Fire destroyed Atlas Aluminum in 1971; 'Dillerville Pirates' nabbed in 1921
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They were attorneys and business owners, entrepreneurs and ministers, social service workers and homemakers.
The women at the non-partisan event intended to gather their ideas on three topics and present them formally to the
Several speakers addressed the crowd before the group broke up into smaller teams for discussion. Among the speakers were F&M vice president
Smarilli offered suggestions for how women could take control of their financial future, including not supporting businesses that don't support women and using new technologies such as the internet to better educate themselves about financial planning.
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A massive fire - described in the
The plant, located along
The sprawling complex of manufacturing, warehouse and office buildings was completely gutted, and the roofs and walls collapsed, leaving only a few bare metal girders, twisted from the intense heat.
A lack of water hampered efforts to fight the fire, with firefighters quickly exhausting the supplies on their trucks and running thousands of feet of hose to hydrants at distant locations to shore up the supply.
Damage estimates ranged from "several thousand" to "well over a million" dollars. The cause of the fire was unknown as of the next day.
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In the spring of 1946, rapidly dwindling supplies of coal led the federal government to call for an embargo on shipping of any freight not deemed essential for health and safety.
The coal shortage, a result of a 39-day-old coal workers' strike, would curtail shipping of raw materials for many Lancaster industries, according tot he
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In May of 1921, Lancaster residents, especially those who kept chickens, could breathe a sigh of relief.
Long plagued by the "Dillerville Pirates" - a youth gang whose dozen members had stolen more than a thousand chickens in several hundred raids on local coops - chicken owners were surely relieved to learn that 11 of the 12 "pirates" had been arrested.
The juveniles were set to have hearings before Alderman
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