July 10
1911
1911
Mummers parade a big success.
Young man shot dead in West Easton.
Charles McCluskey killed by Egbert James.
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Express
Easton Express
Murder
July 11
1911
Young man shot dead in West Easton.
Charles McCluskey killed by Egbert James.
Easton Express
Murder
July 5
1911
Young man shot dead in West Easton.
Charles McCluskey killed by Egbert James.
Easton Express
Murder
July 6
1911
Young man shot dead in West Easton.
Charles McCluskey killed by Egbert James.
Easton Express
Murder
June 12
1911
Easton Daily Free Press
Murder
Sept. 14 - 20
1911
Husband dead, wife arrested. Mrs. Helen
Lukas of Bath, PA, held for causing death of
Joseph Lukas.
Young man shot dead in West Easton.
Charles McCluskey killed by Egbert James.
North. Co. Country Clubs
Ohl
P.R.R. - Wrecks
Dec. 20
Dec. 6
June 1
1911
1911
1911
New house for country club.
Obit. Of E.N.R. Ohl.
Martin's Creek wreck caused by bad track.
Easton Express
Easton Express
Easton Daily Free Press
P.R.R. - Wrecks
May 1
1911
Wreckage of train in which Utica school
teachers were killed.
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 5
p. 5
Easton Express
p. 5
p. 5
P.R.R. - Wrecks
May 2
1911
Wreck dead may be increased to 15.
Easton Daily Free Press
P.R.R. - Wrecks
May 3
1911
P.R.R. is still probing wreck.
Easton Daily Free Press
Palmer Township
Sept. 28
1911
Aug. 19
1911
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 3
Palmer Township - Annexation
Palmer Township - Annexation
Aug. 29
1911
Palmer citizens vent opposition to
annexation.
Surburbanites ask annexation (Palmer
Township).
Favor annexing Palmer Township.
Easton Express
p. 5
Palmer Township - Annexation
Aug. 29
1911
Law department for annexation (of Palmer). Easton Daily Free Press
Palmer Township - Annexation
Nov. 18
1911
Easton Annex part Palmer Township.
Easton Express
Palmer Township - Annexation
Nov. 18
1911
Palmer Township - Annexation
Nov. 21
1911
Easton Free Press (daily
ed.)
Easton Express
Palmer Township - Annexation
Nov. 24, 25
1911
Palmer Township - Annexation
Nov. 4
1911
Palmer Township - Annexation
Nov. 4
1911
Annexation bill now up to mayor (Palmer
Township).
Palmer citizens to meet to protest
annexation.
Palmer citizens vent opposition to
annexation.
Select council adopts annexation ordinance
(Palmer Tsp).
Select council for annexation of Palmer.
Easton Free Press (daily
ed.)
Easton Free Press (daily
ed.)
Easton Express
p. 5
Palmer Township - Annexation
Sept. 1
1911
Palmer Township annexation discussed.
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 5
Parks Family
Oct. 13
1911
Parks, William R. Obituary.
Patriotic Order Sons of America
Sept. 13
1911
Phillipsburg, N.J.
April 28
1911
Phillipsburg, N.J. - Centennial
July 3
1911
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Patriotic sons form a military branch - Co. D Easton Free Press (daily
of Pa. Reserves.
ed.)
Governor Wilson at Phillipsburg Trade
Easton Daily Free Press
Board's first banquet.
Phillipsburg's Golden Jubilee Week.
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 5
p. 3
p. 5
Phillipsburg, N.J. - Education
Oct. 12
1911
6th Ward appreciates Harwig School
Easton Free Press (daily
building.
ed.)
Stokes "fired" off of police force in
Easton Daily Free Press
Phillispburg. First under tenure of office act.
Phillipsburg, N.J. - Police Dept.
Aug. 22
1911
Phillipsburg, N.J. - Sewer
Aug. 8
1911
Phillipsburg to build sewer for pump works. Easton Daily Free Press
Playgrounds
Nov. 30
1911
Playgrounds
Oct. 21
1911
Playgrounds
Oct. 7
1911
Railroads - Lehigh Valley Railroad July 1
1911
Railroads - P.R.R.
April 29
1911
Railroads - Wrecks
April 29, May
1, 4
1911
City to have dept. of parks and playgrounds. Easton Free Press (daily
ed.)
For a public park on the So. Side.
Easton Free Press (daily
ed.)
So. Side park bill is held up.
Easton Free Press (daily
ed.)
Lehigh Valley must pay back reparation
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awarded against the railroad for excessive
rates on anthracite coal.
People killed and injured in Pa. wreck, near Easton Daily Free Press
Martin's Creek.
Eleven known dead on Saturday wreck on
Easton Express
Belvidere-Delaware Road (Martin's Creek).
Rambo
Seitz, John A.
Taxation - 1911
March 6
Feb. 7
Aug. 30
1911
1911
1911
Telephone
Oct. 11
1911
Third Class Cities
Aug. 29
1911
Trolley Transportation
Nov. 7
1911
Trolley Transportation
Sept. 8
1911
Obit. Of George C. Rambo.
Obit. Of John A. Seitz.
"Shall corporation taxes go to
municipalities" Paper by H.J. Steele.
Poor telephone service in city, subscribers
say.
12th annual convention of league of Third
Class Cities opens in Easton.
Easton cut off by trolley schedule. Pen argyl,
Wind Gap, and that section of county have
no connections.
Hay Line to buy its power in future.
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Easton Express
Easton Free Press (daily
ed.)
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ed.)
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p. 3
Trolley Transportation - Bangor & Aug. 15
Portland
Trolley Transportation - Bangor & Aug. 19
Portland
1911
Trolley Transportation - E & W
Dec. 1
1911
Trolley Transportation - Easton
Transit Co.
Dec. 23
1911
Trolley Transportation - Fares
June 6
1911
Trolley Transportation - Fares
Oct. 3
1911
Trolley Transportation - Hay Line May 9
1911
3 arrests for alleged hold-up of trolley
Company of Bangor & Portland.
Alleged bribe seekers must stand trial
(extorting money from Bangor & Portland
Traction Company).
J. W. Fox new head of E & W trolley road.
Transit Co. refuses to pay for use of bridge
(3rd St.) Charge $33,333.33 toward cost of
erecting bridge.
Pay-as-you-enter cars are coming.
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p. 7
1911
3 pay-as-you-enter cars to go into service
with Easton Transit Co.
Four Hay Line Stockholders in equity suit.
Trolley Transportation - Hay Line Sept. 5
1911
Hay Line to buy its power in the future.
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 5
Trolley Transportation - Slate Belt Aug. 26
Trolley Co.
Trolley Transportation - Slate Belt Oct. 25
Trolley Co.
Trolley Transportation - Tracks
May 25
1911
Slate belt trolley to change hands.
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 5
1911
Slate belt trolley bought by syndicate.
p. 7
1911
Complaint about trolley tracks.
Easton Free Press (daily
ed.)
Easton Daily Free Press
Trolley Transportation Washington
Jan. 24
1911
Number of Pa. and Easton, and Washington Easton Sentinel
of New Jersey trolleys merge.
Wars - Civil War - Regiment
Reunions
April 18
1911
First defenders celebrate their 50th
Easton Daily Free Press
anniversary. Survivors of five companies of
First Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers are
guests of city from which they marched
forth April 1861.
Wars - Civil War - Soldiers
October 10
1911
1911
1911
Obituary of William R. Parks, Civil War
Veteran.
Obituary of E.N.R. Ohl, veteran of Mexican
War.
Bank suspends at Washington, N.J.
(Washington National)
Doors of Washington, N.J. bank closed.
So. Side Water supply is inadequate.
Easton Free Press (daily
ed.)
Easton Free Press (daily
ed.)
Easton Free Press (daily
ed.)
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Wars - War with Mexico Soldiers
Washington, N.J. - Banks
Dec. 6
1911
Nov. 17
1911
Washington, N.J. - Banks
Water - South Side Co.
Nov. 17
May 30
Water Supply
March 21
1911
S.S. water supply.
Weather - Electrical Storm
June 13
1911
Wilson, Woodrow
April 28
1911
Wilson, Woodrow
May 2
1911
Y.M.C.A.
March 3
1911
Death and disaster in wake of fierce
electrical storm.
Woodrow Wilson speaks to Phillipsburg
Board of Trade.
Gov. Woodrow Wilson speaks at
Phillipsburg.
Y.M.C.A. gives up 6th St. site.
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Daily Free Press
Y.M.C.A. - Site
Bangor, - Old Home Week.
March 2
Aug. 12
1911
1912
Y.M.C.A. gives up Sixth Street site.
Old Home Week.
Bangor, - Old Home Week.
Aug. 27
1912
Old Home Week.
Bangor, PA - Churches
Bangor, PA - Old Home Week.
Jan. 15
Aug. 19 - 24
1912
1912
Bangor, PA - Old Home Week.
Aug. 20
1912
Bangor, PA. - History.
Bath, PA
Bath, PA
Aug. 21
Aug. 5
Aug. 6
1912
1912
1912
Bangor's Welsh Church burned.
Bangor's Old Home Week - gives history of
the borough.
Bangor's old home week - gives history of
the borough.
Mackey tells Bangor's history.
Old Home Week is held in Bath, PA.
Old Home Week is held in Bath, PA.
p. 17
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p. 1 & 7
Bath, PA
Aug. 9
1912
Old Home Week is held in Bath, PA.
p. 2
1912
History of the borough of Bath, PA for the
last 60 years.
Old Home Week in Bangor.
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Daily Free Press
Bath, PA
Jan. 12
1912
Bath, PA. - Old Home Week.
Aug. 10
Bath, PA. - Old Home Week.
Aug. 5
1912
Old Home Week in Bath.
Easton Daily Free Press
pg. 2.
Bath, PA. - Old Home Week.
Aug. 6
1912
Old Home Week in Bath.
Easton Daily Free Press
pg. 2.
Bath, PA. - Old Home Week.
Aug. 7
1912
Old Home week in Bath.
Easton Daily Free Press
pg. 2.
Bath, PA. - Old Home Week.
Aug. 9
1912
Old Home Week in Bath.
Easton Daily Free Press
Bridges, Lehigh
Sept. 27
1912
Picture of new bridge over Lehigh
Brodhead, Richard
Feb. 23
1912
Business - 1900 - 1919
Feb. 2
1912
Business - Carpets
Sept. 13
1912
Business - Cement Industry
1912
p. 9
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Portrait of Mr. Brodhead to be presented to Easton Express
Court of Claims by Bar Association.
p. 1
Industries. Dr. McIntire & C. Stewart's
papers on Easton industry.
Easton lands two more industries, John
Crossley & Sons carpet manufacture and
Hawley Down-Draft Furnace Co.
Alpha Cement was used in construction of
the first highway in New Jersey between
Phillipsburg and Washington, N.J. in 1912.
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
p. 2
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Easton Daily Free Press
p. 1
Business - Furniture Stores
Jan. 9
1912
Fire at Feinberg - Brook Furniture house.
Business - Hosiery
May 25
1912
Strikers at Chipman Mill will remain out.
Business - Hosiery
May 29
1912
Chipman Hosiery employees will return
Monday.
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 5
p. 3
Business - Keller's Music Store
Nov. 29
1912
Keller's Music House - anniversary.
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 5
Business - Silk Industry
Jan. 3
1912
The R. and H. Simon Silk industry
Business - Silk Industry
Jan. 5
1912
R. and H. Simon
p. 2
600 weavers at Standard silk mill quit work
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Daily Free Press
Business - Silk Industry
May 17
1912
Business - Silk Industry
May 18
1912
600 weavers at Standard silk mill quit work
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 3
Business - Silk Industry
Business - Silk Industry
May 3
May 3
1912
1912
Easton Express
Easton Daily Free Press
Business - Silk Industry
Business - Silk Industry
May 4
May 4
1912
1912
Business - Silk Industry
May 7
1912
Business - Wire
Oct. 29
1912
Business- Foundries
July 30
1912
Canals and canaling
April 16
1912
Union forces strike at Simon mills
600 employees of R. and H. Simon go on
strike
Union forces strike at Simon mills
600 employees of R. and H. Simon go on
strike
600 employees of R. and H. Simon go on
strike
Nail cutting, wire drawing division manufacture and history of Stewart wire
mills
Easton gets industry - Ernst Wiener Co.
manufactures railroad necessities.
Phillipsburg against canal abandonment
Children's Home, Easton
June 11
1912
Children's Home, Easton
June 8
1912
Churches - Mennonite
Nov. 1
1912
Churches - Reformed
April 25
1912
Gateway given to children's home as a
memorial
Gateway given to Children's Home as a
memorial
Mennonite Brethren Church located first at
119 So. 14th St.
Finest Sunday School building to be erected
by the First Reformed Church
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Easton Sentinel
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Sentinel
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Easton Daily Free Press
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Easton Free Press
illus.
Easton Free Press (daily
ed.)
p. 7
Churches - Reformed
Dec. 30
1912
First Reformed Church Sunday School
building is dedicated
Sunday School building cornerstone laid
Easton Free Press (daily
ed.)
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Express
Churches - Reformed
July 16
1912
Churches - Salem
April 29
1912
Churches - Salem Church
May 7
1912
Churches - St. John's Lutheran
Church
Churches - St. Joseph
Sept. 13
1912
May 13
1912
Centennial of Salem Church, Forks
Township.
Forks church centennial. Salem Church of
Weekly Free Press
Forks Township. Rev. F. B. Shafer read
history of church from 1808 to present. W.
J. Heller chief speaker.
75th anniversary. Kindergarten opens.
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Dedication of St. Joseph Parochial School
Easton Argus
Churches - St. Joseph
May 14
1912
Dedication of St. Joseph's Parochial school.
Churches - St. Joseph's
May 13
1912
Dedication of St. Joseph Parochial school.
Clubs - Order of Owls
Coates, Thomas
Aug. 12
Aug. 13
1912
1912
Doctors
Easton Post Office- building
March 12
Sept. 3
1912
1912
Order of Owls organized in Easton
Former Coates band--Anniversary of the day
mustered into service.
Obituary of Dr. A. H. R. Guiley.
Government building is nearly ready.
Easton Public Library
April 13
1912
Easton Public Library
April 16
1912
School board"s action provides larger
building.
School board action assures larger library.
Easton Public Library
Easton Public Library
April 16
Feb. 6
1912
1912
Enlarging Easton Library
Trustees approve plan for library extension
Easton Public Library
Jan. 9
1912
Trustees approve plan for library extension. Easton Daily Free Press
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Easton Public Library
Addition
Jan. 9
1912
To enlarge the library fund of $15,000 for
addition-half to come from Carnegie.
Easton Express
Easton Public Library
Addition
Easton, City of - Description
April 13
1912
Carnegie gives more to Easton Library.
Easton Express
Jan. 25
1912
Description of Easton as seen by J.L.Rockey, Easton Daily Free Press
chief of State bureau of industrial statistics
Easton, City of - Employees
May 1
1912
Easton Express
Easton Express
p. 5
p. 5
Easton, City of - Fire Department - Oct. 1
Equipment
Easton, City of - Streets - Paving Aug. 10
1912
1912
Easton's first controller H.A. Rothrock is
dead
Automobile engine for new fire company
given a test
New street plan finally adopted
Easton, City of - Streets - Paving
Aug. 17
1912
New street plan finally adopted
Easton Express
Easton, City of - Streets - Paving
July 20
1912
Easton Express
Easton, City of - Traffic
Nov. 16
1912
Education - Food
Feb. 10
1912
Education - Nazareth Hall
May 24
1912
Electric Lighting
April 6 & 27
1912
New street scheme provides for levying a
fee for digging up streets
Automobiles need not keep to right when
going around Centre Square
Lunch room to be equipped. Meals to be
furnished pupils of Easton High School in
building.
Tablet unveiled to the late Rev. Charles B.
Lanius of Nazareth Hall.
Conduit bill makes a story (all overhead
wires to be placed in conduit).
Electric Lighting
Aug. 1, 2 & 7
1912
Electric Lighting
Aug. 14
1912
P. 5
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Easton Express
Easton Express
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Express
People are demanding electric light
Easton Daily Free Press
competition.
Power company condemned by local expert. Easton Daily Free Press
p. 5
Electric Lighting
Aug. 3
1912
First step in light fight. City orders
investigation into cost of commercial plant.
Easton Express
Electric Lighting
Aug. 30
1912
Light probe committee is at work.
Electric Lighting
Aug. 6
1912
Council unanimous for conduit.
Electric Lighting
Aug. 6
1912
Electric Lighting
Electric Lighting
Electric Lighting
Dec. 11
Jan. 11
July 19
1912
1912
1912
City council take action on light rate
increase.
New light rate in effect Jan. 1.
The new light plant scheme.
Lighting bids unsatisfactory.
Electric Lighting
July 19, Aug. 7, 1912
15
First step in light fight. City orders
investigation into cost of commercial plant.
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Express
Easton Express
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Express
Electric Lighting
Oct. 24
1912
Lighting trust sued by Edison Co.
Easton Daily Free Press
Electric Lighting
Oct. 5
1912
Easton Daily Free Press
Electric Lighting
Oct. 5, 19, 25, 1912
30
Sept. 17
1912
Bond issue for city light plant is
recommended.
New light rate in effect Jan. 1.
Easton Sentinel
Electric Lighting
1912
Electric Lighting
Sept. 17, Oct.
22
Sept. 20
Electrical question - temporary rate
suspended.
Light rate probe.
1912
Light rate probe.
Electric Lighting
Sept. 3
1912
Fires
March 12
1912
Electric lighting -- Board of Trade
investigates rates.
Pomfret and Knecht buildings prey to fires.
Fires
March 5
1912
Electric Lighting
Morning blaze sweeps along So. 3rd St.
$180,000 loss.
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Easton Sentinel
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Easton Express
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Fires - Pomfret Building
March 5
1912
Hackett Family
Indians - History
Nov. 12
Jan. 18
1912
1912
Island Park
Magee, Joseph C.
March, Francis Andrew
Aug. 13 & 27
Sept. 21
Feb. 9
1912
1912
1912
Miller
Monument - Lighting
March 30
Feb. 23
1912
1912
Pomfret building destroyed by fire
originating in Bijou theatre.
Obit. Of J.M. Hackett.
Paper by W.J. Heller, tracing the history of
the Lenni Lenapes.
Sousa and his band at Island Park.
Obit. Of Joseph C. Magee.
Bronze statue to be erected to Dr. F.A.
March.
Obit. Of Conrad Miller.
Offer to light soldiers monument.
Monument - Spanish American
War
Moravians
Aug. 14
1912
Site of memorial.
May 7
1912
Morris Turnpike, N.J.
Murder
Sept. 13, Nov. 1912
12
June 1
1912
Murder
June 4 & 11
1912
Murder
Oct. 12
Murder
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Sentinel
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Sentinel
Easton Express
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 7
Easton Express
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Express
p. 5
p. 8
Easton Express
p. 5
1912
Moravians the first missionaries. Rev. Romig
presents claims based on ancient church
records.
Brief history, etc. 1st concrete road laid in
N.J.
In Phillipsburg, NJ--coroner's jury holds Fred
J. Brown (Bonislaw Troconia) as slayer of
Anna Lynch.
Girl murdered--Annie Lynch by Bonislaw
Troconia, alias J. Fred Brown.
Slayer of Anna Lynch to be tried next week.
Oct. 16
1912
Slayer of Anna Lynch to be tried next week
Easton Daily Free Press
Murder
North. Co. Country Clubs
Oct. 22
Nov. 18
1912
1912
North. Co. Country Clubs
Nov. 18
1912
Brown murder trial.
Northampton Country Club. New stone
structure.
No country club in new house.
Easton Sentinel
Easton Free Press (daily
ed.)
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 7
Easton Free Press (daily
ed.)
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Sentinel
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 3
North. Co. Country Clubs
Nov. 19
1912
Northampton Country Club in new house.
p. 1
County Club's new house (with picture).
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Daily Free Press
North. Co. Country Clubs
Sept. 24
1912
Palmer Township - Annexation
Jan. 15
1912
Palmer Township. Annexation dead.
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 7
Palmer Township - Education
Pest House
Phillipsburg, N.J - Electric Lights
May 14
April 12
Sept. 27
1912
1912
1912
Palmer high school days.
Easton Sentinel
City to sell pest houses.
Easton Express
Phillipsburg going ahead with electric plant. Easton Daily Free Press
p. 5
Phillipsburg, N.J.
Oct. 1
1912
Electric plant.
p. 8
Playgrounds
Playgrounds
April 9
April 9
1912
1912
Playgrounds
Aug. 1
1912
Magee knocks playgrounds. Opposes plan
for field east of High School building.
Easton Express
Playgrounds
July 13
1912
Easton Express
Playgrounds
July 16
1912
Oct. 19
1912
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 3
Playgrounds
Playgrounds opened. 200 persons present
when 12th Street lot was turned over to
youngsters.
Playground on Jones' lot opened to children
(at 12th and Northampton).
First parks and playgrounds report.
Reeder, Frank
Dec. 10
1912
Obituary of Frank Reeder.
p. 1
Reeder, Frank
Reeder, Frank
Dec. 10
Dec. 7
1912
1912
Obituary of Frank Reeder.
Death of General Frank Reeder, 67 years.
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Sentinel
Easton Express
Reeder, Frank
Rittersville, Pa.
Roads - Cement
Dec. 7 & 9
Feb. 2
Nov. 12
1912
1912
1912
Obit. Of Gen. Frank Reeder.
New asylum at Rittersville.
First concrete road in Easton is finished (in
Warren County).
Easton Express
Easton Express
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 5
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Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Playgrounds now assured.
Easton Express
City will open 3 playgrounds during the year. Easton Daily Free Press
p. 7
Rodenbough Family
Dec. 19
1912
Obit. Of Gen. Theophilus Francis
Rodenbough.
Col. Teddy Roosevelt speaks in Easton.
Easton Express
Roosevelt, Theodore
April 11
1912
Roosevelt, Theodore
Roosevelt, Theodore
April 11
Aug. 22
1912
1912
Easton Express
Easton Express
1912
1912
1912
1912
1912
Theodore Roosevelt speaks at Easton.
Theodore Roosevelt here at Lehigh Valley
Station.
Visited Easton.
Visited Easton.
Visited Phillipsburg.
Thousands enjoy Sousa's concert.
So. Bethlehem has $150,000 fire.
Roosevelt, Theodore
Roosevelt, Theodore
Roosevelt, Theodore
Sousa, Philip
South Bethlehem - Fires
May 25
May 25
May 27
Aug. 22
Jan. 16
Taft
May 24
1912
Taft visited Phillipsburg, N.J.
Taft
May 24
1912
Taft
Taylor, George - Portrait
Taylor, George - Portrait
May 24
Dec. 9
Nov. 15
1912
1912
1912
Taylor, George - Portrait
Nov. 15
1912
Taylor, George - Portrait
Nov. 19
1912
Taylor, George - Portrait
Nov. 19
1912
Trolley Transportation - Easton
Transit Co.
Wars - Spanish-American War
Feb. 12 & 13
1912
Aug. 13
1912
p. 5
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Express
Easton Express
Easton Argus
Easton Express
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Prof. Taft in Phillipsburg -- addressed people Easton Daily Free Press
in a packed hall.
Taft visited Phillipsburg, N.J.
Easton Argus
Portrait hung.
Easton Express
Portrait of George Taylor to hang in
Easton Express
Independence Hall.
George Taylor's picture is unveiled -- to hang Easton Daily Free Press
in Independence Hall.
Portrait of George Taylor to be given to
Easton Sentinel
Independence Hall.
Portrait unveiled.
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Transit company wants to cross 3rd Easton Express
St. bridge.
Picture of the memorial to Spanish American Easton Daily Free Press
War by Harry Lewis Raul to be raised by
public subscription for Riverside Park.
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Wars - War with Mexico
Aug. 27
1912
Wars - War with Mexico
October 11
1912
Wars - War with Mexico Memorial
Wars - War with Mexico Memorial
Wilson, Woodrow
July 2
1912
June 18
1912
Wilson, Woodrow
Aug. 30
1912
Wind Gap - Fire Dept.
Able, Edward
March 26
Oct. 18
1912
1913
Able, Edward
Oct. 18
1913
Able, Edward
Oct. 18
1913
Able, Edward
Oct. 21
1913
Able, Edward
Oct. 21
1913
Air Pollution
Oct. 18
1913
Riverside Park to be site for Maine Memorial Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Tag day for Maine Memorial
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Maine memorial to be designed by local
Easton Sentinel
artist and stand in Riverside Park.
Proposed memorial for heroes of Battleship Easton Sentinel
"Maine"
Visited Allentown at Lyric Theater on
Easton Express
Jackson Day in 1912
Easton crowd greets Wilson as train passes Easton Express
through.
Wind Gap has fire department.
Easton Express
Obituary of Edward Able, builder of the Able Easton Express
Opera House
Obituary of Edward Able, builder of Able
Easton Daily Free Press
Opera House.
Obituary of Edward Able, builder of Able
Easton Express
Opera House.
Obituary of Edward Able, builder of Able
Easton Free Press (semiOpera House
weekly ed.)
Obituary of Edward Able, builder of Able
Easton Free Press (semiOpera House
weekly ed.)
Council delays action on anti-smoke bill.
Easton Daily Free Press
Bangor
Oct. 27
1913
Bangor steam heat question.
Bangor, - Fires.
Bangor, - Fires.
Aug. 1
1913
1913
Bangor, PA
Aug. 21
1913
1912
Easton Free Press (daily
ed.)
Bangor suffers fire loss of three quarters of a Easton Express
million dollars. Flory Manufacturing Co. and
Flory Milling Company were destroyed.
Easton, Pennsylvania Power company to
shut down Bangor steam heat plant.
Easton Argus
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Bangor, PA
Bangor, PA
Aug. 23
Sept. 2
1913
1913
Bangor steam heat question.
