New York Central Railroad Station, Philipsburg, Pa.

Posted by on Nov 20, 2013 in | Comments Off on New York Central Railroad Station, Philipsburg, Pa. Until railroads reached Philipsburg in the mid-nineteenth century, the small Centre County community was primarily a hub of local commerce. Founded in 1797 on the east side of Moshannon Creek by a thirty-year-old entrepreneur, Henry Phillips (1767–1800), the community owed its economic boom of the second half of the nineteenth century to the proverbial coming of the railroad. Philipsburg was...
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Curwensville, Winter 1910

Posted by on Nov 20, 2013 in | Comments Off on Curwensville, Winter 1910 A postcard titled “Winter 1910” lacks a postmark, addressee, and signature, but the image of children enjoying the aftermath of a snowstorm freezes a frame in small-town America a century ago. “Do you know who we are?” the correspondent asks. “We are all well and hope you are, too.” The identity of the writer is lost, but the photograph preserves a glimpse of everyday life in Curwensville,...
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Rev. A. W. Tozer

Posted by on Nov 20, 2013 in | Comments Off on Rev. A. W. Tozer Theologian, lecturer, and writer Aiden Wilson Tozer (1897–1963), a preacher known as a twentieth-century prophet to millions of followers by more than forty books, including Christian classics The Pursuit of God and The Knowledge of the Holy, was born in La Jose, later renamed Newburg, a farming hamlet in western Clearfield County, twenty-two miles southeast of the county seat of Clearfield....
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Arnold N. Nawrocki

Posted by on Nov 20, 2013 in | Comments Off on Arnold N. Nawrocki Although Americans consume an average of thirty pounds of cheese each year – up from eight pounds in 1950, a staggering increase of 287 percent – few probably recognize the name Arnold N. Nawrocki. However, at his death at the age of seventy-eight, his obituary was published in more than one hundred newspapers in six countries on three continents. His obituary appeared in a number of...
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