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The Commercial Journal merged into Pittsburgh's oldest paper, the Gazette, at the dawn of the Civil War in 1861. The consequently titled Daily Pittsburgh Gazette and Commercial Journal explained that "Both papers have long advocated essentially the same political principles and labored in the same cause, so that their separate publication was not essential to any public or political interest ...
This is a list of online newspaper archives and some magazines and journals, including both free and pay wall blocked digital archives. Most are scanned from microfilm into pdf, gif or similar graphic formats and many of the graphic archives have been indexed into searchable text databases utilizing optical character recognition (OCR) technology.
Betty Jane Cornett (1932–2006) – third base (1950–1952) All-American Girls Professional Baseball League; Bill Doak – Cardinals and Dodgers, inventor of the modern baseball glove; Ryan Garko – first baseman, Giants; Josh Gibson – Negro league player, Pittsburgh Crawfords and Homestead Grays; Gary Green; Howdy Groskloss – shortstop ...
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, also known simply as the PG, is the largest newspaper serving metropolitan Pittsburgh in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania.Descended from the Pittsburgh Gazette, established in 1786 as the first newspaper published west of the Allegheny Mountains, the paper formed under its present title in 1927 from the consolidation of the Pittsburgh Gazette Times and The Pittsburgh ...
Van Houten was convicted of murder and sentenced to death, becoming at 21 the youngest condemned woman in California history. Charles Manson died in prison in 2017 at the age of 83 (AP)
Dr. Robert W. Van Houten (January 31, 1905–January, 1986, [1] class of 1930) was the 4th President of New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) from 1947 until 1970.
The Pittsburgh Courier was an African American weekly newspaper published in Pittsburgh from 1907 [1] until October 22, 1966. [2] By the 1930s, the Courier was one of the leading black newspapers in the United States. [3] [4] It was acquired in 1965 by John H. Sengstacke, a major black publisher and owner of the Chicago Defender.
Patricia Jeanne Burns (January 27, 1952 – October 31, 2001) was an American journalist and television news anchor. Burns was a familiar face to television audiences in Pittsburgh, where she worked for many years for KDKA-TV, a station for which her father, Bill Burns, was also a journalist and anchor. Father and daughter made history when on ...