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REPORTER AT LARGE about Kum Inn, a small roadside restaurant on L. I. Interview with the proprietor, Herman K. Miller who gives who gives a picture on the …
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Tells about the automobile race at the Roosevelt Raceway, recounts a story about Henry Ford. During an International automobile race in Florida a Frenchman…
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REPORTER AT LARGE about the Argentine polo ponies being auctioned off on Long Island. Mr. Jack Nelson, president of the Argentine association makes it …
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REPORTER AT LARGE about the red tape, and delay in receiving relief, citing the case of Billy, a juggler.
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REPORTER AT LARGE about Major Bowes "Amateur Hour." Ten thousand men and women, boys and girls try to get before the microphone on a Sunday night. Tells …
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REPORTER AT LARGE rporting that the work on the Queens Boulevard improvement project is going forward steadily, though with speed which could be called no …
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REPORTER AT LARGE about activities at the Newark Airport; tells about the workings of the mechanical landing beam, or blind flying, as explained by pilot …
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REPORTER AT LARGE about the murderer of Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr., Bruno Richard Hauptmann, now in the death house of the N. J. State Prison. Tells about …
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REPORTER AT LARGE about the homecoming of ex-Mayor Walker: the interviews, the number of reporters and mechanical equipment, cameras, picture and radio …
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REPORTER AT LARGE about the Mounted Police. The horses are purchased for intelligence and amenability to dicipline. About five culls for every one that …
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REPORTER AT LARGE about the Hayden Planetarium.
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Paramount Publix went into receivership on January 26, 1933. Not long before this, its issued securities had a market value of $200,000,000. Lawyers …
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REPORTER AT LARGE about a brief encounter with a junkman named O'Shaughnessy. He owns a creaking old mare and a tattered old wagon. He stopped at a …
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REPORTER AT LARGE about a visit to Black, Starr & Frost, Gorham, to have a look at the Jonker diamond. Mr. Krehbiel, the general manager, showed a copy of …
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REPORTER AT LARGE about sports developed during the depression. The most striking change has occurred in that highly specialized game - polo. Tells about …
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REPORTER AT LARGE about the establishment of Mr. George Micalakopoulos, located a few blocks away from the gloomy stone piers which mark the Manhattan end …
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REPORTER AT LARGE about experiments with skyrockets conducted on Staten Island by the American Rocket Society. Mr. G. Edward Pendray is president of the …
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Reporter at Large about the prefabricated houses, sold by the American Houses, Incl, and exhibited at the Grand Central Palace. Holden, McLaughlin & …
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REPORTER AT LARGE about horse racing; betting; how bets are placed, etc.
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A Reporter at Large about the Radio Corporation of America' s receiving station, located at Riverhead, L.I. Messages are received from all Europe and …
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REPORTER AT LARGE about the tennis matches held at the Madison Square Garden, between Tilden and Vines against Ftoefen and Lott. Mentions other players, …
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A Reporter at Large about the murder of Max Silverstein, brother os Sigmund Silverstein, a partner in the firm of Kalmus & Silverstein, diamond merchants. …
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Reporter at Large: Night scene at the West Street Markets. Every night, except Saturday nights before holidays, enough fresh food to supply Manhattan for …
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REPORTER AT LARGE about a visit to Flemington, N. J., which be the scene of the Haumpmann trial. Tells about preparations for the big event. Description of…
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REPORTER AT LARGE about the Spanish region of Harlem from Eight Avenue to Lexington Avenue, and from 110th Street to 117th Street. Tells about the people, …
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Reporter at Large about the Horse Show, at the Madison Square Garden.
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REPORTER AT LARGE about the newly finished Triboro Bridge tells about the cost, how it was financed, construction, parkways and approaches to the bridge.
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Reporter at Large about the Midtown Bus Terminal. The drivers are given a long apprenticeship before they are allowed to take human life out on the crowded…
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REPORTED AT LARGE about Steve, a bartender, who was picked up by the New Jersey police. He was suspected of dope smuggling and put through the third …
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REPORTER AT LARGE about dog races held at Long Branch, N. J. Tells about betting, etc.
