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Back In 1924...
Report
Published: 04-01-2011
- On April Fool's Day, winter came back with a vengeance. After some
spring-like weather, 9 inches of snow had fallen in the Shamokin area,
meaning March had gone out like a lamb, which didn't impress the month
of April at all.
- There was a plumbers-electrical workers' strike in Shamokin. The
master plumbers wanted a raise from 90 cents to $1.15 an hour - big
money for the year 1924.
- The Susquehanna Collieries announced the appointment of one of
Shamokin's best-known doctors as chief surgeon. He was Dr. Clay Wiemer.
- Ann Hewitt of Franklin Street, Shamokin, heard from her brother,
Clark, a member of an orphan's relief agency in Armenia, 7,000 miles
from Shamokin, that people in the Near East listened every night to
radio broadcasts from Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. Radio was pretty new
and the Armenian government did not allow citizens to listen to it in
fear that they might get revolutionary ideas, but, Clark said, everyone
listened anyway.
- There was a burglary at the Marshall Building Apartments at Sunbury
and Washington streets. The story made front-page headlines, not for the
amount stolen, even though $300 was substantial in these times, but
because the break-in had occurred between 3 and 5 p.m. in broad
daylight. The townsfolk couldn't believe it.
- At the Hotel Graemar in Shamokin, a large and angry crowd gathered in
the evening to formulate a protest. They were protesting the deplorable
conditions, they said, of the road between Shamokin and Mount Carmel.
From: A. Papazian
Report
Published: 04-01-2011
- On April Fool's Day, winter came back with a vengeance. After some
spring-like weather, 9 inches of snow had fallen in the Shamokin area,
meaning March had gone out like a lamb, which didn't impress the month
of April at all.
- There was a plumbers-electrical workers' strike in Shamokin. The
master plumbers wanted a raise from 90 cents to $1.15 an hour - big
money for the year 1924.
- The Susquehanna Collieries announced the appointment of one of
Shamokin's best-known doctors as chief surgeon. He was Dr. Clay Wiemer.
- Ann Hewitt of Franklin Street, Shamokin, heard from her brother,
Clark, a member of an orphan's relief agency in Armenia, 7,000 miles
from Shamokin, that people in the Near East listened every night to
radio broadcasts from Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. Radio was pretty new
and the Armenian government did not allow citizens to listen to it in
fear that they might get revolutionary ideas, but, Clark said, everyone
listened anyway.
- There was a burglary at the Marshall Building Apartments at Sunbury
and Washington streets. The story made front-page headlines, not for the
amount stolen, even though $300 was substantial in these times, but
because the break-in had occurred between 3 and 5 p.m. in broad
daylight. The townsfolk couldn't believe it.
- At the Hotel Graemar in Shamokin, a large and angry crowd gathered in
the evening to formulate a protest. They were protesting the deplorable
conditions, they said, of the road between Shamokin and Mount Carmel.
From: A. Papazian