Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 December 1907 — Greater Pittsburg Legalized. [ARTICLE]

Greater Pittsburg Legalized.

The fight over the consolidation of Pittsburg and Allegheny ended jja the Supreme Court when Justice Moody handed down the decision sustaining rhe Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, which • jjgff up* held the consolidation which a majority of the people of the two cities voted under s legislative act. The consolidated cky has an area of thirty-eight square miles, an estimated population of «ViO.OOO, and will contest with Boston the sixth place among American cities for population, a pss'tlon also claimed by Baltimore