Beaver Dam Project to Restor River Traffic and Build Locks
The Beaver dam will be built on Racoon creek with a 150 foot-wide lock and 600 foot navigation reach. Four additional locks between Beaver and Davis Island dams are planned, enabling rapid boat traffic and pushing Lake Erie canal plans forward. Construction starts this summer and will take about four years with $250,000 initial funding.
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Beaver Dam
Pittsburg
Congress
Davis Island
William Martin
Raccoon Creek
Beaver River
Davis Dam
Ceres
Beaver
Haccoon
Denver Shoals
Teaver
Island
Railroada
Ines
Dams Advance Freight on Mississippi Tributaries and Erie Canal
The Muskingum navigation reaches Zanesville and four more dams are planned to enable year round river traffic. A great ship channel may follow, linking with the Ohio below Davis Island dam, boosting freight from rail to river due to lower costs and aiding Erie Canal prospects.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Timable
Mississippi
Muskingum
Zanesville
Ohio River
Davis Island Dam
Ex Governor Campbell in Pittsburgh Talks Rhode Island Prospects
Ex governor Campbell of Ohio passes through Pittsburgh en route to New York. He comments that Cleveland has the call and Rhode Island's Grover-Campbell ticket could appeal, though he avoids firm predictions on Democratic chances. He recalls Rhode Island speeches and notes local figures like Major Mendenhall and Prof. Brashear in casual exchange.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Campbell
Rhode Island
Ohio
Pittsburg
New York
Cleveland
Grover
Himself
Hill
Providence
Pawtucket
Narragansett House
Lincoln
Rhody
Major Mendenhall
Coast and Geodetic Survey
Washington
Mr. Campbell
Batler County
Engineers’ Society
Prof. Brashear
Big crowd hears preacher at Grand Opera House
About 2000 people attend the People's Meeting in the Grand Opera House in Pittsburg last evening. Rev J D Koehne and organizers express gratification. The audience includes a mix of workers, professionals, and long-absent churchgoers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grand Opera House
Pittsburg
J. D. Koehne
Cods
Newsies
Peanut Circle
Opera House
Fifth Avenue
Peter Schwartz
Gas Prospecting Along the Yough River in McKeesport Area
McKeesporters plan spring oil and gas ventures along the Yough river stretching from Wildcat Hollow to Buenas Vista. Investors led by Dr. C. T. Black Linn brothers and Frank Patterson form a company leasing 300 acres including Patterson and Henderson lands. Derricks are prepared for two new Snee & Co. wells near Bellevernon with gas to be piped to the sites.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Linn Brothers
Frank Patterson
Patterson Ground
Henderson Farm
Wildcat and
Possum Hollows
Elizabeth
Snee & Co
Bellevernon
Edmundson
Oor
Successful Operation Removes Appendix Vermiformis in Allegheny Lady
Mrs John S Wilson of Allegheny traveled to Altoona to visit her mother and underwent a successful appendectomy performed by three Allegheny surgeons. The patient, though weak, is rapidly recovering and expected to regain full health. Her husband, a wardmaster in Allegheny, was relocated from Altoona a year ago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilson
Wardminster
Allegheny
Altoona
Wearers of White Trousers Scarce on Pittsburg Streets
Report recalls scarce appearance of men in white trousers yesterday with small boys taunting a lone colored youth with white checkered pants and a rose in his lapel as he walked from Penn avenue toward Five Points, mud splashed on his spring suit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Penn Avenue
Five Points
Pittsburg
Harrrity in Effigy Sparks Allegheny Party Friction
In Allegheny lower districts discontent erupts after the Harrisburg convention. Northside Beaver avenue club members fashion an effigy of Secretary Harrity, hang it, and dance in mock celebration before destroying it days later. Timothy O Leary Jr defends his convention role in an open letter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lower Allegheny
Harrisburg
Northside Club
Beaver Avenue
Lee Frasher
Excelsior
Leo Frasher
Pattison Club
John Howley
Guffey
Harrieburg
Howley
Frasher I
Timothy O'Leary, Jr
Democratic Party
Fine Easter Music Charms Large Easter Crowds