Bangor councilmen file answer - steam heat
question.
Easton Pennsylvania Power company to shut
down Bangor Steam Heat Plant.
Fire at Flory Mill.
Easton Argus
Easton Argus
Bangor, PA - Steam Heat Plant.
Aug. 21
1913
Bangor, PA - Fires
Aug. 5
1913
Bangor, PA - Steam Heat Plant.
Sept. 2, 1913. 1913
Bangor Councilmen file answer.
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Argus
Bangor, PA - Steam Plant
Bangor, PA. - Fires.
Aug. 23
Aug. 1
1913
1913
Bangor steam heat question.
Bangor is visited by a serious blaze.
Easton Argus
Easton Daily Free Press
Bangor, PA. - Fires.
Bangor, PA. - Fires.
Baseball.
Aug. 1
Aug. 5
Feb. 1
1913
1913
1913
Bangor is visited by a serious blaze.
Easton Argus
Bangor is visited by a serious blaze.
Easton Sentinel
Easton in line for ball team. Interstate
Easton Express
league to be asked for franchise for this city.
Bethlehem, PA - Bridges
Jan. 27
1913
Viewers report for new bridge at Bethlehem. Easton Daily Free Press
Brady, Peter
Bridges, Delaware
Feb. 27
May 14
1913
1913
Obituary
Two new bridges are in improvement plan.
Bridges, Lehigh
Jan. 21
1913
Lehigh bridge builders see County
Bridges, Lehigh
Business - 1900 - 1919
May 27
Dec. 6
1913
1913
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Lehigh Bridge question
Easton Sentinel
Manufactures organize for industrial safety. Easton Daily Free Press
Business - 1900 - 1919
June 20
1913
Easton industry special.
Easton Daily Free Press
Business - Cement industry
Jan. 1
1913
Alpha Portland first used parcel post.
Easton Daily Free Press
Business - Foundries
Dec. 22
1913
Lehigh Valley Foundries and Manufacturing
Company to locate in Wilson Township.
Easton Express
Easton Argus
Easton Express
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 3
p. 5.
p. 5
p. 2
p. 5
Business - Hosiery
Aug. 2
1913
Business - Hotels, Taverns, etc.
Aug. 26
1913
Business - Hotels, Taverns, etc.
Aug. 5
1913
Business - Ice Industry
Aug. 8
1913
Business - Ice Industry
Aug. 8
1913
Business - Insurance
Business - Iron Industry
July 9
Feb. 18
1913
1913
Business - Leather Trade
Business - Leather Trade
Aug. 12
Aug. 4
1913
1913
Chipman knitting mills seeks injunction
against former employee in a dispute over a
new knitting machine.
Obituary of Robert Gerver, proprietor of the
Gerver House.
Famous "Blue Mountain House" hotel
burned.
Merchants decide to form company for
making artificial ice.
Merchants decide to form company for
making artificial ice.
Insurance conditions in Easton.
Biography of John Fritz, iron trader and
founder.
Obituary of Henry A. Sage
Obituary of Henry Sage
Easton Argus
Business - Leather Trade
Aug. 4
1913
Obituary of Henry A. Sage
p. 1
Business - Losey & Co.
Feb. 11
1913
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Losey property purchased by a Western firm Easton Daily Free Press
Business - Silk Industry
Aug. 22
1913
Silk dying plant to be located in Easton
p. 5
Business - Silk Industry
March 11
1913
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Open showroom in New York of Simon silks - Easton Sentinel
gives biography of Herman Simon
Business - Silk Industry
Oct. 31
1913
Herman Simon
p. 2
Business - Silk Industry
Oct. 4
1913
Will of Herman Simon
Business - Silk Industry
Business - Silk Industry
Oct. 7
Oct. 7
1913
1913
Will of Herman Simon
Herman Simon's will
Business - Silk Industry
Sept. 27
1913
Will of Herman Simon
Easton Sentinel
Easton Argus
Easton Argus
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Argus
Easton Sentinel
Easton Sentinel
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Sentinel
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Argus
p. 4
Business - Silk Industry
Sept. 27
1913
Obituary of Herman Simon
Easton Daily Free Press
Business - Silk Industry
Sept. 30
1913
Easton to pay tribute to Herman Simon
Business - Silk Industry
Sept. 30
1913
Obituary of Herman Simon
Business - Silk Industry
Business - Silk Industry Employees
Business - Silk Industry Employees
Business - Slate Industry - Crime
Sept. 30
April 2
1913
1913
Obituary of Herman Simon
To unionize silk mills
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Sentinel
Easton Sentinel
March 25
1913
To organize silk works for I.W.W.
Easton Sentinel
Aug. 16
1913
Easton Daily Free Press
Business - Taylor-Wharton Co.
April 10
1913
Business - Taylor-Wharton Co.
Dec. 10
1913
Slate operations held up and robbed by
masked highwaymen
Contract signed for big works. TaylorWharton local plant to cost million and a
half.
Taylor-Wharton Iron and Steel company to
establish a big plant in Easton
Business - Taylor-Wharton Co.
Dec. 12
1913
Taylor-Wharton Iron and Steel company to
establish a big plant in Easton
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Business - Taylor-Wharton Co.
Dec. 6
1913
Taylor-Wharton Iron and Steel company to
establish a big plant in Easton
Easton Daily Free Press
Centre Square
Nov. 4
1913
Easton Sentinel
Centre Square
Oct. 28
1913
Churches - Lutheran
Feb. 26
1913
Churches - Methodist
Oct. 28
1913
Easton's public square - how it has changed
in three quarters of a century
Easton's public square - how it has changed
in three quarters of a century
First colored Evangelical Lutheran Church.
Started 1861 in Church of Christ Evangelical
Lutheran Church.
60th anniverary of the Second Methodist
Church
Easton Express
p. 1
p. 2
p. 5
Easton Argus
p. 2
Easton Sentinel
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Sentinel
p.5
churches - Reformed
July 7
1913
Tablet unveiled in tribute to Jacob Rader at
First Reformed Sunday School
Memorial tablet to Jacob Rader unveiled at
the First Reformed Church, S.S.
Easton Express
Churches - Reformed
July 7
1913
Churches - St. Joseph
Nov. 13
1913
Easton Daily Free Press
1913
1913
1913
Bids being asked for St. Joseph's Catholic
Church.
Clock making on Schooley mountain.
Elks home formally dedicated
Elks dedicate new home
Clocks
Clubs - Elks
Clubs - Elks
Dec. 2
Jan. 29
June 1
Clubs - Elks
June 11
1913
Elks receive ladies at new clubhouse
Clubs - Elks
Clubs - Elks
June 12
June 13
1913
1913
Elks home formally dedicated
Elks dedicate new home
Clubs - Elks
Clubs - Elks
June 16
June 5
1913
1913
Clubs - Elks
June 6
1913
Dedication of Elk's new home.
Easton Elks to dediacte home June 11 and
12
Elks dedicate new home
Clubs - Elks
June12
1913
Easton Elks dedicate new home
Clubs - Moose
March 14
1913
Easton Daily Free Press
Clubs - Moose
March 18
1913
Cottingham, William
Cottingham, William
March 1
March 1
1913
1913
Royal Order of the Moose buy home on
South 4th Street
Royal Order of the Moose buy home on
South 4th Street
Obituary
Obituary
Cottingham, William
Cottingham, William
March 4
March 4
1913
1913
Obituary
Obituary
Easton Sentinel
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Argus
Easton Sentinel
Easton Express
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Daily Free Press
P. 5
P. 1
Easton Express
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Sentinel
Easton Free Press (daily
ed.)
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Express
Easton Daily Free Press
P. 3
P. 5
P. 2
Cottingham, William
March 6
1913
Obituary
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Sentinel
Easton Daily Free Press
Court House - New
July 29
1913
Delaware River - Boating
Delaware River - Channel
July 29
Nov. 10
1913
1913
Delaware River - Channel
Nov. 12
1913
Delaware River - Channel
Oct. 14
1913
Groman brothers to build court house
addition
Account of arks on the Delaware
Encouragement for Delaware Deepwater
plans
Deep channel meeting here is a great
success
Delaware River channel can be deepened
Delaware River - Navigation
Nov. 4
1913
Canalization of Delaware River
Easton Daily Free Press
Delaware River - Navigation
Oct. 21
1913
Easton Sentinel
Doctors
Jan. 28
1913
Doctors
Doolittle, Dr.
Dryland Church
May 20
April 14
May 12
1913
1913
1913
Navigation on the Delaware River -steamboats up the river
Obituary of Dr. James A. Petrie of
Phillipsburg.
Obituary of Dr. David Engleman.
Obituary
Anniversary
Easton Post Office
May 26
1913
Easton Post Office
Easton Post Office - Building
May 27
May 27
1913
1913
, Easton's new federal building is open.[The
post office.]
Our new post office .
Picture of new federal building
Easton Post Office- Parcel Post
Jan. 3
1913
Parcel post service started in Easton
Easton Public Library
Dec. 19
1913
New system at the library a success[D.P.C]
Easton Public Library
Feb. 28
1913
Easton Public Library
Feb. 28
1913
Easton Public Library auditorium was
opened on Feb. 28, 1913. argus
First lecture in new library auditorium.
P. 3
P. 1
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 7
Easton Sentinel
Easton Sentinel
Easton Express
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Sentinel
Easton semi-weekly free
press
Easton Express
p. 5
P. 1
Easton semi-weekly free
press
P. 5
Easton Daily Free Press
P.7
Easton Public Library
Hours
Dec. Huh?
1913
Easton public Library to open
Easton Express
Easton Public Library
Building
Feb. 28
1913
Easton, City of - Celebrations
April 15
1913
Easton, City of - Celebrations
June 14
1913
Easton, City of - Celebrations
June 16
1913
Easton, City of - Celebrations
June 16
1913
Easton, City of - Celebrations
June 16-21
1913
Easton, City of - Celebrations
June 19
1913
Easron Public Library to open Library on
sundays.
New auditorium has no rival.
Easton Express
Easton Public Library auditorium a model in
every respect.
Old Home Week preparations
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
All ready for Old Home Week and Mardi
Easton Express
Gras
School children open Old Home Week
Easton Daily Free Press
exercises
All ready for Old Home Week and Mardi
Easton Express
Gras
Old Home Week accounts. Historical
Easton Daily Free Press
pageant, etc. First Old Home Week Easton
had.
All ready for Old Home Weekand Mardi Gras Easton Express
Easton, City of - Celebrations
June 20
1913
Old Home Week
Easton, City of - Celebrations
June 24
1913
Easton, City of - Celebrations
June 24
1913
School children open Old Home Week
exercises
Old Home Week
Easton, City of - Celebrations
June 27
1913
Old Home Week
P. 5
p. 3
p. 5, illus.
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Sentinel
p. 1
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
p. 3
p. 7
Easton, City of - Commission plan April 10
1913
Easton, City of - Commission plan Dec. 1
1913
Easton, City of - Commission plan Dec. 2
1913
Easton, City of - Commission plan Dec. 9
1913
Easton, City of - Commission plan Nov. 5
1913
Easton, City of - Description
Easton, City of - Government
Dec. 30
Dec. 1
1913
1913
Easton, City of - Government
Dec. 2
1913
Easton, City of - Government
July 1
1913
Easton, City of - Government
Nov. 29
1913
Easton, City of - Streets - Names
April 22
1913
Education - Foreigners
Oct. 11
1913
Education - Lafayette School
Feb. 22
1913
Education - March School
April 2
1913
Education - March School
April 8
1913
Education - March School
Nov. 14 and 20 1913
Cornerstone of March building laid.
Easton Daily Free Press
Education - Moravian College
Nov. 1
Main building at Moravian College burns.
Easton Daily Free Press
1913
Commission plan to be imposed on Easton
by law
New commission plan started
Easton Daily Free Press
Men who will give Easton first commission
form of government
New commission plan started
Easton Sentinel
Commission plan to be imposed on Easton
by law
Easton in 1913
Commission government in effect in city of
Easton
Commission government in effect in city of
Easton
Easton's form of government changed by
law (3rd class city)
Commission government in effect in city of
Easton
Mayor asks for acceptance for many street
names
Will re- open night school for foreigners
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Sentinel
Easton Sentinel
Easton Express
Easton Express
p. 5
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Express
p. 3
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 3
For a new school building on College Hill to Easton Daily Free Press
replace Lafayette School.
Dr. March honored by school board - new
Easton Daily Free Press
building to bear his name.
New school building to be called F.A. March. Easton Sentinel
Education - Moravian College and Nov. 4
Seminary
Education - Moravian Seminary Nov. 1
1913
1913
Moravian College and Seminary buildings
Easton Sentinel
burn.
Comenius Hall, Moravian Seminary burned. Easton Express
Electric Lighting
April 9
1913
Relief from exorbitant light rates is planned. Easton Daily Free Press
Electric Lighting
Aug. 14
1913
Must grant power company pole locations.
Easton Argus
Electric Lighting
Feb. 22, 25 & 1913
26
Feb. 3, 20, 21, 1913
24 & 25
Power Co. fails in its effort to give current.
Easton Daily Free Press
Won't consent to arbitrate. Power co. no
longer considers strikers in their employ.
Easton Express
Electric Lighting
Electric Lighting
Jan. 14
Jan. 18
1913
1913
Electric Lighting
Jan. 21
1913
Electric Lighting
March 11
1913
Editorial on electricl light question.
Easton Sentinel
Local lighting co. passes into new hands -Easton Daily Free Press
Meiklehan and Dinsmore to Atlantic Gas and
Electric Co.
Local lighting co. Passes into new hands.
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Won't consent to arbitrate. Power co. no
Easton Express
longer considers strikers in their employ.
Electric Lighting
Oct. 10
1913
Electric Lighting
Electric Lighting
Oct. 31
Oct. 31
1913
1913
Football
Gluck
May 8
Dec. 17
James Family
James Family
Electric Lighting
Easton Daily Free Press
1913
1913
Electric merger approved by Easton Power
and Light Co.
New arc lamp is recommended.
Single arch lamp favored instead of cluster
lamp.
No football game with Phillipsburg.
Alma Gluck sings in Easton.
Nov. 11
1913
Obit. Of Robert E. James.
Nov. 18
1913
Obit. Of Robert E. James.
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Express
p. 5
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p. 5
Easton Express
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Express
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 5
p. 5
Lehigh Valley Railroad - Strike
Feb. 12
1913
Lehigh Valley Railroad - Wrecks
Aug. 7
1913
Lehigh Valley strike up the road at
Easton Argus
Packerton.
1 dead, 20 injured in L.V. wreck at Rockdale. Easton Argus
Lehigh Valley Railroad - Wrecks
July 28
1913
1 dead, 20 injured in L.V. wreck at Rockdale. Easton Daily Free Press
March, Francis Andrew
April 4
1913
March, Francis Andrew
Dec. 26
1913
Dr. March to be honored (new bldg to be
named for him).
His home to be torn down.
McKeen Family
Murder
Feb. 25
April 8
1913
1913
Murder
Jan. 16
1913
Murder
May 11
1913
Obit. Of ex-mayor Henry McKeen.
Mrs. Rebecca Getter (nee Lawall) found
murdered.
Harry Beecham held for murder in New
York.
Souders guilty of death of Herbert Quick.
Murder
Oct. 14
1913
Gogle murder of 33 years ago recalled.
Easton Daily Free Press
Nazareth, Pa. - Churches
April 4
1913
Picture of Mennonite Church at Nazareth.
Palmer Township - Annexation
Jan. 31
1913
Political Campaigns
Post Office
PTA
April 1
May 6
April 2
1913
1913
1913
Annexation sentiment growing in Palmer
Township.
Long time ago in local politics.
Postal Service in days of old
Parent-teacher movement gets good start in
Easton.
Commerce court decides agaisnt Lehigh
Valley.
Central brakeman killed in serious wreck at
Republic.
Hold-up of paymasters of Crown Slate Co.,
Pen Argyl, PA.
Obit. Of Henry A. Sage.
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Daily Free Press
Railroads - Lehigh Valley Railroad April 25
1913
Railroads - Wrecks
Aug. 26
1913
Robbery
Aug. 16
1913
Sage, Henry A.
Aug. 4
1913
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Express
Easton Sentinel
p. 5
p. 2
p. 1
p. 7
Easton Express
Easton Sentinel
Easton Sentinel
Easton Express
Easton Express
p. 1
P. T
p. 5
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Argus
Easton Express
p. 5
Schools - Superintendents
May 10
1913
Laramy elected supt. Of city schools.
Easton Daily Free Press
Schools - Superintendents
May 10
1913
Easton Express
Schools - Superintendents
May 13
1913
Robert Laramy elected to succeed Supt.
Cottingham.
Laramy elected Supt. Of Easton schools.
Schools - Taylor
Dec. 10
1913
Taylor school building for city hall.
Schools - Teachers
Jan. 11
1913
Martin, Joseph. Bronze tablet in memory of Easton Daily Free Press
Joseph Martin, a former teacher.
Schools - Vanderveer School
March 12
1913
Vanderveer celebrates its anniversary.
Easton Daily Free Press
Semple, Henry b.
Simon, Herman
Simon, Herman
May 27
1913
Oct. 4
1913
Sept. 27, Oct. 1 1913
Obit. Of Henry B. Semple.
Will.
Obit. Of Herman Simon.
Easton Express
Easton Express
Easton Express
Taylor, Zacariah
Telephone - Consolidated
Telephone Company
Trees
Oct. 27
Sept. 19
1913
1913
Dec. 23
1913
Trees
Dec. 5
1913
Trolley Transportation - Easton
Transit Co.
Trolley Transportation - Easton
Transit Co.
Trolley Transportation - Lehigh
Valley Transit Co.
Trolley Transportation - Strikes
April 4
1913
Aug. 15
1913
Obit. Of Zacariah Taylor.
Easton Express
Consolidated Telephone Company of Pa. has Easton Argus
been sold.
Easton to have big municipal tree.
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton to have big municipal tree.
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Lehigh Valley Transit buys Easton Transit.
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Power co. sues Easton Transit Co.
Easton Daily Free Press
Oct. 3
1913
Feb. 20 & 21
Trolley Transportation - Strikes
Feb. 21
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 3
p. 3
p. 5
p. 7
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 3
1913
Harrison R. Fehr new president of Lehigh
Valley Transit Co.
Strike in power house ties up trolley lines.
1913
Strike in power houses ties up trolley lines.
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
p. 1
Trolley Transportation - Strikes
Feb. 22
1913
Trolley service again crippled by strike.
Easton Express
Trolley Transportation - Strikes
Feb. 25
1913
Strike in power houses ties up trolley lines.
Trolley Transportation - Strikes
Feb. 3
1913
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Daily Free Press
Wars - Spanish-American War Memorial
Wars - Spanish-American War monument
October 4
1913
April 10
1913
Wars - War with Mexico
November 22
1913
Powerhouse strike tied all Easton
Transportation cars.
Spanish War Veterans Memorial to be
Easton Express
placed on Courthouse lawn.
Object to Spanish War Veteran Monument Easton Daily Free Press
being placed on the grounds of the Easton
Public Library.
Commisioners give $10,000. for memorial to Easton Daily Free Press
Spanish-American War heroes.
Water - South Easton Water Co.
Aug. 15
1913
So. Easton water has its way.
Easton Argus
Water - South Easton Water Co.
Aug. 16
1913
City councils approve water back down.
Easton Argus
Water - South Easton Water Co.
Aug. 2
1913
Water shut off from fire houses.
Easton Argus
Water - South Easton Water Co.
July 3, Aug. 2
1913
So. Easton Water Co. threatens city.
Easton Daily Free Press
Water - South Easton Water Co.
July 5
1913
Water Supply
Aug. 15
1913
So. Easton water company threatens to shut Easton Argus
water from water hydrants, if demands are
not met.
Put water rent dispute up to commissioners. Easton Daily Free Press
Weather - Cloudburst
Aug. 2
1913
Weather - Fireballs
Wilson Borough
Feb. 9
March 19
1913
1913
Dive lines of railroad tie up when cloudburst Easton Daily Free Press
hits.
Fireballs in this vicinity.
Easton Express
New township to be heard from - Wilson.
Easton Express
Wilson Borough
Wilson Borough
May 23
May 3
1913
1913
All working for the Township.
Powers of Township.
Easton Express
Easton Express
p. 3
p. 5
P. 13
p. 3
p. 5
Wilson Borough - Electric light
Aug. 17
1913
Wilson Borough - Incorporation
Feb. 19
1913
Question of street lights discussed in Wilson Easton Argus
Township.
Wilson Township officers named by court.
Easton Daily Free Press
Wilson Borough - Incorporation
July 30
1913
A new Wilson Township organization.
Easton Argus
Wilson Borough - Monuments
Sept. 13
1913
Wilson Township memorial dedicated.
Easton Argus
Artists
April 25
1914
Artists
April 28
1914
Athletics
Feb. 10
1914
Young Eastonian is success as artist (F.K.
Easton Daily Free Press
Detwiller exhibits in Paris.)
F. K. Detwiller receives recognition as a
Easton Sentinel
painter in Paris.
Amateur athletic association to be formed. Easton Sentinel
To be connected with Amateur Athletic
Union. No name of the association is given.
President is Harold A. Bruce, physical
director of Lafayette.
Athletics
Feb. 4
1914
Automobiles - Shows
Jan. 27
1914
Banks
June 18
1914
Banks
June 18
1914
Banks
June 22
1914
Banks
June 22
1914
Black, MacKnight
Dec. 5
1914
Brodhead, J. Davis
Nov. 23
1914
p. 7
p. 7
Local branch of A.A.U. (Amateur Athletic
Union) formed.
Easton to have its first automobile show.
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton National Bank, 100 years old---gives
list of original subscribers.
Easton National Bank, 100 years old, gives
list of original subscribers.
Easton National Bank, 100 years old---gives
list of original subscribers.
Easton National Bank, 100 years old, gives
list of original subscribers.
MacKnight Black play selected for Sock and
Buskin
Appointed to fill Judge Scott's term
Easton Daily Free Press
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Easton Daily Free Press
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Easton Express
Brodhead, J. Davis
Nov. 23
1914
J. Davis Brodhead appointed judge by Gov.
Tener. Will take bench Dec. 7, 1914.
Easton Daily Free Press
Business - Breweries
April 17
1914
Brewers declare strike against local plants.
Easton Daily Free Press
Business - Cement Industry
Oct. 17
1914
Easton Express
Business - Department Stores Laubach's
Business - Department Stores Laubach's
Business - Department Stores Laubach's
Business - Freight Lines
Aug. 4
1914
Obituary of Arnold F. Gerstell, president of
Alpha Portland Cement.
Obituary of William Laubach
July 31
1914
Obituary of William Laubach
Easton Express
July 31
1914
Obituary of William Laubach
Easton Daily Free Press
March 17
1914
Easton Sentinel
Business - Hotels, Taverns, etc.
April 29
1914
Description of Easton Storage House, 11th
Street.
Seip's Café, opened April 28, 1914.
Business - Hotels, Taverns, etc.
April 29
1914
Business - Hotels, Taverns, etc.
May 5
1914
Description of Seip's new café. Opened April Easton Daily Free Press
28.
Harry G. Seip's new café.
Easton Sentinel
Business - Hotels, Taverns, etc.
May 5
1914
Franklin Building - 30 years in service.
Easton Sentinel
Business - Ice Industry
May 5
1914
Easton Sentinel
Business - Ice Industry
Sept. 18
1914
Easton Merchants Ice Co. plant nearing
completion.
Merchant ice co. plant completed.
Business - Ice Industry
Business - Iron Industry
Business - Iron Industry
Business - Liquor
Sept. 22
April 11
April 6
Oct. 29
1914
1914
1914
1914
Easton Sentinel
Easton Express
Easton Express
Easton Daily Free Press
Business - Losey & Co.
March 31
1914
Easton's new ice plant.
Thomas Iron mine strike soon settled.
Thomas Iron mine strike soon settled.
Brewers receive new beer stamps (war tax
bill)
Description of Losey & Co. (So. 3rd St.)
Easton Sentinel
Easton Express
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Sentinel
p. 5
p. 5
Business - Mills
Aug. 18
1914
Business - Shoe Stores
Feb. 6
1914
A letter - "The Bushkill Creek and its mills
since 1839"
Description of Nightingale's shoe store
Easton Daily Free Press
Business - Silk Industry
Dec. 21
1914
Memorial to Herman Simon is dedicated
Business - Slate Industry
Sept. 25
1914
Business - Taylor-Wharton Co.
April 15
1914
Churches - Reformed
Aug. 17
1914
Monument to Robert M. Jones dedicated (
Bangor)
Contract signed for big works. TaylorWharton local plant to cost million and a
half.
Cornerstone laying at St. Mark's Church
Churches - Reformed
Clubs - Odd Fellows
Aug. 17
April 16
1914
1914
Crime - Black Hand (Extortion)
June 2
1914
St. Marks cornerstone laid
Easton Express
Odd Fellows home to be erected on the site Easton Express
of the old Jacksonian Club House at 516
Northampton Street
Nazareth is the scene of Black Hand scare.
Easton Sentinel
Crime - Murder
June 10 - 13
1914
Allaby murder trial.
Easton Daily Free Press
Doctors
16 June
1914
Easton Sentinel
Doctors
Doctors
April 28
Aug. 4
1914
1914
Easton Hospital
Nov. 25
1914
Dr. Charles Stewart celebrates 84th
birthday.
Obituary of Dr. John J. Detwiller.
Obituary of Dr. J. H. Griffith, Phillipsburg
doctor.
New location desired for the hospital.
Easton, City of - Bond Issues
Sept. 23
1914
Bond issue beaten by 25 votes
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton, City of - Bond Issues
Sept. 8
1914
Citizens committee urges bond issue
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton, City of - Celebrations
April 14
1914
Easton to have great white way like NYC for Easton Daily Free Press
Home Week
p. 7
Easton Free Press (semiweekly ed.)
