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...seemed to have changed little. The last stage of the photographs' journey was characteristic of the entire Byrd press exploit. Sent by ship from New Zealand, the pictures were picked up in Cristobal, C. Z. by Airman Lee Schoenhair, flown to Tela (Honduras), to Miami, to Richmond, to Newark. At Newark Airport agents from the Associated Press, Wide World Photos (New York Times) and the Paramount News divided them, raced to Manhattan to spread them nationwide. First to reach Manhattan was an Associated Press man on a motorcycle...
...Ringling representatives. Yet between this triumvirate, all America is divided into three parts,, each has his particular sphere of influence. In Washington, Detroit and Cleveland, Pressagent Bell, who left a good job with the St. Louis & San Francisco ("Frisco") R. R. five years, ago, handles all circus "public relations." Newark and Cincinnati are the peculiar province of Pressagent Killilea, who abandons his Boston advertising business each March to follow the white tops. Dexter Fellowes is supreme in Brooklyn, Baltimore, Pittsburgh, Milwaukee...
Stephen Crane, 14th child of a Methodist pastor, was born in Newark. N. J.. in 1871, became a newspaperman at an early age. His first novel, Maggie, a Girl of the Streets, was printed at his own expense, under a pseudonym; it fell flat. His second, The Red Badge of Courage, brought him jobs as war correspondent although until then he had never seen a battle. He served in a Cuban filibustering expedition, the Greco-Turkish War; Spanish-American War. The last few years of his life he lived in England, was a great & good friend of the late...
Emerging from what he claimed was "a spell," Teller Wyre discovered that bills and women were gone. To police he insisted he had been hypnotized. Newark police arrested, Teller Wyre identified as one of his able befuddlers, a swart, shrewd woman who called herself Annie Bimbo...
...Newark, N. J., March 13--The construction of a laboratory for the study of practical applied hydraulics at the Harvard Engineering School was made possible by a $50,000 bequest in the will of Clemens Herschel '61, noted hydraulic engineer, who died on March 1. In the will probated here today the sum was set aside as a trust fund for Mrs. Herschel, to revert to Harvard on her death...