Churches across the city offered special Easter programs drawing big attendance. Trinity St Peter's St Paul's in Allegheny and St Peter's Pro Cathedral were packed after 10am with fine music and floral decorations. A children's song service followed in the evening at Trinity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Trinity
St. Peter's
St. Paul's Cathedral
St. Peter's Pro-Cathedral
Allegheny
Russian relief meeting sparsely attended at Braddock
A mass meeting called by Burgess Aten at Braddock for Russian sufferers yesterday afternoon drew few attendees. Councilmen were conspicuously absent. On Major Stewart's motion, depositories at several banks will receive and forward contributions to the Russian Relief Society of Philadelphia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Burgess Aten
Braddock
Ofajor Stewart
Russian Relief Society
Philadel
Captain James Gordon Dies in Allegheny After Long River Career
Captain James Gordon longtime riverman and Pittsburg financier died at his residence 63 Union Avenue Allegheny after two months illness of stomach inflammation. He built the Coal Hill towboat and later owned coalboats and mines, became a major stockholder in Pittsburg Insurance Company and other firms. He served in public life as Republican council member and sanitary commission member. He leaves a wife eight children and a large circle of friends. Interment will be at 2 p.m. tomorrow from his residence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Gordon
Pittsburg
Union Avenue
Allegheny
Captain Gordon
Ohio
Mississippi
James Or
Smithfeld Street
First Avenue
Lfe
Baxter
Pitteburs
Coal Hill
Eas
Gordon
Pittsburg Insurance Company
Sanitary Commission
Masonic E, No. 45
Christ's Methodist Episcopal Church
Disturbed Devotions as Prison Service Interruption Occurs
A jail devotional led by Rev. J C Taylor was interrupted when Mrs. Perkins spoke to inmates of Warden McAleese's ward. John Conroy, prone to fits, collapsed during her remarks, prompting a brief revival prayer before the event continued. The warden said he will inquire before future guest speakers address the prisoners.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J.C. Taylor
Allegheny
Perkins
Major
Warden McAleese
Mate
Rom
John Conroy
Conroy
First Orthodox Synagogue Cornerstone Laid in Western Pennsylvania
The corner stone of Temple B Nai Israel, the first synagogue erected by Hebrews in Western Pennsylvania, was laid on Washington Street near Fifth Avenue. The brick and stone temple will cost 64,000 dollars, with 29,000 raised and the rest to be completed by August 15.
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Hebrews
Pennsylvania
Washington Street
Fifth Avenue
Temple B'Nai Israel
New York
Montooth Band
Morris Rosenthal
Rabbi Mayer
Eighth Street Reformed Hebrew Church
Codeson
Sahlinger
Tree of Life
Kegs Street
Mayer
United Brethren Church Dedicated in Wilkinsburg
The new brick United Brethren Church in Wilkinsburg was dedicated yesterday with Bishop Weaver of Canton presiding. In the afternoon a ministers meeting drew borough clergy who delivered addresses. The modest brick edifice seats about 30 and replaces the old landmark church nearby.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Brethren Church
Wilkinsburg
Weaver
Canton
Wilkineburg
This Horse's Last Race
A horse owned by William Magee a blacksmith of Forbes street Oakland ran away yesterday afternoon after being hitched to a sulky and before the driver seated. It dashed toward the city escaping a car near the Duquesne electric road bridge on Tr street. The sulky wheels struck a pole wrecking them and a shaft shaft pierced the horse. The horse ran on Diamond street with the shaft attached and collapsed near the market house dying.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Magee
Forbes Street
Oakland
Alon Forbes Street
City
Severn
Duquesne Electric Road
Tr Street
Diamond Street
Stevenson Sees Better Odds in Librarian Vote
Stevenson gains momentum as he targets a majority in tonight's 16 vote council meeting. He expects 8 votes on the first ballot and is willing to risk a second ballot. Salary cuts loom if elected, with council opposition to paying the librarian as highly as the Controller.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stevenson
Thematic Catalogue Offer For Music Clippings
