US 1910 Old Home Week Palmyra Penna Pennsylvania Fob
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Old Home Week was a week-long festival held by a city or town to welcome back its sons and daughters who had moved away.
The idea of Old Home Week began in the 1880s and was confined to New England at first. The celebrating town would “dress up” its downtown area in red, white and blue and host all sorts of events. Parades, firefighter exhibitions and circuses were common in the early days. By 1900, the tradition had spread across Pennsylvania and Ohio.
Penna is the abbreviation for Pennsylvania before 1963.
L.F. Grammes & Sons was an Allentown, Pennsylvania company founded in 1875 that specialized in a variety of products, including cigar box machinery, sheet metal products, and novelty metal.
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Old Home Week was a week-long festival held by a city or town to welcome back its sons and daughters who had moved away.
The idea of Old Home Week began in the 1880s and was confined to New England at first. The celebrating town would “dress up” its downtown area in red, white and blue and host all sorts of events. Parades, firefighter exhibitions and circuses were common in the early days. By 1900, the tradition had spread across Pennsylvania and Ohio.
Penna is the abbreviation for Pennsylvania before 1963.
L.F. Grammes & Sons was an Allentown, Pennsylvania company founded in 1875 that specialized in a variety of products, including cigar box machinery, sheet metal products, and novelty metal.