Rooney Baking Company Bridgeport 1936
Bridgeport Leader June 18, 1936 The Rooney Baking Company started baking in their permanent oven at their new location on Main Street in...

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Nov 30, 20232 min read
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Paris Bakery Offering Prizes 1936
On February 20, 1936 Paris Bakery announced it would give away ten prizes to ten lucky children. First prize was a new 1936 Silver King...

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Nov 28, 20232 min read
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Helena/Mooresville
An undated typed paper was found in a museum file in a folder called “Helena”. The title of the paper though was Mooresville by Noble...

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Nov 24, 20234 min read
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Alligators in Lawrenceville
One of the newspaper researchers found the following: Lawrence County News March 5, 1908 “Dr H V Lewis brought six alligators home with...

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Nov 20, 20231 min read
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Betting on the Election
One of our researchers found that news of Lawrence County was often printed in the Robinson Constitution newspaper. Here is what he...

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Nov 7, 20232 min read
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Suttle Employees
Photo taken May 1937 of the Suttle Employees Seated in the front row: Steve Newlin, Tom Arnold, Henry Rhinehart, Walt Vinsel, Roger...

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Nov 1, 20231 min read
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Advertising Disaster for Watchmaker
On December 5, 1918, D. Galbreath moved his family from Johnson City to Sumner having leased the D. D. Emerick home. He then advertised...

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Oct 16, 20231 min read
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Barbers in the County
In an earlier post we asked for memories of barbers in the county. Rodney Stevens said that the barber on 12th Street in the basement...

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Oct 5, 20233 min read
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Sumner Elevator
We asked George Zwilling to write a history of the Sumner Elevatorand today we are proud to publish it with some photographs. Thanks to...

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Sep 26, 20233 min read
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Barbers of Lawrence County
One of our readers had a cutting edge idea.. . . An article on the history of Lawrence County Barbers. When was he growing up in...

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Sep 13, 20233 min read
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