Manhattan Transfer remembered in New York Day by Day
In a reflective note, New York Day by Day recalls the Manhattan Transfer station opened with Penn Station thirty years ago, its lonely existence, and the vanished footprint of a once bustling hub. The piece highlights editor Perriton Maxwell with a career spanning six newspapers and seventeen magazines, and editor Bob Davis who nurtured writers like Fannie Hurst and Max Brand, shaping pulps and early urban journalism.
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New York
Manhattan Transfer
New Yorker
Pennsylvania Station
Pennsylvania
Wilmington
Perriton Maxwell
Lst
Cosmopolitan
Hearst's
Judge
Leslie's
Arts and Decorations
Police Magazine
Nash’s of
London
The
Theatre Magazine
Bob Davis
Munsey
Fannie Hurst
Max Brand
Davis
O. Henry
Smith
Herb Roth
Look Both Ways Before Crossing Poster Promoted
Elyria school children receive a December safety poster urging Look Both Ways Before Crossing. Miss Allyan Gehl of the Elyria Automobile Club notes the slogan could save lives as 15,000 pedestrians died last year.
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Elyria
Elyria Automobile Club
Allyan Gehl
Automobile Club
Ace
Ohio State Automobile Association
American Automobile Association
Tax Foreclosure List in Sheffield Lake Village
Tax foreclosure cases filed with the clerk of courts cover properties in Sheffield Lake village. The docket names many individuals and entities with outstanding amounts ranging from under $10 to $764.86, including The Van De Boe Hager Company and Lorain resident John Dorn with the highest listed total.
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Clerk of Courts
Sheffield Lake Village
W. F. Means
Oscar Anderson
Maudel S. Flower
Herbert Bartley
Edward Brown
James Cassimatis
Thomas Francis
Robert Beck
Laura Junk
Gertrude Patterson
Phip Richardson
William E. Smith
Kenneth Williams
R. C. Pease
Lillis Jacque
Pearl Johnson
Anna Hottoi
Ann Holzen
Charles Greenawalt
H. S. Godard
John Antenna
Catherine Fay
Carl Cerlach
Karl Geisler
Teresa Gibbons
Flora Goertler
Clara Hanna
Lloyd Haudenschild
Emily Hovorka
Dorothy Lintern
Dorothy McQuilkin
Bridget McTigue
John Dorn
Lorain
Portraits, Pioneers and Pets in a 1937 Scribble
A fragmented 1937 column notes Sheila Barrett as a flamboyant telephonist with lavish bills, Kennedy family photo antics with nine children on the Bronxville porch, Ed Wynn dog act Gordon’s dogs, and a Grinstead charity sale find of a 150 year old French watch. The tone mirrors a bustling showbiz gossip page with sharp sketches of personalities and curiosities.
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Joseph P. Kennedy
U.S. Merchant Marine
Bronxville
Kennedy
Gordon
Grinstead
England
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Smadi
Thee eExra
Broad St
Checker Cab Co
R. G. Hochenedel
Mgr
Fisher
Bird Country
Chase and Sanborn
Maxwell House
Fisher’s
Mott’s
Pillsbury’s
Jell-O
Royal Gelatin Ops Co
Jack & Jill
Alice
Lake Shore
Fisher’s ‘Beverages
Campbell’s
Calif, Or
Florida
Savash Choice Hubbard
Jersey Sweets
Jersey
Chesterfield
Phillip Morris
Canterbury Chocolates
Queen Olives
Hunt’s Blackberries
Stokely’s
Sheila Barrett
California
Europe
McIntyre
McNaught Syndicate, Inc
Beechwood
Pocahontas Murbach Coal
Reublin Bros
Baldwin
Jonathan
Spy
Holly Wreer
Juic
Logan
Lrie
Jones’ Dairy Farm
P. V
Sage
Maine
Idaho
J. T. Barnard
Wtam Clevelard
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