This one deserves reading, if only just for some of the quotes…
“As the Oil City Library officially marks its 100th anniversary Tuesday, it is hard to imagine the very idea of building a new library during a time of prosperity and growth would ever meet with protest. That was the case, though, as a pro-library faction tried to rally support for a new library building in 1900. A smattering of old newspaper clippings, culled from The Derrick and the Blizzard newspapers in Oil City, offer evidence that there was resistance to the whole project. Detractors began to lobby against the project, in part because they worried [the women of the city desire to continue to control the library interests.]” Read More.
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