Word: brooklyn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...only give thanks that none but themselves, the housekeeper and some servants were in the long, tall building. The 100 or so young ladies were safely home for holidays. It was just 40 years since the Misses Ely had founded their school, to accommodate the daughters of once-fashionable Brooklyn, N. Y. With the shift of social tides, the Misses Ely-Elizabeth, Sara and Mary Boies (deceased)- had removed to Riverside Drive, Manhattan. Jews had encroached, apartment houses had towered. In 1906 the school had migrated to its final resting place on a green Connecticut hilltop...
...Brooklyn, the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals demanded the arrest of Louis Riccio, 52, for biting dogs. Mr. Riccio admitted his malefaction. He had bitten the tails off his six puppies to improve them...
Hamilton Club Brooklyn...
...SINGING CROW-Nathalia Crane-A. & C. Boni ($2). A dreadful eventuality has not yet come to pass-the growing up of Miss Nathalia Crane. Her songs are still those of a little Brooklyn girl for whom hydrants must be gnomes and subway trains coffin worms. Nor has anyone yet dismally and satisfactorily explained the marvelous process by which a slender chit-she is only 13 now- became possessed of the divine afflatus, plus a vocabulary that would give nightmares to a lexicographer...
Died. William Henry Porter, 65, "systematizing genius" of J. P. Morgan. & Co. and the director of its open market operations; in Brooklyn, N. Y., of heart disease, while walking with his wife. At 25 he was the youngest cashier in a major U. S. bank (Chase National). It was he who stimulated the trade acceptance, or bill, market in the U. S., whereby a merchant with time paper on his hands could easily discount it at a bank. He was taken into Morgan partnership in 1911, simultaneously with Thomas William Lamont...