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Report on the Baer-Carnera fight. You couldn't help feeling some tinge of pity for Carnera Nothing very sentimental, of course, but rather academic, as…
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REPORTER AT LARGE about the annual stockholders meeting of the United States Steel Company. The meeting was held at the home office, an unpretentious bank …
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REPORTER AT LARGE. During prohibition Jack & Charlie paid less graft than any other speakeasy in town, because no agent or detective ever got a teaspoonful…
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REPORTER AT LARGE about tenements on Cherry Street. The Tenement Department was closing up some houses, helping people to move out and telling the …
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Those little green automobiles with two cops in them, moving quietly through the streets whereever you happen to be are radio patrol cars. There are four …
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REPORTER AT LARGE. Visit to the operating room of one of the larger hospitals. Describes the operation.
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Reporter at Large about a Board of Estimate meeting. Mr. LaGuardia leaving the meeting met the delegation of unemployed women. Unhpaiily their leader had …
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A visit to the New York Foundling Hospital, located between Lexington Avenue and Third on Sixty-eighth Street. Abandoned children, and those of unwed …
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Visit to the Grand Central Palace where the biennial Exposition of Chemical Industries held their exposition. There were more machines on view than …
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REPORTER AT LARGE tells of visit to U.S. Assay office located at South Street, and some facts about the new temple where gold is stored as security for …
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Visit to the headquarters of the National Broadcasting Company located in the Radio City Building. It is an eleven-story building adjoining the Central …
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Visit to the boat belonging to Seth Parker, nee Phillips Lord, the philosophical New England radio performer worth a million dollars. It has been his …
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Tells of Aime Semple MacPherson, the Evangelist and her appearances before the public. At the first luncheon she was introduced by Major Bowes, she arose …
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Tells of the presidential inauguration at Washington of the new president, Mr. Roosevelt. The crowds, although optimistic in general, were somewhat …
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Typical day of an investigator sent by the Emergency Work Bureau to the homes of poor people who applied or were recommended for relief. The Emergency …
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Visit to the Morgue and then to Hart's Island where the pauper and unidentified dead are laid to rest. The unidentified are generally unclaimed …
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Tells of the tragic drama that occurred aboard the small yacht, "The Penguin" which belong to Benjamin P. Collinge. Had his wife and daughter aboard. Two …
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Visit to the Federal Reserve Bank in Maiden Lane where the gold bars of the banks are stored. Describes the procedure of unloading the gold from the …
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Public indignation meeting held at Madison Square Garden in protests of street fights in which criminals kill each other, cops, and innocent citizens. …
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Tells of Wm. F. Doyle, V.S. who first got himself a job with the city, in the Fire Prevention Bureau under Hylan, and then became a pleader before the …
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Profile of Colonel Hubert Julian who had ended his non-stop solo in a crash in 1924. In 1930, a new era began in his life. An ambassador of Haile Selassie …
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Visit to the apartment of the late Starr Faithfull at 12 St. Lukes Place, and impressions of the family consisting of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Faithfull, …
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REPORTER AT URGE. Visit to the "Nautilus", the submarine which Sir Herbert Wilkins plans to use on his proposed trip to the arctic. Describes its interior …
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REPORTER AT LARGE about a visit to Police headquarters building at Centre St. for the Police line-up. About three hundred detectives sat in the audience. …
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Murder mystery of Benita Bischoff who called herself Vivian Gordan, murdered and pitched down bank at Mosholu Aye., & the 4 theories explaining murder. She…
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Tells of the Herndon Pangborn around-the-world flight and how they are getting ready for it. They got the idea four years ago when Pangborn was a …
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Investigation of the counsel and director of the Bank of the United States, Mr. Kresel who had invited the fray when Max Steuer demanded an inquiry into …
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Visit to the Bank of the Manhattan Trust Company in Wall Street, the new seventy-story building which is an architectural masterpiece, and the main banking…
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REPORTER AT LARGE about the Weather Bureau, and the two local prophets, Messrs. Scarr and Kimball, Doctors of Meteorology, and some facts about how the …
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There are about seven thousand beggars in town. Our figure does not take into account the beggars unhappily, made, or drawn to the metropolis, by the …
