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Pennsylvania Trolley Museum: Reproduction sports page advertisement

Another amusing trolley advertisement reproduction carried aboard a Pennsylvania Trolley Museum car, June 6, 2012. This card promotes newspaper coverage of the hometown Pirates in the Pittsburg Dispatch. Note the H-less spelling, which stirred great controversy between 1891 and 1911, as described at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etymology_of_Pittsburgh

More amusing still is the final jab at the competition: The Dispatch, apparently unlike other local papers, "has no axes to grind." Good to see some things never change.

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Uploaded on June 11, 2012
Taken on June 6, 2012