The Pinkertons The Detective Dynasty
James D Horan chronicles Allan Pinkerton and his sons forming a private eye dynasty. The book covers Civil War counterespionage, anti robberies, the Carnegie Homestead clash, and Pinkerton battles with unions and criminals, framing a vivid slice of 19th century American history.
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the Pinkertons
James D. Horan
Crown
Private Eyes
Allan Pinkerton
William
Robert
Allan
America
Lincoln
Underground
John Brown
Pinkertons
James Brothers
Pinkerton
Carnegie
Homestead
Horan
Migration to California Slows Since 1950s
California continues to attract migrants as a major mid-20th century trend though growth eases. The current rate is 15 per 1,000 annually, down from 24 per 1,000 in the 1950s.
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Los Angeles
California
S. K. Stevens Publishes Four-Volume Pennsylvania Heritage
Dr S K Stevens longtime historian of the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission releases a four volume study on Pennsylvania, The Heritage of a Commonwealth. The 1800 page work, illustrated, is published by The American Historical Co Inc of West Palm Beach Florida.
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Harrisburg
Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission
S. K. Stevens
Pennsylvania
Commonwealth
American Historical Co. Inc
West Palm Beach
Fla
William Penn
Best Sellers List Highlights Top National Book Demands
The compiled rankings exclude revised editions and many paperbacks. Fiction leads with The Salzburg Connection and A Small Town in Germany while nonfiction features Memoirs Sixty Years on the Firing Line and The Money Game among noted titles.
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Weekley
Salzburg
Doubleday
Cameron Hawley
Little, Brown
Taylor Caldwell
Senator
Drew Pearson
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Harper & Row
Millen Brand
Crown
John Updike
Knopf
Arthur Krock
Funk & Wagnalls
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New Castle Public Library
Ernest Crawford
New Castle News
Joseph Pollack
Eureka
G.E
Hamilton Beach
Sunbeam
Toastmaster
Waring
West Bend
Westinghouse
Penn Power
Kennedy Square
Famous Name Appliances Quality
Rocky’s
Golden Dawn Mks
W. Washington St
Union Township
Lions Club
Letitia Baldrige Mifflin
Ferdinand Lundberg
Lyle Stuart
Haim Ginott
Macmillan
Hunter Davies
McGraw-Hill
Iberia
James Michener
Random House
Jerry Kramer
World Publishing Co
Vintzer’s
New Castle
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