Installation of The Hon. Thaddeus Stevens In the Pennsylvania Hall of Fame An address by John Ward Willson Loose 16 November 1974 at Founders Hall, Girard College, Philadelphia Ladies and gentlemen, officers, judges, and guests of the Penn- sylvania Hall of Fame's Third Annual Banquet: I am pleased

. . . Twenty One Lashes on His Bare Back Well Laid on! By John Ward Willson Loose Every day for the past few decades the Lancaster newspapers have recited routinely the ever-increasing numbers of burglaries and other crimes taking place in our county. Despite the best efforts of intelligent and

"heaped personal abuse on Hon. C. S. Kauffman and on the editor of the Spy, boisterously holding them up to ridicule before the big audience."" The next day Columbians gave Harrison a 139-vote margin over Cleveland.41 �II. Effect of Business Cycles on Local Anthracite Iron Works The economic setting in

ap- parently were not built for permanence. On 16 August 1784, a year after the end of the Revolution, the last barracks master, John Schreiber, wrote to Presi- dent John Dickinson, reporting one of the gable ends collapsed during the fall of a chimney, and that if a new roof is not put on the entire

The Lancaster Crematorium: First in the USA By John W. W. Loose in the spring of 1884 a group of Lancastrians met at the Intelligencer newspaper office to discuss the feasibility of organizing an association for the reform of funerals. On 27 May 1884 the Lancaster Cremation and Funeral Reform

Lancaster was the last civilized outpost on the western frontier during the French and Indian wars its workshops already were turning out wagons, guns, clothing and numerous items for the protection of the Pennsylvania hinterland. Who can say how many of those artisans and mechanics "invented" day-by-day

10,653 tons in addition to 145 tons of bars rolled round; the following year only 7,347 tons of rails were produced.18 The Pennsylvania Railroad Company contracted with Reeves, Abbot and Company for 15,000 tons of rails at $60.50 per ton, or approximately $10 per ton less than the market price on the