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Daily Archives: March 5, 2014

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This Week In History: Local Brevities, 1879

Pennsylvania Room, This Week in HistoryBy MariaMarch 5, 2014

This segment features a news item from Fayette County’s past. This week we examine the March 6, 1879 edition of the American Standard. One interesting feature of our early newspapers are the sections devoted to minor happenings around the county. In the American Standard these blurbs take up an entire page, but their organization — or lack thereof…

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