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William H. Davis (1 August 1900 – 5 December 1955) was an American politician. William H. Davis was born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania on 1 August 1900 to parents John Davis and Janet Owen. Upon graduating from James M. Coughlin High School , Davis enrolled at La Salle Extension University to study accounting.
The newspaper was founded in 1978 by striking employees of the Wilkes-Barre Publishing Company, which published the Times Leader.Established on October 9 of that year, The Citizens' Voice was initially a "strike newspaper" published by the local Newspaper Guild, but quickly grew to become a direct competitor to the Times Leader.
The feature was introduced on March 8, 2018, for International Women's Day, when the Times published fifteen obituaries of such "overlooked" women, and has since become a weekly feature in the paper. The project was created by Amisha Padnani, the digital editor of the obituaries desk, [1] and Jessica Bennett, the paper's gender editor. In its ...
May 2—WILKES-BARRE — An autopsy was unable to reveal how Debra J. Fox, whose body was found in a wooded area near Exit 1 of the North Cross Valley Expressway on March 26, died. The 69-year-old ...
[20] (death announced on this date) Tabea Blumenschein, 67, German actress (Die Tödliche Doris) and painter. [21] Trevor Braham, 97, British explorer and mountaineer. [22] Rafael Cancel Miranda, 89, Puerto Rican independence leader and convicted attempted murderer (1954 United States Capitol shooting incident). [23]
He met Lonnie Glosson, his long-time musical associate, in 1936, and together they found work on radio in Little Rock in 1938. [1] Later the pair worked for WCKY out of Cincinnati and played on syndicated radio. [1]
The Susquehanna River and Wilkes-Barre Downtown Wilkes-Barre at night The Stegmaier Federal Building Roth Residence Hall McClintock Hall, built in 1841 According to the U.S. Census Bureau , the city has a total area of 7.2 square miles (19 km 2 ), of which 6.8 square miles (18 km 2 ) is land and 0.3 square miles (0.78 km 2 ), or 4.60%, is water.
A 1907 postcard. Hotel Sterling was a hotel in downtown Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, at the intersection of River Street and Market Street.It was opened in 1898 by local businesspeople, who then owned a music hall located at the site, and was named after Emma E. Sterling, [1] whose late husband, Walter G. Sterling, a local banker and businessman, owned a share of the music hall.