Download or read book The Murder of Amos Schroeder written by G. F. Schreader and published by Outskirts Press. This book was released on 2023-08-08 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In late November of 1859, in the Borough of Port Carbon, Pennsylvania, the battered body of a man was found in the sluice of an abandoned slack water channel of the Schuylkill Canal. It was determined by local authorities to have been a murder. But the victim, thought to be a local resident, went unidentified for almost six months. Port Carbon was one of the many boom towns in the six-county coal region of upstate eastern Pennsylvania. It was the northern terminal point of the 108-mile-long Schuylkill Navigation, the brilliantly engineered canal system along the Schuylkill River between Philadelphia and Schuylkill County. With the discovery of vast resources of anthracite coal at the turn of the century, in the short span of fifty years, what had once been a verdant wilderness had now become a mecca of American industrialization. The unyielding demand for anthracite to fuel the growing America in the northeast by the mid-nineteenth century had grown to magnanimous proportions. Immigrants from all over Europe and beyond poured into the coal region to work the mining and canal operations to supply coal via barge and later the railroads downriver to the tidewater port in Port Richmond near Philadelphia. As in every frontier expansion in American history, there also comes the darker side of human interactions. Men murder other men. The mysterious affair and the unusual facts surrounding the murder of one Amos Schroeder, a local mine boss from a German immigrant family, was published in a series of four newspaper articles spanning from December, 1859 to May, 1860. His story appeared in the Miners’ Journal, and Pottsville General Advertiser, the historical regional weekly newspaper of publishing magnate Benjamin Bannan of Pottsville. Bannan was a political economist and journalist, one of the most prominent newspaper men of his time. Bannan’s whole life was focused on the expansion of the coal region, and he chronicled everything within his purview. Details of Bannan’s investigation into the murder, however, are not known. We only know what appeared in the series of these four articles. The case was apparently solved, but never fully closed. The murderers, who had been identified through the efforts of Bannan, fled Schuylkill County before they could be brought to justice despite the reward offered by the County Commissioners. Bannan, for whatever unknown reason, had opted not to publish the murderers’ names, as they remained at large. No historical record has been found to indicate that they may have been apprehended, nor ever publicly named. It was not until over a hundred and fifty years later when members of the family, while researching their coal region ancestry, stumbled upon the case of Amos Schroeder, who was discovered to be the brother of the author’s Great-Great Grandfather. The identities of the murderers, however, remain lost to history. This book is a fictional account of how the facts and the mysterious circumstances surrounding his murder may have arrived on the pages of the Miners’ Journal. It is also a novel that takes a historical journey to the anthracite coal region of eastern Pennsylvania during the mid-nineteenth century when coal was king. It is a story of the hardships endured by the thousands of immigrant families who worked the mines and waterways of the Schuylkill Canal. It is a story of the heritage both famously and infamously created by the coal barons, industrialists, and railroad magnates who fueled the industrialization of a young America.
Download or read book Air Force Combat Units of World War II written by Maurer Maurer and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1961 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Academe in Mystery and Detective Fiction written by John E. Kramer and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This bibliography provides citations for and annotations of 486 full- length works detective or mystery fiction that are either set on a college campus, or else feature key characters acting in their academic roles off-campus. Annotations include plot summaries (with special emphasis on the academic content) and biographical information on the author. Entries are listed chronologically by the first date of publication. They are indexed by author, by title, by character, and by college. A brief annotated bibliography of books, journal issues, and essays about college mysteries is also included. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book To Abolish the Death Penalty written by United States. Congress. Senate. Judiciary and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book To Abolish the Death Penalty written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Criminal Laws and Procedures and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Fox Cities Murder Mayhem written by Gavin Schmitt and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2017-11-27 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wind through the criminal history of the cities along northeast Wisconsin’s Fox River with the author of Milwaukee Mafia as your guide. The safe and sedate Fox Cities have seen their share of horrible crimes. Coldblooded murder, kidnapping, prostitution, organized crime and other misdeeds shocked and appalled not just the community but the entire state. Murderer Porter Ross tried to commit suicide by eating bedsprings. Wenzel Kabat mutilated and burned a man in order to take over his farm. The Appleton Butcher left dismembered human remains on a playground for children to find. In this volume, crime writer and leading expert on the Milwaukee Mafia Gavin Schmitt turns his magnifying glass on small-town America. Includes photos!
