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...saying "Good beer, good health." But George Ehret did not say that. Life was more than food and drink. In the evenings, perhaps, a game of dominoes. No better game. . . . About half-past nine a band was sure to come round. All the German street bands in the Bronx called at George Ehret's house. He would send the butler down with a glass of beer and a dollar bill for every man. The butler grumbled because he knew the tricks of these foxes of bandsmen. "The Blue Danube" at nine o'clock. A glass of beer...
...shores of Gitche Gumee, by the shining Big-Sea-Water, in a distant Bronx apartment, in fact, lives David Farjeon, 10. Last week the Manhattan music world waited, more or less anxious, to hear a musical setting he had composed for Poet Longfellow's "Hiawatha." Ethel Hayden, soprano, was scheduled to sing it at Carnegie Hall...
...Little Spitfire-Bronx chorus girl into Southampton wife, not without friction...
Capt. Hartley, S. S. Leviathan: "On the roughest passage of my ship's career, to Cherbourg last week, a white owl took refuge in a funnel on the ship, 1,000 miles from Newfoundland. I shall present it to the Bronx Zoo. The S. S. American Trader the same week picked up a white owl 600 miles at sea, and will adopt it as mascot. The coast of Maine has lately reported large numbers of white owls landing there, evidently driven by starvation from Arctic regions...
...York was found the biggest surprise of the election. Senator James W. Wadsworth Jr., Republican Wet, heretofore regarded almost as much of a New York institution as Governor Smith, came down to the Bronx with a plurality of 250,000. There he met onetime Justice Robert F. Wagner, Democrat, coming up from Brooklyn and the "East Side" with a plurality of 380,000. Mr. Wagner was elected. The new Senator was once a newsboy on the lower East Side with an extraordinarily keen mind and a lust for law. His untarnished reputation on the bench and the tarnished humanity...