APPOINTMENT IN SAMARRA—John O’Hara—Harcourt, Brace ($2.50). Presented is the city of Gibbsville, Pa. (pop.: 24,032), battening on the anthracite coal industry at a time when the Depression was called ...
GIBBSVILLE — During the Spanish flu epidemic of 1918, Dr. Michael Malloy was so busy visiting the Hunkies and Polaks in patches like Collieryville that he basically collapsed in exhaustion and slept ...