Results tagged “The York Dispatch” from York Town Square

A multiple-deck headline in The York Dispatch on Tuesday evening, Oct. 6, 1891, tells how a man took his life. Such detailed stories were common in that day. Background posts: West York ritualistic suicide forgotten by many, but investigators remember and Abraham Lincoln's 'melancholy' and The bad, and yes, the good of the Great Depression in York County.

With nostalgic thoughts about newspapers of yesteryear in mind, readers sometimes pose two questions about modern newspapers:

Why are there so many typos today? And why are papers today so sensational?

The first concern can be addressed by taking a scroll through newspaper microfilm. There they are, typos on most every page. In those hot lead days, it was difficult and expensive to change typos, even if they were caught in advance.

And as for sensationalism, the above headlines lead off a blow-by-blow story about how a York man poisoned himself to death, typical of the day... .

This video, part of the York Daily/Record Sunday News 'Remember" oral history series, provides memories of the Great Depression. Background posts: It couldn't happen in York County? Women were trampled in Depression-era labor unrest and Pre-World War II Thanksgiving holds lessons for York countians today and Destructive flood of 1933 struck York County 75 years ago.

Thirty-five years ago, Charles Bloomfield wrote what is still the most authoritative scholarly work on the Great Depression in York County.

Anyone who has dealt with the 1930s in any depth is familiar with Bloomfield's work, available for inspection (but not check out) at the York County Heritage Trust.

Who is Charles Bloomfield? ...

These images linked to the 1988 presidential campaign were among the first - or were perhaps the first - photographs to appear on the front page of the The York Dispatch since Theodore Roosevelt's visit in 1906. Such trivia involving our presidents continue to fascinate. Background posts: Washington Township, Jefferson Borough, Madison Avenue. How about an Obama Street in York County? and Vets at Gettysburg's 75th: 'Some wore their military caps and medals on their tunics' and York-based historian shakes hands with 8 U.S. presidents.

A. Who was the second man to ascend to the presidency without being elected?

B. Who was the first president to have been divorced?

C. Which president served under Rutherford B. Hayes in the Civil War?

These are a few of the questions that are part of our "Test Your Presidential Smarts" quiz... .