Download or read book Journal of the House of Representatives of the United States written by United States. Congress. House and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 1600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some vols. include supplemental journals of "such proceedings of the sessions, as, during the time they were depending, were ordered to be kept secret, and respecting which the injunction of secrecy was afterwards taken off by the order of the House."
Download or read book One of Ours written by Willa Cather and published by IndyPublish.com. This book was released on 1922 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Claude has an intuitive faith in something splendid and feels at odds with his contemporaries. The war offers him the opportunity to forget his farm and his marriage of compromise; he enlists and discovers that he has lacked. But while war demands altruism, its essence is destructive
Download or read book CMJ New Music Report written by and published by . This book was released on 2001-11-12 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CMJ New Music Report is the primary source for exclusive charts of non-commercial and college radio airplay and independent and trend-forward retail sales. CMJ's trade publication, compiles playlists for college and non-commercial stations; often a prelude to larger success.
Download or read book Vital Remains written by Amos van der Merwe and published by . This book was released on 2018-01-04 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In the dark years of apartheid, a boy grew up in a household with a terrible secret: although they were all of mixed origins, they had managed to `pass as white'. Young Winston Wicomb, however, was far too dark to fit in, and had to be hidden whenever someone knocked on their door. After struggling through school and even managing to obtain a university degree, he still remained unemployed due to his skin colour. To make ends meet, he serviced cars in their backyard, but never stopped dreaming about escaping the restraints of Apartheid. Then fate intervened. While distributing pamphlets advertising his mechanical skills, he found Professor Chris Barnard stranded next to the road. He offered to help even though he had no experience with the new Mercedes the professor drove. Barnard, surprised at the success of Winston's efforts and impulsive as ever, offered Winston a job in his research lab. It is here that Winston applied his knowledge and experience of matters mechanical to eventually produce the world's first apparatus to transport a living heart over long distances. `Vital Remains' tells to story of an unlikely hero, a huge risk, achievement ... and love."--
Download or read book Teaching Sound Film written by R. J. Cardullo and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-10-26 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teaching Sound Film: A Reader is a film analysis-and-criticism textbook that contains 35 essays on 35 geographically diverse, historically significant sound films. The countries represented here are France, Italy, England, Belgium, Russia, India, China, Cuba, Germany, Japan, Russia, Romania, Czechoslovakia, Brazil, Taiwan, Austria, Afghanistan, South Korea, Finland, Burkina Faso, Mexico, Iran, Israel, Colombia, and the United States. The directors represented include Jean Renoir, Orson Welles, Akira Kurosawa, Federico Fellini, Woody Allen, Aki Kaurismäki, Ken Loach, Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, Abbas Kiarostami, Michael Haneke, and Hong Sang-soo. Written with university students (and possibly also advanced high school students) in mind, the essays in Teaching Sound Film: A Reader cover some of the central films treated—and central issues raised—in today’s cinema courses and provide students with practical models to help them improve their own writing and analytical skills. These essays are clear and readable—that is, sophisticated and meaty yet not overly technical or jargon-heavy. This makes them perfect introductions to their respective films as well as important contributions to the field of film studies in general. Moreover, this book’s scholarly apparatus features credits, images, bibliographies for all films discussed, filmographies for all the directors, a list of topics for writing and discussion, a glossary of film terms, and an appendix containing three essays, respectively, on film acting, avant-garde cinema, and theater vs. film.
Download or read book WealthWise written by Michael S. Moore and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2021-08-04 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like the first two books in this series (WealthWatch and WealthWarn), this volume attempts to do two things: (a) examine the primary socioeconomic motifs in the Bible from a comparative intertextual perspective, and (b) trace the trajectory formed by these motifs through Tanak into early Jewish and Nazarene texts. Where WealthWatch focuses on Torah and WealthWarn focuses on the Prophets, WealthWise focuses on wisdom literature. The texts examined here include the Instructions of Shuruppak, Codex Hammurabi, the Poem of the Pious Sufferer (Ludlul bel nemeqi), the Babylonian Theodicy, the Shamash Hymn, the Dialogue of Pessimism, various Hittite texts, the Proverbs of Ahiqar, 4QInstruction, the Wisdom of Ben Sira, and the Wisdom of Solomon, plus Luke's "Sermon on the Plain" and the Epistle of James.
