If you still haven’t made up your mind about New Year’s resolutions, or are just looking for some ways to mark the holiday or avoid problems in 2009, here are a few ideas from the Dec. 30, 1933, New Era.

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Following are summaries of local news stories from the pages of the Lancaster New Era. They are researched and compiled by New Era staffer Tim Buckwalter. This column appears in the New Era each Monday. Full versions of the articles are available on microfilm at the Lancaster County Library, 125 N. Duke St.
25 years ago
MARKER […]

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One hundred years ago, in December 1908, the U.S. economy was rebounding from the “Panic of 1907,” in which the stock market had fallen 50 percent from its peak in 1906.
The nation was still in recession in early 1908, but was recovering by the end of the year. That’s the context for this cartoon, which […]

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Following are summaries of local news stories from the pages of the Lancaster New Era. They are researched and compiled by New Era staffer Tim Buckwalter. This column appears in the New Era each Monday. Full versions of the articles are available on microfilm at the Lancaster County Library, 125 N. Duke St.
25 years ago
SENATE […]

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Here’s a little hundred-year-old humor for a cold, rainy Friday. Still worth a chuckle after all those years, I’d say.
This cartoon was published in the New Era on Jan. 9, 1909.

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I wish there would have been a picture of this guy walking the streets of Lancaster!
This short piece was published in the New Era on Dec. 23, 1908.
I thought it was an interesting, and somewhat unusual, little item of local color from the period, so here it is:

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Following are summaries of local news stories from the pages of the Lancaster New Era. They are researched and compiled by New Era staffer Tim Buckwalter. This column appears in the New Era each Monday. Full versions of the articles are available on microfilm at the Lancaster County Library, 125 N. Duke St.
25 years ago
LANDING […]

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When people talk about “old-fashioned winter weather,” what era, exactly, are they referring to?
The 1930s?
The 1950s?
Or simply whichever era was previous to the present one?
Maybe some clips from the New Era archives can shed some light on the matter:
“An old-fashioned, snow-to-the-knees winter storm swept into Lancaster County his morning,” read the lead of a February […]

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Following are summaries of local news stories from the pages of the Lancaster New Era. They are researched and compiled by New Era staffer Tim Buckwalter. This column appears in the New Era each Monday. Full versions of the articles are available on microfilm at the Lancaster County Library, 125 N. Duke St.
25 years ago
HIGH-SPEED […]

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Shaub’s Shoe Shop, which opened in 1880, is one of the oldest family businesses in Lancaster.
The shop, at 18 N. Queen St., underwent a renovation earlier this year and added some extra clothing lines. It remains a fixture on the downtown retail scene.
If you had popped into Shaub’s 100 years ago, here’s an example of what you would have found […]

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