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| Troy NY Daily Times 19 Aug 1891 |
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Friday, April 1, 2016
Double Monument - John T Thompson 1840/1891 - Thomas J Powers 1845/1900 - Hillside Cemetery Montgomery County Pa.
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Vogt's Liberty Bell Brand Ham - 1925
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| Phila Inquirer 30 June 1925 |
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| Phila Inquirer 23 April 1925 |
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| Phila Inquirer 8 April 1925 |
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Thursday, March 31, 2016
F.G.Vogt & Sons – Scrapple - Frankfurters - Ham – 30th and Race Sts. – 36th and Grey’s Ferry Ave – 1930 / 1948
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| Phila, Inquirer 26 Sept 1929 |
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| Phila. Inquirer 26 Sept 1930 |
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| Phila. Inquirer 30 Sept 1930 |
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Frankford and Womrath 1930 - Sign on Building "Vogt's Ham" Per Link
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V. G. Vogt
& Sons – Pork Products – Originated at 30th and Race Streets in
the old stockyards before having to move around 1930 with P.R.R. (30th
Street Station) developments there, to improved meat packing plant at 36th
and Grey’s Ferry Avenue before being bought out by Oscar Meyer in 1948.
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Wednesday, March 30, 2016
Colonel Thomas J Powers 1845-1900 – Civil War Veteran - Prominent Republican 25th Ward Philadelphia – Pennsylvania State Bank Commissioner
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| New York Times 31 August 1900 |
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| Inquirer 31 August 1900 |
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| Inquirer 31 August 1900 |
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| Inquirer 27 May 1900 (Untouched Photo) |
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| Inquirer 31 August 1900 |
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| 2842 Frankford Ave Present - Google Maps |
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| Inquirer 2 Sept 1900 |
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| Inquirer 9 Sept 1900 |
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| 1900 - Look Alike School with Powers School Below |
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| Inquirer - Thanksgiving Day - 29 November 1900 |
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| Colonel Thomas J Powers (former) School - Present Frankford Ave and E Somerset St. - Google Maps |
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| Inquirer 30 Nov 1900 |
(Some dissent in the ranks above why the old Sherman School did not become the new Sherman School being named instead for Thomas J Powers)
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| Inquirer 11 Aug 1901 |
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| Inquirer 31 May 1902 |
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Tuesday, March 29, 2016
"Philly" Pineapple Cheese Pie Recipe
Here is a
post WWII recipe for Pineapple Cheese Pie. The article I found it in the
Evening Recorder Amsterdam NY 14 August 1947 makes reference to the fact that
Pineapples are no longer restricted and or rationed. This recipe reflects I think the whole
rationing thing in WWII. Honey instead of sugar which I like better with dairy
stuff, yogurt and such. The evaporated
or canned milk instead of fresh which if not rationed probably was not a big
production item, when the daily supply ran dry, it ran dry, for the war effort
and all that. I am not too keen on cloves but maybe nutmeg was not readily
available from overseas. I have never had a pie crust made with milk in it that
I know of. Don't normally make pie crusts, buy them pre-made like I did for Pumpkin Pies at Thanksgiving. Seems a bit exotic but it is pastry after all and not incompatible
with that category of goods. Am on sort of a restricted diet at the moment and
will try to make this recipe in the future.
Am putting it here in case anybody wants that old fashioned taste of
what I grew up with in Philly – Pineapple Cheese Pie – Something you did not
make at home but bought at the local corner bakery on Sunday. Something a bit
obsolete and forgotten in the current American Taste Buds corporate marketing
thing.
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Monday, March 28, 2016
Saturday, March 26, 2016
Thursday, March 24, 2016
Monday, March 21, 2016
Patrick McShea (McShay) - 1841-1900 - Sargeant Major 28th Pennsylvania 147th Pennsylvania Volunteers - Obit Info Etc.
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| Civil War Records - National Archive - Record Name Spelling as both McShea and McShay |
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| Find a Grave |
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| Phila.Inquirer 24 May 1895 (Reprint of : Inquirer 24 May 1864) |
However, in May 1863, Lt. James Silliman recommended that Pvt. McShea receive a Medal of Honor for "gallant and meritorious conduct at the battles of Antietam and Chancellorsville where he displayed his usual courage" (letter in the Pennsylvania Historical Society).
For reasons unknown, McShea never actually received a medal, but he fought in all the battles with the 28th and rose to the rank of sergeant. After their three years expired, most re-enlisted.
When Gen. William T. Sherman was told to end the war and march to the sea, the 28th continued its commitment.
Just before Christmas 1864 and just before the sea, McShea was captured and marched to a stockade prison. In Treatment of Prisoners of War by the Rebel Authorities, Library of Congress, House Report No. 45, Sgt. McShea related his experience among 7,000 prisoners:
"I had no shelter for seven days. Then they let us build (a) shelter of pine tree tops covered with dirt. The prisoners burrowed caves in the ground, and we lived in them like rabbits. They gave us neither blanket nor clothing.
"Our food in the prison pen was one pint of unbolted corn meal a day, no meat ... and two tablespoons full of Carolina stock peas about three times a week. We cooked the meal and beans in half a canteen, over a fire…. We broke the canteen so as to make a kind of cup of it.
"I was there about 11 weeks ... I do not think I could have lived one week longer. ... My parents did not know me when I got home, I was so thin."
After the war, McShea returned to Kelayres as a coal laborer, married, and started a family.
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One bit of family oral history has the Christmas treat of a
dog’s head being boiled in the Prisoner’s ration of corn meal. The Confederate
captors, short of rations themselves, obviously shared dog with corn meal amongst
themselves that Southern Christmas of 1864.
The offer of an appointment to a state job by Governor Geary
was I think refused in that I believe that although Patrick could sign his
name, he may not have been greatly literate.
On many post-civil war documents and applying for a Veteran’s Disability
Pension based on his ill health after and initially caused by his being a POW
shows my great grandmother, his wife, signing her witnessed by others “X”
signature.
As to the medal of honor thing there was an under level of contempt in
stories told about the family Civil War Hero regarding the mostly Protestant
officers and their various prejudices toward Irish (Immigrant) Catholics which
seemed to have been one obstacle, one of many at many levels, regarding the
medal of honor recommendation.
And as noted on some civil war documents, Sgt. McShea was busted to Pvt. on one or two occasions because of fist fights etc.
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Saturday, March 19, 2016
River Front Traffic Jam - Inquirer 18 Aug 1924
Probably waiting for the Market Street Ferry. No bridges back then.
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