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...Hackensack, N. J., a robber entered the home of one Alexander A. Altschuler, stole 14 suits of clothes and prepared to leave. In leaving, he woke Mrs. Alexander A. Altschuler who said sleepily, "Where are you going?" "Downstairs, my dear," said the robber softly. Supposing the robber to be Alexander A. Altschuler, Mrs. Altschuler went to sleep; the robber went downstairs and far away...
Nothing was the matter with 19-year-old John Webb. He felt fine, had good appetite, was merely taking his 612-lb. self to visit friends in Hackensack...
From their gay, Gothic home beyond the Hackensack meadows they come the young visitors. The square is filled with them. Orange and Black mingles with sober crimson in the store windows. Spectators speculate; trefoil frailties and the Yard gendarmes reminisce quite audibly. One might call it Indian summer--but the House of Hanover could not brook that...
Married. Lieutenant John Sibea Roosma, West Point 1926, famed as a member of the Passaic High School basketball team which rushed to 159 straight victories (in six years) before it was beaten (in February, 1925) by a burly team from Hackensack (Roosma was not a member when it finally lost); to Miss Marjorie Henion; at Passaic...
...Hackensack, N. J., one Joseph Schnugg grinned at the five cards of a poker hand he had just been dealt. There was the ace of hearts, the king, queen, jack of hearts, and another card that was neither a heart nor a ten. Hence the grin upon the face of Mr. Schnugg; he had come so near to having the highest hand in poker, a natural royal flush, and his chance of drawing the needed card (ten of hearts) was so minute as to be nigh undecipherable. Mr. Schnugg stretched out his hand to the pack, flushed to the ears...