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Election Day - 1915
Today is Election Day in Pennsylvania. The polls are open from 7am to 8pm.
This is John Berg, my grandfather's cousin who is running for City Council. This ad is from 1915. And he got elected. John was a 1889 Flood Survivor who was only 6 years old at the time. His family lived in a house where St. Stephens Church is now. He was found downriver in Bolivar clinging to a tree near a bridge. The body of John's mother Mary (Lenz) Berg was never found, so my grandfathers family raised him.
John wasn't one to take any crap. Once during a city council meeting, John knocked the Mayor out cold because they were fighting over a tax for sliced bread. John also ran the Recreation Department for a time.
This is John Berg, my grandfather's cousin who is running for City Council. This ad is from 1915. And he got elected. John was a 1889 Flood Survivor who was only 6 years old at the time. His family lived in a house where St. Stephens Church is now. He was found downriver in Bolivar clinging to a tree near a bridge. The body of John's mother Mary (Lenz) Berg was never found, so my grandfathers family raised him.
John wasn't one to take any crap. Once during a city council meeting, John knocked the Mayor out cold because they were fighting over a tax for sliced bread. John also ran the Recreation Department for a time.
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