Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Night foremen can become lifesavers only at their own risk, ruled last week Judge Nelson Mc-Vicar of the Pittsburgh Common Pleas Court. His decision saved the Fidelity & Casualty Co. $2,400, lost Mrs. Elsie A. Prettyman (widow of William A. Prettyman) the same amount...
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...years one John Tracy, aged 90, of Pittsburgh, has officially been listed as a deserter from the U. S. Marine Corps. In 1864, while on a ten-day furlough to Baltimore, onetime Devildog Tracy took some drinks, lost consciousness, awoke on an oyster dredge in Chesapeake Bay. He had been "shang-haied." Ill, he was put ashore. The Civil War was over before he recovered. . . . Last week the President signed an act of Congress ruling that Mr. Tracy's desertion was "involuntary." Henceforth he shall receive $50 monthly pension. ¶Said Gov. Alfred E. Smith to President Calvin Coolidge...
While the Forum letter went the way of all inappropriate literature at the White House, James Francis Burke of Pittsburgh, onetime Republican whip in the U. S. House of Representatives, wrote such reply as seemed necessary, saying, among other things: "[The American people] have been seeking and are entitled to at least a few months' relief now and then from meddlers, mischief makers and apostles of unrest who have become the bane of our modern American existence...
...more than one billion dollars: VALUATION POPULATION New York Washington $12,944,481,000 1,329,709,000 5,873,356 St. Louis Philadelphia 1,194,633,000 3,967,810,000 1,979,364 Detroit Cincinnati 2,757,664,000 1,018,498,000 1,242,044 Cleveland Pittsburgh 1,014,117,000 2,168,243,000 936,485 Chicago 1,873,922,000 2,995,239 Boston 1,862,000,000 781,529 Baltimore 1,476,386,000 796,296 Los Angeles 1,374,751,000 1,222,500 497,906 821,543 409,333 631,563 Taxes...