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Column Extra — J. Benjamin Dimmick
J. Benjamin Dimmick was born in Honesdale on Oct 3, 1858. From Honesdale, he would go onto schools in Massachusetts, New Hampshire and graduate from Yale in 1881. He got married, moved back to the...
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Answer Tuesday — A sweater to keep our troops warm
Last Friday, I asked if you could guess who the Scranton Firefighters were knitting sweaters for. They were knitting for our American serviceman who were fighting in the trenches in The Great War....
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The first Armistice Day
In today’s Sunday Times, local history columnist Erin Nissley writes about what was going on in Scranton on that first Armistice Day – Nov. 11, 1918. With such an important news story, the Scranton...
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One bullet …
One hundred years ago, the Archduke Francis Ferdinand and his wife Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg were killed by an assassin’s bullet while visiting Sarajevo. This act was the match the started the...
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Column Extra – Dispatch from the front
In today’s Sunday Times, columnist Erin Nissley writes about our area reaction to the start of World War I. In her column she writes of incident that took place between two men, Austrian and Russian,...
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England enters the fray
On Aug 4, 1914 at 11pm, England declared war on Germany. Readers across the world read this news in the newspapers on August 5. Here is the front page of the Scranton Times from the 5th. Close-up...
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Female Naval Recruits 1917
On this Veterans Day, I was thumbing around the Times’ Card Catalog looking for material on men and women who served our country. In my search, I found this reference “File No. 12608 – Women who...
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First of many
Loretta Walsh Bowman and Florence Metters Jackson, two Mid Valley women were just two of many local women who enlisted in the military during World War I. Mrs. Bowman, a native of Olyphant, was working...
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