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Friday, November 13, 2026

May 31, 1907 -WINDBER MAN VICTIM OF LOCKJAW - BUYS MOVING PICTURES - WIFE KILLED BY FALL - 41 CIVIL WAR VETERANS ANSWER FINAL CALL - SNOWING MEMORIAL DAY

Philip O'Dell - death by lockjaw after a cut while working at a sawmill. 

John E. Long - Moving Picture Company coming to Hastings. Quite cutting edge for the time. John would have been traveling and filming local events and people - to be later shown in the towns own nickelodeons. The people would pay him a small fee to be filmed and he would then get a small cut from the box office when these films would be shown. He would then go on to the next town. Even Johnstown had one of these set ups. Films in 1907 were still these wonderful. magical forms of entertainment -  it's hard now to imagine how people felt when they saw themselves on the big screen. Must have blown their minds and inpacted their lives in so many different ways. I will stop waxing on now....lol  - otherwise I can talk about my love of early film for days. And bore you all to sleep....lol.

Andy Ufier - infected arm - wife died by a fall while he was recovering. 
Civil War deaths for Memorial Day 1907.



Olive Catherine Winskey - found in the basement of City Hall - carbolic acid.

Snowing on the very edge of Memorial Day.



 

Wreck of the Day Express - 1889 Flood

Newpaper clipping from 1950. PS - you would think someone would have caught the wrong spelling of Conemaugh from this Tribune article....DO YOU REMEMBER....the wreck of the Day Express at East Conemaugh during the Johnstown Flood of 1889? This picture showing in the foreground, the engine which sounded the alarm, was submitted by James D. Hays of 306 North Second Street. So I put this clipping thru AI and this is what the image came out as....not perfect - I find it interesting what gets slightly changed when dealing with AI. Small, stubtle I also usually prefer pictures their original colors. Not a very big fan of colorized updates.  changes like some of the houses in the background. 



 

Bill Neff & Joe Euen - Johnstown Bank & Trust


 

January 1943 - 'Dead' Marine Writes Home - Pfc. Steward D. Adams Jr. - Windber


 

Thursday, November 12, 2026

May 3, 1907 - Mine 38 - THEY FACED DEATH - Windber


Mike Balya, Mike Stanish, John Honus Jr., Andy Valin, Frank Soushon, John Mehaley and George Mehaley





 

Schoolday Memories of Garfield - Autograph Book Belonging to Keziah Katherine Conner - Class of 1929 - 30

Starting a new series - the autograph book belonging to a Morrellville teenager named Keziah Katherine Conner who was a student at Garfield Junior High for the 1929-1930 year. There are a lot of these - so I will be breaking them up into a couple at a time. 
Dear Keziah,
On this page of yellow
I hope you have a fellow
Your chum
Elizabeth Mitnik
Dear Keziah
When you get married
don't marry a fool
Marry a sheik from
Garfield High School
Your chum
Elizabeth Mitnik
NOTE: in reference to "shiek" the movie "The Shiek" was a very famous movie that starred Rudolph Valentino. You can catch this film playing from time to time on TCM. 


 

Cambria Iron Ambulance Transport Vehicles


 

AERIAL GUNNER RETURNS - Sgt. Anthony Sosenko - Johnstown