Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first heard about the new electric plow invented by Mr. Roe of Pittsburgh through your magazine [TIME, Aug. 1]. It interested me so much that I was telling a farmer friend about it yesterday. As it happened, my friend had just been to Leroy, N. Y. to learn more about this plow and he told me more than TIME had. For your information there are tivo blades to it. The tractor that drags it is equipped with a generator from which the current passes from share to share under the soil, which must be damp to insure good transmision...
Pennsylvania leads other states in the number of Presbyterian members, Dr. Mudge, Philadelphian, noted. Pittsburgh has the largest Presbyterian congregation, Pennsylvania the largest Synod...
There were seven local newspapers in Pittsburgh not so long ago. Soon mergers cut them to five. Last week William Randolph Hearst and Paul Block took the five down and shuffled them around, and now there are three. As result of a complicated deal, Mr. Block becomes publisher of a morning newspaper called the Post-Gazette, and Mr. Hearst of an evening print, the Sun-Telegraph. The Pittsburgh newspapers that melted into two were the Post, the Gazette-Times, the Sun and the Chronicle-Telegraph. The only other newspaper left in town is the Scripps-Howard-controlled Pittsburgh Press...
...Pittsburgh, celluloid-visored Joseph Castro fell asleep in somebody's office. Inspired by his snoring, a gum-chewing office joker removed a wad of moist substance from under his tongue. "Lookit," he said, "what do you say we play a joke?" Stealthy as a murderer he approached Joseph Castro, stuck a little tee of gum on the end of Mr. Castro's nose. When spectators giggled, the joker still stealthy as a murderer, became inspired to touch a match to the little tee he had built. Dreaming of a sunny beach, Joseph gave his nose a little wriggle, opened...
Without benefit of bars, cigars, swimming pools, expensive caddies, grill rooms and fat greens fees there are masses of citizens who play good golf. Carl F. Kauffman, Pittsburgh, plays the best. Kauffman last week won the National Public Links Tournament, at the Ridgewood Club, Cleveland, defeating William Serrick, New York, in a match play. Kauffman lost the first three holes in the final, won them back and three more, lost the lead, and won on the 37th hole. His round was 77, the loser...