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H. C. Witwer
Harry Charles Witwer (March 11, 1890 – August 9, 1929), more commonly known as H. C. Witwer, was an American short-story author. Some 60 comedy film shorts were based on his works, most from the mid-1920s to 1930, the year after Witwer's death. Biography Witwer was born on March 11, 1890, in Athens, Pennsylvania, and briefly attended Saint Joseph's University, Saint Joseph's College in Philadelphia. He worked in odd jobs—errand boy for a butcher, prize fighter manager, and a soda jerk on Broadway theater, Broadway—for a time before starting to write for newspapers, counting the ''St. Cloud (Florida) Tribune'' and New York City newspapers ''Brooklyn Eagle'', the ''New York Journal American, New York American'', the ''New York Evening Mail, New York Mail'', and ''The Sun (New York), The Sun'' as employers. In 1912, he married Zada "Sadie" Schagrin of Yonkers, New York. His first recorded film contribution at the Internet Movie Database (IMDB) was writing intertitles for t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Athens, Pennsylvania
Athens is a borough in Bradford County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is part of Northeastern Pennsylvania and is located south of the New York (state), New York state line on the Susquehanna River, Susquehanna and Chemung River, Chemung rivers. The population was 3,749 in 1900 and 3,796 in 1910. The population was 3,265 at the 2020 census. Athens is in a small area locally known as "Penn-York Valley, The Valley", a group of four contiguous communities in Pennsylvania and New York: Waverly, Tioga County, New York, Waverly, New York; South Waverly, Pennsylvania; Sayre, Pennsylvania; and Athens. The Valley has a population near 30,000. In September 2011, Athens was heavily damaged by river flooding from Tropical Storm Lee (2011), Tropical Storm Lee. Much of Athens was under water, with the most damage in the downtown area along the river. Damage in nearby Tioga County, New York, was estimated at $100 million. History The Athens Historic District (Athens, Pennsylvania), Athens Hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |