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Fill her up Mrs. Roosevelt ?
Today, 75 years ago, Eleanor Roosevelt paid her first official to visit to our area as First Lady. Gathering together information about her visit, I found that she paid an unofficial visit to South...
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Column Extra — Hindenburg Disaster
In today’s Sunday Times, Cheryl Kashuba chronicled how Pierre Belin jumped to safety from the Hindenburg. I thought it would be fun to show the front pages of The Scranton Times from May 6 and 7th,...
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Sandwich Week
While doing research for the feature “On this day in NEPA”, I came across Sandwich Week. Sandwich Week took place this week 75 years ago. The purpose of Sandwich Week was to share the idea of cool...
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Missionary priest with local ties kidnapped by bandits
The Rev. Gerard A. Donovan You may have noticed over the past two days in the daily Times-Tribune feature, “This Day in NEPA”, an interesting note from 75 years ago about a Maryknoll missionary who was...
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