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Wilmore Collection provided by Pennsylvania Highlands Community College - The town of Wilmore was founded around 1800 by Godfrey Wilmore, a former slave from Maryland and his former indentured wife Mary. The Wilmore's operated a sawmill and were close friends with Father Demetrius Augustine Gallitzin, a Catholic priest. This collection consists of items associated with the town of Wilmore. 
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The Homestead Daily News, News Messenger, & Daily Messenger 1897-1979 provided by the Carnegie Library of Homestead - Newspaper printed about news in Homestead, Munhall, Whitaker, Mifflin Township, Six Mile Ferry, Hays Township, and Brown's Station. The Homestead Daily Messenger was the daily newspaper to follow the Local News in 1897. Edited by Chas. A. Sweadner until the 
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paper was sold to the Messenger Publishing Co. in 1898. Messenger Publishing Co. changed the masthead to several variations, such as News Messenger, Daily Messenger, and The Messenger, but they were all the same paper. It was sold in 1967 to Spenley Newspapers, Inc. The paper then ran until August 1979, but this collection ends on June 30, 1979.
Meyersdale Commercial Newspaper provided by the Meyersdale Public Library - Founded by Civil War Veteran Luther A. Smith in 1878, the Meyersdale Commercial was published weekly each Friday morning. This collection, containing issues of the Commercial from 1881 through 1912, is housed as part of the Meyersdale Public Library's microfilm collection and was digitized by library 
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staff and volunteers. Scattered issues of this same newspaper, dated between March 1913 and September 1929, can also be found freely available inside the Pennsylvania Newspaper Archive. The Commercial collection available inside that historical online repository was saved from being forever lost by former Meyersdale librarian and local historian Marguerite Cockley, with the hard copies of the newspaper she lovingly preserved being filmed and digitized as part of a 2018 library grant project. 
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Gale Academic OneFile Select covers everything from art and literature to economics and the sciences. This resource for academic research 
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integrates the full text of publications from across the disciplines and now includes vocational/technical titles used by community college students, filling a specific need for curriculum-oriented collections. Gale Academic OneFile Select provides indexing for more than 5,000 periodicals, more than 2,800 in full text without any embargo. The combination of full text for scholarly journals and selected general interest titles for smaller academic libraries is ideal. (EBSCO Academic Search Main Edition will be removed from POWER Library.)
Gale Health and Wellness offers 24/7 access to full-text medical journals, magazines, reference works, multimedia, and much more. Perfect
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for researchers at all levels, this comprehensive consumer health resource provides authoritative information on the full range of health-related issues, from current disease and disorder information to in-depth coverage of alternative medical practices.

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