ANOTHER ONE: Ed Grimes drops us an e-line: On my way to
Coudersport today, April 18, I was almost to the Tee Pee
Campgrounds above Roulette, when I saw a bald eagle setting in the
top of a dead tree.”
OUR TOWN: “Bradford’s advantages are numerous. Here are a few.
In Bradford, we manufacture oil-well supplies for every part of the
world. Also … The best building bricks made; Machinery of every
description; Gas engines for every use; Cutlery, table, pocket and
surgical; Bottle and window …
From The Town We Live in which purportedly was in The Era of
Jan. 29, 1912.
We continue:
“Charcoal, commercial and medicinal; Fire-proofing for business
and residence buildings; Compressors for all uses; Gasoline from
gas and of purest quality; Oil by-products for all uses; Steel,
malleable, new process;
“Pumping heads, power plants; Meters for large water
distribution; Vacuum cleaners, stationary and portable; Furniture,
the new antique kind; Acids, lactic and oxalic; Wood, alcohol and
by-products; Silk, silk-throwing;
“Cement blocks for buildings; Brass goods for every purpose;
Largest iron casting foundry north of Pittsburgh; Head center of
the United States for manufacturing of pipe couplings;
“Public school certificates admit students to best colleges,
Special courses in manual training, domestic science, foreign
languages, absolutely free; Churches of various denominations;
Public library, $5,000 per year spent on maintenance;
“Metropolitan business houses of up-to-date Bradford men keep
everything the citizen requires for his many wants; Rental very
reasonable, and the best class of houses and stores; Taxes,
exceptionally low and manufacturers given special favor.
“Water supply, pure mountain water, unlimited quantity, 4 cents
per thousand gallons to manufacture. Residential rates are lowest
in United States;
“Factory sites – the board of trade has many on hand for free
award; “Banks, four, unlimited capital, sound and solid, always
interested in promoting welfare of our city.
“Bradford is a sootless town. We burn natural gas. Our streets
are paved, and we have fine macadam roads in the suburbs;
Bradford’s vital statistics show that it is one of the healthiest
towns in the world.
“Bradford has the best-equipped hospital in Northern
Pennsylvania; Bradford has one of the finest theatres in the
country and a popular-price vaudeville house unexcelled
anywhere.
“We have the advantages of metropolitan utilities combined with
comforts of a community free from over-crowding. …
“Parties seeking desirable locations for homes and industries
should come to Bradford.”