Request for a copy of a thematic catalogue of vocal and instrumental music with a free song. Respondent asks for a two cent stamp for postage and provides a Pittsburgh address at 5715 Butler Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pos
H . Basler
Butler Street
Pittsburg
The Btolen Bicycle Case Clouds A Busy Sunday
A clothing credit club swindle in Pittsburgh leads police to 8. Funkestein and A. Dagmar, tailors who offered suits on installment plans. About 40 to 50 victims paid from $1 to $35. a ledger and certificates list customers including J. L. Flynn and others. Detectives Shore and Fitzgerald recovered pamphlets, affected homes, and a door tied to the scheme.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
O'Mara
Penn Avenue
Root
Shore and
Fitzgerald
Funkestein
A. Dagmar
Funkestein & Co
J. L. Flynn
Market Street
J. C
W. H. Fullwood
Fifth Avenue
W. J. McCarthy
Smithfield Street
Harry Perks
Montgomery Avenue
F. E. Burnside
G. W Orria
G. W. Lowry
Harris Theatre
J. L. Gilbert
Anderson Hotel
Jacob Taylor
Seventh Avenue Hotel
W. H. Bissell
Curry University
H. J. Fowler
Black Diamond Steel Works
T. W. Gale
Gourley
Mayor Woegtly Fines Teddy Dillon After Singing Incident
In Allegheny Mayor Woegtly fined Edward Dillon known as Teddy after a morning police court clash over singing on Preble avenue. Dillon, in training and not drinking, faced costs as officers attempted to stop his performance of The Picture That Ia Turned Toward The Wall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mayor Woegtly
Allegheny
Edward Dillon
Teddy” Dillon
Dillon
Preble Avenue
Guekert
Teddy
Eng
Disturbance Sparks Morning Arrests At Central Station
At Central station yesterday morning Judge Gripp supervised a hearing with 20 prisoners present. Norman Jacobs was fined 50 dollars and costs or 0 days to the workhouse for keeping a disorderly house on Second avenue Yellow Row. Inmates Robert Howard Nellie Jacobs Maggie Filson and Lillie Britton were sent to the workhouse for 0 days each. William Bushart paid a fine and costs for drunken disorder at Pleasant Valley car station. Peter Ford, known as Stargazer of Soho, was given 9 days to the workhouse after a Keystone mill disturbance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lillie Britton
William Bushart
Pleasant Valley
Sixth Avenue
Peter Ford
Hyndman
Fourteenth Ward
Keystone Mill
Fort
Soho
Night window break leads to chase near Follard store
A man reported two youths crawling through a rear window of Thomas Follard's wholesale liquor store on Eleventh street and Penn avenue. Officers pursued but the pair escaped. Jacob Forman is held at Central Station on suspicion of stealing a large case of smoking tobacco worth about 25 dollars, allegedly bought from a man but possibly taken from a depot. The case is marked G. Pittsbury and awaits an owner.
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Heddrick
Thomas Follard
Eleventh Street
Penn Avenue
Jacob Forman
Central Station
Ed Cross
Wylie Avenue
Forman
G. Pittsbury
Heavy fines for Southside wife beaters and disorderly house
Witnesses testified of domestic abuse as John Higgins, married 14 weeks, was fined $10 and costs after a Saturday drunken assault. Magistrate Sueco, assisted by James Dwyer, fined another man for running a disorderly Merrimans alley house and charged his brother John Chare Hill the same.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Higgins
Tale of a High Roller Bicycle Mystery In Two Cities
A stolen bicycle travels through Cleveland and Pittsburgh areas and Allegheny, changing hands for 37 to 100 dollars before ending up with eight owners. Police traced it to buyer layers including a Heinz family member and a Market Street merchant, with no single culprit found.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Allegheny Central Station
Cleveland
Dr. Wilson
Allegheny Avenue
Allegheny
Euclid Avenue
Kyle
Market Street
Pittsburg
Liberty Street Commission
Twelfth Ward
Detective Explains Elizabeth Robbery Case Split
Detective F B Stanton once with Perkins agency now with Detective Cook cites widespread robberies from Uniontown to Denniston and Greensburg to Youngstown. He names leader James Bickham known as New Haven Jimmy and lieutenant Ted ONeil as pivotal in the Finleyville incident. Rhody’s confession ties several local robberies to the gang. Local authorities refused aid allowing an escape amid jealousy among amateurs.
