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I I;;1; This is a picture of the Frackville Water Works one cent in 1906 and paid one cent to mall it to ;;;~~~~on Nice Street, town. friends in California. I bought it back 68 years ~:.... later at a Flea Market in Lancaster and had to .'.1;~; Remember the beautiful garden filled with pay fifty cents for it. That's what I call inflation. ;j;::::fl ? :.',:::: owers. ::.,.... . ...111; Mr. Frank Kiefer, father of Francis and Most of the pidures I have of Fracklfllle are in ;j;:;:;Joseph Kiefer, Pine street, bought this card for postcard form which I bought at Flea Markets. ;~~ .~ ~

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If' •Ist;~C~~':~~w,,~~U~l:;ol.':::":~~~~DoA;:';~~:~:~fa~':I~~~~~:11g~~ •.:1.::.1.:::,:,[.';;:; many times it is something I had forgotten. Here wore to school and how long it took to put them:;;; are some reminders of happenings In good old on, or do you remember your mother putting ....f Frackyille. your hair up in strips of cloth to make "Iong !!!~:::: curls" and we all tried to' look like Shirley ..;:;: Do you remember the rag man driving his Temple? Remember when it was a sin to work :::::,,::,,:truck through town chanting "Rags, bones, old ::::

on the Lord's Day and you couldn't even sew a::::;;;;iron?" Many youngsters got their spending button on until the next day? Old your mother ::::.::'.::money by collecting these items and seiling them .:..::.....:;.....:~.....:;....::.:~:;to the rag man. . render fat into lard an'd make her own soap for.. washing clothes and. did she jar tomatoes,1j1j .Do you remember the two holer outhouse or peaches, pears and make all the preserves to last ....:::: privy in the backyard, where a Sears Roebuck the whole year? 00 you remember the autograph:;:~Catalog was used to browse through and then books we kept with the silly poems written in byj111 was used as our only form of tissue? When you our c1assmates-.1 found mine from 1943~44, the~:;:were a child did you ever imagine all sorts of war years:'~::things crawling up out of those two holes? Old::::you have to scrub it down every Saturday? "When you get married:::: . And can't find your man,~!~! Do you remember when our mothers bought Go to the Draft Boar(l~:~:live chickens from the farmer and you watched And ask Uncle Sam!":;:;as she chopped off its head on a chopping block m:::: and the smell when she scalded it with hot water And the ridiculous closings we used: .:.:

·..~1.~.:.1 to pluck the feathers? "Yours till U.S. fries Turkey in Greece." .:i..:!.:i ..:!

"Yours till Butter Flies"1 Do you' remember the old wind-up' "Yours till Niagara Falls" ....~; phonographs with the heavy records and the way "Yours till I.D.K." 1m

~:; they sounded when they ran down because you "Yours till Fountain Springs" ~~~~;:;: didn't wind it enough, the souvenir pillow :::::;:~covers that we bought on vacation and placed in And all you guys and gals: Do you remember ::::;:;: the corners of the davenport, or the celluloid the Burma ,Shave signs along the' highway- ::::;.::t.1:~ kewpie dolls that we won at carnivals and parks? everyone lo~ked forward to reading them. These .:.i.i.i"

were miniature blUboard quips such as:

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!~j the gypsies that camped up at the planefleld? ;:~~~ra~~s:~hli~~d s: ~:d~~:. Burma ;~;iIre~e~:;uW~~~e;h:~~:sw~ t~;:''': ~:. Shave" or I". and you made igloos and forts ana had snow "A peach looks good with lots of fuzz, ;.:.:1~;battles with your friends, or when the jailhouse But man's no peach and never was... Burma i~~~:;:~was under the Goodwill Hose Houseand how you Shave" ::::~~;;taunted the men placed there on a disorderly :~:;:;: conduct charge? Do you remember the scooters ~~J1 you made out of orange crates and rolling barrel And last of alt do you remember Black t;:~:hoops down the street or did you whittle knives, Tuesday or the Depression Years? Many people :::::~:~slingshots, or whistles out of pieces of wood? Do lost "the shirts off their bacl<.". Men sold apples ::::;~;~you remember making your own baseball from and pencils on street corners, pawn shops were ;;;~:::: wound up strips of rags with a home~madecover doing a booming business and cities set up bread ;;;1;;~1 sewn on or making your own kite with long lines and soup kitchens. ::::;1;; colo'red tails or collecting silver foil and r~lIing :~:1:::: it into round balls? Do you remember roiling These were the years that songwriters wrote Jj~~Bugler tobacco into cigarettes for yo~r dad or lyrics to bolster the morale of the people. Songs :::::::: did he use Prince Albert? Did you ever call the like "Look For The Silver Lining", "April 1:;:1;~; grocer and ask, "Do you have Prince Albert in a Showers," "Just around the corner there's a::::~;; can?" and when he answered, Yes, you said, rainbow in the sky," and "Shanty Town," were j!1~1;;; "Let him out." and quickly hang up? Was your written. President HoovElrpromised a chicken in ::::11~ ' first cigarette one you made out of corn silk and' every pot and to quote Will Rogers who said, ;1;;:~~toilet tissue or did you buy them one at a time "We are the first nation to go to the poorhouse in ::::~~;;from the corner store for a penny apiece? an automobile." jj11~ ~~:~::;:::::::::::::::::::::::::::;:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::;:;:::;:::;:::;:;:::::::;:;:;:;:;:::;;;::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::~:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::=:::,

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re-enlisted, in Company I, 48th Penn-sylvania, and served until the close of thewar. He took part in many of the severe\!!ngagemerts of the war, among which maybe mentioned the battle of the 'wilderness,

This tombstone in the old Lutheran Cemetery inFrackville reportedly has been mentioned by Ripley'sBelieve It Or Not. The woman was born on a leap yearday and died on a leap year day. She lived 40years butsaw only ten birthdays. (Klinefoto)

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