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During the height of the 1918 influenza outbreak, central Pennsylvania ran out of coffins

Posted on February 6, 2018April 2, 2020 by Jake Wynn

Undertakers in Harrisburg found their morgues full of flu victims in October 1918 with no way to give them proper burials.

Posted in Central Pennsylvania, WWITagged 1918, 1918 Influenza Outbreak, Central Pennsylvania, Dauphin County, Harrisburg, Influenza, Lebanon, Lebanon County, Medicine, October 1918, Spanish Flu, Steelton, World War I2 Comments

“Cut off from the rest of the world” – First World War disrupted life in northern Dauphin County

Posted on April 20, 2017April 30, 2018 by Jake Wynn

A change in railroad schedules to support the American war effort in 1917 left residents of the Upper End isolated and angry.

Posted in Williams Valley, WWITagged Dauphin County, Elizabethville, Featured, Lykens, Millersburg, Pennsylvania, Railroad, Wiconisco, Williamstown, World War 1, World War ILeave a comment

A fiery speech in 1917 cited “the blood of the Civil War veterans” to call for American entrance into World War I

Posted on April 2, 2017March 30, 2018 by Jake Wynn

A minister in Wisconsin summons the memory of his father, a Civil War veteran, while advocating war against Germany.

Posted in Civil War, WWITagged Civil War, Featured, Newspapers, Speech, Veterans, World War ILeave a comment

Two Upper Dauphin Pilots Killed in November 1918

Posted on May 22, 2014April 29, 2017 by Jake Wynn

As World War I came to a conclusion in 1918, news filtered back to Dauphin County about two local pilots killed overseas.

Posted in Lykens, Newspapers, Wiconisco, Williamstown, WWILeave a comment

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