Research Topic

Pastimes

This topic appears in 80 indexed records between 1800 and 1943.
80 Indexed Records
1800 Earliest Record
1943 Latest Record
Bakerton Strongest Location
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May 2, 2024

Spencer Takes Tavern Business For Radius of 20 miles.

Takes Business of Rivals. Spencer is now doing all the business formerly done by the three hotel bars that flourished for many years in Harpers Ferry, and then some more. Harpers Ferry was never dry before […]
December 22, 2025

Welsh, Flanagan Call Register Office

Mrs. Thos. B. Welsh and Miss Martha Flanagan, of Bakerton, made a pleasant call at the Register office yesterday.
August 5, 2025

Thomas H. Welsh celebrates 63rd Birthday

Thomas H. Welsh, better known as “Tam” on account of his Scotch-Irish ancestry, and well known retired local iron worker, of Hollidaysburg, marks his sixty-third birthday today. Tam was born at Harper’s Ferry, Va., on Feb. […]
December 22, 2025

Pearle Welsh, Appendicitis Operation.

Miss Pearl Welsh, the ten-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Welsh, of Bakerton, was operated upon last Sunday for appendicitis. She stood the operation well and is getting along very nicely.
May 23, 2020

Martin Welsh, Potato in Bottle

Our young friend Martin Welsh, of Bakerton, brought us a curosity last week— a potato growing through the neck of a bottle. Must have been something mighty good in the bottle to cause the potato to […]
Time Periods

Time Period Concentration

This topic appears most frequently during the following decades.

1890s 16 records
1900s 13 records
1910s 13 records
1920s 9 records
1820s 3 records
1860s 2 records

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A chronological listing of historical events which may have affected the lives of residents in eastern Jefferson County and surrounding areas.
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