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...Charles Hoff and Helmer H. Bryn, both of Norway, one an extraordinary pole-vaulter, the other Minister to the U. S., called at the White House and shook the President's hand. Other callers on the same day were members of the swimming team of the Brooklyn Central...
...Brooklyn last month John Seles, butcher, was held up and robbed of $40 in his small store. Last week, Taximan John Kirschner entered the store, stood behind Butcher Seles, cried, "Hands up! Get into the ice box!" Butcher Seles whirled, drove his cleaver through the base of Mr. Kirschner's skull, though neck muscles and three large veins. Hospitalized, close to death, Mr. Kirschner said, "I was only fooling." No whit penitent, Butcher Seles said, " A joke, eh? What a joke, I'd say! . . . Yes, his wife, she's a customer...
About the corridors of Long Island College Hospital, Brooklyn, Sailor John Davis last week gingerly shuffled. On his swarthy, Africa-tanned face, was a look of puzzled anxiety. Internes watched him; nurses watched him; busy surgeons paused for an inquiring word. Sailor John had a funny looking fibrous ring around the base of each little toe. He did not know what caused them. Perhaps on his recent job of exploring in African jungles he had acquired some mysterious disease. Yet it caused him no pain. Only, his little toes were acquiring a dead look. Leprosy? "No," declared examining surgeons called...
...stores. The chain systems will be the first annexed by National Food Products. Already the new corporation claims an investment of $4,500,000, but not control, in 12 systems operating 2,000 stores in 20 states. Among these chains: the H. C. Bohack Co. (300 stores, chiefly in Brooklyn); James Butler Inc.; Borden Milk Co.; U. S. Stores Corporation (1,050 grocery and meat stores in 12 states); David Pender Grocery Co. (Virginia); First National Stores, Inc. (Boston); U. S. Dairy Products Corporation; Reid Ice Cream Corporation; Abbotts-Alderney Dairies, Inc. (Philadelphia); Detroit Creamery Co. Packing plants and bakeries...
When the Creighton family get to Mexico City they will find a civilization quite other than that they knew in Brooklyn. They will find, it is true, a superficial resemblance in the clattering street cars and the well-paved streets. But they will find far wider distinctions between the social classes. Among the "foreigners," with whom they will associate they will find a ready, kindly, courteous welcome, a welcome tempered nevertheless at first by a quiet scrutiny, for the foreign colony of the city, perforce thrown into rather close communion, always wonders how affably the newcomer will...