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REPORTER AT LARGE about the biggest piers of the world, the West Street Pier where ships come in that are veritable floating grand hotels and the piers of …
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Typical procedure of a jury, how picked, sworn in, and the trying of a case. The petit jurors receive notices from the U.S. Gov't to serve in district …
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REPORTER AT LARGE about traffic conditions in N. Y., and some suggested and applied remedies. Average of parked cars in lower Manhattan is about 40,000, …
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REPORTER AT LARGE about Judge Crater's disappearance and some of his mysterious movements before he disappeared. On the day he left, he went through …
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Reporter-at-large piece on Coste Bellonte Welcome of the French trans-atlantic fliers who made the flight from east to west. Lack of enthusiasm by the …
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Piece on visits to the various speakeasies about town in the early morning. Description of some of the various characters that occupy the last one they …
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REPORTER AT LARGE. Visit to the Metropolitan Tower Clock in Madison Square which is located oh the 26th floor. The clock maker is Emil Hjarding who helped …
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Intolerance politically against the Communists is not present in big business. The Amtorg Trading corporation, the Soviet importing concern which buys …
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Visit to auction sale at Park Avenue where books and manuscripts were to be sold to the highest bidder. The bidding on these small packages of bound & …
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Cock-fighting as a sport. Scene is a tornament, the first of the season, in which six contestants enter five birds each and pay five hundred, dollars for …
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A visit to a dance-hall where hostesses greet us as we go in, and steer us over to where thirty girls, dressed in evening dresses sat, waiting to be picked…
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Jack Diamond, proprietor of the Hotsy-Totsy Club fell back on his excellent pistol last week. The Cassidy Bros. insisted that he must buy another lot of …
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Tells about the careless, thoughtless, illplanned ocean flight of Letti, Assollant, and Lefevre, who successfully landed in Spain, and the ill-fated flight…
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Complete story on bookmakers, their organization, betting, etc. at Belmont Park.
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Reporter at Large about the N.Y. Stock Exchange. Number 18 Broad Street has been the most important address in town for a number of weeks now. Bootblacks …
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The reporter visits a dance hall and talks to one of the girls. Most of them are shop-girls in the daytime and do this three nights a week. They get three …
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A trip through a broadcasting studio, describing the interior in detail. The reporter gives his impressions as he watches programs being switched from one …
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REPORTER AT LARGE. A flop house is 25 cents a night, for men. The doorway was sandwiched almost unnoticeably between a narrow-faced store and the relic of …
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REPORTER AT LARGE about a trip down the bay on tugboat Dalzellea. Tells of bringing S. S. Dominican to Brooklyn dock. Bringing British steamer Hypatia out …
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EPORTER AT LARGE about the personnel of a large department store and their lives within the store. Every morning they come streaming in from every corner …
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Reporter at Large about Tammany Hall aid New York City politics as the Southerners see it. Southerners' opinion of Al Smith.
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REPORTER AT LARGE about the Snyder-Gray case. Talk on capital punishment and its relation to their case.
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Ruth Elder - personality and attitude toward flight.
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It is only just to say that no reference was intended to McBride's Theatre Ticket Offices, Inc., in a story appearing a week or so ago in which …
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Violent attack on Al Smith in young Teddy Roosevelt Jr.'s speech during presidential election.
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REPORTER AT LARGE about the policeman Daniel Graham, his life and trial for the murder of his friend Judson Pratt, paymaster for the firm of Rhoades & Co. …
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REPORTER AT LARGE. The story of United States customs procedure from the actual experience of a person who brought from France some Louis Quinze chairs, …
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REPORTER AT LARGE about troubles on the schooner "Kingsway" with a cargo of lumber bound for the Gold Coast. Earl Battice, a Negro cook, killed his wife, …
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REPORTER AT LARGE about finding a pier along West Street, gaily populated. There were lights strung about the railing of its upper deck. There was a little…
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REPORTER AT LARGE about the murder of Rene Michaud. Suzy Berdat, who shot and killed Michaud, had lived with him for two years. Account of the trial.
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Tells about circus people and circus life. Lillian Leitzel's grandmother was celebrated trapeze artist.
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Describes law offices, lawyers and what goes on there. Tells about early American laws.
