Masonic Temple, McKeesport

It was ninety-five years ago – Tuesday, October 17, 1911, to be precise – that one Ada Atkins of McKeesport, Allegheny County, wrote to a Miss May Hickey of Pretty Prairie, Kansas, a village of slightly more than three hundred residents. (The Census of 1910 counted nearly forty-three thousand residents in heavily industrialized McKeesport, located south of Pittsburgh.) Don’t...
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