Handwriting was a prized art form that required formal training. During the 1800s and 1900s, chalkboards were commonly used to teach beginning handwriting skills. “In the 1900s, typically one to ...

Once he passed, I filed for his pension. I was sent $1,800 a month, and told that was all I was getting because we did not pay into the pension fund so I was not eligible. At no time did they ever ...

To honor history while making the house their own, they took it apart piece by piece—then rebuilt the home, incorporating the original materials. "I've always known we wanted to do something ...

More than 1,800 unionized hotel workers went on an open-ended strike at 5 a.m. at the state’s largest hotel. The local workers are joining some 4,000 hotel workers across the U.S. who are now on ...

Just as the home's past is referenced in nearly every room, with the 1800s studs repurposed into untreated trim and salvaged fireplace mantels returned to their initial locations, nods to the family's ...

That figure equals 20 per cent of the men and 15 per cent of the women born at the end of the 1800s. The peak year of the great emigration was 1887, when more than 50,000 people left Sweden. Ever ...

During the mid-1800s, photography studios were few and far between in rural parts of the United States. Brief biographies of the earliest photographers that appear in Danville records provide some ...

UTICA, N.Y. -- The Oneida County History Center will host a presentation focused on the stories of three extraordinary women from the Oneida Community. Thomas Guiler, the director of Museum Affairs at ...

Accounting giant PwC plans to lay off 1,800 employees, 2.5% of its U.S. unit, The Wall Street Journal first reported, citing anonymous sources. The layoffs would be the first for PwC's U.S. unit ...

Night - Partly cloudy. Winds E at 11 mph (17.7 kph). The overnight low will be 50 °F (10 °C). Cloudy with a high of 67 °F (19.4 °C) and a 51% chance of precipitation. Winds variable at 9 to 13 mph (14 ...

Goldman Sachs Group Inc. is cutting as many as 1,800 of its employees as part of a planned 3% to 4% staff reduction following the bank’s annual performance-review process, the Wall Street ...