Round the Square

SPRING: Spring is here! Today is the vernal equinox at 11:06 p.m. At this moment, the sun is exactly above the equator and day and night are equal in ...

SPRING: Are you looking for signs of spring? We’ve seen robins and heard peepers, sure signs of this week’s change of seasons. We’ve seen a host of da...

TEMPERANCE: Temperance is the fight against the “thraldom of the liquor traffic,” said Elizabeth Putnam Gordon, in the forward to a 1924 book about th...

PART 3: Here’s the last part of the story from Bradford Lion E.E. Lindemuth about his hometown that appeared in a 1924 edition of The Era during the s...

PART 2: We’re continuing the story from Bradford Lion E.E. Lindemuth about his hometown that appeared in a 1924 edition of The Era during the start of...

WORDS: What might you guess is the most hated word in America? It seems that depends on which poll you’re reading. “Moist” and “whatever” are two of t...

PIE: How far would you travel for a slice of Shoofly pie? A survey by Mixbook , a #1 rated photobook company, looked at how far pie aficionados would ...

ATCHISON: Have you ever heard of David Rice Atchison and claims that he was the U.S. president for a day? According to the U.S. Senate Historical Offi...

SOUNDS: Does the sound of a crinkling wrapper send happy tingles through your scalp, or make you unreasonably angry? Do you find tapping fingernails s...

CHARTER: Sunday is Charter Day in Pennsylvania, commemorating the 343rd birthday of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. The original charter for the Com...

FLOOD: How might ice gorges and floodwaters have been cleared from the low-lying areas of Bradford in 1904, long before the Flood Control Project had ...

RUBE: We found a pretty incredible story from more than a century ago in Era archives, and had to share it. Longtime readers, and sports fans, will be...

WONDER WOMEN, Cont. We made it to the 22nd President previously in the list of First Ladies. Continuing on with the 23rd is Benjamin Harrison’s wife, ...

CAMP: We left off in yesterday’s column at Camp Shannon at Mount Gretna with Company K, 112th Infantry, Pennsylvania National Guard, in July of 1924. ...

GUARD: Bradford has always had a strong connection with the U.S. military. In 1924, The Era featured accounts of the infantrymen of Company K, 112th I...

LEAP: It’s Leap Day, Feb. 29, a day that happens once every four years. While it’s not celebrated as a holiday in the U.S., other countries do. Accord...

STORY: Stories in papers more than a century ago were often almost elegant in word choice and structure. We watch for examples when we are researching...

ROBINS: Our friend Andy Heffner called to tell us about a sighting of some robins. Well, not just some, but about two dozen! Andy was heading to Fairm...

First Ladies, Wonder Women. March 1 through 31 is a time to celebrate Women’s History and some of the greatest women have sat quietly, or not so quiet...

TREASURE: We always find treasure in issues of The Era, but in this case, in July of 1974, there was a story about a legend of $1.5 million in silver ...