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Express
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Sentinel
Easton Sentinel
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 8
p. 5
Easton, City of - Fire Department - July 15
Equipment
Easton, City of - Fire Department - Oct. 31
History
Easton, City of - Streets - Names May 6
1914
Motor fire apparatus for College Hill
Easton Daily Free Press
1914
Fire station captains are appointed
Easton Express
1914
Some of our streets will become avenues
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton, City of - Streets - Names
1914
Street names to be changed by council
Easton Express
Easton, City of - Streets - Walnut Feb. 10
Street
Education - March School
Aug. 15
1914
Editorial on widening of Walnut St.
Easton Sentinel
1914
Easton Daily Free Press
Education - March School
Electric Lighting
Electric Lighting
Electric Lighting
Sept. 15
April 11 & 25
July 11
Oct. 10
1914
1914
1914
1914
School board purchases lot for playground at
March School.
F.A. March school building.
Light contract is awarded.
Light contract awarded.
Proposal for a modern street lighting plant.
Electric Lighting
Oct. 17
1914
Proposal for a modern street lighting plant.
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 13
Electric Lighting
1914
Light contract is awarded.
Easton Express
p. 5
Fireworks
Oct. 17, Nov.
26
July 11
1914
Ordinance to bar fireworks out of city.
Easton Daily Free Press
Hackett Park
Jan. 21
1914
Easton Express
Hackett Park
Jan. 21
1914
Park site for city. Mr. Hackett gives large
tract of land.
City of Easton accepts gift of Hackett Park.
Hilliard, Clinton
Lafayette College - Presidents
Aug. 12
Dec. 14
1914
1914
Easton Express
Easton Daily Free Press
Lafayette College - Presidents
Dec. 14
1914
Lafayette College - Presidents
Dec. 14
1914
Obit. Of Clinton Hilliard.
Dr. John Henry McCracken chosen president
of Lafayette.
Dr. John Henry McCracken chosen president
of Lafayette.
Dr. McCracken inaugurated as president of
Lafayette.
May 6
p. 5
Easton Sentinel
Easton Express
Easton Express
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Express
Lafayette College - Presidents
Dec. 22
1914
Lafayette College - Presidents
Feb. 12
1914
Lafayette College - Presidents
Feb. 12
1914
Lafayette College - Presidents
Feb. 13
Lafayette College - Presidents
Dr. J. Henry McCracken named president of Easton Sentinel
Lafayette.
Resignation of Dr. Warfield
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Express
1914
Dr. Warfield resigns the presidency of
Lafayette.
Resignation of Dr. Warfield
Feb. 17
1914
Resignation of Dr. Warfield of Lafayette
Easton Sentinel
Market House
Nov. 20
1914
Circle arcade market will open tomorrow.
Easton Express
Middaugh
Monument - Spanish American
War
Morrison
Murder
April 7
April 4
1914
1914
Obit. Of Robert Ayres Middaugh.
Site of memorial.
Easton Express
Easton Express
p. 5
Nov. 30
Sept. 14 - 18
1914
1914
Easton Express
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 5
Newman, Andrew
Newspapers
Jan. 28
Feb. 10
1914
1914
Obit. Of Charles A. Morrison.
Grand jury indicts Warner for homicide--for
the murder of Samuel Hand.
Obit. Of Andrew Newman.
My early recollections of Easton printing
offices and Easton newspapers.
Norton, H.M.
Pen Argyl, Pa. - Churches
Phillipsburg, N.J. - Churches
March 16
Aug. 1
Jan. 11
1914
1914
1914
Easton Express
Easton Express
Easton Sentinel
Railroads - Lehigh Valley Railroad March 24
1914
Obit. Of Horace Munson Norton.
Italian Episcopal Chapel for Pen Argyl.
Obit. Of Father Connolly of St. Philip and St.
James Church.
L.V.R.R. sued as a trust.
Reeder Family
Rinek Family
Rinek, John
Roosevelt, Theodore
1914
1914
1914
1914
Obit. Of Andrew H. Reeder.
Obit. Of John Rinek.
Obit. Of John Rinek.
Theodore Roosevelt first stop on whirlwind
tour.
Easton Express
Easton Express
Easton Sentinel
Easton Express
Feb. 26
Feb. 23
March 3
Oct. 26
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Express
Easton Sentinel
Easton Sentinel
p. 5
Roosevelt, Theodore
Oct. 26
1914
Col. Roosevelt begins state campaign here.
Easton Daily Free Press
Scott, Henry Wyatt
Scott, Henry Wyatt
Scott, Henry Wyatt
Scott, Henry Wyatt
Sewerage
South Bethlehem
1914
1914
1914
1914
1914
1914
Eulogies.
Will.
Obit. Of Judge Henry Wyatt Scott.
Last rites.
A report on Easton sewers and streets.
So. Bethlehem loses charter.
Easton Express
Easton Express
Easton Express
Easton Express
Easton Sentinel
Easton Express
South Bethlehem - Charter
Nov. 10
Nov. 12
Nov. 7
Nov. 9
March 31
March 22,
Sept. 16
Sept. 16
1914
Easton Daily Free Press
Spangenberg, Joseph
Nov. 3
1914
Telephone - Company
Aug. 29
1914
City charter of So. Bethlehem declared
invalid.
Obit. Of Joseph Spangenberg, Easton's
oldest citizen (98).
Easton and Bethlehem Telephone Co. sold.
Theaters
April 16
1914
New I.O.O.F. Building will contain theater.
Easton Daily Free Press
Trolley Transportation
Trolley Transportation
April 7
Dec. 19
1914
1914
Doylestown electric Co. franchise sold.
Operation of trolley cars in the square.
Easton Sentinel
Easton Daily Free Press
Trolley Transportation - Easton
Transit Co.
Trolley Transportation - Easton
Transit Co.
Wars - Spanish-American War Memorial
Wars - Spanish-American War Memorial
Wars - Spanish-American War Monument
Jan. 16
1914
Easton Daily Free Press
Oct. 24
1914
Easton Transit Co. to spend $150,000 in
Phillipsburg.
City council declares war on the transit Co.
April 7
1914
Easton Express
May 1
1914
Wars - Spanish-American War Monument
June 11
Spanish War Veterans Memorial to be
placed on Courthouse lawn.
Spanish War Veterans Memorial to be
placed on the Courthouse lawn.
Maine Memorial Monument on lawn of
Northampton County Prison was unveiled
June 24, 1914.
Maine Memorial nearly completed.
1914
1914
p. 5
p. 5
p. 5
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Express
p. 7
Easton Daily Free Press
P. 5
Easton Express
Easton Daily Free Press
P. 7
Wars - Spanish-American War Monument
Wars - Spanish-American War Monument
Wars - Spanish-American War monuments
June 23
1914
Spanish War Veterans Convention in Easton. Easton Daily Free Press
June 24
1914
Unveiling or Spanish War Memorial.
Easton Daily Free Press
April 7
1914
Easton Daily Free Press
Wars - Spanish-American War Reunion
Wars - War with Mexico
June 22
1914
June 14
1914
Object to Spanish War Veteran Monument
being placed on the grounds of the Easton
Public Library.
Spanish-American War veterans in
convention.
Maine memorial in Easton located on lawn
in front of county prison, unveiled.
Actors and Actresses
May 31
1915
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 13
Actors and Actresses
May 31
1915
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 13
Americanization
Artists
July 6
June 4
1915
1915
Automobiles - Gas Pumps
Dec. 15
1915
Ella Weiant, 6, of Easton, youngest star of
movies. Appears in the Seventh
Commandment.
Ella Weiant 6, of Easton, youngest star of
movies. Appears in the Seventh
Commandment.
First Americanization day in Easton.
Easton artist's work, Frederick Detwiller painting by Frederick Detwiller at Easton
Public Library.
Ordinance passed in 1915 to allow erection
upon & under sidewalks and curbs of
automatic devices for supplying motor
vehicles with gasoline.
Bands
March 15
1915
Easton Express
p. 3
Brodhead Family
Brodhead, J. Davis
Brodhead, J. Davis
Sept. 17
June 10
May 28
1915
1915
1915
Obituary of J. Harry Andrews, organized
Municipal Band in 1902. Directed it until
1919, when he retired.
Letter "The Brodheads in our history"
To be candidate for judge
To be candidate for judge
Easton Express
Easton Express
Easton Express
p. 5
P. 7
Easton Express
Easton Express
Easton Express
Easton Daily Free Press
Bus Transportation
May 1
1915
Regulations for the "jitneys" (bus service)
Easton Express
Business - Bethlehem Steel
Business - Breweries
June 15
Jan. 19
1915
1915
Business - Department Stores Laubach's
March 4
1915
p. 5
Business - Food Stores
June 3
1915
Last open top blast furnace to be razed.
Easton Sentinel
Easton that was - main industry of town 60 Easton Sentinel
years ago (whiskey distilling).
Laubach's to be greatly enlarged. New seven- Easton Express
story building to be built on present site of
shoe department
History of the Mohican Co.
Easton Daily Free Press
Business - Hotels, Taverns, etc.
March 27
1915
Hotel Easton is now open.
Easton Express
p. 5
Business - Iron Industry
July 9
1915
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 13
Business - Iron Industry
Nov. 2
1915
Business - Iron Industry
Business - Iron Industry
Business - Iron Industry
Oct. 15
Oct. 27
Oct. 27 & 28
1915
1915
1915
Business - Keller's Music House
Nov. 30
1915
Obituary of J.W. Weaver, sec. of the Thomas
Iron works.
Thomas Iron Co. sold to syndicate for
Charles M. Schwab.
$3,000,000 for Thomas Iron Co.
$3,000,000 for Thomas Iron Co.
Thomas Iron Co. sold to syndicate for
Charles M. Schwab.
William H. Keller - 40 years in business.
Business - Taylor-Wharton Co.
Jan. 25
1915
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 1
Chamber of Commerce, Easton
Feb. 9
1915
Taylor-Wharton needs 396 houses (now
being built in Wilson Tsp) - some
departments to start production May 1
Report of Board of Trade for 1914
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 1
Churches - Anderson's Tabernacle Nov. 2
1915
Anderson's Tabernacle located at 12th and
Northampton Streets.
See Vertical File
Historic Pamphlets-Church-Northampton.
Easton Semi-Weekly
Argus
Churches - Evangelist Campaigns Oct 30
1915
Tabernacle for Anderson campaign
(Religious evangelist) dedicated.
Easton Express
p. 4
Easton Sentinel
Easton Express
Easton Express
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 1
Easton Sentinel
Churches - Lutheran - St. Luke's
Aug. 2
1915
Cornerstone laid for new church, St. Luke's
Lutheran Church, 11th and Ferry St.
Easton Daily Free Press
Churches - Lutheran - St. Luke's
Aug. 2
1915
Cornerstone laid for new church.
Easton Express
Churches - Lutheran - St. Luke's
March 22
1915
Easton Argus
Churches - Lutheran - St. Luke's
March 22
1915
Churches - Methodist
May 22
1915
Churches - Reformed
April 24
1915
Churches - Reformed
Churches - Reformed
April 24
April 26
1915
1915
Churches - Reformed
Churches - St. Anthony's
April 26
Sept. 15
1915
1915
Churches - St. Bernard's
June 10
1915
Ground broken for new church at 11th and
Ferry Streets.
Ground broken for St. Luke's church at 11th
and Ferry St..
60th anniversary of the first M.E. church.
Gives history of the church.
St. Mark's church will consecrate modern
building (Sunday School)
St. Marks to be dedicated
St. Mark's church consecrates modern
building (Sunday School)
St. Marks dedicated
Work started today on St. Anthony of Padua
church.
Funeral of Rev. McGaveran of St. Bernard's.
Churches - St. Bernard's
June 15
1915
Churches - St. Bernard's
June 8
1915
Churches - St. Bernard's
Sept. 9
1915
Churches - St. John's Lutheran
Nov. 8 - 15
1915
Churches - St. Joseph
Jan. 19
1915
p. 1
Easton Express
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 11
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 1
Easton Express
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 5
p. 1
Easton Express
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 2
Easton Express
Obituary of Father James McGeveran at St. Easton Sentinel
Bernard's.
Funeral of Rev. McGaveran of St. Bernard's. Easton Express
Descriptions of improvements at St.
Bernard's.
St. John's begins special services of four
days. Luther window, given in memory of
J.H. Steele, presented. History of church
from earliest days given.
Easton Express
p. 5
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 1 +
A.A. Bechtel to build new St. Joseph's Church Easton Daily Free Press
on South Side.
p. 1
Churches - St. Joseph
June 26
1915
p. 7
1915
Cornerstone of new St. Joseph's church laid Easton Daily Free Press
on June 27, 1915. Takes place of one
destroyed by fire March 10, 1911.
Dedication exercises give history of Catholics
in Easton.
Cornerstone of St. Joseph's Church laid.
Easton Express
Churches - St. Joseph
June 28
Churches - St. Joseph
Nov. 10
1915
Obituary of Father Regnery of St. Joseph's.
Easton Express
p. 5
Club - Tall Cedars
June 5
1915
Easton Express
Clubs - Odd Fellows
June 22
1915
Clubs - Odd Fellows
June 26
1915
Clubs - Odd Fellows
May 8
1915
Clubs - Tall Cedars
April 20
1915
Clubs - Tall Cedars
June 3
1915
Easton Forest 35, Tall Cedars of Lebanon
instituted in Easton
Dedication of new building --Vanderveer
Lodge I.O.O.F
Dedication of new building--Vanderveer
Lodge I.O.O.F
Odd Fellows home to be erected on site of
old Jacksonian Club House at 516
Northampton Street
Organized in Easton. To be known as Easton
Forest 35.
To be instituted June 4
Easton Daily Free Press
P. 1
Clubs - Tall Cedars
June5
1915
Instituted June 4
Easton Daily Free Press
P. 1
Debs, Eugene V.
June 30
1915
To speak at Able Opera House
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 2
Dogs
Oct. 29
1915
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 1
Drennan, Michael C.
March 23
1915
Eastern Star
May 3
1915
Eastern Star
May 3
1915
Easton Dog Show for Kennel Club a howling
success (first one.)
Obituary of Rear Admiral Dr. Michael C.
Drennan
Order of Eastern Star -- William Parsons
chapter instituted.
William Parsons Chapter, Order of Eastern
Star instituted.
Easton Sentinel
Easton Daily Free Press
P. 1
Easton Express
P. 5
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Express
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 7
Easton Express
p. 5
Eastern Star
May 4
1915
Easton Sentinel
1915
1915
Order of Eastern Star -- William Parsons
chapter instituted.
Anniversary issue of the Free Press -- 49th
year of publication.
Easton Hospital Assoc. acquire new building
site at 20 & 21 Sts. On Lehigh.
New hospital site purchased.
Campaign for new hospital starts today.
Easton Free Press
Sept. 23
1915
Easton Hospital
March 11
1915
Easton Hospital
Easton Hospital
Easton Hospital
March 11, 16
May 20, 25,
June 11
May 25
1915
Campaign for new hospital starts today.
Easton Sentinel
Easton Hospital
Easton Hospital - Anniversary
Nov. 24
Nov. 22
1915
1915
Plans for new hospital.
25th Anniversary of Easton Hospital -- give
hist. with list of early board members.
Easton Express
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Hospital - Anniversary
Nov. 23
1915
25th Anniversary of Easton Hospital -- give
hist. with list of early board members.
Easton Sentinel
Easton Hospital - Fund Drive
June 2, 11
1915
Hospital campaign opens with grand rush.
Easton Express
Easton Hospital - Fund Drive
May 19
1915
Easton Express
Easton Hospital - Fund Drive
May 27
1915
Easton Public Library
April 12
1915
Easton Public Library
April 8
1915
Charles S. Ward here to raise $150,000 for
new hospital.
First donation to the new hospital fund Mrs. Atwater gives property site in Wilson
Township.
April 12 D.C. Lightner of Hershey Co.
"Making of milk Chocolate"
Library Lectures:
April 8, B.R. Baumgardt "Shakespeare" and
Shakespeare's England.
Free industrial lectures---Lantern slides and
moving pictures.
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 1
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 1
Easton Express
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 5
p. 1
Easton Express
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 5
p. 7
p. 4
Easton Public Library
Aug. 3
1915
Easton Public Library lectures
May 3
1915
Easton Public Library Lectures
May 5
1915
A movie "Ocean to ocean across the
Canadian Rockies"--James E. MacDougall,
lecturer was held outside on Easton Public
Library lawn.
Rose Livingston at auditorium May 1.
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Daily Free Press
P.7
Easton Daily Free Press
P. 7
Easton, City of - Description
Jan. 5
Easton, City of - Fire Department - Nov. 2
Equipment
Easton, City of - Fire Department - April 3
History
Easton, City of - Fire Department - Dec. 24
History
Easton, City of - Fire Department - Jan. 23
Stations - College Hill
1915
1915
New Century Club presents John Kendrick
Bangs.
Easton in 1914
New auto fire engine
1915
Fire Station captains are appointed
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 1
1915
Fire station captains are appointed
Easton Express
p. 5
1915
Picture of College Hill firehouse when first
opened. Former Lafayette school building
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 7
Easton, City of - History
GAR
Feb. 9
June 8
1915
1915
Easton's growth in the past year
Grand Jury Republic convention in Easton.
Easton Express
Easton Express
Hackett Park
Hackett Park
Aug. 27
Sept. 6
1915
1915
County cannot collect tax on park.
Opening of Hackett Park -- Labor Day.
Easton Express
Easton Daily Free Press
Hackett Park
Sept. 7
1915
Hardy
Hospitals - Correll's Hospital
May 3
Feb. 20
1915
1915
Account of opening of Hackett Park -- Labor Easton Daily Free Press
Day.
Obit. Of Prof. Joseph Johnston Hardy.
Easton Express
Opened.
Easton Daily Free Press
Hospitals - Correll's Hospital
Feb. 23
1915
Hospitals - Correll's Hospital
Jan. 11
1915
Easton Sentinel
Easton Sentinel
Dr. Correll has bought ground at 14th and
Easton Sentinel
Northampton St. for hospital.
First private hospital to be opened in Easton Easton Daily Free Press
(by Dr. Paul Correll of Phila.) -- property on
No. 14th St.
p. 13
p. 5
p. 1
p. 7
Jewish Community Center
Dec. 3 & 6
1915
Heptasoph Hall leased by Y.M.C.A. as fund Easton Daily Free Press
headquarters in raising money for a Y.M.H.A.
Building.
Y.M.H.A. home dedicated.
Easton Express
Jewish Community Center
1915
Kirkpatrick, W.H.
Nov. 24, 29,
Dec. 17
Oct. 4
1915
Loving cup presented to Judge Kirkpatrick on Easton Express
50th anniversary of admission to bar.
Lafayette College - Fraternities
Sept. 14
1915
Lafayette College - Presidents
Feb. 2
1915
Lafayette College - Presidents
Feb. 2
1915
Lafayette College - Presidents
Oct. 18 - 20
1915
Lafayette College - Presidents
Oct. 20
1915
Lafayette College - Presidents
Oct. 21
1915
Lafayette College - Presidents
Oct. 26
1915
Opening of Phi Gamma Delta fraternity
house.
Dr. John Henry McCracken is new president
of Lafayette.
Dr. McCracken inaugurated as president of
Lafayette.
Dr. John Henry McCracken inaugurated as
Lafayette president.
Dr. McCracken inaugurated as president of
Lafayette.
Dr. McCracken inaugurated as president of
Lafayette.
Inauguration of President McCracken
Liberty Bell
Nov. 25
1915
Markets
Markets - Circle
June 5
March 10
1915
1915
Markets - Circle
Markets - Circle
Markets - Circle
May 11
May 15
May 18
1915
1915
1915
Markets - Circle
Markets - Circle
May 22
May 8
1915
1915
p. 1
p. 5
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 1
Easton Express
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 1 +
Easton Express
Easton Express
Easton Sentinel
Liberty Bell passes through Phillipsburg on
way to Philadelphia from the Pacific Coast
expedition
The new market.
City should abandon open market.
Easton Daily Free Press
p.1
Easton Express
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 5
p. 1
Want to abandon circle market.
Regulations for farmer's market.
No hucksters or dealers to have stands at
market -- only farmers.
Regulations for farmer's market.
Circle market for farmers only.
Easton Sentinel
Easton Express
Easton Sentinel
p. 5
Easton Express
Easton Express
p. 5
p. 5
Markets - Circle
Markets - Ordinance
May 8
June 5
1915
1915
Regulations for farmer's market.
New market ordinance now ready. Fault
found with new circle market law.
Easton Express
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 5
p. 7
Markets - Ordinance
Markets - Ordinance
May 29
May 8
1915
1915
Easton Express
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 5
p. 1
Moravian Hospital
June 2
1915
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 2
Mummers
Dec. 31
1915
Market Ordinance.
Market at circle to be growers of their own
produce only after June 1st.
Centennial of old Moravian Hospital in
Bethlehem.
Mummers parade a big success.
North. Co. Country Clubs
May 26
1915
Opening of country club's new golf course.
Easton Express
p. 5
Orpheum Theatre
July 15
1915
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 1
Parades
Dec. 31
1915
Report the Orpheum sold - will become a
cheese factory.
Mummers Parade.
Parades - Mummers Parade
Dec. 31
1915
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 1
People, Famous visit in Easton
June 30
1915
Easton Daily Free Press
p.2
Phillipsburg, N.J. - Churches
Jan. 4
1915
Easton first mummer's parade to be Jan. 1,
1916.
Debs, Eugene V. To speak at Able Opera
House.
Obit. Of Mgr. Connolly of St. Philip and St.
James Church.
Phillipsburg officials and firemen confer
about a dispute regarding ownership of
vehicles (to be owned by fire co -- when
purchased by them).
City to abandon 12th St. playground.
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Express
Phillipsburg, N.J. - Fire Companies April 6
1915
Playgrounds
Dec. 4
1915
Playgrounds
March 9
1915
City to acquire land at intersection of
Easton Daily Free Press
Lehicton St. and Sullivan Lane as a park site.
p. 13
1915
Lehigh Valley Railroad club reorganized.
p. 1
Railroads - Lehigh Valley Railroad Aug. 19
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 11
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 1
Easton Daily Free Press
Raul, H. L.
June 15
1915
Reeder
Feb. 1
1915
Reeder, Frank
Roads
Feb. 1
Nov. 2
1915
1915
Roads - Concrete
Scott, Henry Wyatt
Shade Tree
Oct. 29
April 5
Feb. 20
1915
1915
1915
Suffrage
April 10
1915
Suffrage
Aug. 28
1915
Suffrage
Aug. 30
1915
Telephone - Poles
Aug. 7 & 21
1915
Telephone - Wires
Aug. 21
1915
Telephone - Wires
Aug. 7
Theaters - Berwick Theater
Monument by Harry L. Raul - "Old Glory" -unveiled at West Chester.
Gen. Frank Reeder's portrait presented to
court.
Portrait hung in court.
How Easton and Bethlehem road is being
built.
Concrete road, Easton to Bethlehem.
Portrait presented to court.
Shade Tree commission's first object report
(began Nov. 1, 1914).
Suffragists cannot use March auditorium.
Easton Sentinel
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p. 7
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p. 1
Women's liberty bell in Easton (suffragists to
meet in square tonight).
Women's liberty bell in Easton (suffragists to
meet in square tonight).
Telephone request for more poles not
granted.
Request granted.
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 7
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p. 1
Easton Express
p. 5
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 1
1915
Bell Telephone asks council's permission to
lay wires underground on College Hill.
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 1
April 9
1915
p. 7
Theaters - Berwick Theater
April 9
1915
Berwick St. theater to open Saturday. First Easton Daily Free Press
film is Charlie Chaplin in "Annight Out," and
Bronco Billy in "Bronco Billy and the claim
jumpers."
Berwick Theater, So. Side, open to public.
Easton Express
Theaters - State Theater
Sept. 15
1915
Wilmer and Vincent lease Northampton St.
Theater (formerly Neumeyer).
p. 1
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 1
p. 5
Theaters - Strand Theater
April 10
1915
Trolley Transportation - Bangor & Dec. 11
Portland
Wilson Borough - Education
May 24
1915
Wilson High School - Dedication
May 24
1915
Strand Theater to open May 1 in new Odd
Fellows Building.
Opened May 8, Graustrk was first picture.
Full description of the theater.
Northampton traction secures Bangor &
Portland line.
Bay school building, Wilson Tsp. dedicated
May 22.
Wilson High School dedicated.
Theaters - Strand Theater
May 8
1915
Youells, Benjamin
Aug. 18
1915
Obit. Of Benjamin Youells.
Youells, Benjamin
Alfred Thomas (Steamboat)
Aug. 24
March 6
1915
1916
Assyrians
Nov. 29
1916
Obit. Of Benjamin Youells.
Easton Sentinel
Eyewitness remembers the explosion of the Easton Daily Free Press
"Alfred Thomas."
Riot among Assyrians at Bank and Lehigh Sts. Easton Express
Athletics
May 23
1916
Athletic field for Easton is now an assured
fact. Booster meeting held. Committee
selected a field on Lachenour Heights just
back of Lehigh Valley Railroad Station.
Bernhardt, Sarah
Dec. 1
1916
p. 5
Business - Brick Industry
Aug. 24
1916
Business - Carpenters
May 1
1916
Express reporter interviews Sarah
Easton Express
Bernhardt.
3 men crushed under a locomotive - railroad Easton Express
men killed in an accident at Nazareth Brick
Yards.
Carpenters go on strike for an 8-hour day.
