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With its population of 2,741,083,* Brooklyn is bigger than Detroit or Philadelphia. Last week the line-up of newspaper ownership in this teeming borough of New York City was altered when the 95-year-old Eagle tucked the 88-year-old Times-Union under its wing. Henceforth both papers will be published, separately and under their own names, by the Eagle company...
Most spectacular of these is from the Metropolitan Borough of Southwark, London, birthplace of John Harvard. Brilliantly illuminated and hand printed in striking colors, this letter is signed by the Mayor and Town Clerk of Southwark, who were present at the Harvard exercises...
...when you conclude that this type of campaigning is necessary in the State which has the highest percentage of illiterates in its population you flee from logic. With our Niggers not voting, as they don't, our electorate is nearly or quite as literate as your own borough of Manhattan. . . . Wouldn't the joint campaign system be as useful in Tammany's domain as among our good white Democrats...
...Andover Borough, N. J., blonde, 16-year-old high-school sophomore Carolyn McDavit last March ran to her parents with the story that Principal R. Elwin Matteson, a married Scoutmaster of 32, had detained her after class, tried to kiss her. Andover Borough's School Board promptly fired Principal Matteson...
...York's Borough of Brooklyn is on Long Island, its Borough of Richmond on Staten Island...