Miscellaneous News Articles - Lehigh County PA
The Adams Sentinel (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania)
November 27 1832
Easton, Penn, November 16
Singular Circumstance - The citizens of Allentown were very much startled and surprised a few Sundays ago by a strange occurrence which happened in the Lutheran Church of that place. While the Rev. Mr. Yeager was about administering the sacrament and had just left his pulpit to come down to the altar for that purpose, two large black-snakes emerged from the wall, and unseen by the congregation below, commenced gamboling and chasing each other upon the top of the sounding board (as it is called) which projects over the pulpit. Those persons who were in the gallery had a fair view of them and observed that they did not retire until the communion was over. After service, the place was examined and a hole found, which to judge from its size, must apparently have caused considerable compression before it admitted of the animal's passage. How the snakes could have made their way through a comparatively new wall to such a height remains still a mystery.
Republican Compiler (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania)
May 24 1836
Distressing Circumstance
Drowned in the basin of the Lehigh at Allentown, on Monday evening, the 9th inst., Mr. Abraham Moser, of Easton, aged about 22 years. He was a hand on board one of the Canal boats of Mr. Jacob Able, and in attempting to wash himself, it is supposed he fell from the boat into the water. No assistance being at hand, and unable to swim, he drowned. He was not missed until the next morning, when on searching his lifeless body was found and conveyed to the residence of his mother, who is a widow.
Of a truth has it been said, that this family has experienced more misery than any other in the country. The father and one of the sons a few years since, in midwinter, were driven in a boat on a sandbar in the Delaware. Without fire they passed the dreary night. In the morning the fater was a corpse and the son so badly frozen that to save his life both feet were amputated at the ankles. Another of the sons fells into the Delaware during the late high water and drowned - his body has not yet been recovered. And now to cap the climax of misery and distress, a third son is suddenly taken from the widowed mother. Inscrutable are the ways of Providence.
Republican Compiler (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania)
June 12 1848
Destructive Conflagration - Eighty Houses Destroyed
A most destructive fire occurred at Allentown, Pa., on Thursday afternoon week, by which eighty buildings, situated in the handsomest portion of the town, were destroyed. The fire commended in a stable, which was set on fire by some boys playing with fire crackers.
Republican Compiler (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania)
November 28 1853
On Friday night of week before last, a shed belonging to the hotel of Henry Miller of Allentown, Pa., took fire from some unknown cause, and was burnt to the ground, together with some valuable property which it contained. An old lady, names Mrs. Treichler, was so frightened upon seeing the flames that she fell down in a paroxysm, and in a short time expired.
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