Easton Daily Free Press
Business - Department Stores Laubach's
Nov. 1
1916
p. 5
Business - Hosiery
May 11 & May 1916
20
Laubach's to be greatly enlarged. New seven- Easton Express
story building to be built on present site of
shoe department.
Strike closed Chipman's.
Easton Express
1915
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p. 5
Easton Sentinel
Business - Hotels, Taverns, etc.
March 21 & 22 1916
Mansion House remonstrance hearing has
been concluded (gives an account of entire
case.
Both Mansion House and Hotel Stirling relicensed.
Thomas Iron Co. sold to syndicate for
Charles M. Schwab.
Offer of $3,500,000 cash for Thomas Iron
properties.
Offer of $3,500,000 cash for Thomas Iron
properties.
Obituary of E. C. Clifton, lawyer
Obituary of E.C. Clifton, lawyer
Obituary of E. C. Clifton, lawyer
White ribbons throng courtroom at license
hearings (W.C.T.U. at liquor license hearings)
Easton Daily Free Press
Business - Hotels, Taverns, etc.
March 24
1916
Business - Iron Industry
Sept 13 & 15
1916
Business - Iron Industry
Sept. 13
1916
Business - Iron Industry
Sept. 15
1916
Business - Lawyers
Business - Lawyers
Business - Lawyers
Business - Liquor
July 25
July 27
July 29
March 20
1916
1916
1916
1916
Business - Milk
March 23
1916
Prof. Foster talks on Easton's milk supply
Easton Daily Free Press
Business - Pants
Oct. 4
1916
Business - Silk Industry
Business - Silk Industry
Dec. 8
May 1
1916
1916
New industry for Easton - Cohen, Goldman & Easton Express
Co. pants
Silk strike settled
Easton Express
Simon Co. agrees - will go on 9-hour week Easton Express
Business - Silk Industry
Business - Silk Industry
Business - Silk Industry
Business - Silk Industry Employees
Business - Silk Industry employees
Business - Silk Industry Employees
Nov. 13
Nov. 17
Nov. 20
April 28
1916
1916
1916
1916
May 2
May 3
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Easton Daily Free Press
1916
Silk strike spreads
Silk strike spreads
Silk strike spreads
Silk operatives to deal directly with
employers
Silk workers ask increases, 9-hour day
1916
Standary silk mill employees ' demands
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 5
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 7
Business - Silk Industry May 4
Employees
Business - Treadwell Engineering May 5
Co.
Business - Wire
April 8
1916
Other silk companies grant 9-hour day
Easton Daily Free Press
1916
Treadwell employees and managers talk
Easton Daily Free Press
1916
Collmar after wire-using companies
Easton Daily Free Press
Business - Wire
Aug. 9
1916
Easton Daily Free Press
Chamber of Commerce, Easton
Dec. 3
1916
Chamber of Commerce, Easton
Sept. 13
1916
Important new industry for Easton assured
(Roebling Wire Co.)
Board of Trade backs plan for annexing
outlying communities
Americanization of the city trade board
Churches - Lutheran - Arndt's
1916
Easton Express
Easton Daily Free Press
Churches - Lutheran - St. Luke's
Oct. 12
1916
Churches - Lutheran - St. Luke's
Oct. 16
1916
New Arndt's Church, Fork's Township
dedicated.
New church to be opened, St. Luke's
Evangelical Lutheran Church.
New church opened.
Churches - Lutheran - St. Luke's
Oct. 16
1916
St. Luke's opens new church.
Easton Daily Free Press
Churches - Lutheran - St. Luke's
Oct. 24
1916
Dedication of St. Luke's Lutheran Church.
Easton Sentinel
Churches - Lutheran - St. Paul's
Sept. 25
1916
Churches - Lutheran - St. Paul's
Sept. 25
1916
St. Paul's Church, renewed and beautified, is Easton Daily Free Press
dedicated anew.
St. Paul's rededicated on Sunday.
Easton Express
Churches - Methodist
Oct. 30
1916
Churches - Methodist
Oct. 30
1916
Churches - Moravian
Aug. 28
1916
Churches - Moravian
Aug. 28
1916
Calvary Memorial Methodist Episcopal
Church dedicated
Dedication of the Calvary Memorial M. E.
Church
Cornerstone for Moravian Church on
SouthSide laid
Easton Moravians lay cornerstone
Easton Express
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Easton Express
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Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Express
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 5
Churches - Reformed
June 3
1916
Churches - Reformed
May 6
1916
Churches - St. Anthony's
Feb. 21
1916
Churches - St. Anthony's
June 19
1916
Churches - St. Anthony's
June 19
Clothing Trade
Memorial clock of Reformed Church to be
Easton Express
dedicated
Illuminated clock is in First Reformed Church Easton Free Press (daily
Tower. Given in honor of Dr. Detwiller
ed.)
Easton Daily Free Press
1916
Cornerstone laid for the Italian Catholic
church.
Italian church dedicated. (St. Anthony of
Padua)
New Italian church dedicated.
Feb. 8
1916
Glove factory will start Feb. 14, 1916.
Easton Daily Free Press
Clothing Trade
Oct. 4
1916
Easton Daily Free Press
Clubs - Rotary
October 26
1916
Collins, Charles
March 7
1916
Columbus Day
Dec. 12
1916
Another industry for Easton--the
manufacture of men's clothing. (CohenGoldman and Co.)
Club to take part in dedication of William
Penn Highway
German comedian, passes away. He was a
native of Easton.
Columbus Day rioters freed by the court.
Columbus Day
October 13
1916
Easton Daily Free Press
Copp, Frank
Delaware Canal
May 3
May 22
1916
1916
Riot at the close of the Columbus Day
parade.
Obituary
Canalization of Delaware is opposed
Doctors
Feb. 28
1916
Obituary of Dr. John J. Detwiller.
Easton Daily Free Press
Doctors
Easton City Guards - European
War
Easton City Guards - European
War
March 7
July 8
1916
1916
Obituary of Dr. John J. Detwiller.
Co. L leaves Mt. Gretna.
Easton Sentinel
Easton Daily Free Press
June 25-30
1916
City guard shared work making their camp at Easton Daily Free Press
Mt. Gretna.
Easton Express
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Easton Daily Free Press
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P. 7
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P. 1
Easton City Guards - European
War
Easton Express
Sept. 11
1916
Easton Militia on the border need nothing.
Easton Daily Free Press
Sept. 23
1916
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Hospital
Jan. 26
1916
Easton Hospital
Easton, City of - Celebrations
Easton, City of - Polio
June 24
Jan. 4
Aug. 8
1916
1916
1916
Easton, City of - Streets - Signs
Nov. 9
1916
50th anniversary of the Easton Express,
gives history and description of Easton and
Phillipsburg.
To supervise the building of the new
hospital.
Plans for new hospital.
Easton's first mummers parade
Many children prevented from crossing
bridge during the polio epidemic raging in
New York and New Jersey. Two cases in
Easton. Police were stationed at the bridge
to allow no children under 15 to come into
Easton.
City to have street signs
Easton, South - History
Sept. 1
1916
Easton Express
Easton,l South - Recreation
May 23
1916
Education - March School
March 25
1916
Electric Lighting
March 17
1916
Old town hall sold (located at Centre &
Mauch Chunk St.) at the circle by Dr. B. Rush
Field, Supt. Of Dept. of Public Property to
Herman Ralph for 42,450.
City community center offer accepted (for
South Side.)
Unveiling of a portrait of Dr. F.A. March at
March School.
Easton's street light problem.
Fourth of July
July 5
1916
Easton Express
p. 5
Gwinner
Infantile Paralysis
Sept. 8
Aug. 25
1916
1916
Easton Express
Easton Express
p. 5
p. 5
Infantile Paralysis
Aug. 29
1916
Easton's big 4th of July - gives description of
parade.
Obit. Of John F. Gwinner.
School will reopen September 18, 1916
because of infantile paralysis.
Lafayette College closed until October.
Easton Express
p. 5
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Easton Express
Easton Sentinel
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 5
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p. 5
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Easton Daily Free Press
Infantile Paralysis
Aug. 8
1916
Infantile Paralysis
Aug. 9
1916
Infantile Paralysis
July 28
1916
Infantile Paralysis
July 29
1916
Infantile Paralysis
Sept. 30
1916
Knights of the Golden Eagle
Oct. 5
1916
Lafayette, Marquis de
Sept. 21
1916
Laubach Family
April 18
1916
Laubach Family
April 7
1916
Mummers
Murder
Dec. 6
April 29
1916
1916
Murder
Dec. 22
1916
Murder
June 1
1916
Murder
March 7
1916
Murder
May 1
1916
Murder
Nov. 10
1916
Murder
Murder
Oct. 3
Oct. 31
1916
1916
No children under 15 allowed in Easton from
New Jersey.
State guards of bridge - keep children from
disease districts.
First case of infantile paralysis in Easton
since epidemic in New York.
First case of infantile paralysis in Easton
since epidemic in New York.
Quarantine lifted today - no longer any
danger from infantile paralysis.
Easton Castle, Knights of the Golden Eagle,
chartered.
Momentos of Lafayette's trip to the United
States presented to college.
Obituary of Edward H. Laubach, former
senator from Northampton County
Obituary of Edward H. Laubach, former
senator from Northampton County
Mummers parade a big success.
Patrick Callery kills sister and wounds four
others.
Judge Stewart won't interfere for Callery.
Easton Express
Police kill desperado in furious battle Thomas Kimball.
Killed and wounded fall in the wake of
Patrick Callery and his revolver.
Patrick Callery kills sister and wounds four
others.
Working to save Callery from the chair.
Easton Express
Patrick Callery sentenced to die.
Trying to save Patrick Callery from the
electric chair.
Easton Sentinel
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 5
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Murder
Sept. 14 - 17
1916
Trial of Patrick Callery for shooting of his
sister.
First degree murder verdict for Patrick
Callery.
Callery sentenced to die.
Easton Daily Free Press
Murder
Sept. 19
1916
Murder
Sept. 25
1916
Museum
June 27
1916
Easton Express
1916
Museum to be leased to be Historical
Society.
Site suggested for city museum owned by
church.
Museum for city - use of building at Church
& Sitgreaves St.
Museum to be leased to be Historical
Society.
Y.M.C.A. movement organized.
Jersey Central Railroad wreck.
Historical society will have permanent home
-- will lease property located at Church and
Sitgreaves St.
County society to open museum in this city.
Museum
May 19
1916
Museum
May 19
1916
Museum
May 30
1916
Nazareth, Pa. - YMCA
New Jersey Central - Wrecks
North. Co. Hist. Society
Jan. 28
Oct. 17
May 30
1916
1916
1916
North. Co. Hist. Society
Nov. 27
Parks - Easton
Parks - Easton
Phillipsburg, N.J. - Industries
Oct. 17
Oct. 3
Sept. 13
1916
1916
1916
More than $9,000 for Cottingham Park.
Easton Sentinel
Cottingham Park campaign.
Easton Sentinel
Phillipsburg, N.J. and the Armor plate plant. Easton Daily Free Press
Plainfield Township - Churches
Oct. 25
1916
Cornerstone laying St. Peter's Reformed and Easton Express
Lutheran Church, Plainfield Township.
Railroads - Lehigh Valley Railroad May 12
1916
Lehigh Valley must give up lake lines.
Easton Daily Free Press
Reeder
Reeder
Feb. 15
Feb. 8
1916
1916
Paper by E. J. Fox, on Governor Reeder.
Paper by E. J. Fox, on Governor Reeder.
Easton Sentinel
Easton Daily Free Press
Roads
Nov. 2
1916
Concrete Road, Easton to Bethlehem.
Easton Express
Easton Sentinel
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 5
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Express
Easton Express
Easton Express
Easton Sentinel
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 5
Roads
Roads
Roads - Concrete
Roads - William Penn Highway
Nov. 2
Oct. 31
Nov. 2
Nov. 1
1916
1916
1916
1916
William Penn Highway dedicated.
Opening of William Penn highway.
Concrete road, Easton to Bethlehem.
Great crowd is coming for Penn Highway
day.
Great enthusiasm marks the dedication of
the new highway.
William Penn Highway is formally dedicated.
Easton Argus
Easton Sentinel
Easton Express
Easton Daily Free Press
Roads - William Penn Highway
Nov. 1
1916
Roads - William Penn Highway
Nov. 2, 3
1916
Roads - William Penn Highway
Nov. 27
1916
Dedication of link in William Penn Highway
(Easton-Bethlehem-Allentown).
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 13
Salt River Parade
Sewerage
Nov. 18
Dec. 2
1916
1916
Easton Express
Easton Express
p. 5
Sewerage
Sewerage
Dec. 5
Sept. 13
1916
1916
Description of the Salt River Parade.
Sewage disposal plan again before city
council.
Shall Easton build sewers?
Bond issue for sewage disposal plant.
Smoke Nuisance
Nov. 18
1916
Easton Express
Smoke Nuisance
Nov. 28
1916
Smoke Nuisance
Nov. 29
1916
Smoke Nuisance
Oct. 7
1916
Smoke nuisance.
1916
Stroudsburg, Pa. - Fires
Telephone
July 22, Aug.
31
June 20
Aug. 5
Utilities to be prosecuted for smoke
nuisance.
Utilities to be prosecuted for smoke
nuisance.
Utilities to be prosecuted for smoke
nuisance.
Utilities to be prosecuted for smoke
nuisance.
Smoke ordinance introduced.
1916
1916
$80,000 fire loss at Stroudsburg.
'Phone Permits' may be held up.
Easton Sentinel
Easton Daily Free Press
Theaters - The Colonial
Oct. 4
1916
Easton's newest theater opens today (The
Colonial).
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Daily Free Press
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Easton Sentinel
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 5
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Trolley Transportation - Easton
Transit Co.
Trolley Transportation - Easton
Transit Co.
Trolley Transportation - Easton
Transit Co.
Trolley Transportation - Easton
Transit Co.
Trolley Transportation - Easton
Transit Co.
Trolley Transportation - Routes
Aug. 15 & 17
1916
Wilson Township after transit company must curb and pave Lehigh St.
Easton Transit refused to bear cost.
Easton Express
June 21
1916
June 3
1916
The transit company must help to pay to lay
dust.
Judge McKeen decides against Easton
transit.
City of Easton vs. the Transit Co. case in
court.
Trolley cars will run to right.
Easton Daily Free Press
Nov. 13
1916
Oct. 16
1916
Dec. 4
1916
Trolley Transportation - Routes
Oct. 16, 17
1916
Keep-to-right ordinance under fire - transit
company insists law is unreasonable.
Easton Express
Trolley Transportation - Tax
April 17
1916
Easton Daily Free Press
July 6, Sept. 8
June 2
1916
1916
Compel transit company to pay for Bridge
use.
Visiting nurses plan assured.
Visiting nurses association to be formed.
Visiting Nurse Association
Visiting Nurse Association
War - Grand Army of the Republic Aug. 12
- McKeen Post
Wars - European War 1914-1918 - June 26
City Guards
Wars - European War 1914-1918 - Sept. 11
Soldier
Wars - European War 1914-1918 - Aug. 1
Soldiers
Wars - European War 1914-1918 - July 24
Soldiers
1916
City of Easton presents flay to McKeen Post. Easton Daily Free Press
1916
Every city guard member, veteran and
recruit, accepted.
Letter from Captain Godley with troops at
border
Easton boys (in Army) may vote.
1916
Poor food for soldiers - letter of J.H.
Easton Express
Wattman on duty with guards at the border.
Wars - Regiments
July 4
1916
Pennyslvania soldiers at Mt. Gretna camp.
Easton Sentinel
Wars - Regiments
June 27
1916
Company "L" of Easton off for the war.
Easton Sentinel
1916
1916
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Daily Free Press
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 17, 24
Easton Express
p. 5
Easton Express
Easton Daily Free Press
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Easton Express
P. 5
Wars - War on Mexico
June 22
1916
Easton Guard leaves on Saturday - to go to
Mexican border.
Reception for Easton City Guards back from
the border.
Reception for Easton City Guards back from
the border.
Easton Guard leaves on Saturday - to go to
Mexican border.
Easton Guard leaves on Saturday - to go to
Mexican border.
Easton Guard leaves on Saturday - to go to
Mexican border.
Easton Guard leaves on Saturday - to go to
Mexican border.
Easton Guard leaves on Saturday - to go to
Mexican border.
Letter from Mexican border where soldiers
are.
Letter from Easton Soldier describing army
life on the border.
Great throng gives Easton soldiers stirring
farewell. (in Mexican border dispute)
Easton Express
Wars - War with Mexico
Dec. 19
1916
Wars - War with Mexico
Dec. 27
1916
Wars - War with Mexico
July 1
1916
Wars - War with Mexico
June 19
1916
Wars - War with Mexico
June 21
1916
Wars - War with Mexico
June 23
1916
Wars - War with Mexico
June 24
1916
Wars - War with Mexico
November 20
1916
Wars - War with Mexico Personal Experiences
Wars - War with Mexico Soldiers
Aug. 19
1916
June 24
1916
Washington, N.J. - Fires
March 17
1916
Woodworking factory in Washington, N.J.
burned.
Easton is a vital point in inland waterways
system.
Chemical company under fire for fumes.
Easton Daily Free Press
Waterway
Sept. 16
1916
Air Pollution
Nov. 17
1917
American Flag Mfg. Co.
Nov. 2
1917
Largest service flag being made in Easton for Easton Express
Boston Street Elevated Railroad.
Automobiles - Drivers
Sept. 18
1917
Auto traffic is regulated.
Easton Express
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P. 5
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p. 5
Bands
June 30
1917
Banks
Sept. 1
1917
Business
March 16
1917
Chessman Junion Drum and Bugle Corps, an Easton Express
account of the group.
Nevin to be president of Easton National
Easton Express
Bank.
Easton show of manufactures in full swing. Easton Express
Business
March 20
1917
Easton show of manufactures in full swing.
Easton Express
Business
Business
Business - 1900 - 1919
March 24
March 26
March 20
1917
1917
1917
Business show complete success.
Business show complete success.
Easton's industrial exhibit opens.
Easton Express
Easton Express
Easton Daily Free Press
Business - 1900 - 1919
March 27
Business - American Flag Mfg. Co. Nov. 2
1917
1917
Easton's industry exhibit opens.
Easton Sentinel
Largest service flag being made in Easton for Easton Express
Boston Street Elevated Railroad.
Business - Banks
Sept. 1
1917
Business - Cement Industry
Nov. 15
1917
Business - Department Stores Laubach's
Business - Foundries
Nov. 21
1917
Nevin to be president of Easton National
Bank.
Obituary of George E. Bartol, president of
Dexter Cement Co.
Laubach's new addition
Aug. 22
1917
Business - Ingersoll-Rand
April 13
1917
Wilson foundry to move - will occupy site on Easton Express
So. Side.
Flag raising at Ingersoll-Rand.
Easton Daily Free Press
Business - Keller's Music House
Nov. 26
1917
Keller's store 42 years old.
Easton Express
Business - Masons - Lodges
July 10
1917
Dallas Lodge celebrates 50th anniversary
Easton Express
Business - Milk
Business - Silk Industry
Oct. 5
May 24
1917
1917
Milk war hanging over Easton's head
R. and H. Simon flag raising
Easton Express
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 12, illus.
p. 5
p. 5
Easton Express
Easton Express
Easton Express
p. 5
p. 5
Business - Taylor-Wharton Co.
Oct. 13
1917
High Bridge home of Taylor has celebration - Easton Express
175th anniversary of founding of TaylorWharton Co.
High Bridge home of Taylor has celebration -- Easton Daily Free Press
175th founding of Taylor-Wharton Co.
p. 5
Business - Taylor-Wharton Co.
Oct. 13
1917
Cemeteries
Chamber of Commerce, Easton
Feb. 14
Feb. 21
1917
1917
Ad for Easton memorial mausoleum
Greater Easton boosted at the Board of
Trade banquet. Tells of benefits if outlying
districts could be annexed to Easton.
Easton Express
Easton Daily Free Press
p. 5
Churches
Dec. 21
1917
Easton Daily Free Press
Churches - Methodist
June 18
1917
Churches - St. Michael's
Clubs - Aero
Aug. 6
April 28
1917
1917
Clubs - Aero
April 30
1917
Clubs - Aero
May 10
1917
Clubs - Aero
May 10
1917
Clubs - Aero
May 11
1917
Clubs - Aero
May 16
1917
Clubs - Knights of Columbus
November 20
1917
Federation of churches of Easton now
organized
Cornerstone laying of First Methodist
Church, SouthSide
St. Michael's is dedicated.
Aero club meeting. George R. Elder Sr.
elected president
Aero Club meeting. George R. Elder Sr.
elected president
Aero Club meeting. George R. Elder Sr.
elected president
Aero club for Northampton County is
assured.
Aero Club meeting. George R. Elder Sr.
elected president
Aero club meeting. George R. Elder Sr.
elected president.
Home is formally dedicated.
Clubs - Knights of Columbus
Clubs - Masons
November 20
May 28
1917
1917
Clubs - Odd Fellows
May 17
1917
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Home is formally dedicated
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Elon Lodge I.O.O.F. is 50 years old
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Columbus Day
October 13
1917
Comic strips
November 8
1917
Crime - Embezzlement
Oct 26
1917
Crime - Embezzlement
Oct. 19
1917
Crime - Embezzlement
Oct. 23 & 24
1917
Crime - Embezzlement
Sept. 21
1917
Daylight Saving Time
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Doctors
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May 9
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Dryland Church
28 March
Oct. 15
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Easton City Guards - European
War
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War
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War
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War
Easton Post Office- Motor Truck
Aug. 23
1917
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July 13
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July 16
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Dec. 21
1917
Easton, City of - Elections
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Oct. 17
Oct. 8
1917
1917
Easton's first general celebration of
Columbus Day
First comic strip-"It happens in the best
regulated families"
Asher V. Stauffer, Register of Wills, kills self.
His accounts short.
William Horn, bank cashier runs off with
$39,081.73.
Asher V. Stauffer, Register of Wills, kills self.
His accounts short.
William Horn, bank cashier runs off with
$39,081.73
Daylight saving for Easton.
Daylight saving for Easton.
Daylight saving for Easton
Obituary of Charles Stewart
Obituary of Charles Stewart
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High honors paid by Dr. Henry Snyder.
Dryland Church crowded at dedication
service
City guard leaves Easton on Saturday
evening.
Entire community to honor guards.
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Easton City Guard will be mustered into
service Monday (July 16).
National Guard mustered in.
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Easton and Reading will be terminal points in Easton Express
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The position of names on ballot
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Easton, City of - Employees
Dec. 22
1917
Tourist agent William Johnson died "prof."
custodian of city hall tramp house
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Easton, City of - Employees
Dec. 6
1917
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Easton, City of - Mayors
Easton, City of - Police Dept. Women
Easton, City of - Taxation
Jan. 4
Dec. 22
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Oct. 16
1917
Eddyside
Education - Foreigners
Electric Lighting
March 10
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Nov. 13
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Electric Lighting
Nov. 14
1917
Firmstone
Free Love
June 28
Dec. 13
1917
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Hackett Family
Aug. 28
1917
City salaries increased but tax rate is
unchanged
Mayor promises to clean up Easton
Policewomen for Easton, and they won't
cost a cent.
City's financial puzzle up to Express readers.
Shall taxes be increased or wages remain at
present rate?
Property assessments increased more than
$75,000
Trying to stop Eddyside bathing.
Plan to educate the foreigners.
More lights for Wilson - township orders
street lights.
Increase in electric rates justified by Board
of Trade.
Obit. Of Frank Firmstone.
Free love teachings land Goodwin behind
bars - tried to organize "society" in this
country.
Obit. Of William Hackett.
Hackett Family
Harding, Warren G.
Hart, Dr. Edward
Aug. 28
Dec. 13
March 26
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Obit. Of William Hackett.
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Visits Allentown.
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Easton the center of great chemical
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operations -- Dr. Edward Hart father of these
developments and began in 1872.
Heptasoph Hall
Aug. 6
1917
Heptasoph Hall now St. Michael's Church.
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Jewish Community Center
Jan. 1
1917
Y.M.H.A. home dedicated.
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Jewish Community Center
Jan. 1
1917
Handsome home of the Y.M.H.A. is
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dedicated.
Professor J. Madison Porter resigns
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Students on strike. Lafayette students refuse Easton Express
to attend classes on Washington's birthday.
Lafayette College - Faculty
Lafayette College - Moratorium
June 11
Feb. 22
1917
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Lafayette College - Visitors
Lehigh Valley Railroad - Labor
May 4
Feb. 24
1917
1917
Lafayette to give degree to Gen. Joffre.
Ad for L.V.R.R. against labor organization.
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Lehigh Valley Railroad - Tunnels
Oct. 5
1917
Would tunnel Easton hills for driveway.
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Martin's Creek - Churches
Dec. 10
1917
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McCarthy, Edward J.
Milford, N.J.
June 29
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Mummers
Murder
Jan. 2
Feb. 22
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Murder
Jan. 18
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Murder
July 10
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Murder
July 12
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Murder
July 5
1917
Murder
June 10 - 12
1917
Murder
June 12
1917
Presbyterian Mission Chapel on Martin's
Creek dedicated.
Obit. Of Edward J. McCarthy.
90th anniversary of the Milford Christian
Church.
Mummers parade a big success.
Pardon board wouldn't save Pat (Patrick)
Callery.
Pardon board wouldn't save Pat (Patrick)
Callery.
Callery dies in the electric chair at
Bellefonte, PA.
Maywood convicted of Queen family
murder.
Callery ordered to Bellefonte, PA for
execution.
Rapid progress in Queen murder trial Hunterdon County, New Jersey.
New Jersey farmer, wife and daughter
murdered. William H. Queen and family at
Mt. Pleasant, Hunterdon County, New
Jersey.
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Murder
June 12
1917
Farmers capture slayer of Queen family.
