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How to keep away conflagrations, dire epidemics and pestilence
The field of folk belief among our Pennsylvania German ancestors is a rich one, replete with words. Certain rituals go along with many practices used for healing known as pow-wow, but the words are...
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The York Gazette got around
Northwest quadrant of square. Photo by Von Neida & Coombs, photographers in York around 1870 I have been looking at old photos of York’s square, following the various sites where Punch, the wooden...
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York County people delighted in giving Victorian greeting cards
The very ornate silk-fringed holiday cards of the late 1800s into the early 1900s weren’t made in York, but they were popular with local residents. There are quite a few, donated over the years by...
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Anna Dill Gamble, York advocate for world peace
Anna Dill Gamble (1877-1956) My recent York Sunday News column on Anna Dill Gamble is below. She was truly a woman ahead of her time. Gamble used her time, money and skills to further causes in which...
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Lee Anderson’s Shrewsbury printing business
Box of Leander Christmas cards My recent York Sunday News column was on the leading 20th century poet, Lee Anderson, a resident of southern York County. In addition, I also shared some of Anderson’s...
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Margaretta Furnace scrip to spend at the company store
This is probably the foundry building at Margaretta with piles of wood In my recent column on Margaretta Furnace in Lower Windsor Township, I mentioned that the York County History Center has some...
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Do you have any birth and baptismal certificates printed in York County?
Some of you might be lucky enough to have Pennsylvania German birth and baptismal certificates that were done for family members well over 100 years ago. Or you just might be intrigued by the art and...
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Earlier this year I wrote about Daniel May, printer and newspaper publisher in York from about 1829 to 1843. He was one of several York County printers to produce Taufscheine, or baptismal...
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Early York printer Solomon Meyer–printing and politics
I became interested in Meyer and other York County printers because several also printed Taufscheine, the birth and baptismal certificates that I have been researching for years. Most of them were...
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Hanover’s Starck and Lange were prolific printers
Some months ago I wrote about the Pennsylvania German Birth and Baptismal certificates (often known as Taufscheine or Fraktur) that were produced in the Hanover print shop of Wilhelm Daniel Lepper and...
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