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With the first great wave of immigration, a century ago, the gangster appeared in Manhattan's congested "Five Points" and "Paradise Square," near the Tombs of today. Collect Pond was draining so poorly into the canal that is now a street, that respectable citizens left the swamps to low-class Irish and Negroes, companions in debauch. Fighting in their undershirts, with brickbats, bludgeons, paving stones, knives and guns, the sluggers ganged up: Plug Uglies, Dead Rabbits (then slang for rowdy toughs), Shirt Tails, Roach Guards, Gophers. Besides aimless roughhouse, just for the hell of it, they conducted elaborate hold...
This total includes the $50,000 contingent gift of E. S. Harkness of New York, payable when the contributions outside of Boston and environs total that secured through the efforts of the Granter Boston committee at the time the offer was made. In order to collect this money the sum of $44.946 must be raised...
...have the honor to inform you that on this day your mine has been reduced to ashes. . . . The losses which you have sustained in the aforementioned mine you may collect from the Government of the United States and Mr. Calvin Coolidge, who is truly responsible for the horrible and disastrous situation through which Nicaragua is passing at present...
...many horses and Chinese boys, seek the western wastes of Gobi hoping to uncover secrets of man's origin. This is the fourth expedition of its kind. The last one, 1923, returned with the fossilized eggs of the dinosaur, aged some ten million years. The present expedition will collect lower animal fossils when found under foot, but the main interest will centre on recent prehuman ancestors not older than three million years...
...Dean Academy baseball team went down to defeat before the slugging Second University nine yesterday afternoon at Soldiers Field by a 3 to 1 score. The Crimson forces bunched their hits in timely fashion to collect the winning run in the fourth frame. K. W. Crotty '29 led the University attack with a well placed single and a long triple in the final inning...