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Murder
June 8
1917
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Murder
June 8
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Murder
Sept. 13
1917
Murder
Sept. 19
1917
New Jersey farmer, wife and daughter
murdered. William H. Queen and family at
Mt. Pleasant, Hunterdon County, New
Jersey.
Triple murder and fire stir Hunterdon
County, New Jersey - William H. Queen,
murder.
William Meade on trial for the murder of
Bucsis.
Italian murdered, John Fritzo.
Newspapers - Argus
Oct. 27
1917
Flames damage Argus plant.
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North. Co. Country Clubs - Fire
Dec. 14
1917
Country club's old home destroyed by fire.
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North. Co. Hist. Society - Museum Feb. 10
1917
Museum of history opened.
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North. Co. Hist. Society - Museum Feb. 10
1917
Historical society opens new museum.
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North. Co. Hist. Society - Museum Feb. 7
1917
Museum of history opened.
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Dec. 5
1917
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Phillipsburg, N.J. - Education
Nov. 9
1917
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Phillipsburg, N.J. - Fires
Nov. 2
1917
Railroad - Central Railroad
Railroad - History
Sept. 29
Dec. 31
1917
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Phillipsburg commissioners to borrow
money from taxpayers to run town.
Phillipsburg Board of Trade decides to make
a new start.
$200,000 fire loss comes to Phillipsburg L.V. Freight destroyed.
Central railroad plans yard.
Changes in operation of the local railroads.
Railroads - New Jersey Central
Feb. 6
1917
The old Jersey Central Railroad.
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Red Cross
1917
Red Cross Branch established in Easton.
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Roads
April 20, 21,
May 8
May 19
1917
Improved Road project boosted.
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Roads - Sullivan Road
June 7
1917
Want state to keep up Sullivan Road.
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Schools - School Boards
Oct. 2
1917
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Scott Park
July 7
1917
Scott Park
June 18
1917
Sewerage
Nov. 10
1917
Sewerage
Nov. 12
1917
Sewerage
Nov. 12
1917
Woman candidate for school board has no
hobbies.
The new park at the point will be "Scott
Park."
Fountain for park memorial to Judge Henry
W. Scott.
Easton offered sewage plant at no cost to
the people.
Free sewage disposal plant accepted by city
council.
City Council accepts sewage disposal plant.
Sewerage
Nov. 9
1917
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Taylor, George - Portrait
Dec. 20
1917
Easton sewage problem may be solved by
new plan.
Painting of George Taylor over fireplace in
L.D. office. Painted by Laura Schneider of
Easton as commissioned by Easton Rotary.
Donated to EPL by Club.
Taylor, George - Portrait
Dec. 21
1917
Taylor, George - Portrait
Dec. 21
1917
Telephone - Service
Feb. 19
1917
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Rotary Club gives portrait - painting of
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George Taylor now hangs in library.
George Taylor's portrait now in Easton
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Library.
Consolidated telephone company takes over Easton Express
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June 2
1917
Temples - Temple Covenant of
Peace
Trolley Transportation
Trolley Transportation
Nov. 30
1917
March 23
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1917
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Bell 'phone co. right questioned - council will
try to compel corporation to give city
additional free service.
Diamond jubilee celebration of Covenant of
Peace.
Nevin defends Trolley service.
Utilities Co. want to haul coal on trolley cars.
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Transit Co.
Trolley Transportation - Easton
Transit Co.
Trolley Transportation - Easton
Transit Co.
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Transit Co.
Trolley Transportation - Fares
April 21
1917
Better service is promised by Easton Transit. Easton Daily Free Press
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1917
Some trolley complaints to be remedied.
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March 23
1917
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Oct. 23
1917
Council reviews petition against Easton
Transit Co.
Transit's new plans.
Aug. 18
1917
City Council to investigate 6 cent fare.
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Trolley Transportation - Lehigh
Navigation Electric
Feb. 13
1917
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Trolley Transportation - Routes
March 8
1917
Proposed new company -- to take over
Lehigh Valley transit and Lehigh Navigation
Electric.
Trolley cars will run to right.
Trolley Transportation Northampton Traction Co.
Trumbore, William
Trumbore, William
Feb. 7
1917
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Northampton Traction Co. would extend
traction line in this city.
Obit. Of Billy Trumbore.
May 5, 1917. Obit.
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War - Grand Army of the Republic November 23
1917
Veterans of Civil War honor department
commander Col. Noah Dietrich
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War - War with Mexico
1917
Easton City guards back from border.
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War- Grand Army of the Republic November 24
1917
Veterans of Civil War honor Department
Commander, Col. Noah Dietrich.
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Wars - European War - Soldiers
November 10
1917
Wars - European War - Soldiers
November 19
1917
Letter from David M. Bachman, lawyer
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driving ambulance at front.
Bernard Joseph Donovan, first Easton boy to Easton Express
pay the price of Prussian frightfulness.
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November 19
1917
Bernard Joseph Donovan, first Easton boy to Easton Daily Free Press
pay the price of Prussian frightfulness.
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November 20
1917
Flying becomes common, Harry Bellis writes. Easton Express
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1917
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1917
Easton Lodge of Moose throw open their
home in honor of city guard.
State of war with Germany exists.
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Aliens
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Aliens
1917
Arrested for taking pictures of bridges.
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Otto A. Banner, German, arrest in Easton first of aliens in the vicinity to be caught.
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Aliens
1917
Otto A. Banner, German, arrest in Easton,
first of aliens in the vicinity to be caught.
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Aliens
1917
Banner denies disloyalty to U.S.
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Camp Lafayette
1917
Northampton County man charged with
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seditions and treasonable remarks--principal
of public school at Wind Gap remarks
against Red Cross.
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1917
Easton Guard soon to go to fields of France. Easton Express
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City Guard no longer infantry Co.
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1917
City Guard goes to camp Saturday night.
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1917
City Guard going by Pennsylvania Railroad.
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1917
Parade in honor of Easton City Guard.
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1917
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1917
Easton and Phillipsburg honor departing
soldiers.
Easton boys on border start home
today.(Mexican border).
City Guard may reach home Sunday night.
1917
City Guard may reach home Sunday night.
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1917
City's welcome to returning soldiers proves
an ovation.
Easton boys on border start home today.
(Mexican border).
Registrars for city and country (for Army
draft).
Easton quota 45.
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Exemption Board prepares fist list from
examination.
Nearing Easton army quota.
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List of Northampton County men who will
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1917
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1917
Registration in Easton under conscription
act.
Troops silently leave Easton.
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1917
List of Easton men in the draft.
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1917
List of Easton men in the draft.
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1917
List of Easton men in the draft.
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1917
Only about 35 men needed for new army
draft.
Registrars for city and county (for Army
draft).
Registrars for city and county (for Army
draft)
Registrars for city and county (for Army
draft).
Registrars for city and county (for Army
draft).
Registrar for city and county (for Army
draft).
Registrars for city and county. (for Army
draft).
Army recruiting office opened in city.
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Registrars for city and county. (for Army
draft).
Sheriff told to prepare for conscription.
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Many volunteers from Easton --off for the
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Flag
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Food
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Food
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Fuel
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Fuel
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Fuel
1917
Local drafted men given rousing send-off to
Camp Dix.
Phillipsburg and Lehigh Valley officials at
war.
Wilson Township will say farewell to those in
service.
Easton's first drafted men go Wednesday.
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1917
First Easton men drawn for new army will
leave Wednesday.
Nearby towns say farewell to their sons.
1917
Phillipsburg drafted men leave Friday.
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1917
Easton's first quota of drafted men leave.
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1917
Mid tears and cheers Northampton sons
march - gives list of those drafted.
Easton's first quota of drafted men leave.
1917
Farewell to soldier boys (drafted).
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1917
Silk flag presented to court.
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1917
War loaf of bread on sale here Monday.
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1917
Hoover army to be organized.
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1917
School children will be gardners - plant
vacant lots.
No coal in Nazareth; people burning wood.
1917
Coal shortage is relieved in Nazareth.
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1917
First emergency coal card issued in Easton.
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1917
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1917
Coal prices won't be cut much to Easton
consumers.
Lafayette will be deserted - new students
will be left if government puts new army
plan into effect.
Lafayette will be deserted - new students
will be left if government puts new army
into effect.
Lafayette will be deserted - new students
will be left if government puts new army
plan into effect.
Lafayette men mustered into ambulance
corps.
Lafayette men mustered into the Ambulance
Corps.
Lafayette men mustered into the Ambulance
Corps.
Lafayette men mustered into ambulance
corps.
Easton observed Liberty Loan Day with a
parade.
Easton idea for Liberty Bond Stamp
canceling die adopted.
$2,412,500 from Easton and Phillipsburg
bond subscription exceed all expectations.
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1917
$2,065,050 in Liberty bonds taken in Easton. Easton Daily Free Press
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Captain named for taking Liberty Bond
Subscription.
Easton ready to purchase Liberty Loan
bonds.
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1917
Easton starts out to raise $30,000 for war
work fund.
Nearly $40,000 raised here for triple war
work fund.
Easton ready for second loan drive.
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1917
Easton observed Liberty Loan Day with a
parade.
Easton went beyond her allotment (Liberty
Loan).
Easton to put over second loan.
1917
Canvas for loan has started.
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1917
Teams turn in $26,305 for Y.M. War Fund.
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1917
Thrilling letter from the front.
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1917
Easton boys safe in France.
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1917
Red Cross unit organized here.
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P. 5
1917
Red Cross unit is organized here.
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1917
Red Cross unit organized here.
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1917
Red Cross unit organized here.
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1917
First man to go from Easton is Godfrey
Frederick Waldbeiser.
William Pitt Scott promoted to Captain in
Navy.
Donald Kirkpatrick first Easton boy under
fire.
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Wars - European War 1914-1918 - November 10
Soldiers
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Soldiers
Wars - European War 1914-1918 - November 19
Soldiers
Wars - European War 1914-1918 - November 20
Soldiers
Wars - European War 1914-1918 - November 7
Soldiers
1917
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1917
Dick Whitesell in now a regular mess
sargeant.
Robert H. Miller writes of training with
20,000 U. S. Air fliers.
Warren boys doing their bit at Camp Dix.
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P. 10
1917
Lt. Anch Kline writes of army life.
Easton Express
P. 2
1917
Life at Texas fort described by Eastonian Easton Express
Corp. Stipe doing guard duty at oil plants,
Port Arthur, Texas.
Soldiers on the bridges - National Guard
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from two states here to protect railroad
from spies.
First classes being formed by War Relief Unit Easton Express
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Spies
1917
Wars - European War 1914-1918 - March 27
War Relief Unit
Wars - European War 1914-1918 - Dec. 18
War Work
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War Work
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War Work
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War Work
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War Work
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War Work
Wars - European War 1914-1918 - Dec. 7
War Work
Wars - European War 1914-1918 - June 21-23
War Work
Wars - European War 1914-1918 - May 28
War Work
1917
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1917
War time bazaar opens in City Guard
Armory.
War time bazaar praised by 1000 visitors.
1917
War time bazaar praised by 1000 visitors.
Easton Express
1917
Banks and post-office begin sale of war
savings stamps.
"shop in Easton" motto of war time bazaar.
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1917
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1917
Easton to reduce the cost of living (co-op.
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plan).
Easton to reduce the cost of living (co-op.
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plan)
Easton has raised 3/4 of its Red Cross Quota. Easton Daily Free Press
1917
Navy League opens quarters.
1917
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War Work
1917
Wars - Regiments
Aug. 16
1917
Wars - Regiments
Dec. 22
1917
Wars - Regiments
Wars - Regiments
Jan. 16
July 17
1917
1917
Wars - Regiments
November 15
1917
Wars - Regiments
October 13
1917
Wars - War with Mexico
Jan. 13
1917
Easton mothers are organized for war duties
-- "Mothers of 1917, Regular Army" ,
organized by Mrs. W.B. Pursell.
Off to war go Easton Company of steady
fighters.
Students cheer the war news - hold first
patriotic parade in Easton.
Company "A", 149M Gun Battery, left Easton
August 25,1917.
Unit of Army Aviation Corps for
Northampton County.
Maurice Clemens to be captain of Easton
Reserve Militia Co.
City guards arrive home.
Ambulance Battalion, No. 3 (First World
War) at Allentown.
Company A of reserve militia to be located
here.
Ambulance men will come to Bushkill Park more than 2000 soldiers will be stationed
there.
Easton City Guards back from the border.
Wars - European War 1914-1918 - Aug. 27
Draft
Wars - Parades
April 3
1917
Wars - Regiments
1917
Wars - War with Mexico
Jan. 23
1917
Easton City Guards back from the border.
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Wars- European War 1914-1918 - Dec. 4
War Work
Wilson, Woodrow
Feb. 14
1917
Easton Daily Free Press
1917
Easton to reduce the cost of living. (co-op.
plan)
Easton pledges to support Pres. Wilson.
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Wood, J. Whit
Y.M.C.A.
June 25
May 25
1917
1917
Obit. Of J. Whit Wood.
Campaign postponed.
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Y.M.C.A.
Nov. 7
1917
Easton will raise funds for Y.M.C.A. war
work.
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1917
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Aeronautics - Mail Service
Dec. 16
1918
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1918
Mail-carrying airplanes in flight over Easton
caused much rubbernecking.
War forces Hobson Co. to shut down.
Organized May, 1897. First factory was
located at Tatamy. Now in Palmer
Township. They made agricultural
implements for sale abroad.
Railroad says anti-smoke ordinance keeps
away industries.
Illness if William J. Heller.
Agricultural Machinery
July 22
1918
Air Pollution
June 8
1918
American Flag Mfg. Co.
July 3
Automobiles - Drivers
Automobiles - Shows
Automobiles - Shows
Automobiles - Shows
June 10
Jan. 21
Jan. 22
Jan. 26
1918
1918
1918
1918
Rules for autoists in Easton.
Auto show at Easton Armory.
Auto show at the Easton Armory.
First motor show in Easton will close tonight.
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Bakeries
Bands
Feb. 1
Aug. 10
1918
1918
All bakers must take out licenses.
Plans for city band - permanent association
to be formed.
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Bands
Aug. 12
1918
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Bands
Bangor, PA - Churches
Aug. 24
Sept. 2
1918
1918
Bangor, PA - Churches
Sept. 3
1918
Business - 1900 - 1919
Sept. 3
1918
Join the band - Band association campaign
starts Aug. 15.
The municipal victory band.
Bangor Catholic Church dedication - Our
Lady of Good Counsel.
Bangor Catholic Church dedication - Our
Lady of Good Counsel.
Easton looses industrial war business
because of congested housing and
transportation.
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1918
Business - Agricultural Machinery July 22
1918
War forces Hobson Co. to shut down.
Organized May 1897. First factory was
located at Tatamy, PA, now in Palmer
Township. They made agricultural
implements for sale abroad.
Illness of William J. Heller.
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Business - American Flag Mfg. Co. July 3
1918
Business - Breweries
Dec. 7
1918
Easton Daily Free Press
1918
Seitz Brewing Co. to change into packing
house.
Obituary of Charles J. Abel, confectioner
Business - Confectioneries
March 27
Business - Hotels, Taverns, etc.
Aug. 2
1918
Last days for Hotel Stirling.
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Business - Hotels, Taverns, etc.
Dec. 23
1918
Passing of the Franklin House.
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Business - Hotels, Taverns, etc.
Dec. 28
1918
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Business - Hotels, Taverns, etc.
Dec. 28
1918
Franklin House said to have been sold for
$90,000.
End of the Franklin House.
Business - Hotels, Taverns, etc.
Jan. 22
1918
Business - Hotels, Taverns, etc.
Jan. 3
1918
Franklin House to be "Hotel Lafayette" after Easton Daily Free Press
April 1, 1918
J. Morris Kiefer buys Hotel Sterling.
Easton Express
Business - Hotels, Taverns, etc.
July 15
1918
Cherry Hill hotel burns.
Business - Hotels, Taverns, etc.
March 11
1918
Business - Ingersoll-Rand
Feb. 26
1918
Business - Ingersoll-Rand
May 20
1918
Fire wiped out Revere Hotel (Bucks County) Easton Daily Free Press
this morning.
New bonus plan for Ingersoll-Rand
Easton Express
employees.
Ingersoll-Rand Co. acquires a recreation
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centre and clubhouse for workers (all the
estate of the late Dr. Robert Browne, known
as "Ravenswood")
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Business - Ingersoll-Rand
Sept. 27
1918
Dorothy Stiles is operating crane at Ingersoll Easton Daily Free Press
plant.
Northampton Mutual Live Stock Insurance Easton Express
Company goes out of business - auto drives
out horse.
Keller's store 43 years old.
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Business - Insurance
Jan. 11
1918
Business - Keller's Music House
Nov. 27
1918
Business - King's Cleaning and
Dyeing
Jan. 10
1918
Business - Lehigh Valley Shops European War
June 15
1918
Business - Lehigh Valley Railroad Strikes
Business - Lehigh Valley Shops Pollution
Business - Lehigh Valley Shops European War
Business - Lehigh Valley Shops Pollution
Business - Milk
Feb. 28
1918
Lehigh Valley shop men will not go on strike Easton Express
May 4
1918
June 20
1918
Valley to satisfy City. Will keep at work until Easton Express
smoke nuisance is under control.
Lehigh Valley men teaching the soldiers
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April 20
1918
Jan. 29
1918
Business - Milk
Jan. 29
1918
Business - Milk
Jan. 30
1918
Business - Milk
March 9
1918
Business - Slate Industry - History June 18
1918
Obituary of W.H. King, proprietor of cleaning Easton Express
house. Established business in 1868. After
his death, A.S. Friedman and Mrs. King
continued.
New schedule at Lehigh Valley Shops. Men Easton Express
will work 61 hours a week while war lasts.
Valley must abate smoke nuisance without Easton Express
delay
Easton milk dealers score producers
Easton Express
association - insist consumer now paying all
he can afford to pay retailer.
State may fix milk prices for Easton
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Easton milk prices not fixed by food
administration
Agreement is reached in milk situation
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Slate operators told to cut output 50 to 75
%
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Business - Slate Industry - History March 2
1918
Business - Slate Industry - History Nov. 30
1918
Business - Taylor-Wharton Co.
July 10
1918
Census
Jan. 5
1918
Central Railroad - Bridges
Central Railroad - Wrecks
June 5
Feb. 23
1918
1918
Chamber of Commerce, Easton
Jan. 22
Children's Home, Easton
Children's Home, Easton
Structural slate producers get together to
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form company with $100,000 capital
David Stoddard going abroad for slate trade Easton Daily Free Press
Another big local industry has successful
welfare department (William Wharton, Jr.
Co.)
Easton population falls behind most of
State's 3rd class cities.
CRR planning larger bridge for Easton.
Jersey Central trains runs away on mountain
at Ashley. One dead and six injured.
Easton Daily Free Press
1918
Shakeup coming in Easton Board of Trade
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Dec. 14
July 29
1918
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Children's Home, Easton
Nov. 13
1918
To sell Children's Home
Public asked to give children's home
financial association
Firmstone site offered for Children's Home
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Children's Home, Easton
Nov. 15
1918
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Children's Home, Easton
Nov. 16
1918
City may buy children's home as a day
nursery
Fine offer accepted. Firmstone property to
be used for children's home.
Churches - Lutheran - St. Paul's
May 25 & 27
1918
Golden jubilee of St. Paul's Lutheran Church. Easton Daily Free Press
Churches - Reformed
Dec. 11
1918
Churches - St. Bernard's
Aug. 20
1918
Churches - St. Bernard's
Aug. 20
1918
Churches - St. Bernard's
Dec. 8
1918
Obituary of Dr. H. H. Sangree, former pastor
of St. Mark's Reformed Church
St. Bernard's 82nd - a milestone is
commemorated.
St. Bernard's 82nd - a milestone is
commemorated.
Picture dedication at St. Bernard's
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Churches - St. Bernard's
Feb. 12
1918
St. Bernard's Jubilee opens at Armory.
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Churches - St. Bernard's
Churches - St. Bernard's
Churches - St. Bernard's
Oct. 12
Sept. 18
Sept. 3
1918
1918
1918
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Churches - St. Joseph
May 11
1918
Churches - St. Joseph
May 12
1918
Churches - St. Joseph
Nov. 11
1918
Clothing Trade
July 2
1918
Clubs - Kiwanis
Dec. 6
1918
St. Bernard's open air masses.
Organ dedicated at St. Bernard's/
St. Bernard's school opens - gives history of
school.
St. Joseph's new church dedicated by Bishop
M'Cort.
St. Joseph's new church dedicated by Bishop
M'Cort.
St. Joseph's Church honors boys by unveiling
service flag.
Growing Easton industry leases a larger
factory (Cohen-Goldman and Co.):
clothing factory
Charter received
Clubs - Moose
Dec. 12
1918
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Clubs - Odd Fellows
Nov. 13
1918
Moose accepts oil painting from Hackett
entitled "The Bath" by Bellock
Odd Fellows encampment next week
Clubs - Odd Fellows
Nov. 20
1918
Odd Fellows meet in grant encampment
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Clubs - Pomfret
Clubs - Riverside Canoe Club
Correll, Peter, J.
Correll,Peter, J.
May 9
June 18
June 11
June 11
1918
1918
1918
1918
Club bars all alien enemies
Club to abandon races
Obituary
Obituary
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Crime - Bootlegging
Aug. 30
1918
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Crime - Bootlegging
Sept. 11
1918
Crime - Bootlegging
Sept. 4
1918
How Easton will be affected by prohibition
act.
Modification of 1/2 mile zone order is
Easton liquor men's only hope.
Dry order may close most of Easton bars.
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Crime - Bootlegging
Sept. 6
1918
Delaware Canal
Feb. 19
1918
Dentists
Aug. 12
1918
Detwiller Family
April 8
1918
Detwiller Family
Feb. 21
1918
Detwiller Family
Feb. 22
1918
Detwiller Family
Feb. 25
1918
Detwiller Family
Feb. 28
1918
Detwiller Family
March 18
1918
Detwiller Family
March 4
1918
Easton City Guards - European
War
Easton City Guards - European
War
Easton City Guards - European
War
Easton City Guards - European
War
April 25
1918
Aug. 12
1918
March 26
1918
May 8
1918
Three movements looking to establish dry
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zone here.
Deep Delaware Canal is vital to waterways. Easton Daily Free Press
PA has purchased canal from Bristol to
Mauch Chunk and plans to float 1000-ton
barges.
Obit. of Dr. William A. Eynon, Easton dentist. Easton Express
Combination formed to keep down price - so
charges heir in objection to transfer of
Detwiller property
Appraiser values Detwiller property at
$90,000.
Appraiser values Detwiller property at
$90,000.
Appraiser values Detwiller property at
$90,000.
Appraiser values Detwiller property at
$90,000.
Combination formed to keep down price - so
charges heir in objection to transfer of
Detwiller property
Combination formed to keep down price - so
charges heir in objection to transfer of
Detwiller property
Easton City Guards have been under fire in
France.
First fatality of city guard was Sgt. Hans F.
Kocher.
All is well with Easton City Guard.
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9 members of Easton City Guard fall in battle Easton Express
with Germans on western front in France.
Easton Hospital -Rates
June 14
1918
Easton Public Library
Oct. 1
1918
Easton Public Library
Easton Public Library
Aug. 10
Dec. Huh?
1918
1918
Easton Public Library
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July 9
July 9
1918
1918
Easton Public Library
May 11
1918
Easton Public Library
Nov. 22
1918
Easton, City of - Chaplains
Oct. 5
1918
Easton, City of - Chaplains
Sept. 2
1918
Easton, City of - City manager
July 13
1918
Easton, City of - Employees
March 2
1918
Easton, City of - Police Dept. Women
Easton, City of - Streets - Butler
Street
Easton, City of - Streets - March
Street
Easton, City of - Taxation
Jan. 5
The cost of maintaining patients at Hospital Easton Express
leaps to $2.57.
Easton Public Library was closed one month
during the flue epidemic.
Sub-station at Jones grocery store
Easton Public Library opened on Sunday on
Dec. 15 1918.
Library to be established for So. Side.
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South Side to have a branch of the Easton
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Library
New wall - Outlook erected old wall repaired
Easton Public Library had it's first lecture on
Nov. 22, 1918.
Father McCann objects to city chaplain.
Easton Express
Despite protest, city council passes
ordinance.
Father McCann objects to city chaplain.
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Despite protest, city council passes
ordinance.
Former councilman Tomkin declares city
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mismanaged. Should have city manager.
Easton Express
1918
City may establish its own compensation
fund
May not get lady cops
Feb. 12
1918
Concrete for Butler St.
Easton Express
April 19
1918
Dec. 19
1918
New street on College Hill changed to March Easton Express
St.
Taxpayer's league born at red-hot town
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meeting at which assessments were
attacked and officials criticized
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Easton, City of - Taxation
Nov. 23
1918
Easton, City of - Taxation
Nov. 25
1918
Easton, City of - Taxation
Nov. 26
1918
Easton, City of - Taxation
Oct. 23
1918
Easton, City of - Taxation
Oct. 28
1918
Easton, South - History
Jan. 19
Education - Curriculum - German April 22
1918
1918
Education - Curriculum - German June 15
1918
Education - Curriculum - German May 11
1918
Education - Curriculum - German May 11
1918
Education - Curriculum - Military July 13
1918
Electric Lighting
Aug. 17
1918
Electric Lighting
Aug. 3
1918
Electric Lighting
July 20
1918
Taxpayer's league born at red-hot town
meeting at which assessments were
attacked and officials criticized
Taxpayer's league born at red-hot town
meeting at which assessments were
attacked and officials criticized.
Taxpayer's league born at red-hot town
meeting at which assessments were
attacked and officials criticized
Taxpayer's league born at red-hot town
meeting at which assessments were
attacked and officials criticized
Taxpayer's league born at red-hot town
meeting at which assessments were
attacked and officials criticized
South Side valuations lowest in the city
No new classes in German in high school.
