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...Scion Hamilton's candidacy for a seat in the New York State Senate. First to interview him, to print his picture, was the New York Evening Post, founded by his great-great-grandfather (with John Jay) three years before he was shot to death by Aaron Burr on Weehawken Heights...
...Weehawken, N. J., John Moyer, Negro, went into a workmen's outhouse, lit a cigaret, dropped the match down the sewer. Benzine in the sewer exploded,, leaped out and seared John Moyer, ignited grass in the surrounding field. Racing through the sewer the flame blasted the covers off 156 Weehawken manholes, causing residents to scurry to their cellars. Firemen were summoned to put out a blaze on an Erie R. R. freight loading platform, started by the burning grass. A chicken crate factory started burning down; two firefighters were overcome. A paper factory also caught fire. Match-thrower Moyer...
...Edwards, 24, Negro, onetime captain of the New York University track team, joint holder of the American intercollegiate record for the half-mile and member of the 1928 Canadian Olympic Team at Amsterdam, the son of a British Guiana magistrate, to Miss Edith Margaret Oedelschoff, 19, German, of Weehawken...
Almost 40 years ago Bridge Builder Gustav Lindenthal strolled along the east bank of the Hudson, looked across the river to the Weehawken side. He could see blue sky and grey water and green trees, but his thoughts were not on the works of nature but on the works of man. Why not (thought he) build a bridge across the river? It was seven years since Engineer Roebling had finished bridging the East River with his famed Brooklyn Bridge. Why should not the Hudson be spanned as well? So Engineer Lindenthal thought of two high towers with long chains sweeping...
Married. Reinald Werrenrath, 44, famed baritone; to Miss Verna Nidig, of Washington, D. C.; in Weehawken...