“The town was thrown into a great excitement.” Yes, I assume a ship sinking in a fatal accident in Warren would do that. Such was the feeling in Warren on Sept. 17, 1878 when the boiler on what The Pittsburgh Post described as a “pleasure boat,” the Shirley Bell, exploded in ...
By JOSH COTTON jcotton@timesobserver.com Why do the young and the fair and the gifted die? Why are those for whom life opens so full of promise and pleasure and usefulness, suddenly taken “over there,” while the poor and the old and the infirm, to whom life is already a burden, linger ...
International events proceeded to enhance the reputation - and sales - of the Carnes Artificial Arm. The international event? World War I. The Warren Times-Mirror spoke with Carnes when he was in Warren for a couple weeks in June 1917. At that point, Carnes had been able to sell the ...
Over 3,000 Union soldiers were killed at the Battle of Gettysburg. Almost nothing is known about some. Little is known about others. Looking at the muster rolls, the notation for what happened to Robert Hall is succinct, almost clinical - “killed at Gettysburg, July 3, 1863.” Hall was ...
Free speech and religion cases continue to be among the most prominent cases decided by the Supreme Court of the United States. There’s the cake decorator and website designer in the marriage context, the football coach who wanted to pray on the field and the angry cheerleader who cussed ...
How do you end a series about what was an unpopular war when most of the stories that you wrote for that series focused on the cost in human lives from that war? It’s a question without an easy answer. You can’t end it on a high note because there isn’t a high note to end on. ...