[PRCo] Re: Derry (Re: Re: Perspective on nostalgia)

[Harold Geissenheimer]

Fred:

To make life more complicated.   Tarentum had the Valley Daily News
and New Kensington, the Daily Dispatch.

I believe they are now both owned by Tarentum.

Harold Geissenheimer

Fred Schneider wrote:

> Isn't it nice Derrick ... the number of suggestions we can give you?
> Quite honestly, there is a lot of material out there in newspapers and
> government documents but it takes a lot of effort to dig it out.  Ed
> Lybarger has been working for years on reading newspapers in the West
> Penn territory and he has the same problem there that I have in
> Lancaster.  Too many newspapers and not enough time.
>
> Often in the early years of the 20th century ... without telephones ...
> counties were not very cohesive.  Most people lived out their entire
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