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...scheme for colonizing Mexico with southern Negroes. The colony failed, but he went on; he entered the brokerage business, and went to New York. There he became head of a $10,000,000 water company which served various towns now incorporated in New York City and known as the Bronx. After some difficulty he sold the water company to the city and was said to have made $500,000 by the transaction...
Sunday evening Mrs. Reid delivered a dignified talk on the narcotic situation from the pulpit of a Methodist church in the Bronx. A large crowd-" composed partly of curiosity seekers...
...truly the prize occupation is that of the Monkey Deporter, who is not, as might be supposed, a collector for Ring-ling or the Bronx, but is more like an animated scarecrow. In Northern India, there is a small brown monkey which is a pest to fruit cultivators, but is protected none-the-less by the Hanuman, the Monkey-God. This powerful divinity sends a dire pestilence upon all who injure his suppliants, as seems to have been the fashion with the gods of Greece as well. To avoid such a penalty, the growers have a corps of monkey catchers...
...Bronx a patient with radio receivers on his ears laughed at " jokes" while doctors operated on him for hernia...
Henry H. Balos of Bronx...