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Shamokin in the Headlines

The Shamokin News-Dispatch and the papers that came before it recorded local government, businesses, fires, celebrations, advertisements, and ordinary daily life.

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Shamokin-Coal Township Public Library opening in 1962A July 17, 1962 newspaper photograph of young patrons at the newly opened Shamokin-Coal Township Public Library location at Independence and Ninth Streets.Image date: 1962-07-17

A Daily Record of the City

The Library of Congress catalogs the Shamokin News-Dispatch as a newspaper published from 1933 through 1967. Its pages carried major events and small notices side by side, creating a detailed record of community life.

The Titles That Came Before

The catalog identifies the Shamokin Daily News and Shamokin Dispatch as predecessor newspapers. Their changing names reflect a longer local publishing history rather than a single isolated run.

Why Old Newspapers Matter

Surviving pages preserve storefront advertisements, public ceremonies, local photographs, and names that may appear nowhere else. Read together, they let today’s visitors see how Shamokin described itself at particular moments in time.

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Mayor Thomas F. Landy and library association members at a 1953 Shamokin-Coal Township Library ribbon cutting — **Shamokin-Coal Township Library ribbon cutting in 1953**A September 14, 1953 newspaper photograph of Mayor Thomas F. Landy cutting the ribbon at the library's Eighth and Water Streets location.Image date: 1953-09-14

Man working beneath the repaired Public Library entrance sign in a 1958 Shamokin newspaper clipping — **Shamokin public library sign repair**A 1958 newspaper clipping documents a Junior Chamber of Commerce project to repair the public library entrance sign.Image date: approximately 1958

**Thomas Edison portrait associated with Myron Thomas Photography Studio**Thomas Edison portrait associated with Myron Thomas Photography Studio in Shamokin.Image date unknown