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“Will Christian Go to Communion?” – Elizabethtown, PA (1910)

June 28, 2025 No Comments

Mt. Christian Moyer lived in Elizabethtown, a borough in western Lancaster County of southeast Pennsylvania. At the turn of the 20th century, Elizabethtown (about 18

“I Swear to Be True” – Norwell, Massachusetts (1910)

July 22, 2024 No Comments

Miss Kathryn Zinn lived in Oxford Mills, an unincorporated community in east-central Iowa. The community grew up around a grist mill established in 1857. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_Mills,_Iowa In

The “Fatal Day of Halley’s Comet” – Verona, Wisconsin (1910)

September 13, 2023 No Comments

“Comet fever” is a term sometimes used to describe the phenomena of widespread anticipation and apprehension that grew throughout the United Sates in the early

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