Easton Express
No more German to be taught in Easton
public schools.
German made optional in Easton High
School.
No more German to be taught in High
School.
Easton High School to have military training.
Easton Express
City decides to buy electric current for
lighting streets.
Changes at light plant -- city will purchase
power for illumination streets.
Easton Daily Free Press
City may change power supply at electric
plant.
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Electric Lighting
Nov. 16
1918
Westinghouse gets contract for city lighting. Easton Express
Electric Lighting
Nov. 16
1918
Council finally decides to buy street lights.
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Electric Lighting
Electric Lighting
Nov. 8
Oct. 19
1918
1918
New Lighting plans for the city.
City to buy electric power - 1st municipal
lighting plant in country to be closed.
Easton Express
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Electric Lighting
Oct. 19
1918
City to buy its current to light Easton streets. Easton Daily Free Press
Explosions, Blasts, Etc.
Dec. 31
1918
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Faith Healer
March 24
1918
Fox
Dec. 20
1918
Fox
June 17
1918
Fox
June 19
1918
Gracedale (County Home)
Dec. 19 & 20
1918
Gracedale (County Home)
Dec. 26
1918
Gracedale (County Home)
Dec. 26
1918
Hackett Park
May 4
1918
Explosion of Acetylene Gas at Lebanon, N.J.
Cost 10 lives.
Isaac F. Hertzog, Nazareth "faith healer"
again in trouble.
Judge Fox may become assistant attorneygeneral of U.S.
Edward J. Fox, president of the Easton Trust
Co. is appointed to Supreme Court Bench of
this state.
Northampton County Bar unanimous in its
support of Mr. Fox's candidacy.
Poor house investigation ordered by
commissioners.
Poor house probe postponed, new evidence
coming.
Poor house probe postponed, new evidence
coming.
Gateway for Hackett Park - council receives
$1,000 from Mrs. Knowles estate.
Hackett Park
May 4
1918
Memorial gateway for Hackett Park.
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Hospitals - Correll's Hospital
Sept. 27
1918
Dr. Correll going on duty - during his absence Easton Express
hospital will be continued as usual.
Italians
May 22
1918
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Italians
May 24, 25
1918
Program adopted by Italians for big
celebration (to honor third year of Italy's
participation in war).
City to observe Italy-America day tonight.
Italians
Nov. 7
1918
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Juvenile Home - Staff
Jan. 28
1918
Account of Italian celebration over AustriaHungary.
Probation officer (Carrie Riddle) named.
Juvenile Home - Staff
Jan. 28
1918
Probation officer (Carrie Riddle) named.
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Lafayette College - Faculty
Lafayette College - Faculty
April 13
Feb. 20
1918
1918
Pat Reilly to coach at Lafayette
Obituary of Dr. Stonecipher, librarian
Easton Express
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Lafayette College - R.O.T.C.
Lehigh Valley Railroad - Wrecks
Dec. 26
Aug. 26
1918
1918
R.O.T.C. may train officers at Lafayette.
Two Mauch Chunk railroaders killed in
caboose when following train hits theirs.
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Lepers
Loitering
April 11
Aug. 30
1918
1918
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March, General Payton C.
Dec. 14
1918
March, General Payton C.
Feb. 11
1918
March, General Payton C.
Feb. 2
1918
2 children in Phillipsburg, NJ
Roundup of idlers is due in Easton, same as
in Philadelphia.
Gen. March decorated with distinguished
service medal.
How P.C. March rose to highest place in
Army.
March slated for Chief of Staff of Army.
March, General Payton C.
Feb. 2
1918
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March, General Payton C.
Feb. 4
1918
Major-general Peyton March to be head of
U.S. Army.
March, new chief staff.
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March, General Payton C.
Feb. 8
1918
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1918
Gen. Peyton March given degree of Dr. of
Laws by Lafayette.
Sword for Gen. Peyton March by popular
subscription.
Degree for Gen. Peyton March.
Let Easton present sword to distinguished
son, Gen. March. Money to be raised by
public subscription.
Many contributors to Peyton March sword
fund.
Major-general Peyton March home.
Sword will be given Gen. Peyton March in
square.
Presentation of sword on May 30 to Gen.
March.
Easton presents sword to Gen. Peyton
March.
Gen. March receives handsome sword from
citizens of Easton.
Lafayette prepares to honor Gen. P.C. March
at Commencement.
Gen. Peyton March to be at Lafayette
commencement.
Expressmen to fight to keep circle stands.
March, General Payton C.
Feb. 8
1918
March, General Payton C.
March, General Payton C.
Feb. 8
Feb. 8
1918
1918
March, General Payton C.
Feb. 9 & 11
1918
March, General Payton C.
March, General Payton C.
March 1
May 21
1918
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March, General Payton C.
May 21
1918
March, General Payton C.
May 31
1918
March, General Payton C.
May 31
1918
March, General Payton C.
May 5
1918
March, General Payton C.
May 6
1918
Markets - Circle
March 22
Murder
Dec. 10
1918
Salvatore Merlo murdered by Joseph Fazio.
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Murder
Dec. 11
1918
Italian murder due to business jealousy Easton Daily Free Press
murder of Salvatore Merlo by Joseph Fazio.
Murder
Dec. 11 & 14
1918
Fazio denies that he shot Salvatore Merlo.
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Murder
June 10
1918
Loomis sent back for trial in Bertha Myers
murder case.
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Murder
June 11
1918
Shrope charged with murder of Bertha
Myers.
Shrope charged with murder of Bertha
Myers.
Shrope charged with murder of Bertha
Myers.
Bertha Myers, woman of the underworld
found foully murdered.
Bertha Myers, woman of the underworld
found foully murdered.
Detective Neimeyer has brought about the
arrest of Mrs. Myer's alleged slayer.
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Murder
June 4
1918
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June 6
1918
Murder
May 10
1918
Murder
May 11
1918
Murder
May 11 & 13
1918
Murder
May 13
1918
Bertha Myers, woman of the underworld
found foully murdered.
Coroner's jury charges both Loomis and
Shrope with the murder of Bertha Myers.
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Murder
May 15
1918
Murder
May 15
1918
Coroner's jury charges both Loomis and
Shrope with the murder of Bertha Myers.
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Murder
May 17
1918
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Murder
May 20
1918
Bertha Myers, woman of the underworld
found foully murdered.
Detective Neimeyer has brought about the
arrest of Mrs. Myer's alleged slayer.
Murder
May 21
1918
Shrope takes back murder confession.
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Murder
May 4
1918
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Murder
May 4
1918
Murder
May 6
1918
Bertha J. Myers, woman of the easton
underworld, murdered.
Bertha Myers, woman of the underworld
found foully murdered.
Bertha Myers, woman of the underworld
found foully murdered.
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Murder
May 9
1918
Bertha Myers, woman of the underworld
found foully murdered.
Bertha Myers, woman of the underworld
found foully murdered.
Shrope held to be guilty of murder in the
first degree.
Shrope held to be guilty of murder in the
first degree.
Shrope held to be guilty of murder in the
first degree.
Loomis and Shrope are both sentenced to
die in the electric chair.
Court unlikely to grant continuance of time
to the Loomis murder case.
Account of murder trial for Shrope and
Loomis for the murder of Bertha Myers.
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Murder
Oct. 15
1918
Murder
Oct. 15
1918
Murder
Oct. 2
1918
Murder
Oct. 21
1918
Murder
Oct. 21
1918
Murder
Sept. 10
1918
Murder
Sept. 11
1918
Murder
Sept. 11
1918
Loomis - Shrope murder cases to be tried.
Both charged with the murder of Bertha
Myers, Easton, PA.
Shrope springs surprise in Bertha Myers'
murder case by his plea of not guilty.
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Murder
Sept. 12
1918
Murder
Sept. 16
1918
Account of murder trial for Shrope and
Loomis for the murder of Bertha Myers.
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Murder
Sept. 16
1918
Shrope springs surprise in Bertha Myers'
murder case by his plea of not guilty.
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Murder
Sept. 16
1918
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Murder
Sept. 23
1918
Loomis sent back for trial in Bertha Myers
murder case.
Account of murder trial for Shrope and
Loomis for the murder of Bertha Myers.
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Murder
Sept. 24
1918
Account of murder trial for Shrope and
Loomis for the murder of Bertha Myers.
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Murder
Sept. 28
1918
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Murder
Sept. 30
1918
Navy League
Feb. 13
1918
Nazareth, Pa. - YMCA
Nazareth, Pa. - YMCA
July 3
July 3
1918
1918
New trial for Loomis in Bertha Myers murder
case.
Loomis sent back for trial in Bertha Myers
murder case.
Mr. Chipman gives home to Easton branch
of Navy League.
Nazareth new Y.M. building.
Nazareth Y.M.C.A. dedicates its new home.
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Nazareth, Pa. - YMCA
Oct. 25
1918
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Nevin Family
Nov. 4
1918
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North. Co. Country Clubs Members
Nurses and Nursing
May 22
1918
March 14
1918
Y.M.C.A. Building in Nazareth to be used as
hospital - influenza.
George B. Nevin composes war time
anthem.
Country Club will ask members who are
citizens of Germany to resign.
No more sisters at Easton Hospital after June
1. (Garb and title of Mary Drexel home,
Lutheran training school will disappear).
Nurses and Nursing
May 14
1918
No more sisters at Easton Hospital after June Easton Daily Free Press
1. (Garb and title of Mary Drexel home,
Lutheran training school will disappear).
Orpheum Theatre
Feb. 28
1918
Parkhurst, Mrs.
Sept. 23
1918
Wilmer and Vincent buy control of
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Orpheum.
Three thousand people hear Mrs. Parkhurst Easton Daily Free Press
at "Ravenswood," Phillipsburg.
Patriotic Order Sons of America
Jan. 5
1918
Handsome new home of #542 P.O.S. of A.
dedicated.
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Paxinosa Inn
March 16
1918
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Aug. 22
May 30
Feb. 6
1918
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June 7
1918
Phillipsburg, N.J. - European War April 27
1918
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1918
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1918
Phillipsburg, N.J. - Firth
June 26
1918
Phillipsburg, N.J. - Firth
June 30
1918
Phillipsburg, N.J. - Housing
Sept. 25
1918
Phillipsburg, N.J. - Housing
Sept. 25
1918
Phillipsburg, N.J. - Playground
July 22
1918
Phillipsburg, N.J. - Sewer
Feb. 12
1918
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Jan. 2
1918
Pigs
April 17
1918
Paxinosa club is no more. Hundreds of
Eastonians stung.
New bank for Phillipsburg (Trust Co.).
Greek church dedicated.
Public school in Phillipsburg closed for one
week -- no fuel.
German will be eliminated from Phillipsburg
schools.
Account of the Phillipsburg liberty day
parade.
Account of the Phillipsburg liberty day
parade.
Third Liberty Loan honor flag on city flag
pole.
Obit. Of Joseph H. Firth, mayor of
Phillipsburg.
Obit. Of Joseph H. Firth, mayor of
Phillipsburg.
Government closes deal on Roseberry farm
(Phillipsburg) property. - Housing
corporation will spend nearly $400,000 in
building modern houses for war workers.
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U.S. Government takes Roseberry farm to
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begin building new homes in Phillipsburg at
once.
Phillipsburg formally opens new playground Easton Daily Free Press
(Mill-Sum-Mor) -- first public playground.
Phillipsburg to spend $81,662.63 on new
sewer system.
Phillipsburg -- town to spend $100,000 on
sewers in 1918.
Pigs as business proposal for city.
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Pigs
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April 20
April 6 & 20
1918
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1918
Offers to run piggery for municipality.
City of Easton may decide to install a
piggery.
Mayor won't permit keeping of pigs in city
limits.
Municipal piggery is latest suggestion.
Pigs
Aug. 3
1918
Pigs
Feb. 14
Pigs
Feb. 16
1918
Council not likely to permit pigs in the city.
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Pigs
Feb. 16
1918
Councilmen don't like pig raising idea.
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Pigs
Feb. 26
1918
Municipal piggeries - advocated for Easton
with Hackett Park as site for colony.
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Pigs
Pigs
May 17
May 4
1918
1918
Farm bought for piggery.
To issue bonds to establish city piggery.
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Pigs
Playgrounds
May 9
July 18
1918
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Prohibition
March 13
1918
Easton now in pig business.
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May name park S.S. Horn (at foot of 8th St. Easton Express
steps).
Easton liquor dealers will not close of July 1. Easton Daily Free Press
Prohibition
Nov. 30
1918
Prostitution
Aug. 16
1918
Prostitution
Aug. 16, 19 &
20
Prostitution
Railroad - Central Railroad
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No more beer will be brewed after 12
tonight.
Northampton Heights vice dens raided by
Federal authorities Thursday evening.
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1918
Northampton Heights vice dens raided by
Federal authorities Thursday evening.
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Aug. 21
1918
July 16
1918
White slavery trust and dope ring bared by Easton Daily Free Press
raid at Northampton Heights.
Central Railroad is laying new ties for double Easton Daily Free Press
track.
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Railroad - Central Railroad
July 19
1918
New officials for Central Railroad announced Easton Daily Free Press
today (under federal management).
Railroad - Central Railroad
Nov. 25
1918
Moving of Central Railroad bridge today and Easton Daily Free Press
Tuesday is an engineering feat.
Recreation
Sept. 21
1918
Park for city ground - No. 8th St. not to be
named after Sam Horm but for city guard.
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Red Cross
Feb. 20
1918
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Red Cross
1918
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Reilly
Feb. 4 & 16,
March 1
April 13
A glimpse of the work of the Red Cross in
Easton.
Easton Jr. Red Cross to be organized.
1918
"Pat" Reilly is football coach at Lafayette.
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Roads - Cement
Feb. 28
1918
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Roads - Martin's Creek
Aug. 21
1918
Sues city for bill for laying "Dolarway"
paving.
Little hope for new road. Martin's Creek Bangor highway may not be built.
Roads - Martin's Creek
Feb. 28
1918
Roads - Martin's Creek
March 21
1918
Roads - Martin's Creek
Nov. 15
1918
Roads - Wilson
Nov. 12
1918
Schools - Teachers
June 10
1918
Sewerage
May 18
1918
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Concrete road from Martin's Creek to
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Bangor.
Martin's Creek - Bangor road to be built this Easton Express
year.
Little hope for new road. Martin's Creek Easton Express
Bangor highway may not be built.
New part of Pennsylvania highway in Easton Easton Daily Free Press
open to traffic.
Charles H. Lerch, Easton teacher. Obituary. Easton Express
City receives another waste reduction offer Easton Daily Free Press
(garbage disposal).
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Social Service League
April 18
1918
Society name changed - charity organization Easton Express
to be known as Social Service League.
Social Service League
June 11
1918
Suicide
Sept. 2
1918
Tatamy, Pa.
Aug. 1
1918
Taxation
Dec. 7
1918
Charity organization will become Social
Service League.
Harry G. Seip ends life by firing bullet in
brain in restaurant.
Tatamy gets new industry -- coffee roasting
house.
City tax rate may be reduced half a mill.
Taxation - 1918
Dec. 6
1918
Property owners' meeting tame affair this
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time comparted with the first. Easton
property owners formed two weeks
previously, was formed to dispute taxes as
levied and other activities and take an active
interest in community.
Taxation - Inheritance
Feb. 21
1918
Dr. O.D. Schaeffer named special
investigator for collection of direct
inheritance taxes in Northampton County.
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Nov. 23
1918
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Taxation - Property
Nov. 27
1918
Taxation - Property
Nov. 30
1918
Travel - China
Feb. 18
1918
City councilman "knocked" at citizens'
meeting that denounced assessments.
City officials deny that assessments were
affected members.
Trade board is asked to probe assessment
plan and council defends plan of
assessment.
Wife of Rev. Kepler writes home from China.
Trolley Transportation
Dec. 28
1918
Skip stop system being eliminated here in
Easton (transportation system).
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Trolley Transportation
July 11
1918
Trolley Transportation
June 21
1918
Trolley Transportation
June 22
1918
Trolley Transportation - Easton
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March 2
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May 24
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Trolley Transportation - Hay Line March 16
1918
Trolley Transportation - Lehigh
Jan. 2
Valley Transit Co.
War - European War 1914-1918 - Dec. 2
City Guards
Warren County, New Jersey Sept. 28
Fires
1918
Wars - Civil War - Soldiers
June 13
1918
Wars - Civil War - Soldiers
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March 6
Dec. 18
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1918
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Easton "keep to the right" trolley ordinance
sustained by superior court.
Skip stop system for Easton and
Northampton County towns (trolleys
conserve fuel).
Heights people are opposed to trolley
switch.
Lehigh Valley Transit co. explains poor
trolley service.
Trolley fares to be raised.
Street car fares may be increased by
commission.
Hay Line to abandon Bushkill Street track.
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Government takes over local trolley lines of Easton Daily Free Press
Lehigh Valley Transit Co.
City guard to remain - assigned to the Army Easton Express
of occupation.
Fire sweeps through Hop - Little Warren
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County town suffer loss of about $200,000.
Obituary of John W. Beam, Civil War
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veteran.
Captain Howell, oldest veteran is dead.
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City guard won't come back as it went away. Easton Express
1918
The Easton theatres were closed in October
1918 because of the influenza epidemic.
April 26
1918
Dr. R.H. Hoey suffering from shell shock.
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November 14
1918
Sgt. Norman Peil describes work of
canteens.
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Wars - European War - Soldiers
Aug. 22
1918
Wars - European War - Soldiers
Aug. 23
1918
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Aug. 3
1918
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Aug. 3
1918
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Dec. 21
1918
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Jan. 9
1918
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July 30
1918
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June 10
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June 10
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June 15
1918
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June 27
1918
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November 11
1918
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November 14
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November 14
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November 15
1918
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November 15
1918
Reverand J.E.Flemming describes war in
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France.
Samuel Fazio first Easton Italian to be
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wounded.
Godley now a Major of 151st M.G. Battalion Easton Daily Free Press
Godley now a Major of 151st. M.G.
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Battalion.
Pvt. H.B. Axe, first member of the city guard Easton Express
to reach Easton.
Lt. Harold Bealer with Canadiens, dies.
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Former Eastonian, second Yankee to take a
shot at Heins. (Roy Weller)
Letter of Captain Frank M. Godley,
commander of first Easton & Phillipsburg
boys in action.
Letter from Captain Godley.
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Howard Ehrie, first Phillipsburger killed in
action.
Godley acting major of U.S.Army.
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Silk service flag for Godley, memorial tablet
for Easton War Heroes.
Wm. C. Bender describes life of an artillary
man.
Praise for city guard --Lt. Chidsey, 1st Easton
officer to return home.
Thomas Engle first man home from the
front.
Army calls off all induction at Lafayette.
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Wars - European War - Soldiers
November 23
1918
Another letter from Reverand Flemming.
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Wars - European War - Soldiers
November 4
1918
Captain Godley to leave company.
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Wars - European War - Soldiers
November 9
1918
First of 542 boys to come home, Abram
Bennett, injured in France.
Easton loses Odd Fellows grand
encampment because of epidemic.
Banner may leave prison tomorrow.
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Country clubs to close until first of April -fuel conservation.
Easton toes the mark on first heatless
Monday.
Frank Albert, young Eastonian, classed as
alien enemy to be interred for duration of
the war.
Smith and wife are gone: German spy talk is
heard.
No evidence on which to hold Banner say
Federal Agents.
German alien women must register.
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Influenza
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Fuel
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- Fuel
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Aliens
1918
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Aliens
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Aliens
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Aliens
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Aliens
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Aliens
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Armistice
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Armistice
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1918
German propagandists busy among aliens in Easton Express
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Banner may leave prison tomorrow.
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1918
Want Banner case decided.
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1918
Account of Armistice
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1918
Joy unconfined in city until far into night.
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Armistice
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Armistice
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Band
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Band
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Band
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Band
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Bands
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Camp Lafayette
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Camp Lafayette
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Camp Lafayette
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Camp Lafayette
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Camp Lafayette
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Camp Lafayette
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Easton and Phillipsburg celebrate over news Easton Daily Free Press
of armistice signed.
Victory was celebrated. Easton Italians held Easton Express
demonstration.
Join the band that will make the city famous-- Easton Daily Free Press
campaign starts August 15th.
Band of 100 pieces for Easton, if there is
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money enough.
Easton to have its own band--to incorporate Easton Daily Free Press
Andrews band.
Spirit of '76 to be kept alive by Easton men Easton Express
in drum corp, 1st organization of its kind in
the U.S. now being formed in the city.
1918
Easton to have its own band--to incorporate Easton Express
Andrews band.
Uniforms given out at Camp Lafayette.
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1918
Lafayette Camp to remain.
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1918
Uniforms for Camp Lafayette men now on
way to Easton.
Easton man picked for service at Camp
Lafayette.
26 go to Camp Lafayette.
1918
Soldier boys enjoying life at Camp Lafayette. Easton Express
1918
Camp Lafayette to be established here on
June 15, next.
Men at Camp Lafayette demand warmer
clothing.
Student army training now in effect at
Lafayette.
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Clothing
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Draft
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Draft
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Draft
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Draft
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Draft
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Draft
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Draft
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Draft
1918
Men drawn in Easton - 34 from this city in
first 100 numbers taken from the box.
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Draft
1918
Mayor Nevin issues the proclamation for the Easton Daily Free Press
registration on September 12 (draft)
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Food
1918
Bakers pledge co-operation to form
organization to help each other with war
problem.
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Seven City Guards killed , 80 wounded or
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gassed during World War.
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and into Germany (letters).
Easton guard in lead at St. Mihiel.
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Half of city guard force in hospital August
5th.
A city guard appeals to Easton girls to wear
gingham, not silks.
Easton physicians will be called to the
service of the country.
Rousing sendoff as local soldier boys leave
for camp.
Easton sends largest contingent of drafted
men.
Registering in Easton - men in essential
industries at work.
1st October draft calls.
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Nearly 5000 in Easton "18-45" class
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registered.
Gives chance for service - Men out of draft Easton Express
age or exempt to serve here can join militia.
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Food
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Food
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Food
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Food
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Food
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Fuel
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Fuel
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Fuel
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1918
Food conservation booth in circle Arcade
market.
Food drive in on in Easton for two weeks
(idea is to conserve food).
Easton bakers to make the new "victory"
bread.
Prisoners to grow vegetables for institution.
1918
Mauser flour mills closed by Mr. Hoover.
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1918
City and county move to carry out fuel
order.
City and county move to carry out fuel
order.
Not a wheel turning in local industry - full
cooperation in order to suspend operations
for five days (fuel order).
Country clubs to close until first of April -fuel conservation.
City and county, served by utilities, without
any power.
Fuel situation in Easton nearing critical
stage.
Opinions on 6 P.M. closing --stores to
conserve fuel.
Easton -- no request for early closing.
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Fuel
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Fuel
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Fuel
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Fuel
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Fuel
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Influenza
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Influenza
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Influenza
1918
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450 burials in one month (influenza).
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1918
205 died in Easton during epidemic.
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1918
Easton flu ban lifted at noon.
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Influenza
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Influenza
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Influenza
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Influenza
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Influenza
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Influenza
1918
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1918
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Influenza spreads among Easton school
children.
Health officer, Condran, believes epidemic
will soon be controlled.
Epidemic has caused over 60 deaths in
Easton.
Deaths from influenza in Easton on the
increase.
Death rate highest for one day since
influenza appeared.
Influenza statistics.
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1918
An emergency hospital for Alpha Cement (to Easton Daily Free Press
treat residents ill of flu)
Schools may reopen next week (influenza). Easton Express
1918
Founders day postponed (influenza).
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City will assist in looking after children made Easton Express
orphans by influenza.
Fire department inspection postponed
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(influenza).
Churches and schools will reopen.
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1918
Public schools will reopen on Thursday.
Easton Daily Free Press
1918
No hint of lid lifting (influenza)
Easton Express
1918
Additional deaths from Spanish influenza;
1135 pupils ill; 3 buildings closed.
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1918
No hint on lid lifting (influenza).
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Influenza
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Influenza
Wars - European War 1914-1918 - October 4
Influenza
1918
Emergency hospital at Martins Creek closed. Easton Daily Free Press
1918
Ban raised in city and county on November
6, 1918
State closes saloons and public places; city
closes schools, churches and theatres.
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Influenza
1918
Easton to close down tight in effort to stamp Easton Express
out epidemic of Spanish influenza.
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Influenza
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Influenza
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Influenza
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Influenza
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Influenza
1918
Deaths from pneumonia in city show
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alarming increase in 24 hours.
Easton physicians unable to care for increase Easton Express
in Spanish influenza.
Epidemic on decline.
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Influenza
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Liberty Loan
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Liberty Loan
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Liberty Loan
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Liberty Loan
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Dr. Green of opinion climax has been
reached in influenza in Easton.
To stamp out influenza - Easton physicians
take part in discussion of plans to fight
disease.
Twin city in the grip of Spanish influenza: 4
deaths.
Description of Libery parade.
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Mayor Nevin urges Easton to observe Libery Easton Daily Free Press
Day on Friday.
Easton Bond drive starts with $649,350.
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"Matching the President" slogan in Easton is Easton Daily Free Press
growing. (Liberty Bonds).
Easton needs $900,000 more to go over the Easton Express
top in bond drive.
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Liberty Loan
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Liberty Loan
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Liberty Loan
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Liberty Loan
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Liberty Loan
1918
Liberty Loan celebration.
Easton Express
1918
Easton subscribes $3,854,400 to 4th Liberty
Loan.
Easton to raise $3,762,061 for fourth Liberty
Loan.
City buys liberty bonds - council votes to
take $25,000 of the fourth issue.
Noisy opening of bond drive - ringing of bells
and blowing of whistles usher in the day.
