Word: borough
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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January 11--St. Mark's at South-borough...
January 11 St. Mark's at South-borough...
...Bronx, New York City's northernmost borough, famed for bourgeois baby carriages, walkups and dingy streets, was fairly immune to litterateurs until Mrs. Vina Delmar began to leer in its direction. The result of her first leer she sold for about $60 to Snappy Stories, brisk woodpulp fiction monthly. Thereafter her Bronx first-novel Bad Girl, was wreathed by the Literary Guild, and, like later Delmar books, was read by millions...
...easily understood, the small fee required of the guests at Peter-borough is not sufficient to cover the expense involved. As a result benevolent societies and individuals are doing their share to aid such an enterprise. The proceeds of the recital at Paine Hall comprise the annual contribution of Harvard and Cambridge to the MacDowell institution...
...most prolific producer of automotive equipment in the world, I think your company should bear a large part of the abandoned car problem." Thus, last month, wrote George U. Harvey, aggressive president of Queens Borough (New York City), to Henry Ford. Last week he got his answer: a Fordman would call on Mr. Harvey, confer with him on what to do with old cars abandoned along Queens highways. A solution, adopted in Detroit, was suggested: haul the cars to jails and let prisoners break them up. ¶ The Ford plants turned out in August 205,634 Model A cars...