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One item I’ve found didn’t have a direct tie to Uniontown, except that it appeared on the front page of the Uniontown Morning Herald 93 years ago today.“’Why worry' author ends his own life,'' read the July 21, 1921 headline.Apparently a noted lecturer and orator from Northern Indiana ...

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Throughout the 2014 baseball season, the Pittsburgh Pirates are paying tribute to Ralph Kiner, the six-time All-Star slugger who played in Pittsburgh from 1946 until 1953.Kiner, who died last February at the age of 91, was also a legend in the broadcast booth. While he was the voice of two ...

Where did all the phone booths go?

I was watching the 1966 movie "Blow-Up'' the other night, and I saw one of the characters engage in an activity that may have seemed peculiar to todayĢƵ teenagers.A London photographer, played by David Hemmings, stepped into a phone booth, and he made a telephone call.He did it without using ...

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It was 50 years ago this month that it was reported that 4,000 Boy Scouts had descended on the Fayette County Fairgrounds as part of a mammoth camporee.On the front page of the June 6, 1964 edition of the Uniontown Morning Herald that a “Scout City” housed a three day-long event that was ...

Gov. PerryĢƵ ‘lifesyle” dilemma

Texas Gov. Rick PerryĢƵ at it again. You have to wonder if he’ll come down with foot-and-mouth disease, all of the times heĢƵ stuck his foot in his mouth.Oh, wait. I just checked, and medical scientists say only cloven-hoofed animals can contract foot-and-mouth disease. And one thing I do ...

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There are times when I come across answers to questions I never really pondered.My usual reply is, “Oh, yeah. That makes sense. I never really thought of that before.”The Uniontown Evening Standard printed an article on its sports pages 72 years ago today, that, at first, didn’t strike me ...