Excerpted from The Chronicle, Volume III, No. 10, March 1947 By Jared Van Wagenen The community tanner and cobbler have disappeared together. Both of them represented the same phase in our industrial development; each of them was to some extent dependent upon the other and both of them are only a memory. It is true …
From The Chronicle Volume XII, No. 1, March 1959 by Eloise Stedman Meyers When you broil that juicy steak over a charcoal fire in your backyard, have you ever thought what an important part this black vegetable fuel played in the history of this great country? Without charcoal we might even now be paying taxes …
From The Chronicle Vol. 2, No. 5, June 1938By Joseph E. Sandford [Mr. H.’ L. Mencken, to whom I submitted the following article for his comments, has written me as follows: “So far as I am concerned you are certainly quite free to print the enclosed. I have read it with great interest and amusement.”] …
From The Chronicle, Volume 3, No. 1, July 1944 By Rudolf Hommel A close study of old houses in eastern Pennsylvania revealed that up to the period of the Revolutionary War door hinges were made of wrought iron. For inner and lighter doors we find the so-called H and L hinges, and for heavier and …
From The Chronicle, Volume 1, No. 3 March 1934 By Earle T. Goodnow The following information was secured from a letter of May 30th, 1832, written at Abington, Mass., by Benj. Hobart to the Secretary of State of the United States. The making of tacks by hand commenced in the town of Abington about 1770. …