Tag: history

The general of Juneteenth

The Civil War ended in April 1865 and two months later, on June 19, 1865, Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger of the Union Army issued General Order No. 3 in Galveston, Texas, with Granger saying, “The people of Texas are informed that, in accordance with a proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free.”

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Flu masks are not just a 2020 thing: Dr. Inches divided a conference in 1918, and a barber “very cheerfully” decided to wear a mask

Yes, people grew sick and tired of being sick and tired then as well.. And with the discomfort of a global pandemic, people still got sick of masks in 1919 too. 

In the coal region area, 3,273 residents of Schuylkill County would be counted among the dead.. In just a 2 day period, it was reported that 41 residents of Minersville died.. Gilberton had 51 die in just one set of row homes.. Schools, theaters, and businesses closed then as well .. They slowly began to reopen after this initial shock.. 

And all the while, masks were being pushed as mandatory apparel to continue life in the then ‘new normal’ of the post Spanish Flu pandemic..

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The forgotten pandemic that put a president in a hospital

About a decade the Asian Flu of 1957, another strain was suddenly filling the world’s hospitals with patients.. This new pandemic was circling the nation just as 60s rebellion was.. just as Charles Manson’s ‘family’ was on a murderous path in Tinseltown.. just as the Vietnam War sliced the nation in half.. bras burned. Woodstock’s mud.. It would go on to kill over 100,000 Americans and even hospitalize an American president  ..  It was the dreaded Hong Kong Flu pandemic of 1968..

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THE CLASS OF 2020: SOLID AS A ROCK WHILE GRADUATING DURING THE YEAR OF INFAMY!

The North Schuylkill football stadium light show is a new tradition..

When you rewind time, you’ll fine that there is an another more unorthodox tradition every year at North Schuylkill..

Juniors, at the point a when the senior class graduates, take over the famed ‘rock’ at the top of the mountain that overlooks the school district.

Each year, newly appointed seniors trek up a somewhat dangerous incline to put their year on ‘the rock,’ the mantle of their final year of high school.. the symbol of their success.

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