On Jan. 28, 1913, the Uniontown Morning Herald carried this startling headline: “Row at wedding causes another fatal shooting.''There had been a “foreign wedding” in Revere. Two men engaged in a quarrel.A 25 year-old pulled a revolver on a 21 year-old, and fired two bullets into his ...
Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., has the uncanny ability to find hole-filled arguments and recite them aloud. According to him, people who’re out of work become the victims of their unemployment checks after 26 weeks. It’s a foolish argument.The reason those people get unemployment benefits in the ...
A hundred years ago this week, there was a startling report on the front page of the Uniontown Morning Herald about the previous year in Fayette County.“Violent deaths during the year 1913 total 301,'' read the headline for the annual Fayette County Coroner’s report that was published on ...
<em>"I don't know what they have to say, It makes no difference anyway.</em><em>Whatever it is, I'm against it.''</em><strong>Groucho Marx, from the song, "I’m Against It"</strong> The 2013 U.S. Congress (the ...
I’ve never seen Duck Dynasty. I don’t think I’ll ever see it, either. I have a hard time watching an hour-long reality show populated by people I’d have little in common with -- if they lived in my neighborhood. That’s just me.That said, I did read, and with some interest, that ...
If you thought people a hundred years ago celebrated New Year’s Eve with quiet dignity -- you were wrong.“New Year given noisy welcome,'' read the headline on the front page of the Jan. 1, 1914 edition of the Uniontown Morning Herald.“Care-worn 1913, overburdened with the trials of the ...