“Fayette Man Featured on Collier’s Front Cover,” was a headline on the front page of the Uniontown Evening Standard 70 years ago this week.Collier’s, a competitor of The Saturday Evening Post, had chosen to feature two Fayette County natives in 1943.An illustration depicting Sgt. Edward ...
It was reported on the front page of the Uniontown Evening Standard on Sept. 9, 1943 (70 years ago, today), that allied forces were in the midst of toppling the regime of Italy’s Benito Mussolini. The Italian government had announced its unconditional surrender. It was reported as American ...
I get a snicker every time I hear somebody talk about how “liberal” California is. That’s the same state that gave us such notable “liberals” as Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan and that current White House irritant, Darrell Issa.It’s the state that became the first in the country to ...
In September 1928, 50,000 people were expected to “invade Uniontown” for the Junior Order of United American Mechanics parade. The Sept. 12, 1928, edition of the Uniontown Daily News Standard reported that there would be as many as 10,000 marchers who would take part in the event, which ...
For the better part of a decade, I’ve written (my estimate) 448 political and non-political columns that have filled this space. I’m sure nobody does a word count, but each of those columns contains exactly 700 words.I’m guessing I’ve used 316,600 words that could never confuse anybody ...
While there’s probably a good bit of truth about that old saw, “The more things change, the more they stay the same,” I’d never given it much thought until I began looking back at old newspapers.Things have certainly “changed” since the early years of the 20th century, when there ...