A letter written by a US Marine from Japan during the “Boxer Rebellion” | August 1900

Five hundred Japanese laborers coaled the US Navy transport in Nagasaki harbor, working for twenty-five cents a day. Watching from the deck was Philip Messner, a Marine from Loyalton, PA, bound for China. Forty-five years later, an atomic bomb erased the city he described. Read the Full Story.

A Coal Region editorial on the frightening new world created by the atomic bomb | August 1945

The editors of the Wilkes-Barre Times Leader warned readers on August 7, 1945 that the atomic destruction of Hiroshima opened a dangerous new age.