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MORE: Jim Remick from Kane remembers a “watchtower” in St. Marys in 1952, similar to the ones we’ve heard about in Bradford and Olean, N.Y. The St. Ma...

HISTORY : Curly Walters stopped by to give us some history of Bradford. It’s a sheet of information, all about Bradford in 1899. “The population of th...

WATCH : We had a call on Wednesday to tell us it wasn’t just Olean that had a watchtower for enemy aircraft in 1952. You may remember Clayton Vecellio...

PRICES : In January 1900, The Fair at 22 Main Street in Bradford was holding a marvelous after-Christmas sale. “Ladies’ garments that speak for themse...

WESTLINE INN: We always love to hear about visitors enjoying the beauty that rural Pennsylvania has to offer. We like it here, too. Amy Pierotti passe...

CASE : RTS reader Bill Keesler of Mount Jewett dropped us a note about an experience he had in Arkansas regarding Case knives. Bill told us he and his...

TOYS: Which toys will make it into the hallowed halls of the National Toy Hall of Fame this November? “Will Uno play its cards right? Can the Magic 8 ...

HISTORY : We found a few more notes we jotted down from our search through old newspaper archives. Here is this description of movies of the day from ...

TV: The prime time television schedule didn’t make it into Wednesday’s edition due to a production error. Fear not about today’s schedule: it’s on pag...

PESTS : Tree of Heaven. It sounds nice, doesn’t it? However, the Center for Private Forests at Penn State tells us that it is not. It’s a fast growing...

9/11 : It’s today — the 17th anniversary of the tragic terrorist attacks on American soil. We would be remiss if we didn’t pause to reflect on the inc...

AIR DAY : We promised readers some more observations from Bradford’s “air day,” the day commercial flight service began at the Bradford-McKean Airport...

PLATINUM : The 70th anniversary is traditionally platinum, but in this case, we’re calling it an “air” anniversary. That’s because Sept. 8, 1948 was t...

CALENDAR : Readers may remember RTS contributor Clayton Vecellio’s “Earth Calendar.” It’s a simplified calendar Clayton has created, where January, Ap...

HISTORY : OK, so we’re kind of enamored with old copies of The Era. We went back to the turn of last century to find some items to share with our read...

SNOW : That tag line is sure to get attention in September. Snow is not in the immediate forecast, but we read an article about it that we want to sha...

HISTORIC : We hope readers are as enamored with the language used in century-old Era stories as we are. We took a look back at editions in September o...

HISTORY : For Labor Day, we are bringing you some news from 1908, when Bradford’s Mayor R.J. Hoffman wrote a letter to city residents about the celebr...

MORE : We started to share a few “Random Notes” we found in 1918 editions of The Era the other day. We promised you some more, and we’re delivering. “...

McCAIN : Bradford resident Donald Neal sends us poetry every now and again, and he wrote one about the late Sen. John McCain called “A True Hero.” We ...