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Stanton
Elizabeth
F. B. Stanton
Perkins Detective Agency
Cook
Lake Erie Road
Mononahela Valley
Uniontown
Youngstown
Greensburg
Denniston
James Bickham
New Haven
Jimmy
Ted O'Neil
Finleyville
Sickham
William Rhody
Brutal attack ends with arrest in Southside case
Magister Succop hears a shocking wife beating in which Robert Bowen, intoxicated, hurled a burning linament at his wife and beat her, knocking out teeth and sending her bleeding to police. Bowen, who has not worked for six months, is to work making barrels at Claremont for six months while the wife supports the family with washing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Succop
Southside
Robert Bowen
Frederick Street
Bowen
Claremont
Magistrate Leslies Temperance Principles in Lawrenceville Hearings
In Lawrenceville yesterday Magistrate Leslie displayed temperance during hearings. Michael Connor received ten days for attempting to rod asaioon, while Bridget Orgill was separated from society for sixty days after lingering disorderly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leslie
Lawrenceville
Michael Connor
Rod Asaioon
Bridget Orgill
Pittsburg Cincinnati Chicago and St Louis Railroad March Report
The company shows March results with higher gross earnings and expenses. Net earnings rise by about 100 thousand dollars relative to the prior year, while three months show significant increases in gross earnings and expenses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburg
Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis
Little Miami
Excursion to Washington and Norfolk Offer
A special excursion leaves Pittsburgh for Washington and Norfolk on Tuesday April 2. Travelers will ride by boat on the Potomac and Chesapeake Bay visiting Old Point Comfort Virginian Beach and Richmond. A limited number of Norfolk city lots will be offered next days at very low prices. Round trip fare is 11 dollars, tickets valid ten days. Contact Sloan & Co Pittsburgh.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburg
Washington
Norfolk
Potomac River
Great Chesake Bay
Old Point Comfort
Virginian Beach
Richmond
Sloan & Co
Fourth Avenue
Pittaburg
Kennedy Milling Company Expands Flour Capacity
The Marshall Kennedy Milling Company has doubled capacity to meet demand for Camellia and Bayard Amber flour. The flour is touted as the finest, whitest, richest in the world and remains in strong demand as customers continually try it.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marshall Kennedy Milling Company
Price Cuts Before Retirement Shock Barker’s Wallpaper Trade
Reduction in prices by W. H. Barker of Market Street surprises customers as he plans retirement. The newspaper notes the steeper drop in wallpaper costs ahead of his exit from business.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. H. Barker
Market Street
Wall Paper
Miss Nellie O Sullivan Returns From French Convent
Miss Nellie F O Sullivan returns to 4751 Liberty Ave Pittsburg after two years in Rouen and London with the Little Sisters of the Poor. She left before taking final vows, and may stay home for a year to help with housekeeping. The Sisters hoped to persuade her to stay, but she chose her own path.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nellie F. O'Sullivan
Liberty Avenue
Miss O'Sullivan
France
Rouen
Petites Lmures Des Pauvres
Little Sisters of the Poor
Pittsburg
London
England
Disratca
Sisters of the Poor
HUGUS & HACKE Ladies Ready to Wear Ad
An advertising snippet from HUGUS & HACKE promoting latest styles and fabrics. It lists Lapies' Cares in black and colored fabrics from $7, cuevnot clothing with cape from $10, women's tailor-made Reefer coats from $5, jackets from $6, extra fine coats $20 to $45, cashmere fics from $3.50, and Mackintosh raincoats, on the second floor with elevator access.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cuevnot
CuHevior Tailor-Mapr
Nottingham Lace Curtains Bargain Sale Prices and Varieties
A dealer promotes Nottingham Lace Curtains in multiple lots with lengths from 3 yards to 31 4 yards and widths extra wide. Prices range from 2 to 4.50 per pair with taped or bound edges and elaborate patterns. These are touted as the greatest bargains ever offered.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nottingham
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McKeesporters
Harrity
T. O'Leary, JR
Prinispere
Allegheny County
Ebensburg
Pattison
Wright
Presse
Warrisburg
Tiwotar O'Leary, Jr
Hebrew Temple
A. B
Allegheny Branch
Sunday Dispatch
Teddy Dillon
Yellow Row
Lower St. Clair Township
South Twenty-second Street
Neline
W. F. Goddard
Hazelwood
Baltimore
Howe
Tale OF
Rosalta
A. G. Cauragh & Sons
John S. Roberts
Liberty Street
Lover Ring
Parcris & Jones
HERTS
Zigand
Head of Wood
Pitcairn's
Wood Street
Nellie O'Sullivan
Fifth Ave
Simen
Simen’s
Ohio ST
Allegheny, PA
N. B
Itc
E. P. Roberts & Sons
Market
Epli-M
Pittaborz, Pa
JOS. Horne & Co.s
Penn Ave
JOS. Horne & C.O
Pennay
Market ST
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