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June 7 ? At Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken...
...daughter of Captain Joseph Medill Patterson, who divides with his cousin, Colonel Robert Rutherford McCormick, management of Liberty, Chicago Tribune, New York Daily News. It was on the tabloid News that Daughter Alicia worked in 1927 as a $30-a-week sobsister, was once thrown downstairs by an irate Hoboken housewife whom she sought to interview on henpecking. To other Chicago £nd Manhattan social ites the authoress is Mrs. Simpson. James Simpson Jr., whom she married in 1927 and from whom she now lives apart (in Manhattan), is son of the board chairman of Chicago's Marshall Field...
...Passed a bill authorizing the sale of onetime German steamship piers at Hoboken. N. J., seized in Wartime. ¶ Ratified two treaties executed at the Pan-American Conference of 1928 at Havana on the rights and duties of American nations in the event of Civil War, the status of aliens in Pan-America. ¶ Adopted a resolution to investigate Post Office Department leases (TIME. April...
...Henry Moeller became captain of the Lackawanna Railroad's river barges. In 1903, he became captain of tugs for the Hamburg-American Line. In 1920, he retired and went to live in Hoboken where he often sat in the back-room of Meyer's Hotel, drinking beer with other old captains. Last week he died. His daughter obeyed his request to place, under the dirty, salt-stiffened pilot coat in which Henry Moeller was buried, the purple silk umbrella which he had carried on all his voyages, short or long...
...Beard In Hoboken, long-bearded Kupper Bier, 109, died of pneumonia plus the shock of burns sustained in a beard-fire which sprang up when he lit a cigar stub...