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Wars - European War 1914-1918 - Sept. 3
Liberty Loan
Wars - European War 1914-1918 - Sept. 30
Liberty Loan
Wars - European War 1914-1918 - April 22
Libery Loan
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Libery Loan
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Libery Loan
1918
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Memorial
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Memorial
1918
Tag Day brought in nearly $1400.00 for
band.
Easton's first call for fourth Liberty Loan
brought $1,005,050.
Description of the Easton Liberty Loan
booster.
Easton Liberty Parade surpassed
expectations.
Soldiers of Sunny Italy welcomed by
Eastonians - came here to aid in Liberty Loan
campaign - parade followed by exercises in
center square.
Memorial to boys in service -- Wilson
Township will erect.
Mayor's proclamation to lead a movement
for a memorial for boys in service.
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Memorial
1918
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Memorial
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Memorial for Easton boys who went out to Easton Express
fight;plan outlined at meeting by Mayor
Nevin.
Whirlwind campaign for proposed memorial Easton Daily Free Press
is offered by Mayor Nevin.
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Memorial
1918
Permanent memorial for Easton soldiers in
war assured; what's your idea?
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Wars - European War 1914-1918 - November 22
Memorial
Wars - European War 1914-1918 - Jan. 1
Personal Experiences
Wars - European War 1914-1918 - March 22
Personal Experiences
Wars - European War 1914-1918 - March 6
Personal Experiences
Wars - European War 1914-1918 - Aug. 12
Soldiers
Wars - European War 1914-1918 - Aug. 19
Soldiers
1918
Memorial for Eastonians approved.
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1918
Letters from local boys.
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1918
Easton man to make war pictures for U.S. Clayton D. Buss.
Easton boys probably in first line trenches.
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Wars - European War 1914-1918 - Dec. 10
Soldiers
Wars - European War 1914-1918 - Dec. 19
Soldiers
Wars - European War 1914-1918 - Dec. 2
Soldiers
Wars - European War 1914-1918 - Dec. 3
Soldiers
Wars - European War 1914-1918 - Dec. 30
Soldiers
Wars - European War 1914-1918 - Feb. 13
Soldiers
Wars - European War 1914-1918 - March 18
Soldiers
1918
Sgt. Kocher first of Old City Guard to be
killed in action abroad.
Pvt. Charles Doll of City Guard reported
killed on July 29,1918 (May have been first
man killed)
William J. Hand saw surrender of German
Fleet.
City Guard proud of being selected among
first to enter Germany.
"The Optimist" writes of Co.T.A.H. Hay.
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Wars - European War 1914-1918 - May 8 & 9
Soldiers
1918
Letter of Samuel Nevin telling of Paris after
victory.
Pvt. Raymond Walters first Eastonian,
member of City Guard home after war.
Lew McKenney first man from Easton to
help sink German U Boat.
Claire Shaneberger led Jim Europe's band
several times. (Now appearing at the
Orpheum)
Five Eastonians, former city Guardsmen,
slightly wounded in France.
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Soldiers
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Soldiers
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Soldiers
Wars - European War 1914-1918 - Sept. 23
Soldiers
Wars - European War 1914-1918 - Sept. 25
Soldiers
1918
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1918
Sterling Rice injured in France, tells of life
over there.
Lester Peffer pays with his life…
1918
Kirkpatrick promoted to Capt.
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1918
Commission for young Stephen Good. First
Negro to become an officer.
M.M. Maddox appointed to look after the
plan of work or fight order in county.
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Wars - European War 1914-1918 - June 10
War Chest
Wars - European War 1914-1918 - June 11
War Chest
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War Chest
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War Chest
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War Chest
Wars - European War 1914-1918 - May 29
War Chest
Wars - European War 1914-1918 - Aug. 1
War Work
1918
War Chest proclamation.
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1918
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1918
War Chest fund leaps to $98,490.31 after
day's work.
$350,000 now goal in Easton War Chest
drive.
Easton's War Chest $464,444.22 , a great
donation fo people of city.
Easton's War Chest has $464,444.22 . A
great donation of people of the city.
Campaign to give on day's pay every month
to war chest.
Motorist gave Easton soldiers splendid
outing. (To Camp Lafayette for Lehigh Camp
for boxing match).
Woman's committee of Council of Nation
Defense, PA Division -- local committee
organized -- Women to work for nation
defense.
War savings stamp campaign in full swing.
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War Work
1918
Wars - European War 1914-1918 - Feb. 5
War Work
Wars - European War 1914-1918 - Feb. 6
War Work
1918
Navy League's fine record.
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War Work
1918
Easton gives $14,609.01 to Knights of
Columbus War Relief Fund. Week
preceeding had stories as campaign
progressed.
Camp Canteen is now open.
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Wars - European War 1914-1918 - June 21
War Work
Wars - European War 1914-1918 - March 2
War Work
1918
1918
All unnecessary whistle blowing to be
stopped -- ordinance introduced to council.
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Wars - European War 1914-1918 - October 3
War Work
Wars - European War 1914-1918 - October 3
War Work
Wars - European War 1914-1918 - Sept. 10
War Work
Wars - European War 1914-1918 - Sept. 6
War Work
Wars - Receptions
Feb. 19
1918
Mr. Skillman in war work.
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1918
Mr. Skillman in war work.
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1918
1918
Easton trade unions to give war ambulance Easton Daily Free Press
to the government.
Miss Hornby is first Easton woman to enroll Easton Daily Free Press
as auto driver during the war.
Final plans for reception on Saturday.
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Wars - Receptions
Feb. 21
1918
Welcome home arches lighted for first time. Easton Daily Free Press
Wars - Receptions
Feb. 23
1918
Easton publicly welcomes her boys home.
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Wars - Receptions
Feb. 24
1918
Victory drum corps earned great ovation.
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Wars - Regiments
April 10
1918
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Wars - Regiments
April 11
1918
Wars - Regiments
April 12
1918
Wars - Regiments
April 3
1918
Wars - Regiments - Soldiers
Jan. 12
1918
Company "A" to be mustered on Thursday
night.
Company "A" to be mustered on Thursday
night.
Company "A" to be mustered on Thursday
night.
New military company to be mustered April
11,1918.
Lt. Bealer ended life in London Hotel.
1918
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Influenza
1918
Easton to close down tight in effort to stamp Easton Express
out epidemic of Spanish influenza.
Welfare
Jan. 23
1918
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Wilson Borough - Education
May 17
1918
Charity organization society to change its
name.
Proposed extension to Fairview building.
Wilson Borough - Monuments
Nov. 20
1918
Wilson will erect war memorial.
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Y.M.C.A.
Jan. 11
1918
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Y.M.C.A.
Y.W.C.A.
Jan. 11
March 7
1918
1918
Dr. Stonecipher turns building over to
Y.M.C.A.
Buys site.
Hackett Homestead willed to Easton
Y.W.C.A.
Council asked for permit to operate airplane
service.
Easton gets first airline charter.
Easton Motor Association will sell motor
insurance to its members.
New auto club organized--Paxinosa.
Bangor High School is damaged by fire.
Bangor High School is damaged by fire.
Council refused to rescind Sunday Baseball
permit.
New bridge to cemetery
New industry succeeds R.K.Bachman and Co.
- Ashton Burial Case Co. of Phillipsburg.
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Two million dollar cement plant to be built
at Sandt's Eddy.
Werner Co. pays $80,000 for property they
occupy.
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Aeronautics - Air Service
1919
Aeronautics - Air Service
Automobiles - Clubs
Aug. 8
May 20
1919
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Automobiles - Clubs
May 30
1919
Bangor, PA. - Fires.
Bangor, PA. - Fires.
Baseball.
Aug. 5
Aug. 6
July 5, 1919.
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Bridges - Bushkill
Business - Casket Companies
July 25
Jan. 28
1919
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Business - Cement Industry
Dec. 19
1919
Business - Furniture Stores
Aug. 1
1919
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Business - Hotels, Taverns, etc.
Jan. 30
1919
Business - Hotels, Taverns, etc.
May 9
1919
Business - Ingersoll-Rand
Aug. 30
1919
Business - Iron Industry
Dec. 24
1919
Business - Liquor
June 28
1919
Business - Lumber Trade
Jan. 22
1919
Business - Lumber Trade
Jan. 22
1919
Business - Silk Industry
Aug. 26
1919
Business - Silk Industry
Aug. 9
1919
Business - Silk Industry
Business - Silk Industry
June 5
May 10
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Business - Silk Industry
Business - Silk Industry - Crimes
May 12
Feb. 20
1919
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Business - Silk Industry Employees
Business - Silk Industry - Strikes
Jan. 31
1919
Aug. 30
Business - Silk Industry - Strikes
George H. Vincent kills himself - owned
Hotel Karldon.
Mansion House changes hands.
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Ingersoll band disbanded because it went on Easton Express
strike.
Big new industry to be erected along Bushkill Easton Express
- iron products.
Liquor dealers still hopeful to renew license Easton Daily Free Press
Fitzgerald-Speer fire at Pen Argyl January 21,
1919
Fitzgerald-Speer fire at Pen Argyl January 21,
1919
School board wants Robbins Silk Mill factory
site for playground
A new silk mill for Easton - Robbins Silk Co.
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1919
Growth of silk industry
New industry for Easton - Rainbow Silk
Knitting Co.
New bids for Simon mill
$40,000 worth of silk stolen from freight car
on D.L. and W.
Easton silk workers will join demand for 48hour week
More weavers out on strike
Aug. 5
1919
More weavers out on strike
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Canoeing
April 8
1919
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Centre Square - Market
Centre Square - Market
Oct. 11
Oct. 13
1919
1919
New home for Weygadt Canoe Club seems
assured
Rental on stands is raised
Rental on stands is raised
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Children's Home, Easton
Feb. 13
1919
Children's Home, Easton
Clothing Stores
Sept. 8
June 4
1919
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Clothing Trade
April 9
1919
Clubs - Bangor, PA
July 21
1919
Clubs - Eureka
Sept. 11
1919
Clubs - Knights of Columbus
Clubs - Republican
Crime - Black Hand (Extortion)
July 21
Aug. 8
April 15
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Crime - Black Hand (Extortion)
April 25
1919
Crime - Black Hand (Extortion)
April 7
Crime - Black Hand (Extortion)
Chipman brothers each give $10,000 cash to Easton Daily Free Press
the Friendless Children's Home
$50,000 from the Chipman family
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Jacob Mayer purchases No. 5 Centre Square. Easton Daily Free Press
Two new industries secured by Board of
Trade (Raub Silk Glove factory and Bard
Memorial Co.).
Charter for the Bangor community and civic
association.
Back from the World War I- ready for old
time sports.
To buy Brown residence for home
Club sells building
Youth of seventeen jailed for writing Black
Hand letters.
Another Black Hand letter.
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1919
"Dick" O'Hay arrested in Black Hand mix-up
by New Jersey constable. (The Black Hand
was connected with the labor movement.)
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July 14
1919
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Crime - Manslaughter
Aug. 2
1919
Crime - Manslaughter
July 18
1919
Dixie Cup Co.
Oct. 18
1919
Blackhanders demand $10,000 from poor
South Side grocer.
Former Burgess of South Bethlehem,
Sheehan arrested for manslaughter.
J. Madison Porter charged with
manslaughter following the automobile
death of Lt. McKee.
Drinking Cup factory to be located here.
Dixie Cup Co.
Oct. 2
1919
Drinking Cup factory to be located here.
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Doctors
7 Oct.
1919
Obituary of Dr. W.A. Seibert
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Easton City Guards
May 8
1919
Welcomed home with a big parade from
World War I.
Welcomed home with a big parade from
World War I.
Easton company arrives on "Pretoria."
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May 8
1919
Easton City Guards - European
War
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War
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April 28
1919
April 29
1919
April 30
1919
Easton laboring on plans for welcoming
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guard.
City Guard will be demobilized at Camp Dix. Easton Daily Free Press
May 1
1919
City Guard not to be held at Camp Dix.
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May 1
1919
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May 2
1919
Guards may not reach home before middle
of next week.
Guards leave Devins on Sunday.
May 2, 5, 6
1919
City Guard will leave.
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May 5
1919
Guards at Camp Dix.
Easton Express
May 6
1919
All ready for City Guard reception.
Easton Express
May 7
1919
Welcome city guard.
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May 7, 8, 12
1919
Royal welcome for City Guard.
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Feb. 1
1919
Easton Public Library
July 28
1919
Mounted birds were presented by Lieut. F.J.
Richardson Feb. 1,1919
Japanese armor was presented by Lieut. L.C.
Bixler that was secured in Japan.
Easton, City of - Fire
Department
Feb. 8
1919
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City fire company organizes branch of A.F.L. Easton Express
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Stations
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July 18
1919
Two-platoon system of city firemen to be
tried
Don't want fire house closed at 9th St.
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1919
Will recommend closing of 2 of the city fire
stations
Firehouses abandoned
1919
No. 2 fire station sold
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1919
Nevin says people act like fools and
challenges council to interfere with police.
Too many robberies.
Nevin wakes up; redistricts city for police
duty.
No hope for public baths -- Eddyside refuses
to permit city to use property.
People vote on million dollar school
program.
Plan to spend over a million dollars on
school for Easton.
Obit. Of Chief Thomas P. Ricker.
Poor directors cleared of all charges
prefered by George Oliver Walton.
Cyrus H. McCormick gives $25,000 to
Lafayette - William Ward Frick Memorial.
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Easton, City of - Police Dept.
July 25
1919
Eddyside
June 7, July 8
1919
Education - High School (12th
Street)
Education - High School (12th
Street)
Fire Department
Gracedale (County Home)
Dec. 13
1919
Dec. 2
1919
Oct. 11
Jan. 2
1919
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Lafayette College - Gifts
Jan. 3
1919
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Lafayette College - South College April 28
1919
Believe attempt made to burn South College Easton Express
Murder
April 15
1919
Murder
April 4
1919
Shrope insane, attorney says. (Murder of
Bertha Myers.)
Loomis execution date.
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Murder
Feb. 11 - 15
1919
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1919
Trial of Joe Fazio started this morning for
murder of Salvatore Merlo. Eventually found
guilty.
Saw Fazio murder Merlo.
Saw Fazio murder Merlo.
Shrope case continued. (Bertha Myers
murder trial.)
Mrs. Beitel's estate goes to home
established by husband.
Beitel fortune now available for home for
children at Nazareth.
Parking ordinance defined and fully
approved.
Traffic ordinance introduced in city.
Murder
Murder
Murder
Feb. 12 - 14
Feb. 17
June 7
1919
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Nazareth, Pa. - Beitel
July 25
1919
Nazareth, Pa. - Beitel Fortune
July 16
1919
Parking
June 18
1919
Parking
June 7
Paxinosa Inn
Feb. 8
1919
Paxinosa Inn purchased by ten Eastonians.
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Pen Argyl, Pa. - Industries
May 11
1919
Big industrial boom starting in Pen Argyl.
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Phillipsburg - Banks
May 9
1919
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Phillipsburg, N.J. - Education
Nov. 27
1919
Prohibition
Prohibition
Dec. 24
Feb. 10
1919
1919
Old Phillipsburg National to open trust
branch.
Land for High School and athletic field given
Phillipsburg.
Prohibition in this section a huge farce.
What one hears in Easton about prohibition.
Railroads - Wrecks
April 16
1919
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Roads
Feb. 14
1919
Roads
March 18
1919
Roads - Cement
March 4
1919
Double wreck ties up both Valley and
Central West of Glen Onoko.
State to build highway in Northampton
County.
County authorities asked to construct
secondary roads.
Cement highway from Easton to WilkesBarre planned.
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Robbery
Aug. 9, 11 & 13 1919
Robbery
Feb. 12
1919
Salvation Army
Sewerage
Dec. 5
Aug. 2
1919
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Sewerage
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Steckel, Henry F.
Telephone - Poles
June 7
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Telephone - Rates
Jan. 20
1919
Theaters
March 13
1919
Theaters
May 23
1919
Theaters - Star
April 12
1919
Theaters - Wilmer and Vincent
May 2
1919
Trolley Transportation
April 22
1919
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Aug. 21
July 15
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Trolley Transportation
Oct. 31
1919
Trolley Transportation - Fares
March 1
1919
"Dope" fiend confesses to College Hill
robberies.
Four gunmen try to hold up Geo. Givens
"Place" (Easton Gun Club) and one gets
wounded.
Salvation Army buys home.
Detailed information on city's proposed
sewer system.
$700,000 sewer proposition.
Obit. Of Henry E. Steckel.
All Steckel property remain in family.
Obituary.
Easton city engineer may cut down phone
poles.
New telephone toll system to go into effect
tomorrow.
Nightingale building sold -- new theater
assured.
Easton businessman to erect large theater at
113-115 Northampton St.
Star Theater under new management and
policy changed.
New theater assured -- Wilmer and Vincent
take over property.
Trolleymen hear steele defend labor unions.
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One man trolley for transit Co.
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Trolley line to be built to automobile club
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house.
Easton-Washington trolley line discontinued. Easton Express
Easton trolley fares now highest in the
Lehigh Valley.
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Trolley Transportation - Hay Line Nov. 6
1919
Receiver for Hay Traction co.
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Trolley Transportation - Hay Line Oct. 13
1919
Strike ordered for tomorrow.
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Trolley Transportation - Hay Line Oct. 20
1919
Cars running on line.
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Trolley Transportation - Hay Line Oct. 21
1919
Trolley wires cut during night.
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Trolley Transportation - Hay Line Oct. 23
1919
May arbitrate strike.
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Trolley Transportation Washington
Trolley Transportation Northampton Traction Co.
Vanderveer Hall
Nov. 21, 22
1919
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Nov. 27
1919
Easton-Washington line will operate
tomorrow -- going to work for receiver.
Northampton traction trolley wires cut.
May 6
1919
The Vanderveer is to be torn down to make
room for houses.
Sold.
Boys wish to be discharged at Devens not
granted by War Department.
List of men in guard who came back.
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Vanderveer Hall
Oct. 28
War - European War 1914-1918 - April 30
City Guards
War - European War 1914-1918 - May 7
City Guards
Wars - European War - Soldiers
1919
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Wars - European War - Soldiers
April 4
1919
Major Godley expects to bring his boys to
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Easton.
Frank M. Godley wins commission as Major. Easton Daily Free Press
Wars - European War - Soldiers
April 4
1919
Godley commissioned Major
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Wars - European War - Soldiers
Feb. 13
1919
Lt. Baker receives D.S.C. posthumously .
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Wars - European War - Soldiers
Jan. 8
1919
Log of Raymond E. Fronicke, Easton sailor.
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Wars - European War - Soldiers
Jan. 9
1919
Reverand John E. Flemming's great welcome Easton Daily Free Press
at Olivet.
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March 2
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November 9
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1918 - Soldiers
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Aliens
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Aliens
Wars - European War 1914-1918 - Feb. 10
Camp Lafayette
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City Guard
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Food
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1919
Soldiers of WWI - men who enlisted in
Easton (Amusement section)
Easton's war dead, list of.
1919
Major Godley's own story.
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1919
Bolshevik propagandist active in Easton, try Easton Daily Free Press
to strike tomorrow.
Easton flooded with red circulars calling for Easton Express
strikes.
How Easton rendered aid to Camp Lafayette. Easton Daily Free Press
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1919
All soldiers invited to participate in
reception.
They dress up the old town for Godley's
boys and loan drive.
City Guards left Germany for Brest on third
of April.
Major Godley expects to bring his boys to
Easton.
Guards to be demobilized at Camp Devens.
1919
Historical sketch of Rainbow division.
Easton Express
1919
City guards arrived today in Boston.
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1919
Easton boys well and happy at Devens.
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1919
Thousands will form living court of honor for Easton Express
the guards.
City Guards wrote Easton fame in World
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War history.
Army food will be sold in Easton at cut
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Food
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Food
Wars - European War 1914-1918 Liberty Loan
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Liberty Loan
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Liberty Loan
Wars - European War 1914-1918 - May 10
Liberty Loan
Wars - European War 1914-1918 - May 8
Liberty Loan
1919
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1919
Movement to buy government food to
lower cost of living.
Mayor Nevin will join movement to get
food.
Community Campaign raised $571,563
December 9,1919
Victory drive in Easton launched and one
half million is quickly passed.
Victory Loan booster ready for big campaign.
1919
Easton goes over the top in Victory Loan.
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1919
Easton will fly Superhonor Flag - for districts
that have reached full quota in each of five
Liberty Loans.
Relatives will receive badges of dead
soldiers.
Community Center building favored as a
memorial for soldiers.
A community building as a war memorial.
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Memorial
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Memorial
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Memorial
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Memorial
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Memorial
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Memorial
Wars - European War 1914-1918 - April 8
Personal Experiences
Wars - European War 1914-1918 - November 21
Personal Experiences
Wars - European War 1914-1918 - April 21
Soldiers
1919
Memorial may be paid for by the War Chest
fund.
Community centre group finds no
supporters.
Council will award soldiers and sailors a
badge.
Commander Hinkle: Hun flag that flew over
Metz now in Easton.
First Easton boy to go over top in tank
wounded.
Easton soldier captured 35 Germans
(Guiseppe Surbena).
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Soldiers
1919
Major Godley retain command of Co. A.
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1919
All Easton mean to honor Godley's heroes.
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1919
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1919
Ingersoll-Rand heads welcome for Major
Godley.
Major Godley's own story.
1919
Major Godley's own story.
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1919
Major Godley's own story.
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1919
Major Godley's own story.
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1919
Major Godley's own story.
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1919
Major Godley's own story
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Major Godley's own story
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1919
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Wars - European War 1914-1918 - April 12
Veterans
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Veterans
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Veterans
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Veterans
Wars - European War 1914-1918 - April 19
War Work
1919
Youngest enlistee was Jacob H. Kirby who
enlisted at age 15 years, 2 mo., on May
19,1917.
No school tax to be paid by service men this
year.
Steps taken for organization of ex-service
men.
Bureau of employment for soldiers and
sailors inaugurated in Easton.
Bureau of employment for soldiers and
sailors inaugurated in Easton.
Easton centre of inorganic chemical produce
used in the United States.
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Wars - European War 1914-1918 - April 21
War Work
1919
First material used by our Army made in
Easton. (absorbent for poisonous gases).
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Wars - European War 1914-1918 - April 22
War Work
Wars - European War 1914-1918 - May 8
Welcome
1919
Easton a fountainhead in research in
chemistry.
Easton's welcome to guards and returned
soldiers surpassed expectations.
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Wars - Receptions
Feb. 13
1919
Servicemen to arouse interest in reception
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Wars - Receptions
Feb. 22
1919
Easton gives first reception for returning
soldiers and sailors (picture of the medal).
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Wars - Receptions
Wars - Regiments
Jan. 29
April 26
1919
1919
City to buy medals for gallant heroes.
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History of Rainbow Division by Congressman Easton Daily Free Press
H.S. Steele verified by General March.
Wilson Borough
May 17
1919
Wilson Borough - Monuments
April 3
1919
Honor shield unveiled by Wilson Township
citizens.
Wilson Township memorial tablet.
Wilson Borough - Monuments
May 17
1919
Wilson Borough - Monuments
May 24
1919
Wilson Borough - Monuments
May 31
1919
Y.M.C.A.
April 23
1919
Y.M.C.A.
April 23
1919
Y.M.C.A.
Murder
Oct. 14
Dec. 19
1919
Goal passed on building fund.
192 Huh? Turko not sentenced.
1919
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Wilson Township to dedicate tablet to her
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hero dead.
Plans announced for unveiling memorial
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tablet.
Wilson Township dedicates its roll of honor. Easton Daily Free Press
Buys 3rd and Spring Garden St. Site for
$69,000.
Easton to get fine new Y.M.C.A. building.
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Air Pollution
Aug. 27
1920
Air Pollution
Oct. 30
1920
American Flag Mfg. Co.
April 10
1920
City officials get lesson on abating smoke
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nusiance.
Smoke commission shows signs of returning Easton Express
to life.
Caveat is filed to stop probate of Heller Will. Easton Daily Free Press
American Flag Mfg. Co.
American Flag Mfg. Co.
April 2
April 2
1920
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Obit. Of William J. Heller.
Obit. Of William J. Heller.
American Flag Mfg. Co.
April 6
1920
Caveat is filed to stop probate of Heller Will. Easton Daily Free Press
American Flag Mfg. Co.
April 8
1920
Caveat is filed to stop probate of Heller Will. Easton Express
Automobiles - Gas Pumps
June 29
1920
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June 1, 1920
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Bridges, Delaware
Dec. 21
1920
Bridges, Delaware
May 27
1920
Brodhead, J. Davis
Brodhead, J. Davis
April 24
April 24
1920
1920
Council puts ban on red gas pumps on the
streets of Easton.
Proposal - hill to hill bridges as memorial to
service men.
Little progress toward freeing Delaware
bridge
May free local bridge by process of
condemnation.
Obituary
Obituary
Brodhead, J. Davis
Bus Transportation
April 26
Oct. 29
1920
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Bus Transportation - Glendon
March 11
1920
Business - 1920
March 12
1920
Business - 5 & 10 Cent Sores
March 29
1920
Obituary
Council Chamber thronged by bus rate
complainants
Auto bus line to run from Glendon to Easton
and Alpha
Northampton and Lehigh County industrial
growth in past several years.
Kresge Corporation may lease important
business place.
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Business - American Flag Mfg. Co. April 2
1920
Business - American Flag Mfg. Co. April 2
1920
Business - American Flag Mfg. Co. April 6 & 10
1920
Obituary of William J. Heller - American Flag Easton Express
Mfg. Co.
Obituary of William J. Heller - American Flag Easton Daily Free Press
Mfg. Co.
