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id: 40037
author: Daughters of the American Revolution. Pittsburgh Chapter (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
title: Fort Duquesne and Fort Pitt; Early Names of Pittsburgh Streets
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summary:
  This little sketch of Fort Duquesne and Fort Pitt is compiled from extracts taken mainly from Parkman's Histories; The Olden Time, by Neville B. Craig; Fort Pitt, by Mrs. Wm. It was at this time that Col. Bouquet built the little Redoubt which is now not only all that remains of Fort Pitt, but the only existing monument of British occupancy in this region.


id: 43259
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title:
  Pittsburgh in 1816 Compiled by the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh on the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Granting of the City Charter

summary:
  Near _Breakneck_, I noted that _mica_ was contained in the sand rock and this singular addition is also found here, in all the strata of that stone which I have seen. That Third-street extending from Grant-street to Try-street, and Fourth, extended in a direct line from Grant-street to Try-street; and Diamond-street extending from Ross-street to the lane leading eastwardly from the end of Fourth-street, and Ross-street extended from Third-street to Diamond-street, and Try-street extended from Third-street to the lane leading eastwardly from the end of Fourth-street, be and they are hereby accepted and declared to be public streets and highways of the city ... and all those streets shall be kept, repaired and maintained for public use, at public expense forever hereafter.


id: 23507
author: Church, Samuel Harden
title: A Short History of Pittsburgh 1758-1908
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summary:
  Let Pegasus champ his golden bit as he may, and beat his hoof upon the empty air, Pittsburgh men and Pittsburgh women have ridden the classic steed with grace and skill through all the flowered deviations of his bridal paths. [Illustration: Zoölogical Garden in Highland Park] If Pittsburgh people were called upon to name their best known singer, they would, of course, with one accord, say Stephen C. Foster.


id: 46029
author: Various
title: Charities and the Commons: The Pittsburgh Survey, Part I. The People
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  Many men also find here their one chance of meeting other men socially. And here, the inventor who works with many men in a great laboratory and scraps a thousand dollars' worth of experimentation at the turn of a hand.


id: 43769
author: Douglas, Amanda M.
title: A Little Girl in Old Pittsburg
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  There were no schools for little girls to go to. The men will want to talk about battles, and things, not best for little girls to hear.


id: 46025
author: Various
title: Charities and the Commons: The Pittsburgh Survey, Part II. The Place and Its Social Forces
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  Under the determined leadership of A. Leo Weihl, a Voters' League has employed such methods for keeping proper standards before the voters as have been successful in Chicago, Boston and other cities. The staff of the Pittsburgh Survey has had the privilege of submitting to many institutions and agencies the accredited results of recent experience in other cities and countries.


id: 40116
author: Farquhar, Franklin Smith
title: Edith and John: A Story of Pittsburgh
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  Say Eli, I was only running a bluff on Cobb at first, when I said they couldn't get me--I hear Monroe's dead? Why, I am Edith Jarney, daughter of Hiram Jarney, she replied, with so much more confidence in herself that she felt she would not now hesitate to be on friendly terms with this humble worker in her father's office.


