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Word came that afternoon from Haverstraw, N. Y., 30 mi. up the Hudson, that a freighter had run aground in the mud and that the captain and six of the crew had fled. Customs officials hurried to Haverstraw, found the rest of the "Texas Ranger's" crew in jail for vagrancy. The officials boarded the boat. In the hold they found 25,000 cases of Canadian whiskey worth more than $1,000,000. The vessel had been cleverly disguised to resemble the Texas Ranger even down to the funnel paint and the insignia...
Rhymer gained a minute at West Point but in Haverstraw Bay, Woodworth caught him. When he passed the finish line at 155th Street, his average time for the distance was 41.9 m. p. h., course record for outboards. Second in his class, fifth in the actual finish was Jonah Stevens, lucky for once. Three other racers broke last year's time for the race...
Circus business is famed for its hazards. Last week to Haverstraw, N.Y., came the Kent trained wild animal show, five days out of winter quarters, gaudy and bullish. Promptly things began to happen: 1) William Schultz, partner, found one of his valuable horses had been stolen, sold to a Negro for $20; 2) The local light company refused to furnish illumination on credit, the fodder merchants to furnish fodder; 3) After putting up the tent, the roustabouts struck, left; 4) The band followed the roustabouts; 5) A rainstorm came, razed the tent; 6) The tent manufacturer and the sheriff came...
...closed around Teacher Dougherty's windpipe. The other set methodically clawed skin from Teacher Dougherty's face and clothes from her back. The fingers also doubled up and smote a blow that left lumps on Teacher Dougherty's jaw. A jury of sophisticates in nearby Haverstraw, N. Y., found Mrs. Youmans guilty of assault, battery and disturbing the peace; fined her $10. Teacher Dougherty, the jury declared, was mistress of her schoolhouse and even if Abe Conklin was the only truant officer Sandy Field could get, still he was the truant officer and his wife could deliver...
...Story.? One foggy evening in 1900, a tough barge rat from Haverstraw, N. Y., marvels, as always, at the changing masses of Manhattan's skyline seen from the North River. "Gee," he says. "Gee!" He can neither read nor write. He is 16; name, John Breen; parents, a once-pretty Irish servant and someone other than the grimy bargee she calls their "old man." Entering the East River, in thickening fog and greasy tide-rips, the barge is rammed. Loaded with bricks ("the city's red corpuscles") it plunges under. John Breen struggles out of the greenish-black water...