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ANALYSIS/OPINION: Twenty-seven years ago, the U.S. Postal Service opened a new post office building in Mesquite, Nevada, a city of just under 21,000 some 90 miles northeast of Las Vegas. Apart from a plaque at the entrance denoting its construction in 1994, the facility isn’t much different from thousands of others in the United States today. This wasn’t always the case, as historian Cameron Blevins points out in “Paper Trails: The US Post and the Making of the American West.” From the mid-1800s to well past the turn of the century, postal operations were highly political, semi-privat...

City officials have selected three finalists out of a dozen architecture firms who submitted proposals for the redesign of the Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia, according to WHYY. The three remaining teams will now participate in a five-week-long public input process to help determine which plan is selected by the city.

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Mike Parker Multiplied thousands – perhaps millions – across this country heard Mother’s Day messages this past Sunday. The story of Mother’s Day usually focuses on Anna Jarvis. Following her mother’s death in 1905, Jarvis had the idea of establishing a day to honor the sacrifices mothers make for their children. According to an article on History.com, she gained financial backing from a Philadelphia department store owner named John Wanamaker. In May 1908, she organized the first official Mother’s Day celebration at a Methodist church in Grafton, West Virginia. The observance dr...

  1904 (undated)     Description This 1904-07 Wanamaker Vest Pocket Subway Guide is one of only four known surviving examples of the first subway map intended for public use. It was printed in 1904 on behalf of, or by, Wanamaker's department stores to promote their expanded New York City location, which featured an underground entrance to the Astor Place subway station. That busy subway platform is pictured here in an image entitled 'The Wanamaker Station in the Subway at Astor Place,' showing fashionably-dressed New Yorkers at the entrance to the Wanamaker's store (pointed out to the r...