Fifty Years of a Business Man's Life: Reminiscences1916 - Businessmen - 50 pages |
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Fifty Years of a Business Man's Life: Reminiscences (1916) Frederick A. Riehle No preview available - 2008 |
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Page 38 - ... life, and the workings of the noblest beneficence so harmoniously blend in bringing forth results, at once glorious to God and useful to man. The harp of heaven brought down to earth has a thousand strings that may all be touched by human hands, whose mingling vibrations swell the strain of " Glory to God in the highest, peace on earth, good will to men...
Page 49 - At the same time the principal passenger station of the Pennsylvania Railroad was at the southeast corner of Eleventh and Market streets, where the Bingham House now stands.