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Herndon Reload's Success Story. Discover how Herndon Reload Co. quietly built a thriving business in Pennsylvania's Amish Country.

James Etzweiler passed away. This is the full obituary where you can share condolences and memories. Published in the The Daily Item on 2023-09-30.

Mangurian, who co-founded the firm Studio Works and oversaw SCI-Arc's graduate program, worked on structures for L.A. schools

In 1909 Fort Worth purchased from a traveling carnival a lion, two bear cubs, an alligator, a coyote, a peacock, and an escalating population of rabbits. Not to be outdone, the Dallas city fathers, who boasted only some native stock like raccoons and de-scented skunks, purchased Queenie, a retired circus elephant. Houston began zoo­keeping in 1920 when the National Parks Department presented the city with one lonely bison, who was event­ually joined by a bissonnet, and some dispossessed circu...

My Take: No greater joy than this By Keith J. Welch I read somewhere that one joy dispels a hundred cares. If that is true, it would be important to ask, "What are the things which excite me or bring me joy?" Allow me to share 10 areas where people look for joy. First, some think joy may be found in the things of life. They begin a continual quest for the accumulation of a multitude of items. Second, some feel joy may be found in reuniting family. Luke 15:11-32 tells of a fathers joy in th...

Steve Gordon, of Coral Springs, worked for many years in the swing set business until he retired. The experience and reality of the pandemic led him back to his passion for work.

Syndicated columnists Glass bottles were expensive packages for alcoholic drinks and other liquids, including many beauty products, by the late 1700s. But makers liked to give products a permanent label, not just a pasted, handwritten or printed paper label. So bottles were made with a thin layer of glass that was heated to cover the label and adhere it to the bottle permanently. Other less decorative bottles were made with the product name captured in the mold. A label under glass couldn’t ...