''The Pittsburg Times'' was a morning daily newspaper published in

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, from 1880 to 1906. It was a predecessor of '' The Gazette Times'', which in turn was succeeded by the present-day ''

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''.

History

The ''Times'' began publication on 2 February 1880, with '' Pittsburgh Leader'' veteran Robert P. Nevin as founder, proprietor and editor. It was issued every morning except Sunday and was Republican in politics. In 1884, Nevin sold out to a company headed by local political boss Christopher Magee. The new publishers attracted subscribers by cutting the price of an issue from two cents to a penny, and by the end of the decade, reported a daily circulation exceeding that of the city's other morning papers. Having outgrown a series of modest quarters, the ''Times'' moved in 1892 to its new eight-story Times Building, designed by Frederick J. Osterling in

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style. The structure still stands in downtown Pittsburgh's Fourth Avenue Historic District. ''The Pittsburg Daily News'' was launched in 1896 as the sister newspaper and evening counterpart of the morning ''Times''. Half a decade later it was bought and absorbed by the city's leading evening paper, '' The Pittsburg Press''. In 1906, five years after Magee's death, George T. Oliver bought the ''Times'' and merged it with the morning paper he already owned, '' The Pittsburgh Gazette'', to form ''The Gazette Times''. The merged publications were compatible in their conservatism, restraint from

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, and Republican political bent. Prior to consolidation, both papers had a similar daily circulation of about 70,000.

Anti-Masonic paper

An earlier unrelated ''Pittsburgh Times'' existed roughly contemporaneously with the national Anti-Masonic movement of the late 1820s and the 1830s. Founded in 1829 as the (''Anti-Masonic'') ''Examiner'', it became the ''Times'' in January 1831. The paper was established in opposition to

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and for most of its existence catered to "those who prefer the Supremacy of the Laws to the domination of the Lodge." It was issued on a weekly basis, with a short-lived daily edition in 1837. It discontinued publication on , transferring its subscription list and accounts to the ''Gazette''.

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