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Free Loaders at Coney Island Stir Independence Day
United Press International reports a New York incident where Benjamin Franklin Thomas Jefferson John Hancock and John Adams received free dinners and rides at Coney Island after officials invited the 54 signers of the Declaration of Independence to show up. A Brighton England case notes Violet Sullivan avoided conviction after a meal and wine payment dispute, with a deputy recorder remark on expectations of a male escort paying.
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