Caveat is filed to stop probate of Heller will. Easton Daily Free Press
Business - American Flag Mfg. Co. April 8 & 9
1920
Caveat is filed to stop probate of Heller will. Easton Express
Business - Cement Industry
May 4
1920
Business - Department Stores Laubach's
Business - Department Stores Laubach's
Business - Food Industry
April 12
1920
Edison Cement Co. spending $1,000,000 on Easton Daily Free Press
its New Village plant.
Picture of owners and sons April 8, 1910
Easton Sentinel
April 5
1920
March 10
1920
Business - Freight Lines
April 29
1920
Business - General Crushed Stone May 10
1920
Business - Hosiery
April 14
1920
Business - Hotels, Taverns, etc.
Sept. 17
1920
Business - Iron Industry
Business - Keller's Music House
April 1
July 28
1920
1920
Thomas Iron Co. may sell.
Obituary of William H. Keller.
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Business - Keller's Music House
July 28
1920
Obituary of William H. Keller.
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Business - Lehigh Valley Shops Removal
Nov. 16
1920
Report that Lehigh Valley will move shops
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William Laubach and Son celebrate 60th
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anniversary
Swift and Co. to erect new business building Easton Daily Free Press
on Canal Street.
Railway Express to install motor trucks in
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Easton.
Easton company's modern plan dealing with Easton Daily Free Press
men - General Crushed Stone - profit
sharing.
W. Evan Chipman, an Eastonian for 25 years - Easton Daily Free Press
how plant made its start.
To vacate Central Hotel. Schulte cigar Co.
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leases building and will open store there.
Business - Pennsylvania Pump &
Compressor Co.
Business - Pennsylvania Pump &
Compressor Co.
Business - Pennsylvania Pump &
Compressor Co.
April 20
1920
Stockholders elect officers
Easton Express
Feb. 19
1920
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Feb. 19
1920
Business - Pennsylvania Pump &
Compressor Co.
Business - Real Estate
March 30
1920
Jan. 21
1920
Easton to manufacture pumps and
compressors.
New corporation formed with a capitol of
$500,000 to manufacutre hydraulic
pumping, etc. Plant along Bushkill Creek
above the Park.
Ground broken for Pennsylvania Pump &
Compressor Co.
16 real estate dealers for organization
Business - Silk Industry
Jan. 8
1920
Business - Silk Industry
Sept. 23
1920
Business - Silk Industry - Strikes
April 24
1920
Stewart Silk Co. employees to start co-op
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store
Charles Knowles sells Stewart Silk Co.
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interests
Striking silk weavers voting on a settlement Easton Daily Free Press
Business - Silk Industry - Strikes
April 5
1920
Federal agent as mediator in local silk strike Easton Daily Free Press
Business - Silk Industry - Strikes
March 10
1920
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Business - Silk Industry - Strikes
March 10
1920
Silk operatives in 3 local plants break from
union
Silk weavers rebel against Block's methods
Business - Silk Industry - Strikes
March 10
1920
General strike in silk mills is predicted
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Business - Silk Industry - Strikes
March 15
1920
Silk weavers in 2 more mills on strike
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Business - Silk Industry - Strikes
March 2
1920
Silk weavers vote tonight on strike question Easton Express
Business - Silk Industry - Strikes
March 22
1920
Business - Silk Industry - Strikes
May 12
1920
The balance of local silk weavers join
workers on strike
Standard silk weavers accept offer.
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Business - Treadwell Engineering May 13
Co.
Census
May 29
1920
Easton Daily Free Press
1920
Treadwell officials in new company to give
city new industry
Census for Northampton County - gives
wards.
Children's Home to become Dr. J.A. Betts
hospital
Trinity Evangelical begins its diamond
jubilee.
Property merger of downtown Lutheran
Congregation. St. John's, Christ, and St.
Paul's Lutheran churches are considering
merger of churches.
Tablet for sons of the Zion Church who
served in the World War.
Easton Syrians to establish a new Catholic
parish.
Final event of St. Bernard's as a single parish.
Children's Home, Easton
Sept. 18
1920
Churches - Evangelical
Oct. 11
1920
Churches - Lutheran
Dec. 2 & 3
1920
Churches - Lutheran - Zion
May 30
1920
Churches - Our Lady of Lebanon
April 5
1920
Churches - St. Bernard's
Feb. 17
Churches - St. Jane Frances de
Chantal
Churches - St. JaneFrances de
Chantal
March 11
1920
Catholic parish expected to buy Hay estate.
Easton Daily Free Press
Jan. 24
1920
New Catholic parish begins. St. Jane Frances Easton Express
de Chantal organize January 19, 1920.
Citizenship
Oct. 13
1920
Easton to have first citizen's week program
Clothing Stores
Jan. 14
1920
Clothing Stores
May 27
1920
Clubs - Knights of Columbus
Jan. 2
1920
Record price for Paris Brothers real estate-- Easton Express
bought by Jacob Mayer.
Paris Brothers buy Goldsmith Brothers
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Clothing Store property.
Club opens their handsome home.
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Clubs - Knights of Columbus
Clubs - McKinley
Jan. 2
Feb. 3
1920
1920
Club opens their handsome home
Club won't sell property
1920
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Clubs - South Side Civic Club
Comfort Stations
Jan. 17
Dec. 17
1920
1920
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1920
First steps taken to form club
Heck wins long fight--appropriation for
comfort stations.
Mayor asks city to help pay for comfort
stations
Comfort station discussed at council
"The Clancy Kids" by Percy Crosby is the first
comic strip appearing regularly in the Easton
Free Press
Dr. Collmar outlines plans for adequate
community building for the city.
Dr. Collmar outlines plans for adequate
community building for the city.
No park at Courthouse
Mutchler sues Free Press for libel claiming
$50,000.
Casellas found not guilty of manslaughter.
Comfort Stations
March 4
1920
Comfort Stations
Comic Strip
November 26
Jan. 8
1920
1920
Community Hall
November 24
1920
Community Hall
November 24
1920
Court House - New
Crime - Libel & Slander
April 8
Nov. 1
1920
1920
Crime -Manslaughter
Feb. 18
Curfew
Dec. 10
1920
Curfew law for Easton proposed by Mayer.
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Daylight Saving Time
Feb. 26
1920
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Daylight Saving Time
Feb. 26
1920
Daylight Saving Time
Feb. 26
1920
Characterizes daylight saving as silly.
Daylight saving ordinance passes.
Characterizes daylight saving as silly.
Daylight saving ordinance passes.
Characterizes Daylight Saving Time as silly
Daylight Saving Time
Feb. 27
1920
Daylight saving ordinance passes
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Delaware River - Channel
Aug. 24
1920
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Detwiller Family
Feb. 12
1920
Proof that deepening of Deaware River,
Trenton to Easton, is not dead
Detwiller property sold to B.D.Mayer
Dixie Cup Co.
Aug. 18
1920
Dixie Cup plant about completed.
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Dixie Cup Co.
Nov. 9
1920
Wilson Borough has failed to keep promise - Easton Daily Free Press
Dixie Co. files suit to have streets opened.
Dixie Cup Co.
Oct. 12
1920
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Doctors
Easton Armory
Easton Armory
June 28
Feb. 18
Feb. 21
1920
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Easton Armory
Jan. 18
1920
Easton Public Library
Feb. 3
1920
Easton, City of - Council meetings Jan. 5
1920
Dixie Drinking Cup officials and ladies inspect
new plant.
Obituary of Dr. Thomas Cope.
Will present two tablets to Armory.
Bronze tablets erected at armory to
commemorate the heroic work of city guard
in World War.
Program arranged for unveiling tablets at
Armory.
Board of Trustees of Easton Public Library
will ask for space in junior high school for a
library.
Council gives up holding night sessions. Will
hold day session from now on.
Easton, City of - Fire Department July 20
1920
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Easton, City of - Fire Department March 12
1920
Easton, City of - Fire Department - Sept. 7
Stations - South Side
1920
Council favors civil service for fire
department
Council favors civil service for fire
department
City plans to sell South Side engine house
property which is now of no use
Easton, City of - Mayors
Jan. 3
1920
Easton, City of - Police Dept. Duties
Easton, City of - Police Dept. Duties
Easton, City of - Streets - 24th
Street
Aug. 31
1920
Mayor David W. Nevin gives review of his
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long work in municipal affairs as he is about
to retire
Three-platoon police system goes into effect Easton Express
Oct. 1
1920
Three-platoon police system goes into effect Easton Express
Nov. 9
1920
Court's aid sought to compel opening of
24th St.
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Easton, City of - Streets Concrete
Easton, City of - Taxation
Easton, South - Old Home Week
Jan. 21
1920
Dec. 24
Sept. 23
1920
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Easton, South - Old Home Week
Sept. 25
1920
Easton, South - Old Home Week
Sept. 27
1920
Easton, West - Annexation
May 5
1920
Easton, West - Annexation
April 20
1920
Eddyside
April 6
1920
Education - Building Plans
April 24
1920
Education - Building plans
Jan. 1
1920
Education - Football
Nov. 18
1920
Education - High School ( 12th
Street)
Education - High School (12th
Street)
Education - High School (12th
Street)
Education - High School (12th
Street)
Education - High School (12th
Street)
Education - High School (12th
Street)
Nov. 13
1920
Feb. 13
1920
Jan. 17
1920
Jan. 31
1920
Jan. 6
1920
July 14
1920
Paved streets to be connected to Penn
Highway
Cut in city tax rate seems likely
Formation of South Side home week
pageants
Official program of events of old home week
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Throngs attend opening of South Side old
home week
West Easton Council not in favor of
annexation to Easton at present
Formal steps taken for annexation of six
adjacent municipalities
Eddyside may be public bathing place once
more.
Building property postponed by Easton
school board.
Proposed use of Jones and Steckel
properties for Public School purposes.
Easton High School football players talk
strike against ticket plan.
Northampton architect engaged for new
high school building.
Hay property may be bought for the site of
new High School.
How money will be spent on proposed high
school.
No answer from owners - School board may
condemn 12th Street lot.
Ground plan of proposed High School
building.
Values drop on Jones lot (new High
School's).
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Education - High School (12th
Street)
Education - High School (12th
Street)
Electric Lighting
May 15
1920
$300,000 bond issue voted for schools.
Easton Express
Sept. 13
1920
Easton Daily Free Press
Nov. 13
1920
Gas
Nov. 26
1920
Gas
Oct. 26
1920
School board to pay $107,000 for 12th
Street lot.
Who will pay bill for placing wires in
proposed conduit.
Heck scorest at Harrisburg -- against gas
rates.
Phillipsburg may build municipal gas plant
Easton company told at public meeting to
dig up its mains and get out.
Gas
Gas
Oct. 28
Oct. 28
1920
1920
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Gas - Companies
June 10
1920
Gas - Companies
June 11
1920
Gas protest meeting against high rates.
Easton gas protest to be carried to public
service commission.
Council to choose new schedule of charges
for gas.
Minimun rates of 35 cents.
Gas - Companies
June 8
1920
Gas Company to submit revised schedules of Easton Daily Free Press
rates for approval of Public.
Gas - Companies
Oct. 19
1920
Hackett Park
July 19
1920
Hospitals - Easton Sanatorium
Oct. 27
1920
Hospitals - Easton Sanatorium
Oct. 27
1920
Housing
April 3
1920
Housing
April 7
1920
Council goes after gas co. to provide better
gas.
Hackett Park may be enlarged soon is
improved.
Obit. Of Dr. C. Spencer Kinney, head of
Easton sanatorium.
Obit. Of Dr. C. Spencer Kinney, head of
Easton sanatorium.
Nevin plan to build houses killed by present
high costs.
Accept Nevin house plan in Stroudsburg.
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Housing
Dec. 15
1920
Guaranty fund of $100,000 to build homes -- Easton Daily Free Press
reported to Easton Board of Trade.
Housing
March 10
1920
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Housing
March 10
1920
Housing
March 24
1920
Housing
May 12
1920
D.W. Nevin's plan for house building wins
enthusiastic trade board agreement -- to
build 100 houses.
D.W. Nevin's plan for house building wins
enthusiastic trade board agreement -- to
build 100 houses.
Home building plan may be abandoned as a
result of probable wage increase.
Well-capitalized realty company to finance
home building -- Collmar's plan.
Housing
May 12
1920
Well-capitalized realty company to finance
home building -- Collmar's plan.
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Housing
Oct. 13
1920
Housing
Sept. 14
1920
Housing
Sept. 15
1920
Board of trade's housing plan to be working Easton Daily Free Press
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New Corporation to supply more housing
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room.
Trade board adopts house plan.
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Housing
Sept. 3
1920
Lafayette College - Founders Day Oct. 20
1920
Lafayette College - Fund Drive
Oct. 12
1920
Lafayette College - Fund Drive
Oct. 19
1920
Lafayette College - Fund Drive
Oct. 20
1920
Apartments and dwelling to be built by local
company -- Green property sold for this
project.
Founders Day and groundbreaking for new
gym at Lafayette.
Easton backs Lafayette in its campaign for
funds.
Easton district subscribes $104, 055. for
Lafayette fund.
Easton district subscribes $104, 055. for
Lafayette fund.
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Lafayette College - Gayley Hall
Feb. 25
1920
Lehigh Valley Railroad - Strikes
April 16, 17
1920
Lehigh Valley Railroad - Strikes
April 8
1920
Markets - Criticism
Feb. 27
1920
Markets - Ordinance
Markets - Ordinance
Aug. 17
Feb. 3
1920
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Markets - Ordinance
Markets - Ordinance
Feb. 5
July 30
1920
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Markets - Ordinance
July 30
1920
Markets - Ordinance
March 2
1920
Markets - Ordinance-Fish
June 3
1920
Murder
May 26
1920
Murder
Nov. 1
1920
Murder
Nov. 1
1920
Murder
Nov. 12
1920
Murder
Oct. 25
1920
Murder
Oct. 7
1920
Murder
Sept. 16 - 28
1920
Obituary of James Gayley, presenter of
chemistry laboratory to Lafayette.
Lehigh Valley firemen to remain at work.
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Railroad strike -- Lehigh Valley men called
out.
Criticizes authorities of Easton and
Bethlehem for inadequate markets.
Heck stands by his ordinance.
Drastic regulations in new circle market
ordinance.
Heck defends his ordinance.
Farmers can't bring other's produce to
Easton market.
Council adopts more stringent rule for
market.
Heck's market ordinance ruled out on a
technicality.
First sale of market stands under new city
ordinance -- no fish allowed.
Loomis gets new trial. (Bertha Myers murder
case.)
Loomis given 20 year jail sentnence for his
role in Bertha Loomis murder.
Loomis gets 20 years for his part in Bertha
Myers murder.
Loomis off to the penitentiary. (Bertha
Loomis case)
Court hears reasons for another trial for
Loomis.
Council for Loomis files application for new
trial. (Bertha Myers murder case.)
Loomis placed on trial at 3:25 p.m. (Bertha
Myers murder case.)
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Murder
Sept. 17
1920
Murder
Sept. 20
1920
Nazareth, Pa. - Fires
Jan. 19
1920
New trial for Loomis in Bertha Myers murder Easton Express
case.
New trial for Loomis in Bertha Myers murder Easton Express
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Disastrous fire visits the heart of Nazareth. Easton Daily Free Press
Negroes - NAACP
Jan. 10
1920
Easton Negroes form a branch of NAACP.
Olympic Games
Nov. 20
1920
Northampton County boy wins 200 metre
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dash in Olympic games at Antwerp -- Allen
Woodring of Meadowbrook Club, Phila. The
son of J.W. Woodring of Bethlehem.
Orpheum Theatre
Oct. 21, 22
1920
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Palmer Township - Fire Co.
April 5
1920
Patriotic Order Sons of America
April 27
1920
Phillipsburg, N.J. - Education
Sept. 8
1920
Phillipsburg, N.J. - Silk Industry
April 5
1920
Pigs
April 13
1920
G.O.P. flying squadron of women at
Orpheum.
Palmer fire co. plan new house arranged as
to make it a town hall.
Memorial tablet unveiled by Camp 193,
P.O.S. of A.
Dedication of new L.O. Beers School Building
in Phillipsburg.
$10,000 in silk stolen from Phillipsburg dye
works.
City decides to operate piggery as before.
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April 13
April 7
Feb. 27
1920
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Pigs
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Feb. 27
Feb. 3
1920
1920
Piggery to be continued.
Hart off the city piggery.
Dr. Hart makes offer to city council to
operate city piggery.
Hart wants the piggery.
No cholera epidemic at the city piggery.
Pigs
Jan. 31
1920
Cholera at the city piggery kills many
porkers.
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Pigs
March 2
1920
Pigs
Oct. 19
1920
Councilmen shy at Hart's plan to take over Easton Express
city piggery.
City objects to paying taxes on piggery land. Easton Daily Free Press
Prohibition
April 22
1920
Reaping the fruits of a wide open town.
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Railroad - Brotherhood
Jan. 10
1920
An Association of Engineering Brotherhood
for Easton and Phillipsburg.
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Railroads - Strikes
April 13
1920
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Railroads - Strikes
Railroads - Strikes
April 14 & 15
April 19
1920
1920
Train men on local roads walked out last
evening.
Pa. men leave train in Phillipsburg.
Strikers rapidly return to work on railroad.
Railroads - Strikes
April 8
1920
Jersey Central suspends passenger trains.
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Recreation
Sept. 2
1920
Recreation
Sept. 4
1920
Public swimming pool is planned for
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Public swimming pool assured for city -Easton Express
Councilman Heck has made arrangements to
convert oxication plant into a pool and only
needs consent of city council to proceed.
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Recreation
Sept. 7
Sept. 7
1920
1920
Heck's plan held up.
Swimming pool plan of Heck is approved.
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Roads
Feb. 25
1920
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Roads
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Jan. 12
Jan. 12, 13 &
14
Jan. 14
1920
1920
Good roads program for entire county will
be put up to the people.
Bushkill valley road gets a big boost.
Bushkill Valley road will be built this year.
1920
Bushkill Valley road will be built this year.
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Russell, Lillian
Oct. 22
1920
Salvation Army
Nov. 15
1920
Salvation Army
Nov. 15
1920
Schools - School Boards
April 19
1920
Schools - School Boards
June 14
1920
Schools - Shull
Dec. 11
1920
Schools - Shull
Jan. 13
1920
Schools - Shull
Jan. 17
1920
Schools - Shull
Nov. 23
1920
Schools - Taxation
Jan. 14
1920
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Oct. 9
1920
Scott Park
Sewerage
Oct. 5
Feb. 25
1920
1920
Sewerage
Jan. 21
1920
Sewerage
Jan. 21
1920
Lillian Russell in the flying squadron at the
Orpheum to campaign for the Republican
party.
New Salvation Army citadel dedication
services Sunday.
New Salvation Army citadel dedication
services Sunday.
Easton School Board to pass out of existence
- population puts us in new class.
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Women appoint member of Easton School
Board - first women to sit - Mrs. E.W. Evans
and Mrs. O.M. Richards.
Little encouragement for South Side from
board - school may take 5-6 years.
Plan for proposed Jr. High Building on
So.Side.
Plan for proposed Jr. High Building on So.
Side.
So. Side impatient - people demand building
promised by school board.
New light thrown upon necessity of bond
issue for public schools.
Storm of protests against increased
assessment breaks in council.
Schools board refuses responsibility for
increase in property taxes.
Guns for Scott Park -- 26 pounders.
Engineer appointed for city's new $700,000
sewer system.
Bond issue carried by close margin of 68
votes at special elections.
Easton sewer building program being
prepared.
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July 30
June 29
1920
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Sewerage
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May 12
May 18
1920
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Stewartsville, N.J. - Churches
Dec. 7
1920
Suffrage
Aug. 21
1920
Suffrage
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Aug. 26
Sept. 2
1920
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Tarkington, Booth
Sept. 4
1920
Telephone
Jan. 2
1920
Telephone
June 29
1920
Telephone
June 29
1920
Telephone - Poles
Jan. 17
1920
Theaters
Nov. 16
1920
Theaters - State Theater
May 1
1920
Trolley Transportation
Sept. 18
1920
City to build two sewers.
Entire change in plans for disposal of city's
sewage is approved.
City will not build sewers this year.
City to start installation of storm sewers.
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Seventieth Anniversary of Stewartsville
Presbyterian Church.
Plans for assessment and registration of
women are made by count commissioners
(suffrage amendment has now passed).
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Women can register now to vote.
More than 5,000 women assessed in the
country.
Mr. and Mrs. Booth Tarkington in the city.
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Consolidated Co. buys Yellow Kid Telephone
plant.
Complaint against phone com. Goes to
public service.
Trying to force Yellow Kid phone co. to quit
business.
Pole survey to be made to rid city of
telephone poles.
Children under 14 must leave theaters
before 9 o'clock.
Largest moving picture house in city to be
erected on Franklin House site.
Power Co. threatened to tie up trolley road.
Threatened to cut power of Northampton
Traction Co. to enforce an increase in rates.
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Trolley Transportation - Accidents Dec. 10
1920
Trolley Transportation - Hay Line Sept. 18
1920
Trolley Transportation - Slate Belt Feb. 7
Trolley Co.
Trolley Transportation - Tracks
Feb. 3
1920
Coroner's jury verdict "reckless running" in
trolley crash.
Two killed -- many hurt in trolley accident in
Nazareth.
Citizens to fight abandonment of the Easton
Transit Nazareth Line.
Argument on trolley fares.
Council refers trolley fare increase to board
of trade.
Power Co. shuts off supply of Hay Trolley
lines.
Slate belt car barn burned -- lost $100,000.
Trolley Transportation - Accidents Nov. 29
1920
Trolley Transportation - Easton
Transit Co.
Trolley Transportation - Fares
Trolley Transportation - Fares
July 23
1920
Feb. 16
Feb. 17
1920
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1920
Mayor suggests single trolley track in square. Easton Daily Free Press
Trolley Transportation Northampton Traction Co.
Upp, J.Q.
Sept. 2
1920
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Jan. 29
1920
Receivers sale of street railway lines of
Northampton Traction Co.
Obit. Of Rev. J.Q. Upp
Victory medal to be presented on Armistice
Day.
World War heroes honored --first Armistice
Day parade.
"Petition in Boots" Easton's greatest military
pageant.
French Memorial diplomas to be presented
on Sunday. (given by the government of
France to nearest of kin of Americans who
lost lives in France)
Bronze Memorial tablet in memory of
Rainbow Men are dedicated at Armory.
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Wars - European War 1914-1918 - Aug. 21
Armistice
Wars - European War 1914-1918 - November 11
Armistice
Wars - European War 1914-1918 - November 12
Armistice
Wars - European War 1914-1918 - Feb. 20
Memorial
1920
Wars - European War 1914-1918 - Feb. 21
Memorial
1920
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Wars - European War 1914-1918 - Feb. 23
Memorial
1920
French Memorial diplomas to be presented
on Sunday. (given by the government of
France to nearest of kin of Americans who
lost lives in France)
Soldiers memorial plans fail for lack of
support.
City may be asked to take over works of
water company.
Blizzard of 1920 -- shows trolleys pushing
snow.
Tornado sweeps through lower end of
Phillipsburg levelling buildings and blowing
freight car from tracks.
Councilman Miller against sending for
apparatus to Wilson.
Opposes annexation.
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Memorial
Water Supply
Oct. 5
1920
Weather - Snow
Feb. 6
1920
Weather - Tornado
July 19
1920
Wilson Borough
Dec. 7
1920
Wilson Borough - Annexation
May 6
1920
Wilson Borough - Annexation
April 24
1920
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Wilson Township residents not strong for
annexation.
Easton would annex Wilson Township.
Wilson boro men organize American legion
post.
Wilson men favor buying fire fighting
apparatus.
Councilman Miller wants firemen to remain
in city -- objects to answering every call from
Wilson.
Newmeyer is the fire burgess of Wilson.
Wilson Borough - Annexation
Wilson Borough - Clubs
Jan. 28
Nov. 12
1920
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Wilson Borough - Fire Dept.
Dec. 22
1920
Wilson Borough - Fire Dept.
Dec. 7
1920
Wilson Borough - Fire Dept.
Nov. 25
Wilson Borough - Incorporation
April 21
1920
Incorporation of borough of Wilson asked.
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Wilson Borough - Incorporation
Aug. 25
1920
Newmeyer is first Burgess of Wilson.
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Wilson Borough - Incorporation
Jan. 16
1920
Residents of Wilson Township prepare
petition for incorporation as a borough.
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Wilson Borough - Incorporation
Jan. 17
1920
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Wilson Borough - Incorporation
Jan. 27
1920
Wilson Borough - Incorporation
July 12
1920
Wilson Borough - Incorporation
July 12
1920
Wilson Township wants a new charter -- as a
borough.
Boro of Lorraine -- petitions of Wilson
Township to become a borough named
Lorraine.
Wilson Township now a borough by court
order.
Court grants charter for borough of Wilson.
Wilson Borough - Incorporation
July 13
1920
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Wilson Borough - Incorporation
July 24
1920
Rousing welcome for baby borough of
Wilson.
Republican slate for Wilson.
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Wilson Borough - Incorporation
July 24
1920
Wilson league endorses ticket for new boro. Easton Express
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Wilson Borough - Incorporation
May 4
1920
Wilson Borough - Incorporation
Sept. 2
1920
Wilson Borough - Parks
Nov. 3
1920
Wilson Borough- Taxation
Sept. 2
1920
Women
April 15
1920
Y.M.C.A.
Nov. 25
1920
Y.W.C.A.
Jan. 21
1920
Believe township will be annexed in near
future -- Wilson.
Wilson Borough officers assume new
positions.
Edelman's woods to be park for Wilson
Township people.
New Wilson burgess against any tax increase
new.
Women's league fills high school at first
meeting.
Old landmark passing away -- Y.M.C.A.
building started -- Karldon Hotel annex
razed.
Y.W.C.A. acquires Knowles property.
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