New York Has Bargain The Staten Island Ferry
New York keeps the nickel fare for the Staten Island Ferry, a price unchanged since 1905 due to law. The 5 mile ride costs riders 5 cents while taxpayers subsidize 75 cents per trip, as the city debates fare increases amid competition from buses and the Verrazano Narrows Bridge.
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Los Angeles Times
NEW York
Staten Island
Manhattan
Sylvester Ponikowski
Department of Marine and Aviation
Island
New York Boroughs
Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt
Verrazano-Narrows Bridge
Brooklyn
Narrows
New York Harbor
America
Staten Island Line
Poiitkowski
New Jersey
City Island
Hart Island
Marine and Aviation
Charles Leedham
New Jersey Shore
Queens
Army Veteran Weds Viet Girl After Separation
Army veteran Stephan Menta married Vietnamese woman Thai Thi Thiet known as Lennie in New York Queens. The couple’s East West romance endured a two year separation as Menta tracked Lennie from refugee camps in Vietnam to reunite at Our Lady of Fatima Church in Jackson Heights.
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New York
Stephan Men
Lennie
Our Lady of Fatima
Jackson Heights
Queens
Richard Wenzel
Thai Thi Thiet
Men‘a
Menta
Demilitarized Zone
Vietnam
United States
Arctic town Endures Four Month Murky Night
Tromso Norway endures the moerketiden a four month period of limited daylight as sunrise slips to a few hours daily and night dominates. doctors note insomnia depression and tension while locals cope with taciturn talk and long winter routines aided by coffee and controlled light exposure.
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Los Angeles Times
Tromso
Norway
Arctic
Moerketiden
Arctic Circle
Harald Reppesgard
Asgard Mental Hospital
Finmark
Reppesgard
Norwegian Health Services
Karl Evans
Italy
Outer Space
Hog Cholera Reported in Carroll County Herd
State and federal animal health officials confirmed a new hog cholera case in Monroe Township Carroll County. The 525 animal herd includes feeder pigs and is located 2 1/2 miles southwest of Flora. This is the 24th Indiana case and 29th from Carroll County, with four cases in White County and one in Dubois Pike county.
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Monroe Township
Carroll County
Flora
White County
Dubois-Pike County
Melbourne Domai n Area in Tropics Surpasses One Million Square Miles
Melbourne reports that Australia covers over three million square miles with about one million in tropical regions. The note emphasizes the vast size and geographic spread of Australian territory in the tropics.
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Melbourne
Australia
Tropics
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Becky Sharp
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Museum of Modern Art
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