History of Pittsburgh/gateway To The West 1763%e2%80%931799

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    ... the history of the race, from infancy through its stages of barbarism, heathenism, civilization, and Christianity, is a process of suffering, as the lower principles of humanity are gradually subjected to the higher.
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    The largest business in American handled by a woman is the Money Order Department of the Pittsburgh Post-office; Mary Steel has it in charge.
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    Antithesis is the narrow gateway through which error most prefers to worm its way towards truth.
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    The west was getting out of gold,
    The breath of air had died of cold....
    Robert Frost (1874–1963)