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Correction: Mistaken information about John Yagalla's Freeland Laundermat has been corrected on the 20th-century Laundries page, thanks to Colleen Yagalla. Featured photo: 1930 ad for the Hupmobile, sold by A. Beisel & Son, from Charlie Gallagher From Charlie Gallagher: If it’s 1930 and you need a new Hupmobile, look no further than A. Beisel & Son, 416 Washington St. I had not heard of the Hupmobile before. The site of the Beisel garage is still there, set back from the street unlike the other buildings on the block. My brother Steve Tancin says that he remembers passing it frequently on his way to and from Boy Scout meetings at the Knights of Columbus building on Front and Washington (the old Lindsay building), and he says he remembers seeing two little Sunoco gas pumps there. From directories published 1921 through 1957: 1921-1922 city directory In individual listings: Beisel, Arthur H, engr, r1109 Burton Beisel, Marvin, student, r 1109 Burton 1928-1929 city directory In individual listings: Beisel, A. & Son (Arth H. and Marvin A.) auto reprs, 416 Washington Beisel, Arth H (Kate; A. Beiseel & Son), h1109 Burton Beisel, Evelyn N., cashr Am Stores Co, r1109 Burton Beisel, Marvin A. (A. Beisel & Son), r1109 Burton 1928-1929 city directory In business listings: Beisel, A. & Son, automobile repairing and service station, 416 Washington 1940 city directory In business listings: Potochney, Geo., automobile repair, 416 Washington 1940 city directory In individual listings: Potochney, Geo (Helen), auto repr, 416 Wash, h423 Cedar Potochney, Jno, h423 Cedar Potochney, Peter (Anna), musician, r423 Cedar 1957 phonebook Charnigo, Michael B., Rr416 Washington Thanks to Charlie Gallagher for this 1930 ad for the Beisel business. New identifications and a correction for an undated Tigers baseball team photo John Pollack wrote with new information about an undated photo of the Tigers baseball team (left, from John 'Zeke' Zurko) that had been posted on the Baseball page in the 1920s section. He wrote: Some intel on the photo from John Zurko in the 1920s section. The player 2nd from the right sitting on the board is my grandfather, Joseph A Ferry. The player behind him (3rd from right) looks to me like Jimmy Brogan identified in the 1907 Tigers picture on the front page of the Penny Saver (right, from Joan Buday). I can’t help with the date. Thank you for your work on the site. Then he wrote back: I ended up in Newspaper.com after I saw the picture. After he played he was an umpire. The papers in the ‘20s identify him as an umpire so it’s pre-1920. Not sure when players in the day hung up their gloves, he would have turned 40 in 1922. Average age to quit today would be around 30. I’d put the picture in the teens. Thanks to John Pollack for this! We're always grateful to have people in photos identified. These identifications have been added to the caption for the undated photo from John Zurko, and the photo has been moved to the earlier 1910s section of the Baseball page, pending possible further information. Thank you! I'll add that it would be great to have more information on our local umpires. RECENT BOOK on an Eckley Civil War soldier, by Melanie Akren-Dickson: You Dream Every Night That I am Home - Letters from a young Civil War soldier to his wife in Eckley ... In 1861 John Williamson, a 22-year-old mule driver at the Eckley mine, enlisted with Company K of the Pennsylvania 81st Infantry to fight in the Civil War. He and his wife Hester were expecting their first baby. This book is based on his letters to her. Using these letters shared by a family member the author retraces his journey from Eckley to training camp, then to Washington, D.C. and Alexandria, VA and the Virginia Peninsula. The book includes transcriptions of the letters, then-and-now photos, maps and other images, and first-hand accounts about places he passed through. We read of this soldier’s life in the Civil War as he shared it with his wife in frequent letters to her. We also see how she was given the news of his death, and what happened with her and those around him afterward. Now available in local bookshops and on Amazon in paperback and Kindle. Melanie Akren-Dickson is also the author of Coal Country Connections (previous edition titled This, Their Friendship’s Monument), a book about the signers of her great-great-great-aunt Mary Boyd of Buck Mountain’s autograph album. More about that book on the Buck Mountain page. Pages in progress on Freeland factories and industries: With Charles Stumpf’s Freeland book and research assistance from Ed Merrick, I am remaking the previous Factories page. I hope that the new page(s) can be posted soon, with information, photos, and some personal notes from contributors. In the meantime, this interim page has three updated sections of lists of the factories and industries that I currently know of: listed by name, by location, and as they appeared in directories and on maps. The new page coming soon will also note several worker strikes that happened. So, more is coming before long. Meanwhile, please take a look at Freeland factories and industries. If you can add to the lists, please let me know. Request for information on George T. Kushner: If you have any information or photos relating to George T. Kushner, Jr. to share with his niece Laura Kushner, please let me know. See the Military page for what she wrote about him. About this website: Highlighting
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