Broadway reminiscence of old time theater man in New York
A veteran theater figure recalls fifty years in Broadway, recounting a half‑million dollar plan, lunch rooms near 42nd Street, and a memorable nickel coffee mishap with a waiter. He reflects on past days, fame, hunger, and a fateful Christmas night at the penitentiary.
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New York
Broadway
Havana
Larry
Mark
Joe
Leon
Knickerbocker
Meadows
Eighth Avenue
42Nd Street
Tony
Dining Car No 2489D in Paris famed historic sight
Tourists gather around a Wagons-Lit Dining Car marked No 2489D in a Paris courtyard. The car, where the German and French leaders negotiated the end of the war, is seen as iconic though entry is forbidden to visitors to prevent defacement.
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Napoleon Bonaparte
Tab
Paris
American girl inspires Channel swim craze on European shores
In Europe a surge of interest follows an American girl's English Channel swim. At Ostend Belgium, a bathing wagon touts Americans to swim near shore, drawing crowds and lively publicity. Observers describe a mobile bathhouse on wheels where bathers enter, swim, and are hauled back to shore by a horse-drawn wagon.
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Europe
English Channel
Oatend
Belgium
Strand
New York City
Leslie's sixty third birthday remembered in Harrisburg
In Harrisburg on April 6 Senator Max G. Leslie of Pittsburgh was honored on his sixty third birthday. His desk was adorned with flowers as more than 500 Pittsburgh residents traveled by special trains and cars to attend a testimonial dinner at a local hotel.
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Harrisburg
Max G. Leslie
Pittsburgh
Senate
Leslie
Missing coastwise air plane found near San Francisco
The missing coastwise air mail plane was found wrecked at Gustine Mercid county with both occupants Edward A Neher and Alber Schaller dead. The craft burned. T M Hogan of Modesto left to the scene after the discovery, the plane missing since Sunday on its northbound flight from Los Angeles.
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San Francisco
Crissy Field
Edward A. Neher
Alber Schaller
Short
T. M. Hogan
Modesto
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Smart
Metzger-Wright
Nile
Cinder
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Warren
Metzger-Wright’s
I. Miller
Fifth Avenue
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Martly
L Miller
Metzger- Wright's
Candyland
China
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