Word: tarentum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Last week four little towns in the Allegheny Valley closed shop & school to turn out in personal tribute to the 75-year-old president of their local steel company, Allegheny Steel's Harry E. Sheldon. It was Constitution Day for the rest of the U. S., but for Tarentum, Brackenridge. Harrison Township and Natrona Heights, Pa., it was SHELDON...
...noon, massed along the hill streets and in front of Har-Brack Union High School, the crowd watched Allegheny's workers parade in white shirts and black ties before a reviewing stand while five bands and two bugle corps raised Tarentum's roofs. By 2 p. m. the Har-Brack athletic field was filled with citizens who overflowed the bleachers, stood on the baseball diamond. On a platform draped with flags sat the guest of honor, surrounded by friends and microphones. Over a national hookup flowed the public voices of Lowell Thomas, Ford Bond, John B. Kennedy...
...when Harry Sheldon started working at Leechburg in a steel mill of old Kirkpatrick & Co., there was no high school at Tarentum, nor had he ever seen the inside of one anywhere else. He got his start in the Episcopal Home for Boys at Lawrenceville, near Pittsburgh, emerging at 14 to a $2 a week job in a machine shop. With Kirkpatrick he worked up first to be a hammer man, then a roller, valuable and well paid. He began wearing gloves to work, drove his own carriage; married, in 1889, May Alice Hicks of Leechburg. He was moved...
Steelmaster Sheldon then sat down to watch a drill by the Pioneer Firemen Drum & Bugle Corps. Also taking part was the Tarentum Legion Drum & Bugle Corps, newly equipped this year with epaulets and fittings of Allegheny stainless steel...
...Corp. promoted by homey advertisements showing Wilken's kin (Sons Harry Jr. & William. Son-in-law Tom) draped around a whiskey keg, smacking their lips, proclaiming to each other: "It's our family whiskey. Neighbor and neighbor-it's your price"; of a heart ailment; in Tarentum...