Events of 1916:  Mary Dubrawsky opens and operates a grocery store at 101 West Clay Avenue in West Hazleton.  This is the same corner building where Helen Kudrick  McDeshen's mother-in-law will live and also where Johnny Patrick will operate a saloon in the 1940s.  This same property has recently been known as the I-Rock-Café.

On July 1, the Cranberry mining operation is sold to the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company.  Slopes 1, 4, 5, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 are actively being mined at Cranberry at the time of the sale to Lehigh Coal and Navigation.

A polio epidemic in the nation strikes 28,767 in the summer and fall resulting in 6,000 deaths.

Stanford Terman introduces the first test for measuring intelligence and coins the term IQ for intelligent quotient.

The average seating capacity of the nation's 21,000 movie theaters is 502 while the average charge is 5¢-10¢.  This charge is typical of theater prices in the Hazleton area.

Norman Rockwell, a high school dropout,  publishes his first illustration in The Saturday Evening Post.

The Mercury dime and Liberty fifty-cent piece go into circulation throughout the United States.

Although the average cost of a new car is over $600, the Model T costs $360 down from $850 in 1908.  About 3.5 million cars are on the nation's roads.  Astonishingly, at $900, the new mechanized home refrigerator exceeds the price of the average automobile.

Enamel bathtubs, the new rage, begin to replace claw-footed cast-iron tubs, but it will be many years before the Kudrick family has either of these tubs.

The rage for ukuleles is apparent in the popular song, "Yaacka Hula Hickey Dula."

Appearing for the first time in local stores and shops are Lucky Strike cigarettes, the Coco-Cola bottle shape, mechanical windshield wipers, sonar, Planters' "Mr. Peanut" logo and the 5¢ hot dog.

The Supreme Court rules that the Federal Income Tax is constitutional--too bad!

The United States buys the Virgin Islands from Denmark for $25 million.  It will become a vacationer's dream.

Will Rogers, the humorist, is quoted as saying, "All I know is what I read in the papers."

All Hazleton area school attendance records are smashed by this year's figures attesting to the booming economy fired by the mining of anthracite coal.

Soter Ortinsky the first Bishop of the Greek Catholic Church in the United States appointed in 1907 dies in 1916.  After his death, the Greek Catholic Church in the United States splits in two along ethnic lines due to the inability of the whole group, representing both sides, of the Carpathian Mountains to get along.  Hence, one group of people representing the people who emigrated from south of the Carpathian Mountains in northeastern Hungary recognizes itself as the Ruthenian Greek Catholic Church while the opposing group of people who emigrated from north of the Carpathian Mountains calls itself the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church.  Monsignor Gabriel Martyak is appointed to serve the Ruthenian Greek Catholics.