Steubenville was heavy into steel production at one time. It had a reputation as a rough town and catered heavily to the vices of all those steelworkers (as many Ohio River steel towns did at that time). That's largely a dead industry in the USA today, at least production of steel from ore.

I once had a college roommate from Steubenville. He always pronounced it as "Stumville."

Regarding drugstores selling guns, when I lived in Midland Texas over 30 years ago, there was a Walgreen's drug store which had probably the largest gun selection in town.