The Unwritten History of Braddock's Field (Pennsylvania)Nicholson printing Company, 1917 - 336 עמודים |
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The Unwritten History of Braddock's Field (Pennsylvania) <span dir=ltr>Braddock (Pa ) History Committee</span> אין תצוגה מקדימה זמינה - 2015 |
מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
Allegheny County Anna April Bessemer blast furnace Board boats borough Brad Braddock Avenue Braddock National Bank Braddock's Field building built Captain Carnegie Carnegie Steel Company cars Charles charter members Chas Chief Church citizens Club coal Company congregation Daily Department Dinkey district Dowler Duquesne Edgar Thomson Steel elected Elizabeth engine erected Financial Secretary firm Foundry George hospital instituted iron Isaac Mills James James Gayley John Jones Joseph July June Kelly known Kulp Ladies later Library Street located Lodge March Mary membership Miller Miss Monongahela River Monongahela Valley newspaper Ninth Street North Braddock Ohio operated organized Pastor Pennsylvania Railroad Pittsburgh plant Port Perry Post present officers rail mill Rankin road Samuel Schooley Schwab Sir Knight Slovak Superintendent Supt Thomas Thos tion town Township Treasurer Trustees Turtle Creek Vice President William women
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עמוד 281 - The bravest battle that ever was fought! Shall I tell you where and when ? On the maps of the world you will find it not : 'Twas fought by the mothers of men.
עמוד 293 - They talk about a woman's sphere. As though it had a limit; There's not a place in earth or heaven, There's not a task to mankind given, There's not a blessing or a woe, There's not a whisper, Yes or No, There's not a life, or death, or birth, That has a feather's weight of worth, Without a woman in it.
עמוד 289 - Give a man this taste and a means of gratifying it, and you can hardly fail of making a happy man, unless indeed, you put into his hands a most perverse selection of books. "You place him in contact with the best society in every period of history; with the wisest, the wittiest, with the tenderest, the bravest, and the purest characters who have adorned humanity. " You make him a denizen of all nations, a contemporary of all ages. The world has been created for him.
עמוד 293 - When a bit of sunshine hits ye, After passing of a cloud, When a fit of laughter gits ye An' ye'r spine is feelin' proud, Don't fergit to up and fling it At a soul that's feelin' blue, For the minit that ye sling it It's a boomerang to you.
עמוד 265 - The absolute prohibition of the manufacture, importation and sale of intoxicating liquors for such purposes ; prohibition by the will of the people, expressed in due form of law, with the penalties deserved for a crime of such enormity.
עמוד 31 - He afterwards saw their tracks within five miles of our camp. I immediately detached seventy-five men in pursuit of them, who, I hope, will overtake them before they get to Red-stone, where their canoes lie.
עמוד 281 - But deep in a walled-up woman's heart — Of woman that would not yield, But bravely, silently, bore her part — Lo ! there is that battlefield. No marshaling troops, no bivouac song, No banner to gleam and wave ; But, oh ! these battles, they last so long, From babyhood to the grave.
עמוד 37 - Pittsburg, and over four hundred and fifty thousand travelled part of the way between these two places. William Henry Harrison as President-elect of the United States, used this; route, and his body was returned by the same way. It looked more like the leading avenue of a great city rather than a road through rural districts. One man in 1848 counted 133 six-horse teams passing -along the road in one day, and took no notice of as many more teams of one, two, three, four, and five horses. "It looked...
עמוד 32 - The frontier inhabitants of this colony and Maryland are removing fast over the Alleghany Mountains in order to settle and live there." This migration was augmented by Pennsylvanians, following the act passed in 1780, which provided for the gradual abolition of slavery. About this time, too, it became generally known that the Monongahela Valley was Pennsylvania territory rather than of Virginia.
עמוד 281 - But, oh ! these battles, they last so long, From babyhood to the grave. Yet faithful still as a bridge of stars, She fights in her...