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Tells about police department under Mr. Warren and George McLaughlin. Mentions Tammany and politics and politicians Buckner, Tuttle, Enright. McLaughlin …
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In Georgia they say New York can't be same with Wrigley electric sign gone. Tells about New York. Compares Times Square to Village Greens. Most of …
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About gambling for big money. Tells about an evening of play. Mike, proprietor has evil face. Game there straight as rule. Change their lay once a week, …
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REPORTER AT LARGE about billiard match between Willie Hoppe and Hagenlacher, at Hoppe's Billiard Academy.
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REPORTER AT LARGE about the separation trial in White Plains between Daddy Browning and his wife Peaches Heenan Browning. Judge Mack, Browning's lawyer…
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REPORTER AT LARGE, speaks about the N. Y. World battling against suppression of "The Captive," and against pictures in magazines of naked ladies. The …
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Scandal in professional baseball. The most deplorable performance of all was vouchsafed by the newspaper report ers whose duty it became to chronicle the …
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Gene Tunney said, "Dempsey is inarticulate. Has good intelligence, I think. But has never had much chance to develop it. When he has an idea, it's …
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Tells about visit to Harlem colored night clubs. The Music Club, Dooley Mason, proprietor. Mr. Jack Brackett's Club Exclusive and the colored …
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Morris Markey on the scene at the courthouse, in Somerville, New Jersey, where the prosecuting attorney Alexander Simpson is having the time of his life.
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Harry Houdini, late magician. Mentions Cagliostro, magician. Always said what he did was only expert trickery. Worked for town locksmith when boy and could…
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Morris Markey on the culmination of the Hall-Mills murder trial—and the futile pursuit of justice in a case loaded with politics, personal ambition, and gossip.
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REPORTER AT LARGE about Dr. Straton's Church, on W. 57th Street. Printed card asked that people "Come and hear the Famous Child Evangelist." Tells …
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Tells about theatrical rehearsals and people in general and particularly of "Green River" first jazz opera. Written by Laurence Stallings and Franke …
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Fame came to Gertrude Ederle for swimming channel, altho Mrs. Corson did same thing a day or two later. Dudley Field Malone, her attorney, backed project …
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On Vesey St., against palings of St. Paul's churchyard, a rather young man preached of the soul and salvation to few people that gathered round. At end…
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Morris Markey on the editor and reporter at the Daily Mirror reviving an old crime—is it to crack the case or keep the gossip circulating?
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Scientific evenings in New York, No. 2. Visit to a woman spiritualist on West End Avenue. Her medium Darbin Larkspur, English boy who drowned himself in …
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Tells about visit to the Merton Institute of Scientific Vocation Guidance on 44th St., where they make study of phrenology. Hold classes for students, who …
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Gustavus Adolphus, Crown Prince of Sweden visits America. Morning Telegram published following headline" Big Swede Arrives with Swedie; Calls Reporters …
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Tells about pretenders using phony titles: Right Hon. Lord Beaverbrook (Federick B. Stanley) Prince Zerdecheno and Prince Louis Henri de Chateroux de …
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Tells about Tombs Prison. Mentions Warden. Tells about visitors who come to see prisoners.
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Mentions newspaper poll on prohibition. From it it would seem Prohibition is dying. The ballot aroused formerly incurious citizens to consciousness many of…
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Tells about Great Market Convulsion of 1926, day of Gargantuan shearings which Wall St. administers, when fancy strikes it to dear little lambs of world. …
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Tells about Sudden Death dinner given by Anti-Saloon League at Hotel McAlpin to celebrate 6th anniversary. Pussyfoot Johnson made speech. Dinner supposed …
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I called on Dr. G. who is a doctor because a Berlin school of music said he might be. Invited me to inspect tone poem he had written. Tooh him six years to…
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Tells about Tammany Hall and politics and politicians. Principal four in Tammany are: Alfred E. Smith, James J. Walker, George W. Olvany and James Foley. …
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REPORTER AT LARGE about Battling Siki and his death. Quotes from James M. Cain's editorial in the World. Monstrous fellow who was bumped off in a …
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Morris Markey on the conception and popularity of the country’s first tabloids, from 1925.