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A witness found their adult son missing and husband “unresponsive, covered in blood and cold to the touch on the kitchen floor” after returning from errands last weekend to their Jefferson Hills home, according to details released Tuesday in a criminal complaint about the alleged patricide.
“...everything tending to establish substantial and permanent order, in the affairs of a country, to increase the total mass of industry... is ultimately beneficial to every part of it.” —Alexander Hamilton, Report on the Subject of Manufactures, 1791 When the 13 colonies turned themselves into states under a national government with the creation of the U.S. Constitution, the nation was overwhelmingly agrarian. Having been a plantation owner for many years, Thomas Jefferson was notable in his affection for agriculture, espousing an indissoluble tie to the land which he felt was the future of America. Being an apprentice in a thriving mercantile business, Alexander Hamilton looked at things differently. He saw great opportunity in the development of industry and commerce. In some respects, both men were right: our nation needed an agricultural base to support its population, yet Hamilton’s vision telescoped decades into the future, imagining the enormous potential for various industries
America at 250: A different kind of revolution
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Firefighters battled a major blaze at a warehouse in Montgomery County on Monday.
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